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Sensory Upload: Walmart Expands Automation of Grocery Tracking

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Walmart — a.k.a., the largest grocer in the United States — sells so many groceries it’s nearly impossible to keep track.

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Investments

Payments Giant Swift Guards Speed Record With a Bet on Blockchain

Payments firm Swift is building a blockchain to enable instant global transactions, with more than two dozen financial institutions helping create the digital ledger.

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Advisor Upside

Tax Planning Is Table Stakes for Advisors

Nearly 70% of high-net-worth clients said advisors should help them reduce their taxes, Cerulli found.

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Electric Vehicles

GM Makes a Power Move, Shifting Focus from EVs Back to Gas Engines

Sales of new electric vehicles fell 6.3% year-over-year in the second quarter, according to Cox Automotive analysts.

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Advisor Upside

Why the SEC Wants to End Quarterly Earnings Reports

SEC Chairman Paul Atkins advocated to end the reports as a cost-saving measure for listed companies.

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Big Tech

Amazon Still Wants an Alexa in Every Home. Hence, Her M-AI-keover

With new leadership, the company is looking to revive its entire hardware line — and dig itself out of a giant money hole

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Healthcare

Pfizer’s Drug Price Deal with White House Gives Big Pharma a Booster Shot

A 2024 RAND study found that US drug prices are 278% higher than in 33 other developed countries in the OECD.

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ETF Upside

Dual Share Classes Are Coming Soon. Now, What?

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ETF share classes of mutual funds (and the other way around) are so close, yet so very far away, as fund boards have a lot of work ahead.

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ETF Upside

Move Over State Street. JPMorgan Becomes Latest to File for Private Credit ETF

Semiliquid funds topped $450 billion in assets, but a handful of private credit ETFs have been slow to win over investors.

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Healthcare

Genmab Strikes $8 Billion Deal for Cancer Treatment Maker Merus

BMO analysts said in a note Monday they were “encouraged” that Genmab’s acquisition “could start to spur broader M&A in the sector.”

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ETF Upside

AI-Powered ETFs Aren’t Living Up to Investor Expectations

ETFs that use artificial intelligence to select holdings have largely underperformed over the past five years. Many have closed.

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Patent Drop

Glimpse into the future of technology.

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Google Patent Highlights AI and Quantum’s Symbiotic Relationship
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The Time and Place for AI Code Generators
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Into the Future: The Patent Drop Highlight Reel
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Amazon Tries to Help Alexa Get Personal

Markets

Wall Street Braces for Government Shutdown Chaos

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Fitting for 2025, a government shutdown is all but guaranteed to deliver even more uncertainty into the macroeconomic mix.

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