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A new class of content creators is emerging in the era of vibe coding. Danger Testing raised $2.6 million to capitalize.

Labubu dolls are everywhere — on backpacks, in airports, in metro stations across Washington. But 16 out of 20 of those dolls are made with cotton harvested by Uyghur forced labor. Rushan Abbas, ...

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The cute, collectible Labubu dolls flying off shelves come in “blind boxes” — buyers don’t know which figure they’ve purchased until they open it. But the ugly truth about these popular toys remains ...

A new investigation found some Labubu dolls contain cotton that is banned in the US because it comes from a region in China known for its forced-labor laws. The plush monster toys have enjoyed a ...

Some of the wildly popular Labubu dolls made by Chinese company Pop Mart are being sold with clothes that contain cotton from the Xinjiang region of western China, which the U.S. government has banned ...

A test verified by The New York Times found that clothes for some of the viral dolls contained cotton from the Xinjiang region of China, which is banned in the United States. For businesses like Pop ...

Things are looking up on Fifth Avenue’s upper-Midtown shopping corridor. First, a large, long-awaited retail lease has been signed at 680 Fifth Ave. at East 54th Street — and sources said it’s with ...

Pop Mart, the official retailer of Labubu blind boxes and products, has teamed up with FIFA to celebrate the 2026 World Cup with a new Labubu collection. The Monsters × FIFA Series collection will ...

Pop Mart posted blockbuster earnings thanks to a global craze for its ugly-cute Labubu dolls. The question now is if it can keep churning out hits. Many investors appeared skeptical about that ...