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Consumer

Keurig Dr Pepper’s Shares Fizz Amid Private Equity Cash Infusion

The recent investment from private equity firms could help protect Keurig Dr Pepper from activist investors like Starboard.

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Semiconductors

Qualcomm Makes a Play for AI Chip Market Dominated by Nvidia, AMD

Qualcomm, known for smartphone semiconductors, announced a pair of AI accelerator chips set to hit the market in 2026 and 2027.

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Finance

Can Beyond Meat’s Meme-Stock Star Turn Last Beyond Last Week?

Beyond reported a 20% year-over-year revenue decline in its latest quarter, so this was not a fundamentals-driven rally.

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Artificial Intelligence

Alibaba Tackles American Tech Giants Head-On

Alibaba last week announced a new chatbot to challenge ChatGPT and new AI-powered smart glasses to challenge Meta.

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Hedge Funds

Hedge Fund Assets Reach Record $5 Trillion With Most Inflows Since 2007

The last time this many people piled into hedge funds, the only great recession anyone might have been aware of was Larry David’s hairline.

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ETF Upside

Goldman’s New Fund Designed for PE Returns, Sans the PE

The Goldman Sachs MSCI World Private Equity Return Tracker ETF does its best to replicate PE performance with publicly traded stocks.

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CIO Upside

Microsoft Wants to Improve AI-Powered Code Generation

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Microsoft wants to patent a system to improve how an LLM writes code in response to requests. One step is learning to recognize good code.

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ETF Upside

New CLO ETFs Launch Amid Bankruptcy-Sparked Pullback

Banks are writing off hundreds of millions of dollars in loan defaults, and the wind down in CLO trading may not be a bad thing.

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Finance

The ‘Everything App’: How Robinhood Grew From Trading Platform to Financial Ecosystem

Still in the “early innings of its growth story,” Robinhood has morphed from an app with crowdsourced stock advice to a financial ecosystem.

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ETF Upside

More Crypto Deals Are ‘Inevitable’ After FalconX Acquisition of 21Shares

The acquisition marks one of the first major purchases of an ETF provider by a US crypto trading platform.

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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

Will AI Be Setting Your Salary Soon? Some Workers Hope So

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AI might factor into your paycheck more and more over the next few years. Some workers expect that to make pay scales fairer.

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