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Advisor Upside

Next-Gen Advisors Want Clear Path to Promotion: DeVoe

Failing to properly guide the next generation could lead to many practices losing their competitive edge.

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Industries

McDonald’s Chief Blasts Minimum Wage Loophole for Tipped Workers

McDonald’s is battling its own industry over fast food workers’ pay, which it believes should be better, and tips, which it opposes.

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Big Tech

Alibaba Executes a Big Tech Pivot

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, having successfully diversified into cloud computing, is now making a push into artificial intelligence.

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ETF Upside

New Spot Crypto Products? Regulators Say Bring It On

The SEC and CFTC recently issued a rare joint statement encouraging applications for new spot crypto products.

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International Economics

‘Not Optimistic’: Washington Hits Tariff Impasse with Switzerland

Small, mountainous Switzerland — a country that ranks 61st in the world by total area — is one of the world’s biggest investors in the US.

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ETF Upside

Media Companies Are Cracking the Streaming Code. Should Investors Care?

Disney is the comeback kid of Wall Street, and other streaming giants are following suit.

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CIO Upside

Microsoft Targets AI’s Bias Problem in Recent Patent

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Bias is one of the fundamental issues that AI developers face as they build and deploy models.

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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

Developers Need More Than Speed to Succeed

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‘It’s never just about your lines of code produced,’ said Capital One’s Catherine McGarvey.

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Consumer

Macy’s Makeover Smoothes Out Earnings-Related Worry Lines for Investors

The department store also seems cautiously optimistic for the holidays, raising its profit forecast for the year.

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Big Tech

Apple Hits the Jackpot as Google Ducks Antitrust KO

For a year now, Apple shareholders have feared the company would lose out on easy revenue from making Google its default search engine.

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Advisor Upside

SEC Enforcement Claims Tumble Almost 50% This Year

Chairman Paul Atkins said his agency is going after fraud affecting retail investors.

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