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Electric Vehicles

EV Dealerships Urge Slow-Walking Tax Credit Cutoff Amid ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Debate

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Experts have already warned that rollbacks to electric vehicle tax incentives will slow sales growth big time.

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Advisor Upside

Will Client Testimonials Catch On With Advisors?

The SEC has allowed testimonials in advertisements since 2022, yet less than 10% of advisors use them.

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Electric Vehicles

BYD Downshifts Production into First Gear

BYD is now the EV pace-setter in Europe, too, according to a recent report from automotive firm JATO Dynamics.

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Regulation

SEC Seeks to Rev Up ‘Engine of Growth’ by Loosening Corporate Disclosure Rules

SEC Chair Paul Atkins’s stance on financial regulation contrasts starkly with that of his predecessor, Gary Gensler.

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Industrials

America’s Anduril Among Potential Winners of NATO Breakthrough

NATO chief Mark Rutte said last week that the new defense 5% of GDP spending target amounts to a “quantum leap.”

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ETF Upside

ETFs Built On Tax Advantage Draw Congressional Scrutiny

Rich investors with large stock portfolios and capital gains get a tax bonus with 351 ETF exchanges.

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Energy

Low Battery: ‘Heat Dome’ Exposes Cracks in America’s Decaying Power Grid

Rising temperatures and massive new data centers are providing a massive stress test for the US power grid.

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CIO Upside

Reducing Data Security Risks from Model Context Protocol

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“If you compromise that AI, you compromise everything that it’s connected to.”

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ETF Upside

Calamos Launches First Autocallable ETF

The fund enters into swap agreements with J.P. Morgan and tracks an index from MerQube.

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Advisor Upside

Advisors Increasingly in Scramble Mode Over Fee Pressure

Advisors are getting creative with more services and non-traditional fee models.

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ETF Upside

ETF Investors Lured to AI, Crypto, Fintech

People are also more informed than ever about their ETF investments, per a Nasdaq report.

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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

CIO Upside

Coinbase Patent Tracks AI Contributions With Blockchain

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The technique is particularly useful for open source models that often involve many contributors.

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Semiconductors

After Reclaiming ‘World’s Most Valuable Company’ Crown, Nvidia Gilds the Tiara

In the past month, Nvidia shares have surged 18.8%, more than the rest of the Magnificent Seven, including Microsoft.

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Finance

Dwindling IPOs Reward Investors With Return Bonanza

New data compiled by Bloomberg found that shares in companies to debut on US exchanges this year have climbed by a weighted average of 53%.

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Advisor Upside

Morningstar’s CEO Kunal Kapoor on Private Assets and ‘Extracting Gold’

Over the past eight years, Kapoor has helped the company expand its workforce to over 10,000 employees and boost its stock price more than threefold.

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