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1

Andy Jassy’s Plan to Launch Amazon Into The AI Age

2

The $10 Billion Startup Training AI to Replace the White-Collar Workforce

3

‘God, It’s Terrifying’: How the Pentagon Got Hooked on AI War Machines

4

How a Die-Hard Libertarian Is Negotiating Lower Health-Care Costs

5

James Patterson’s Authorship Operation Welcomes Viola Davis and MrBeast

6

Introducing: Bloomberg This Weekend

7

The Georgia Pastor Accused of Defrauding the VA of Nearly $24 Million

8

The Making of MAHA’s Biohacking King

9

Drug Cartels Are Embracing Crypto and Freelance Money Launderers. Cops Can’t Keep Up

10

UPS’s Missteps Have Put the Company on a Shaky Path Forward

11

Carvana’s Red-Hot Growth Runs on a Cycle of Borrowed Money

12

The Startup Making Human Embryos With AI-Assisted Robots

13

Erasing the Verdict: The Ongoing Shock of Trump’s Cocaine Kingpin Pardon

14

India’s Digital Dream, Hacked

15

Can Target Be Cool Again, and Would That Be Enough?

16

The Gizmo Empire

17

Kid Rock, MAGA Man

18

The Chatbot Delusions

19

Finish Him, Brother

20

Allow Zohran Mamdani to Reintroduce Himself

21

Lucrative ICE Detention Centers Bring Money—and Anger— to an Alaska Native Community

22

How Generations of Selective Breeding Created Miserable Chickens

23

A Shipwreck Killed 41 Crew and 5,900 Cattle. The Brutal Business Behind It Goes On

24

Confessions of a Professional Insomniac

25

Jollibee Is on a Quest to Conquer American Palates

26

Can the UN Be Saved? Lessons From a Cold War Diplomat

27

The Battle Over the Legacy of Soviet Food

28

What Reliving the 1929 Crash Tells Us About Today’s Stock Market

29

The AI Pioneer Who Wants to Replace Teachers With Algorithms

30

Paramount’s New Top Gun

31

Enron: The Satire

32

Can MrBeast Grow Up?

33

India Finds Out How Hard It Is to Build a Finance Hub From Scratch

34

At World Cup 2026, the US Risks a Diplomatic Own Goal

35

The Mushroom Murders Saga Is Far From Over

36

Becoming Ms. Rachel

37

How a Global Car Company Stalled Out

38

Why Does Your Dish Soap Smell Different?

39

Arundhati Roy Confronts Her Fiercest Subject

40

The Return of the Rich American Smuggler

41

The Fight Over Delhi's Street Dogs Is Dividing India

42

How Alcaraz and Sinner Skipped the Line in Men’s Tennis

43

The Cracks in America's Rule of Law Are Getting Deeper

44

The Outcasts of the Yacht Club Are Changing Sailing’s Image

45

National Parks Are America’s Final EV Frontier

46

Swimming Joins the After-Work Routine at London’s Canary Wharf

47

When the Dead Are Missing, These Dogs Know Where to Look

48

The United States Is Southern Now

49

The US is Run By Lawyers, and China by Engineers

50

Bessent on Tariffs, Deficits and Embracing Trump’s Economic Plan

51

So You Bought a Fancy Vintage Car. Now Who’s Going to Restore it?

52

Teach Your Kids Poker the Easy Way

53

The CIA Spy Who Thwarted Taiwan's Nuclear Plans

54

In Defense of Cheating at Golf

55

What Happens When AI Schemes Against Us

56

Gwyneth Paltrow Has Always Been Selling What Money Can't Buy

57

Have We Finally Reached Peak Doodle?

58

Luke Farritor Goes to Washington

59

Japan’s Newest Theme Park Is on the Front Line of the US-China Rivalry

60

India Is Turning to 'Financial Astrology' for Stock Tips

61

She Gave Away Her Inheritance. Now What?

62

Inside America’s North Korean Workforce

63

Someday We’ll All Love Ocean Vuong

64

Were Americans Ever Really Healthy?

65

What Scientists Learned Scanning The Bodies of 100,000 Brits

66

Hims Won't Let Go of Its Wonder Drug

67

Why the US's New Shipbuilding Strategy Is Unlikely to Work

68

My Year of Aging Dangerously

69

How American Universities Became So Vulnerable to Government Threats

70

Pistachios Are Everywhere Right Now, Not Just in Dubai Chocolate

71

What Fine Dining Looks Like With Absolutely No Plastic

72

To Restore America, Start With Honor

73

The 'Enhanced Games' Is the Ultimate MAGA Athletic Competition

74

Apple Test-Drives Big-Screen Movie Strategy With F1

75

Call Center Workers Are Tired of Being Mistaken for AI

76

Silicon Valley's 'Tiny Team' Era is Here

77

China’s Spiritual Economy Is Booming as Gen Z Turns to Tarot

78

Japan Is Cracking Down on Host Clubs Where Men Flirt for Money

79

The Quest to Fix the Gap

80

Professional Athletes Can’t Get Enough of Chess.com

81

The Stress of Wall Street Is Sending Men to Pelvic Floor Therapy

82

The Next Reality TV President?

83

A Unesco-Protected Site in Mali Is Becoming a Burden for Locals

84

American Mid

85

Stop Taking Safe Vacations and Start Really Exploring

86

In Defense of Monograms

87

The G-7 Just Isn't What It Used to Be

88

Chasing Big Money With the Health-Care Hustlers of South Florida

89

Bill Ackman Is Tweeting Through It

90

How Migration and Soft Power Made Indo-European Languages Dominant

91

YouTube Is Swallowing TV Whole, and It’s Coming for the Sitcom

92

Wall Street’s Favorite Game Has a Long and Uncomfortable History

93

India Is Gripped by a Spiritual Tourism Boom as Faith Becomes Fashionable

94

Greg Nobile Is Big on Broadway. Now He Wants to Go Small

95

Barry Diller Credits His Success to His Closeted Homosexuality

96

Mark Zuckerberg Loves MAGA Now. Will MAGA Ever Love Him Back?

97

Polo Clubs Are Booming in the Hamptons of South America

98

The Price of Oil is Both Personal and Political

99

Once a Symbol of Apartheid, Rugby Is Now Helping Unite South Africa

100

Can Anthropic Win the AI Race Without Losing Its Soul?

101

Nadella’s Paradox: The Microsoft CEO on His AI Balancing Act

102

AI’s Most Promising Alien Hunters

103

Is China Winning?

104

The Cartoon Network’s Last Gasp

105

‘No Marriage, No Children’ Is China’s Ticking Timebomb

106

How One Little Barge Explains the History of Globalization

107

Trump Is Triggering a Brain Drain That Could Cost the US for Years

108

Lady Liberty

109

America’s Greatest Living Composer Has a Bone to Pick

110

Breaking Up With Multi-Level Marketing Is Harder Than It Sounds

111

A Deadly Parasite’s Return Threatens US Ranchers Too Young to Remember It

112

How to Improve the Process of Picking a Pope

113

A ‘Miracle’ HIV Drug May Not Reach the Women Who Need It Most

114

Norway Is on a 100-Day Mission to Test Military Limits in the Arctic

115

The Evolution of the Alpha Male Aesthetic

116

A New Holy Trinity of Watch Brands for the Non-Billionaire Class

117

Why Don't More Fathers Take Paternity Leave?

118

Scott Bessent’s Tightrope Walk

119

Off-Key

120

Live Wire

121

Caviar Has Become the Costco Rotisserie Chicken of Fine Dining

122

Why AI Is Better than Doctors at the Most Human Part of Medicine

123

What Kind of Business is X Now?

124

Loyalty Points Aren’t Worth What They Used to Be

125

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Likes Talking About Chips, But Not AI

126

A Danish Supermarket Hits Back at Trump's Tariffs

127

Notes from Underground: A New Memoir Settles Scores in the Restaurant Industry

128

Once an Economy Switches from Rules to Deals, It’s Hard to Switch Back

129

How Greenland’s Sled Dogs Entered a Diplomatic Row

130

Can LA Build Back Better?

131

The Billionaire's Town

132

The Severance Season Finale Is a Culmination of Workplace Angst

133

The Challenge of the Satire-Proof Presidency

134

What Beer Drinkers Can Tell Us About China's Economic Woes

135

Is This the End of Google Search?

136

A Convenient Place to Launder Money

137

Can America Make Drones

138

Trump Tariffs Aren't Scaring Off Car Collectors

139

The 21st Century Math of Renting vs. Buying a Home

140

Why Hasn’t Silicon Valley Fixed the Bay Area’s Problems?

141

How America Got Hooked on H Mart

142

What We Lose When Our Memories Exist Entirely in Our Phones

143

South Africa's Post-Apartheid Justice is Under New Scrutiny

144

To Save the Planet, We Need to Sacrifice Some of It

145

An All-American Finance Empire Drew Billions—and a Regulator’s Attention

146

Heat Pump Enthusiasts Invite Strangers to Tour Their Homes

147

How Do You Write a Constitution in Today’s Conditions?

148

What the Blue State Covid Fighters Got Wrong

149

Silicon Valley’s Reading List Reveals Its Political Ambitions

150

How the UAE Became the Global Center of Cricket

151

Japan’s Hottest Export Is About to Be Its Cool

152

Every Day  Low Problems at Walmart

153

Please Stop Inviting AI Notetakers to Meetings

154

How Lorne Michaels Keeps SNL Humming

155

The Undocumented Workers Who Helped Build Elon Musk’s Texas Gigafactory

156

Trump Will Force the Supreme Court to Face Its Biggest Fear

157

Grand Theft Auto Real Life

158

How Much Should Authors Get Paid to License Books to AI?

159

Guantanamo Bay Is the Poisonous Fruit That Tempts All Presidents

160

Bill Gates’s ‘Source Code' Is a Thank You Letter to Lax Parenting

161

The Last of Us Mushrooms, Prized as Sex Aids and More, Have Created a Multibillion-Dollar Market

162

The Cosmic Con

163

LA Needs More Than a Comeback — It Has to Move Forward

164

Why The China Bubble Still Hasn’t Popped

165

To Combat Shoplifters, Retailers Are Hiring Them to Steal

166

The Case for Keeping Obsolete Apps Around on Your Phone

167

Masayoshi Son’s Next Bet May Finally Secure His Legacy

168

Survivors of Bhopal’s Gas Leak Await a Cleanup, 40 Years Later

169

Can an EV Ever Really Be a Muscle Car?

170

Why Running Is One of India’s Fastest-Growing Sports

171

The LA Wildfires Should Change the Way We Live

172

There's a Coach For That

173

It’s On

174

How ‘Disaster Girls’ Are Cashing in on the Digital Economy

175

Bollywood’s Divorced Power Couple on Their Movie About Marriage

176

Pour One Out for Alcohol

177

How Journalism Will Adapt in the Age of AI

178

Fighting for a Share of a $1 Trillion Market in Borneo

179

Chick-fil-A's Robots Help Cut 10,000 Hours of Work

180

The Business of History Is Booming

181

Can Gucci Find Its Cool Again?

182

Japanese Companies Are Pulling Out All the Stops to Attract Young Workers

183

The Allure of the Motorcycle Is Stalling Out

184

Roblox’s Pedophile Problem

185

What Happens When Ozempic Takes Over Your Town

186

In ‘The Brutalist,’ the Suffering Is the Point

187

Visiting Seoul's Royal Palaces? Don't Forget Your Hanbok

188

China’s Housing Rescue Falls Short in City That Signaled the Crisis

189

The ROI Rules of AI: Procuring Success (Sponsored Content)

190

Chili Peppers Are Losing Their Heat as the World Gets Warmer

191

Citizenship Looks More Like a Privilege Than a Right

192

Syrian Refugees Are Conflicted About Returning Home

193

The Egg

194

Before You Write a Wall Street Memoir, Listen to This

195

When Ozempic Insurance Coverage Runs Out

196

The Problem with the Portfolio Career

197

Pushed to Play

198

The Quest to Turn Human Waste Into Medicine

199

Why Are Women Less Likely to Use AI?

200

The Box-Office Flop Is Becoming a Thing of the Past

201

Andre Agassi Loves Pickleball and Is Betting Asia Will Too

202

Listen Now: Beak Capitalism from Odd Lots

203

What I Learned About Luxury at the Rolls-Royce School For Chauffeurs

204

A New World Order Is Here And It Looks A Lot Like Mercantilism

205

Diehard Gamers Are Fueling Demand for Esports Hotels in China

206

The Pandemic Hunters

207

How AI Could Break the Career Ladder

208

India's Ban on 'The Satanic Verses' Gets a Rushdie-esque Twist

209

Air Jaylen

210

FedEx Turns the Page

211

Bury Your Troubles

212

The Allure of the Motorcycle Is Stalling Out

213

Donald Trump’s Billion-Dollar Windfall After Election Is Just the Start

214

At Bars and Comedy Clubs, Taiwan Processes a Trump Victory

215

Listen Now: US Election Coverage on Bloomberg Podcasts

216

Yes, Running Marathons Can Make You a Better Person

217

The Epicenter of China's Gold Craze Is a Former Fishing Village

218

The Peculiarly American Roots of Trumpism

219

The Tartarian Candidate

220

How to Think About the Price of Food

221

Could Political Betting Swing the US Election?

222

Japan’s Train Enthusiasts Are Snapping Up Shares in a Beloved Metro

223

How Market Forces Came For the Dinosaurs

224

China’s ‘Professional Children’ Want to Buy Less and Experience More

225

The UK Is Losing the Race Against Devastating Floods

226

The Battle for EV Dominance

227

Long Shot

228

Kids in a Candy Store

229

OpenAI v. Open AI

230

Who's Afraid of Lina Khan?

231

The Russian Bot Army That Conquered Online Poker

232

Understanding Kamala Harris

233

Nike Drops the Ball

234

And You Thought the DMV Was Rough

235

The Practical Economics of Reaching Net Zero

236

Justice Is Beside the Point in America’s Immigration Courts

237

Dodge City

238

What Happens When Ozempic Takes Over Your Town

239

Parks and Degradation

240

Instant Reaction: Meta Reports Earnings

241

Instant Reaction: Jay Powell Talks Fed Policy

242

Roblox’s Predator Problem

243

The Businessweek Trump Interview

244

The Yass Man

245

The House of Arnault

246

The Dirty, Deadly Forges of Sulawesi

247

Fixing Pixar

248

Genohype

249

Tesla's Nordic Rebellion

250

Sextortion

251

How Matzo Is Made

252

Bluey, Take a Bow

253

An Empire Divided

254

The Vincuñas and the $9,000 Sweater

255

Everywhere All at Once

256

Can AI Unlock the Secrets of the Ancient World?

257

That New Contract Smell

258

Pausing Menopause

259

The Legal Netherworld of Deepfakes

260

Master of the Deep

261

Elon Musk's Brain Implant Startup Is Ready to Start Surgery

262

Foxconn's EV Drive

263

The Swiss Solution

264

How to Build the Next BTS

265

Continental Rift

266

Law Enforcement’s Most Troubling Shortcut Is Google

267

Is Working Here the Worst Retail Job in America?

268

Bankman, Fried & Son

269

Another Shot

270

A Fortune in Crypto, Stolen With a Phone

271

The Maddening Mystery of a Murdered Billionaire

272

Actors and Writers Think They've Landed in a Terminator Reboot

273

How Many Points Is a Shot of Wegovy?

274

Jacked

275

How a Huawei Mole Got Caught Trying to Swing a $200 Million 5G Contract

276

America’s Long, Tortured Journey to Build EV Batteries

277

Tripped Up

278

City of Peace, City of War

279

The Coke Can Liner Caper

280

Weight Loss Drugs Have a Cost Problem

281

Welcome to Chappelleville

282

The Gambler Who Beat Roulette

283

Breaking the Curse

284

What Happens When Sexting Chatbots Dump Their Human Lovers

285

Tick Tock, TikTok

286

Keepers of the Flame

287

FBI Documents Show Leonardo DiCaprio, Kim Kardashian Grilled for 1MDB Secrets

288

The Fugee, the Fugitive and the FBI

289

The Billionaire Bomb Scare

290

The Richest Fanboy in Wrestling

291

American Coyote

292

Can Ron DeSantis Ride ‘Woke’ to the White House?

293

Cocaine Boats

294

Misfits Goes Mainstream

295

The Tragedies of TikTok

296

The Last Petrostate

297

The Very Last of Lehman Brothers

298

Steamed

299

Gentlemen, Start Your Revenue Streams!

300

Is IVF Next?

301

A Very Dangerous Place to Be Pregnant

302

What Could Go Wrong?

303

Traffic Jam at 400 Feet

304

"Don't Forget an Exit Plan"

305

"It's a Massive Crime, Probably the Largest Art theft in History"

306

"I Don't Really Care Much About Money"

307

The Amazon Election

308

The Spy's Diary

309

Self-Driving Cars Are Going Nowhere

310

The Crypto Story, Part 2

311

The Crypto Story, Part 1

312

The Crypto Story, Part 3

313

The Crypto Story, Part 4

314

Have You Plugged In a Ford Lately?

315

Chris Paul's Playbook

316

The Intellectual Father of Baby Bonds

317

Colonized From Within

318

The Abortion Pill's Exile in Obscurity

319

Big Hot Sauce Wants More Hot Sauce

320

Biden's Year 2 Test

321

The Fall of a Russian Cyberstar

322

The Most Broken Business in America

323

Wall Street's Make or Break Trade

324

Now Crypto Is Barking at Me

325

UPS Is Winning the Delivery Wars

326

Cheese Without Cows

327

Can 8.8 Million DNA Spit Tests Add Up to a Cancer Breakthrough, or Just a Privacy Nightmare?

328

How Far Will Workers Go?

329

The Hidden Ways the Ultrarich Pass Wealth to Their Heirs Tax-Free

330

Boomtown in the Evacuation Zone

331

Wall Street’s Toughest Turnaround

332

How to Persuade White Lawmakers to Protect Black Hairstyles

333

De-radicalizing the Extremists

334

Define 'Stable'

335

"Most Americans today believe the stock market is rigged. And they're right"

336

Too Big. May Still Fail

337

The Dinosaur Cowboy's Long Ride

338

A Man and His Wall

339

The Xbox Cheat

340

The Fall of the Billionaire Gucci Master

341

Will a Strongman Relent?

342

Six Days in Suez

343

How Airbnb Makes Nightmares Disappear

344

Welcome to the Trump Coast

345

The Gospel of Cathie Wood

346

In Recognition of Global Domination

347

Hype Man

348

Bloomberg Businessweek's Pandemic Vacation

349

Perfect Time to Start an Airline!

350

How Robinhood Made Trading Easy—and Maybe Even Too Hard to Resist

351

Harassment Allegations and Fear Haunt the European Investment Bank

352

Under New Management

353

The Man Who Keeps the Far Right Online

354

Bill Hwang Built a Fortune, Then Lost It in Two Days

355

Nice Guys Finish Last

356

Vaccine Passports—the New Golden Ticket

357

How About a Covid Pill?

358

Swab Story

359

Tax Code So White

360

The $500 Billion Bias Problem

361

Vaccine Capitalism

362

Money, It's Gotta Be the Shoes

363

At 93, She Waged War on JPMorgan—and Her Own Grandsons

364

Tim Cook’s $2.3 Trillion Fortress

365

A Five-Point Plan to Stop the Next Pandemic

366

Never Rest

367

How I Helped My Dad Die

368

Help Is on the Way

369

A Match Made in China

370

The Cruise Ship Suicides

371

Business at Its Best

372

Go Burbward, Young Knowledge Worker

373

How to Heal a Building

374

The Country That Learned to Live With Covid-19

375

Lysol Is Working on It

376

Who's a Good Business Model? It's you! Yes it is! You're SUCH a good business model! Yes you are!

377

There in 15

378

Trumpism Isn't Going Away

379

Should Insurers Have to Compensate Businesses for Coronavirus Lockdowns?

380

Here. It. Comes.

381

An Audience of One

382

What Would Emily Oster Do?

383

We Can Still Pass This Test

384

His Numbers Don't Lie

385

Cruise Ship Zero

386

How the Republicans Are Losing Suburbia

387

Narcotics Crisis: Made in Mexico, With U.S. Ingredients

388

Vaccine Nationalism

389

The Real Vaccine Billionaires of Maharashtra

390

The Cola Contest With 600,000 Winners

391

Google Dominates Search Ads More Than Ever, Is Working Through That

392

The Coming Baby Deficit

393

Hands of a God

394

I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice

395

The Front-Runner

396

The Case of the Empty Frames

397

Troubles in Quinn Country

398

Worst-Case Scenario

399

The Case for Quotas

400

The Pariah Ship

401

Stop Killing Black Men

402

Fallout

403

Please Rise for the King of Germany

404

Where Do We Go From Here?

405

All Eyes on Gilead

406

Instacart Wasn't Ready to Be Essential

407

North Korea's Man in Spain

408

The Humbling of Exxon

409

Wuhan Reopens

410

Just Try and Social Distance This

411

The Accidental Social Network

412

Meet the Resistance

413

How Do You Make More Masks Yesterday?

414

Who Really Owns a John Deere?

415

Milk Money

416

From Microcredit to Major Debt

417

When Trump Doesn't Love You Back

418

We Have Your Files—Send Bitcoin, or Else...

419

Elon Vs. the Shorts

420

Nobody Makes Money Like Leon Black

421

The Catholic Church's Bankruptcy Defense

422

Vanillanomics

423

The Hardest Fall

424

Yes. They're Listening

425

Google's Defense Dilemma

426

Riches From Rags

427

Where Streams Come True

428

A Fix for the U.S. Health-Care Crisis: Four Walls and a Roof

429

The Walking City

430

Paying With Plastic

431

Move Fast and Vape Things

432

You Gotta Smash a Few Cars to Make an Autonomous Vehicle

433

'You Are Signing Up to Build Weapons'

434

Pat O'Gold

435

Populism in the Land of Genghis Khan

436

I'm Lovin' I.T.

437

Mary Barra Risks It All

438

What Was Bayer Thinking?

439

Battle of the Bubbles

440

Where's the Beef?

441

Protesting Like It's 2047

442

How to Hide From Silicon Valley

443

All Over But the Streaming

444

Elizabeth Warren Is Done Playing It Safe

445

The Zillion-Dollar Convenience Store

446

The Great Model Train Robbery

447

King of the Snitches

448

Hooked

449

Canopy CEO Bruce Linton Is Your Friendly Canadian Weed Guy

450

What Bird Brains Can Teach Self-Driving Cars, Siri’s Cousins, and the Chip Elon Wants to Put in Your Skull

451

The New Red Scare

452

Towing Icebergs From Antarctica to South Africa

453

We Need a New Vision of Technological Progress. We've Got Options

454

Miracle Cures in Our Genes

455

The Wealth Detective

456

The Rebel Economists of Beijing

457

They're Coming for Your Eyeballs

458

The Nadellaissance

459

The Mystery of the Millionaire Hermit

460

Climate-Fried Steak

461

'The Ear Is the New Wrist'

462

The Legend of Jacinto's Gold

463

Unicorn Season

464

The People’s Degustation Army