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‘What Europe needs is a DOGE,’ Deutsche Telekom CEO says in impassioned plea for deregulation
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‘What Europe needs is a DOGE,’ Deutsche Telekom CEO says in impassioned plea for deregulation

Deutsche Telekom CEO Tim Hottges speaks during Mobile World Congress, the world’s biggest mobile fair, in Barcelona on March 3, 2025. Lluis Gene | Afp | Getty Images BARCELONA — Europe needs its own version of Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, Deutsche Telekom CEO Tim Höttges said Monday as he made an impassioned […]

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U.S. federal workers hit with second wave of emails demanding job details
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U.S. federal workers hit with second wave of emails demanding job details

Elon Musk speaks during the first cabinet meeting hosted by U.S. President Donald Trump, at the White House in Washington, DC, U.S., February 26, 2025.  Brian Snyder | Reuters The Trump administration sent out a second round of emails on Friday evening demanding all federal employees summarize their work over the past week after the […]

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Firings at the U.S. weather and oceans agency risk lives and the economy, former agency heads warn
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Firings at the U.S. weather and oceans agency risk lives and the economy, former agency heads warn

Signage outside the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Center for Weather and Climate Prediction headquarters in College Park, Maryland, US, on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. The conservative Project 2025 roadmap calls for slashing NOAA funding at a time when China is investing heavily in climate research. Photographer: Michael A. McCoy/Bloomberg via Getty Images Michael […]

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FAA clears SpaceX for another Starship test flight after explosion in January
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FAA clears SpaceX for another Starship test flight after explosion in January

SpaceX’s Super Heavy booster is seen on the launch pad, without the Starship atop, as it is prepared for launch from the company’s Boca Chica launchpad on an uncrewed test flight, near Brownsville, Texas, U.S. Feb. 27, 2025. Joe Skipper | Reuters Elon Musk’s SpaceX has attained authorization from the Federal Aviation Administration to fly […]

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American Airlines to start testing free inflight Wi-Fi
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American Airlines to start testing free inflight Wi-Fi

The main cabin of a American Airlines Boeing 777-300ER jet.  Mary Altaffer | AP American Airlines is planning to test complimentary inflight Wi-Fi starting next week as pressure mounts on carriers to offer the service free of charge. The tests will be available on three flights: Between hub Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina […]

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Trump administration, Musk’s DOGE plan to fire nearly all CFPB staff and wind down agency, employees say
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Trump administration, Musk’s DOGE plan to fire nearly all CFPB staff and wind down agency, employees say

Elon Musk holds up a chainsaw onstage during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, U.S., February 20, 2025.  Nathan Howard | Reuters The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Trump-appointed leadership plans to fire nearly all its 1,700 employees while “winding down” the agency, according to testimony from employees. In a trove of […]

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Meta plans to release standalone Meta AI app in effort to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT
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Meta plans to release standalone Meta AI app in effort to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms Inc., arrives for the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta AI will soon become one of the social media company’s standalone apps, joining Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, CNBC has learned. The company intends to debut […]

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Dell forecasts  billion of AI server sales this year
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Dell forecasts $15 billion of AI server sales this year

Michael Dell, chairman and chief executive officer of Dell Inc., speaks during the Dell Technologies World conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on Monday, May 20, 2024. Bridget Bennett | Bloomberg | Getty Images Dell reported fourth-quarter sales that fell short of analysts’ estimates but earnings topped Wall Street expectations. Here’s how the hardware company […]

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Weekly jobless claims jump to 242,000, more than expected in latest sign of economic softening
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Weekly jobless claims jump to 242,000, more than expected in latest sign of economic softening

Initial filings for unemployment benefits hit their highest level of the year last week in another potential signs of weakness in the labor market. Jobless claims for the week ended Feb. 22 totaled a seasonally adjusted 242,000, up 22,000 from the previous week’s revised level and higher than the Dow Jones estimate for 225,000, according […]

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Jeff Bezos orders Washington Post opinion pages to support ‘personal liberties and free markets’; top editor resigns
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Jeff Bezos orders Washington Post opinion pages to support ‘personal liberties and free markets’; top editor resigns

(L-R) Lauren Sanchez, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk attend the inauguration ceremony before Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th US President in the US Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025.  Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty Images Jeff Bezos, the […]

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