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Now, with SpaceX preparing for the largest IPO in history, Gracias’ loyalty is about to pay off.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
25 May 2026 -
The Vatican spent a year preparing the most consequential religious statement on artificial intelligence ever issued.—
Gabriel Alin Zainescu,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2026
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While America was fortifying everything else, China was studying the heel.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
26 May 2026
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The needling didn’t prevent Smith from aggressively fortifying the roster with in-season trades.—
Vincent Z. Mercogliano,
New York Times,
21 May 2026
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Inevitably, team evil has cooler powers, like Sindel’s scream and Kung Lao’s hat of doom, but in addition to allotting an inordinate amount of its combat time to Shao Kahn, who’s just a hulking guy with a hammer, the movie’s big visual idea is characters blasting one another with beams.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
6 May 2026
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The framework proposes allotting $20 million of it to the Rays.—
Nicolas Villamil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
3 May 2026
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McKinnon said Okta is allocating more resources to tools like Okta for AI agents and Net-zero for AI agents as companies adopt agentic AI and demand more security defenses.—
Samantha Subin,
CNBC,
28 May 2026
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The objective of the Midas List is to identify the investors demonstrating the strongest judgment in allocating that capital.—
TrueBridge Capital,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
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The problem emerged when FIFA began assigning actual seat locations.—
Corey Martin,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
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As of Friday, the market is assigning a 42% chance of no rate cuts by year-end, a 41% chance of a quarter-point hike, and a 15% chance of two hikes, according to the CME FedWatch Tool .—
Kevin Stankiewicz,Zev Fima,
CNBC,
25 May 2026
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“Arming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arming. Accessed 2 Jun. 2026.
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