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Policy & Power

EUnomics in the Age of Trump: Defense and Crypto Edition

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Berlin-based economist Jan Philipp Fritsche explains how the new NATO defense spending pledge and US crypto legislation could impact the EU.

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Artificial Intelligence

ChatGPT Crushing All Rivals in Chatbot Race

OpenAI’s ChatGPT is lapping rival tech offerings in user adoption, downloaded over 900 million times on devices.

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Real Estate

National Housing Crisis Masks Severe Rental Shortages

Prospective homebuyers and sellers are in a holding pattern, as persistently high mortgage rates and prices keep them from making moves.

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Advisor Upside

Playing the Benchmarking Game With Allan Roth

Benchmarking portfolios is part science and part judgment, which makes it susceptible to bias. Fortunately, there are ways to limit that.

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Media & Entertainment

Gaming Platform Roblox Adds Age-Verification to Safeguard Kids

The new guardrails may help the platform stay one step ahead of a growing crop of age verification laws cropping up across the country.

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Consumer

White House Push for Cane-Sugar Coke Reignites Soda Wars

As investors prepped for Coke’s cane-sugar future, corn syrup producers Archer-Daniels-Midland and Ingredion both saw their shares fizzle.

2 min read
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Autos

Uber Paying $300M Fare in Robotaxi Deal

A pact announced Thursday calls for Uber to invest $300 million in Lucid and buy at least 20,000 robotaxis from the company over six years.

2 min read

CIO Upside

Okta Patent Disrupts AI-Fueled Phishing Attacks

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Phishing attempts are getting smarter in the age of AI.

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Banking

Goldman’s ‘Midas Touch’ During Turbulent Quarter Delivers Record Trading Results

Goldman’s top line metrics — profit up 22% to $3.7 billion and total revenues up 15% to $14.6 billion — also bested analysts’ expectations.

2 min read
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Energy

Westinghouse Lays Groundwork to Build 10 New Nuclear Reactors

Westinghouse has changed hands a bit since completing its last nuclear reactors, both at Plant Vogtle in Waynesboro, Georgia.

2 min read
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Blockchain

Ethereum Treasuries Boom as Companies Look Beyond Bitcoin

In the past 30 days, Ethereum treasury companies scooped up more than 545,000 ether worth at least $1.6 billion, CoinTelegraph reported.

2 min read

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

CIO Upside

mRNA Research by IBM, Moderna Shows Quantum’s Present-Day Uses

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“We’re pushing the boundaries of the size of the problems we can look at with quantum.”

2 min read

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Advisor Upside

Vanguard Made a Single Acquisition. Now, It’s Getting Sued

The complaint alleges Vanguard acted in bad faith by thwarting certain business deals post-acquisition.

2 min read
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Blockchain

Crypto Heads Toward Housing Market in Latest Mainstreaming Move

The new rules could let homebuyers keep their crypto and use it to qualify for loans though mainstream banks.

2 min read
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Advisor Upside

Defense ETFs Surge Amid Wartime Buildups

ETFs targeting the sector are riding high this year due to sustained conflicts in Europe and the Middle East.

1 min read

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