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Consumer

Walmart Keeps Fan-Favorite Status as Shoppers Tighten Purse Strings

Despite concerns ahead of the busiest season for retailers, projections show Americans are ready to open their wallets.

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Healthcare

Abbott Breaks into Lucrative Cancer Screening Market with $21 Billion Exact Sciences Purchase

Earlier this month, Exact reported a record $851 million in third-quarter revenue, which included $666 million from its screening business.

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Consumer

Prada’s Heir Positioned to Restyle Versace

The luxury market has been in a prolonged downturn through 2025 so far, as shoppers tighten their purse strings.

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International Economics

White House Touts $270 Billion Worth of Deals at Saudi-palooza

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Semiconductors

With AI Bases Loaded, Nvidia Bats a Quarterly Earnings Home Run

Nvidia faced “the tough task of meeting high earnings expectations and high skepticism around AI capex,” per analysts at Bank of America.

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Advisor Upside

SEC Zeroes In on Advisors Recommending Alternatives. Just Not Crypto

Crypto’s exclusion further highlights the complete 180 Paul Atkins’s SEC has done on multiple issues from the previous administration.

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CIO Upside

Amazon Wants AI Up-to-Date and Personal

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Amazon is seeking to patent AI that refreshes itself, knows what topics you care about and tailors responses to your queries accordingly.

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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

Shrinking IT Teams Increasingly Rely on AI Helpers

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By 2030, Gartner projects that 25% of IT work will be done solely by AI; the remaining 75% will be done by humans, but augmented by AI.

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