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Bending Spoons Files for IPO, Revealing the Acquirer Behind AOL, Vimeo, and Eventbrite
The Milan-based rollup has quietly assembled a portfolio of a billion registered users. Now it wants public capital to keep buying.
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SpaceX's Rockets Are Becoming an Air Traffic Problem the FAA Can't Fully Contain
As Starship launches grow more frequent and more ambitious, the FAA's airspace coordination system is straining against its own limits — and leaving Caribbean nations largely outside the process.
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Trump's New Air Force One Is a Converted Qatari Jet — and That's a Business Story
A foreign-gifted 747 is now the U.S. presidential aircraft. The procurement detour reveals how political timelines, contractor delays, and diplomatic entanglements reshape even the most symbolically loaded government contracts.
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Higgsfield's Supercomputer 2.0 Runs Your Ad Campaign Without You — Here's What That Actually Costs You
The autonomous marketing platform nearly quadrupled its revenue in five months. The pitch is hands-free execution. The catch is who stays in control.
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KCRW's Membership Is Up 22%. Here's the Playbook Other Public Stations Should Study.
While NPR affiliates absorb layoffs and budget cuts from the federal funding pullback, the L.A. station is growing revenue, listeners, and live events — by treating itself as a community business, not a radio station.
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The Government Just Pulled an AI Model Mid-Deployment. Every Operator Should Pay Attention.
Anthropic's Fable 5 was live, integrated, and then gone — not because it failed, but because it worked. The precedent changes the risk calculus for anyone building on frontier AI.
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FERC Votes Unanimously to Fast-Track Grid Access for AI Data Centers
Federal regulators ordered six regional grid operators to speed up power connections for large energy users — and made clear data centers will foot the bill for any infrastructure upgrades.
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AWS Is Selling Autonomous AI Agents and the Tools to Watch Them
The same company pitching hands-off enterprise automation is shipping an arsenal of guardrails, rollback tools, and learn-mode controls. That tension is the product.
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Anthropic Updates Claude Design to Close the Gap Between Vibe Coders and Brand Standards
After months of real-world use, Anthropic is tightening Claude Design's grip on design systems, editing controls, and token efficiency — a direct response to what designers actually complained about.
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PsiQuantum Is Building the World's First Utility-Scale Quantum Computer in Chicago. Here's What That Actually Means.
A 300,000-square-foot facility on the South Side, $500 million in state funding, and a startup betting everything on photonics. The Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park is moving faster than anyone expected.
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Snap's $2,195 AR Glasses Are a Mission Statement, Not a Mass-Market Product
Evan Spiegel says Specs are central to Snap's identity — but at more than four times the category's projected average selling price, the real test is whether developers and consumers agree.
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The Climate Work That Didn't Stop: 19 Projects Pressing Forward Through the Rollback
From sail-powered vanilla to stratospheric wildfire detection, a cohort of companies is building climate infrastructure while federal policy moves the other direction.
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Eight companies just won Fast Company's World Changing Ideas for pushing science and tech past their current limits
From GPS-free navigation tested in Europe's deepest mine to an AI lab that runs hundreds of thousands of experiments autonomously, this year's honorees are building infrastructure for the next decade of innovation.
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AI Is Now Fighting Hackers, Fixing Clinical Trials, and Beating Search Engines at Their Own Game
The 2026 World Changing Ideas winners in Business Products and Services share one throughline: AI doing work that was previously too slow, too expensive, or too dangerous to automate.
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Meta's CTO Admits Morale Is Near an All-Time Low. The Numbers Explain Why.
Andrew Bosworth acknowledged what employees have been posting anonymously for months. The gap between Meta's record profits and its workforce's experience is the real story.
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The AI Companies Quietly Fixing Healthcare's Paperwork Problem — and a Few Other Things
Fast Company's World Changing Ideas honorees reveal where applied AI is actually delivering measurable results: clinical documentation, radiology reports, children's mental health, and cybersecurity triage.
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Chewy Turned Customer Service Into a Margin Strategy. Now It's Scaling That With AI.
CEO Sumit Singh built a $12.6 billion business on handwritten sympathy cards and human reps who don't track call volume. The next move is using AI to preserve that edge — not replace it.
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OpenAI's Leaked Financials Reveal a Company Racing Revenue Against Its Own Burn Rate
Rapid top-line growth and billions in losses put Sam Altman's IPO ambitions on a collision course with investor patience.
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Most AI Rollouts Fail Before They Start. Here's the Structural Fix.
Melissa Reeve's new book argues that companies aren't failing at AI because of the technology — they're failing because they never changed the organization underneath it.
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Apple's WWDC Keynote Buried Three Business Signals Worth Reading
Behind the AI demos, Apple quietly revealed how it plans to monetize intelligence, accelerate hardware cycles, and manage a brand contradiction it hasn't solved yet.
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The Suspicion Economy Is Eating Brand Marketing From the Inside
Fake fan pages, algorithm slot machines, and 100 million unpaid views later — consumers have stopped believing anything is real. Some brands are doubling down. Others are betting on the opposite.
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NASA Names Artemis III Crew as Blue Origin Scrambles to Recover from Rocket Explosion
Four astronauts will spend two weeks in low Earth orbit testing lander compatibility before the 2028 lunar surface mission — but the schedule depends on Blue Origin rebuilding faster than most experts think is realistic.
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Enterprise AI Is Stuck Because It Runs on Metaphors, Not Models
The gap between impressive demos and frustrating deployments isn't a capability problem. It's a formalization problem — and every prior software revolution solved it the same way.
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The IPO Filing as Brand Move: How Announcing a Public Offering Became Its Own Publicity Play
OpenAI and Anthropic filed IPO paperwork with little detail on timing or pricing. That may be the point.
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Fei-Fei Li's World Labs Has $1.23 Billion and a Contrarian Bet on Spatial AI
While rivals race toward full automation, World Labs is selling a copilot. That strategic choice will either look prescient or costly within the next 18 months.
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Senate Plan to Save Social Security Bets Retirement on Stock Returns and $27 Trillion in New Debt
A bipartisan proposal would invest Social Security reserves in equities and issue sovereign debt to shore up the trust fund. Critics say the math only works if markets cooperate — and they won't always.
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xAI Engineer Says He Was Fired Three Days After Warning Musk About Grok's Biases
Devin Kim flagged political bias and unequal treatment of racial groups in Grok's responses. His termination followed within 72 hours.
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Anthropic Joins Carbon Removal Coalition as AI's Energy Bill Comes Due
The Claude maker's sustainability pledge signals that AI companies are beginning to treat their power consumption as a reputational and operational liability — not just an engineering problem.
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Amazon Engineers Go Public Against $200 Billion Data Center Bet — After 30,000 Layoffs
Workers testified at a Seattle city hearing this week, putting a rare public face on the tension between Amazon's AI infrastructure ambitions and its workforce reductions.
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Alphabet Is Selling $80 Billion in Stock to Fund Its AI Infrastructure Push—and Investors Are Skeptical
The Google parent is tapping equity markets at scale to finance a capital expenditure cycle that's already running at $35.7 billion per quarter. Wall Street's initial reaction: a 2.6% premarket drop.
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Anthropic Brings Mythos-Class AI to the Masses With Claude Fable 5
The company's new public-facing model delivers frontier-tier capability with guardrails attached — a calculated move to expand reach without ceding safety positioning.
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OpenAI Files Confidential S-1, Setting the Stage for a Landmark IPO
The move forces the first-ever public disclosure of OpenAI's revenues — and puts its unusual corporate structure under a scrutiny it has never faced before.
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Google and American Airlines Are Teaming Up to Fix Aviation's Billion-Dollar Disruption Problem
The partnership pairs American's operational scale with Google's cloud and AI infrastructure to attack a cost center that has plagued the industry for decades.
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Apple's 'Siri AI' Is a Business Bet, Not Just a Product Update
After years of falling behind, Apple is staking its AI credibility on a rebuilt Siri. The real question isn't whether it works — it's what happens to the business if it doesn't.
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Elon Musk Is Closing In on $1 Trillion Despite Missing 81% of His Own Goals. That's Not a Contradiction.
The gap between Musk's stated ambitions and his actual track record reveals something important about how outsized wealth gets built — and why the market rewards narrative as much as execution.
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A SpaceX IPO Would Be a Windfall for Gulf Sovereign Wealth Funds — and That's No Accident
Gulf state investors have quietly built meaningful stakes in SpaceX. When the company goes public, the payoff will be substantial — and strategically timed.
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Three Threats, One Market: How Iran, AI, and the Fed Are Converging on Investors
A potential Gulf war, an overheated AI sector, and a Fed that isn't done yet — plus a SpaceX IPO that could scramble capital flows in every direction.
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SpaceX's IPO Is a Buying Event for Some and a Selling Event for Everyone Else
When SPCX hits the market, retail investors are expected to raise cash by dumping recent winners — and the ripple effects could move prices across the broader market.
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SpaceX Needs to Grow 60x in a Decade to Justify Its $1.75 Trillion Valuation. No Company Has Ever Done It.
The math behind SpaceX's price tag is extraordinary by any historical standard. Investors are betting on a growth trajectory that has no precedent.
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Warren Buffett Would Almost Certainly Skip a SpaceX IPO. Here's the Business Case for Why.
One stock analyst argues the Berkshire Hathaway legend's investing framework makes him a near-certain no-show — and the reasoning reveals something important about how Buffett thinks about risk, moats, and Musk.
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SpaceX Is Going Public—Here's What the Greenshoe Option Actually Does
One of the largest IPOs in history is set to begin trading June 12. The mechanics behind it matter more than the hype.
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SpaceX Sets $135 IPO Price, Targeting a $1.77 Trillion Valuation That Would Dwarf Every Debut Before It
The rocket company's Nasdaq listing under SPCX is poised to be the largest IPO in history — and it's giving retail investors an unusually large slice of the action.
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Overpricing Your Home in 2026 Doesn't Just Slow the Sale—It Costs You Money
Realtor.com data shows the seller's market is over. The penalty for mispricing now compounds by the week.
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FIFA's World Cup Ticketing System Is Under Investigation — Here's What the UX Failures Actually Cost Fans
Four state attorneys general are probing FIFA over a ticketing process that combined blind pricing, surge algorithms, and deliberate friction into something that functioned less like a sales system and more like an endurance test.
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The Business Case for Going Into Business With Your Partner
Couples who co-found share more than equity — they share risk, schedule, and every bad quarter. Here's how to structure it so the business survives both.
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90% of Job Platforms Are Selling Your Data. Here's Who's Doing It Most.
A new study finds the platforms workers trust with their most sensitive career information are monetizing it at scale. The business model is the problem.
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Three YouTubers Just Beat Hollywood. Here's the Business Model Behind It
Audience leverage, not studio access, is the new distribution moat. What founders can actually take from the box office run of three creator-turned-filmmakers.
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100 Days In, the Stock Market Has Already Forgotten the Iran Conflict
The S&P 500's V-shaped recovery isn't just a market story — it's a signal about where capital is placing its long-term bets, and AI infrastructure is at the center of it.
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A $435 Million Bet on 'Reversing Aging'
NewLimit says it has found a prototype medicine that rewinds cellular aging in the liver. Investors just handed it $435 million to prove it.
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One Company Ran Up a $500 Million Claude Bill in a Month. No One Had Set a Limit.
An uncapped AI deployment turned into a half-billion-dollar lesson in governance. The real story isn't the spend — it's who was supposed to stop it.
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Seven Side Businesses You Can Run in Less Than 14 Hours a Week
The time constraint is real — but so is the opportunity. Here's what the math actually looks like for founders who can't quit their day jobs yet.
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AI Companies Are Now Talking About 'Psychological Security.' Here's What They Mean—and What's at Stake
Anthropic and peers are importing a human-resources concept into AI development. The business logic is real, but so are the questions it raises about accountability.
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GameStop Posted $389.6 Million in Net Income Last Quarter — Its Best Result in Years
The retailer's Q1 profit surge comes after eBay passed on an acquisition bid, leaving GameStop to execute its own turnaround on its own terms.
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American Airlines Is Pulling Six Routes This Summer — Here's What the Fuel Math Says
Seasonal suspensions on LAX and CLT corridors signal how carriers are managing an 80% spike in jet fuel costs without calling it a permanent retreat.
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Why Your 50s Might Be the Best Time to Start a Business
The startup world worships the young founder. One beauty industry veteran argues the real competitive advantages — relationships, calibrated risk, and hard-won clarity — take decades to build.
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Remote Work Is Shutting Out New Graduates — Not AI
A Federal Reserve Bank of New York study finds remote work accounts for 64% of the rise in unemployment among recent college graduates. Companies are choosing experience over entry-level risk — and the data shows it.
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3 Questions to Ask Before You Cut a Benefit
Deloitte and Zoom both trimmed parental leave in the same week and called it market alignment. Before you follow, run the decision through a framework that actually accounts for what you're cutting.
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A Fully Remote Company Grew 300 Percent Since 2023. Here's the Culture Playbook Behind It
Payabli's retention rate sits above 90 percent while the company tripled in size. The levers it pulled are specific — and replicable.
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Claude Code Turned Anthropic Into an Enterprise Juggernaut. Now Comes the IPO.
A November model upgrade transformed a promising coding tool into a full development environment — and sent Anthropic's revenue from $9 billion to $47 billion in annualized run rate in six months.
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Anthropic's CFO Krishna Rao Is Steering One of the Most Anticipated IPOs in AI History
With a confidential S-1 filed, Krishna Rao is the financial architect behind a public offering that could set the valuation benchmark for the entire AI industry.
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Anthropic Files S-1, Joining OpenAI and SpaceX in a 2026 IPO Race That Will Test AI's Public Market Value
Three of the most capital-intensive companies in the world are heading for public markets at the same time. What that means for investors, employees, and the AI industry's next chapter.
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One U.S. Housing Market Surged 18% in April While Three Others Collapsed
As mortgage rates and economic uncertainty pushed buyers out of major regional markets, one corner of the country kept growing. Here's what the divergence means for operators, employers, and anyone watching where workers can actually afford to live.
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Anthropic Files Confidentially for IPO, Leapfrogging OpenAI to Market
The Claude maker's S-1 filing arrives with a $965 billion valuation and a $47 billion revenue run rate — setting up what could be the defining public offering of 2026.
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120,000 People Applied to Test an AI Companion's Masturbation Feature. The Company Wasn't Ready.
Joi AI posted a $2,000/month consultant role to document the effects of its new guided masturbation feature. The application link broke. Now the company is scrambling to process a six-figure candidate pool it never planned for.
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AI Could Shrink the Gender Pay Gap — But Only for Women Who Already Earn the Most
A mechanism economists call 'greedy jobs' explains why automation in law, finance, and consulting might quietly redistribute opportunity. The catch: it won't help the women who need it most.
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Stiglitz: AI Will Enrich the Tech Elite While Gutting the Safety Net That Workers Need
The Nobel laureate says the same people building AI are lobbying to shrink the government programs that could cushion its labor market impact.
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The 7 Conversations Every Business Partnership Needs Before It Starts
Most partnerships don't fail because of bad ideas. They fail because the founders never agreed on the things that matter most — until it was too late.
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Arianna Huffington Tells Gen Z That Closing the Laptop at 5 PM Means You Have the Wrong Job
The Thrive Global founder is pushing back on work-life balance as a career goal — and the argument deserves more scrutiny than it's getting.
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A $10 Million YouTube Horror Film Just Outperformed Hollywood's Biggest Franchise
Kane Parsons turned a low-budget horror concept into an $81.5 million opening weekend — and the business model behind it is the real story.
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Family Offices Are Adopting AI Faster Than Their Principals Can Control It
Citi data shows AI use among family offices nearly doubled in a year. The people writing the checks still don't trust it — and their staff may not be waiting for permission.
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ADHD consumers are your best UX stress test — and most brands are ignoring them
Nearly 14% of Americans have ADHD, they abandon friction-heavy experiences at measurably higher rates, and almost no major marketing research covers them. That's a conversion problem hiding in plain sight.
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Gen X Is Running Out of Time to Retire — and the Math Isn't Close
A new survey finds the generation that built the 401(k) era is heading toward retirement with a savings gap that no amount of optimism closes.
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A pill called daraxonrasib nearly doubles survival time in advanced pancreatic cancer — and it hits a target that stumped researchers for decades
The experimental drug blocks a mutated protein present in more than 90% of pancreatic cancer cases. If the results hold, it could reshape the treatment economics and workforce implications of one of oncology's most intractable diseases.
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AI-Washing Layoffs: Tech CEOs Are Using Artificial Intelligence as Cover for Old-Fashioned Workforce Cuts
Wix, Snap, Block, and Atlassian have all recently cited AI to explain headcount reductions. An MIT professor says the excuse has been recycled for two decades — only the technology changes.
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The Policy Put Is Fading. Markets Are on Their Own.
A top economist warns that governments and central banks still want to rescue markets — they just may no longer have the firepower to do it.
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Apple's WWDC Wishlist: What Developers Actually Want Beyond the Siri Headlines
The annual developer conference will be dominated by AI announcements, but the operators building on Apple's platform have a different set of priorities.
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Cats and Humans Share More Than a Home—And One of Those Connections Is a Public Health Warning
New research surfaces a possible first case of cat-to-human bird flu transmission and a striking tumor similarity that could reshape cancer treatment. The business implications run from pet industry liability to biotech investment.
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How a Small Decision at American Airlines Changed the Entire Industry for 59 Years (and Counting)
Two pivotal moments at one carrier reshaped how the entire airline industry — and eventually much of the broader business world — thinks about loyalty, pricing, and customer retention.
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Inflation Is Spreading Beyond the Pump — and Retailers Are Already Feeling It
Core PCE hit 3.3% in May. Energy costs are bleeding into groceries, apparel, and household spending. Here's what operators need to watch.