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Even Before Shooting of Insurance CEO, Spending on Executive Security Was Booming

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The fatal shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week has put a new found spotlight on executive security, an issue that hasn’t previously received much attention in conversations about how corporations accommodate their C-su...

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Judge Again Rejects Musk’s $56 Billion Pay Package from Tesla

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We’re going to talk about Elon Musk, but first we’ve got to focus. Forget, for a moment, about other recent stories involving the world’s richest man. Forget about his stated initiative to feed “all court cases” to an artificially intellige...

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Trump Seemingly Poised to Relax Regulation of AI

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Remember the anecdote about President Biden getting spooked by a blockbuster film’s depiction of artificial intelligence run amok? The story goes that in November 2023, he issued an executive order calling for the federal government to crea...

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Trump’s Win Promises New Playing Field for Crypto

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Dogged by its reputation as a financial refuge for off-the-books transactions and shady business, is cryptocurrency finally going legit? The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission during President-elect Donald J. Trump’s first term...

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Companies’ Accounting Issues Lead to Missed Filing Deadlines

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A few weeks ago, we wrote about the upheaval at Super Micro Computer, a California-based public company that builds computer servers. Amid allegations of accounting irregularities, Super Micro was dumped as a client by auditor Ernst & Y...

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