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Can Microsoft’s Bing — or Anyone Else — Ever Overtake Google?

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Microsoft wants to get up close and personal to make its search results better.

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JPMorgan Chase May Use Blockchain to Check Facts

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Core blockchain technologies themselves are being adopted at a more gradual pace.

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Adobe Wants to Fix When AI Starts to Drift

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Adobe wants to stop AI models from losing their trains of thought.

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Media & Entertainment

Warner Bros. Discovery isn’t out of the NBA Business Just Yet

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The longtime broadcast partner may soon be losing out on live games, but Warner Bros. Discovery won’t be completely sidelined by the NBA.

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Banking

Wall Street’s Trading Assets Cross $1 Trillion

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It’s got to be at least a yellow flag whenever 2008 — the height of the Great Recession — is your point of reference, no?

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Economics

The US Dollar is Flexing Muscle, Putting the Rest of the World on Notice

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The US greenback has appreciated 2.65% against a basket of its developed market peers since the election and is at a two-year high.

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Geopolitics

Saudi Arabia Pulls Back as Trump Reemerges on World Stage

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Saudi Arabia’s Mammoth Public Investment Fund Turns Inward Just As One of the Country’s Top Allies Reclaims the White House.

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M&A

Cheerios Owner Buys Petcare Brand for $1.45 Billion

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Snacking conglomerates all agree: Petcare mergers and acquisitions are the cat’s pajamas. Just ask General Mills.

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Media & Entertainment

Disney’s Streaming Bet is Paying Off. So What’s Next?

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Has Bob Iger now done it? Has he restored the magic, the thing defeated activist agitator Carl Icahn said was missing?

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Big Tech

Meta Jostles With EU and US Regulators in Same Week

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European authorities fined Meta for allegedly engaging in antitrust behavior by favoring its classified service Facebook Marketplace.

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Patent Drop

Ford EV Slowdown Signals a Market “Inflection Point”

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Charging infrastructure remains a barrier in EV adoption.

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Disney Doesn’t Want to be Left Behind in AI

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The company’s recent patent signals that AI is coming both for the world of advertising and entertainment at large.

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Salesforce Wants an AI That Can do it All

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Salesforce’s patent for a multi-talented AI assistant signals that language models need to be more than just chatbots to be useful.

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Advisor Upside

Inside Wells Fargo’s Bet on Independent Advisors

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The wirehouse’s independent channel has become the fastest growing segment of its wealth management unit and helped retain advisors.

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Advisor Upside

Why Nvidia in the Dow Is Bad News for Dividend Investors

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The index investors consider as a basket of blue chip stocks has taken a hard turn toward growth, and away from mature dividend stocks.

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Advisor Upside

Wall Street Bonuses Surge for First Time Since 2021

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The past two years haven’t been too kind to Wall Street comp plans, but that might be changing as bonuses make a comeback.

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Consumer

Food Delivery Giant Just Eat Offloads Grubhub to Marc Lore’s Wonder at a 90% Loss

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Big Tech

Amazon Doubles Down on AI Processor Bet

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Amazon wants to reduce its reliance on Nvidia and offer an alternative to Nvidia for Amazon Web Services clients in the process.

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Finance

Klarna Files for a US IPO

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Looser regulations might be leading Swedish buy-now-pay-later firm Klarna to choose the US over the UK to host its IPO.

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Industrials

Activist Investor Elliott Reveals Surprise $5 Billion Stake in Conglomerate Honeywell

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Honeywell may just be the next conglomerate to split into various pieces. At least if Elliott Investment Management has its way.

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Advisor Upside

Financial advisor news, market insights, and practice management essentials.

Anthropic Moves Deeper into Financial Services with Claude for Advisors

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PEPs Are Popping Seven Years After Secure Act Passage

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Shopping for Value? Malls Now Rank as Hottest Commercial Real Estate

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