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Assistant managing editor for NBC News Digital. Tech, science, climate, health, business, memes. HTX, BOS, ACT, NYC. Signal:JasonAbb.78

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Jason Abbruzzese is a business reporter at Mashable covering media. He is a proud alumni of Boston University (and its independent student newspaper the Daily Free Press), as well as the Australian National University. He most recently worked for the Financial Times where he covered the US equity market and worked as a web editor. After growing up as a recovering classical pianist, he has become a surprisingly sloppy typer.

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Spotify May Kill Pandora and iTunes, But Not Just Yet

Spotify May Kill Pandora and iTunes, But Not Just Yet

Spotify may eventually make your iTunes and Pandora accounts obsolete, but don't delete them just yet. Spotif…

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Why the Canada Post Wants to Eliminate Up to 8,000 Mailmen

Why the Canada Post Wants to Eliminate Up to 8,000 Mailmen

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Denver Post Marijuana Editor Ready to Report on Reefer Madness

Denver Post Marijuana Editor Ready to Report on Reefer Madness

Ricardo Baca is trying to figure out how to cover a market that has never existed before, at least legally. T…

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SpaceX is coming to your retirement account. Not everyone is thrilled.

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By Jason Abbruzzese Verified
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SpaceX is coming to your retirement account. Not everyone is thrilled. SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI are set to go public, but stock market rule changes have fueled concern that the average investor could be taken advantage of.
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How bizarre fish ‘experiment’ videos from China hijacked the internet’s worst impulses Original

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By Tavleen Tarrant Verified, Larissa Gao Verified, Jason Abbruzzese Verified
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May 24, 2026, 12:00 PM EDT Of the hundreds of “LabGerm” videos posted and reposted to social media in recent weeks, most start out the same way: A pair of gloved hands appears against a white backdrop as an AI-generated voice narrates and upbeat music plays in the background. In the foreground, a fish undergoes a torturous “experiment.” Some of the videos appear to have been made entirely or at least in part with AI, while others seem to show real animals in distress.
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Zillow CEO Jeremy Wacksman is preparing for the next revolution in real estate

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By Jason Abbruzzese Verified, Christine Romans Verified
| NBC News Verified
May 15, 2026, 8:48 AM EDT A list of addresses and a car: This is how Americans have gone house hunting for decades. And that’s what Zillow CEO Jeremy Wacksman was doing with NBC News recently not far from Manhattan. A nice house in Rutherford, New Jersey, was listed for about $600,000. Not far from there, small homes were going for $2 million. “A lot of things have changed in real estate,” Wacksman said.
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General assignment for the Daily Free Press

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Yes, by candlelight.

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