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forbes.com
🌐 85% Global Worthiness
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Leadership Gap in APAC: Navigating AI-Driven Workplace Change

In 2025, business leaders in APAC face a critical challenge: effectively managing change amidst rapid technological advancements, particularly AI adoption, while addressing a leadership gap impacting 67% of professionals feeling overwhelmed by workplace changes, only 39% trusting their managers for ...

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20% Bias Score

Decent Work and Economic Growth
forbes.com
🌐 85% Global Worthiness
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FTC Investigates Airline Pricing Practices

The FTC is investigating eight companies, including airlines and software providers, for using dynamic and surveillance pricing to set airfares, raising concerns about fairness, transparency, and privacy.

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36% Bias Score

Reduced Inequality
forbes.com
🌐 85% Global Worthiness
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Taylor Swift's Eras Tour Breaks Records with $2 Billion in Ticket Sales

Taylor Swift's Eras Tour concluded on December 8th, 2024, grossing a record-breaking $2 billion in ticket sales, exceeding all prior tours by double and adding to her $1.6 billion net worth, primarily from music royalties, catalog value, and real estate.

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36% Bias Score

Reduced Inequality
forbes.com
🌐 85% Global Worthiness
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China Investigates Nvidia, Raising Concerns About Tech Dominance

China launched an anti-monopoly investigation into Nvidia on Monday, causing a 2% stock drop, amid rising US-China tensions and China's push for technological self-reliance.

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40% Bias Score

Reduced Inequality
forbes.com
🌐 85% Global Worthiness
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Appian Autoscale Boosts Process Automation Tenfold

Appian's new Autoscale platform increases process automation speed tenfold to six million processes per hour, improving operational efficiency and enabling straight-through processing with features like AI-powered data extraction and faster query responses; Helia, an InsurTech firm, reduced claims p...

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24% Bias Score

Decent Work and Economic Growth
npr.org
🌐 85% Global Worthiness
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DOE Funds Aerogel Production to Enhance EV Battery Safety

Aspen Aerogels received a $670.6 million DOE loan to mass-produce its fire-retardant aerogel for EV batteries, addressing thermal runaway risks by slowing fire spread and improving safety.

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44% Bias Score

Climate Action
smh.com.au
🌐 85% Global Worthiness
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GM Mosquitoes Targeting Dengue and Yellow Fever Approved in Australia

Oxitec seeks Australian approval to release GM Aedes aegypti mosquitoes carrying a gene that kills female offspring before maturity, aiming to control dengue and yellow fever; the company cites a 96% reduction in Aedes aegypti populations in some Brazilian trials but acknowledges past concerns about...

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44% Bias Score

Good Health and Well-being
forbes.com
🌐 85% Global Worthiness
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AI's Transformative Impact on Modern Defense

AI is revolutionizing defense through enhanced decision support, autonomous systems, predictive maintenance, and improved logistics, increasing efficiency and readiness while raising ethical concerns.

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52% Bias Score

Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions
cnbc.com
🌐 85% Global Worthiness
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Robinhood Upgrade: Barclays Raises Price Target to $49 on Strong Performance

Barclays upgraded online brokerage Robinhood to overweight, raising its price target to $49, driven by a 227% surge in its stock price this year, thanks to strong gains in Bitcoin and the S&P 500, and further revenue growth projections from new initiatives.

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40% Bias Score

Decent Work and Economic Growth
forbes.com
🌐 85% Global Worthiness
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BFCM 2024: Record Sales Amidst Shifting Consumer Habits

Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2024 sales surged, with UK transactions up 9.5% (Barclaycard) and EMEA orders up 9.3% (Bazaarvoice), driven by a compressed shopping period and effective retailer incentives; however, data suggests a more distributed sales strategy across the weekend could be beneficial...

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36% Bias Score

Reduced Inequality
news.sky.com
🌐 85% Global Worthiness
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"South Korean President Faces Travel Ban After Martial Law Attempt"

"South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol faces a travel ban and investigation following his six-hour declaration of martial law last Tuesday, which was met with public protests and parliamentary opposition; former defense minister Kim Yong Hyun has been detained."

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48% Bias Score

Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions
bbc.com
🌐 85% Global Worthiness
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Google's Quantum Leap: "Willow" Chip Solves Problem in Minutes, but Real-World Applications Remain Distant

Google's new quantum chip, "Willow," solved a problem in five minutes that would take the world's fastest supercomputers 10 septillion years, showcasing progress in quantum computing but highlighting remaining challenges in error correction and scalability before practical applications.

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48% Bias Score

Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure