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Patent Drop

Adobe Continues AI Push By Keeping a Close Eye on User Behavior

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Adobe wants to watch its users a little closer so it can recommend how to properly change the brightness in Photoshop using AI.

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Patent Drop

Shopify Plugs Away at AR Patents for Merchants

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Shopify wants to use AR to help you after you pulled the trigger on that big purchase. AR shopping may lean towards end-to-end experiences.

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Power Corridor

Life After Epstein at America’s Top Bank

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JP Morgan, the largest bank in America, with more than $3 trillion in assets, settles all Epstein lawsuits.

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Policy & Power

Alibaba’s Logistics Hub in Belgium Hit With the Latest Spying Scrutiny

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Belgian authorities are monitoring Alibaba for “possible espionage” at the company’s main European logistics hub.

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Social Media

Twitter’s Latest Ad Problem: Users Flagging Them for Misinformation

Twitter designed the community notes feature for users to add context to possible misleading tweets. Now it’s a liability for advertisers.

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Finance

Goldman Sachs Launches Platform for Third-Party ETFs

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Goldman Sachs launched its ETF accelerator platform, intended to help smaller third-party funds enter the $10 trillion market.

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Patent Drop

Meta May Turn to Synthetic Data to Feed its AI Growth

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Meta might want to make synthetic data from your Facebook posts. While this helps solve the privacy issue, the issue of bias is still present.

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Patent Drop

Ford’s Patent Tracks How Much Your Car is Polluting

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The tech could help Ford – and those that buy Ford’s industrial fleet vehicles – cut their emissions by keeping a closer eye on them.

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Patent Drop

Google’s Watchful Doorbell Patent Highlight Tech Companies’ Interest in Surveillance

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Google’s Nest doorbells might be joining the neighborhood watch. The patent signals that people are growing more comfortable being watched.

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Real Estate

Mortgage Rates Inch Toward 8% and Nobody’s Happy About it

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US mortgage rates have climbed past 7.5% — further tightening an increasingly impossible-to-crack housing market.

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Regulation

UK Sets Up Framework to Eventually Ban Cigarettes for All

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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced on Wednesday that he plans to raise the legal smoking age by one year every year.

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Healthcare

Pharma Giants Combine Forces to Fight New M&A Rules

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Some of pharma’s biggest players — including Merck, Amgen, Abbvie, and Gilead — formed an alliance to fight looming M&A reforms.

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OP-ED | Power Corridor

McCarthy Ousted, But What Has Been Solved?

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U.S. House of Representatives fires its Speaker, Kevin McCarthy, for the first time ever, the GOP infighting rages on.

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Power Corridor

How Much Did SBF’s Parents Know?

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Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial is shaping up to be one of the biggest show trials on Wall Street since Bernie Madoff. Did SBF’s parents know?

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OP-ED | Power Corridor

Wall Street’s Top Banks Fined $53 Million in Regulatory Spanking

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Wall Street’s Top Banks Fined – CFTC ordered Goldman to pay $30 million, JP Morgan $15 million, and Bank of America $8 million.

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Consumer

Macy’s is Pivoting From its Legacy of Anchoring Malls

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Macy’s is going less colosseum and more cozy in a cost-cutting shift away from large locations in malls and into small-format stores.

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Industrials

Blue Origin Grounds Commercial Space Station Plans

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Blue Origin is expected to back out of plans to build a commercial space station in conjunction with corporate partners.

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Big Tech

Meta Plans an Ad-Free Subscription Service in the EU

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Meta is rolling out subscription versions of Instagram and Facebook in Europe that won’t feature targeted ads.

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Electric Vehicles

Rivian Finally Sees Sales Increase, But Not Nearly Fast Enough

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On Monday, Rivian announced an expectations-beating jump in deliveries for its third quarter. But a new report says it’s still losing money.

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Industries

Airbnb’s CEO Wants a Customer Do-Over

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In an interview with Bloomberg, CEO Brian Chesky laid out how Airbnb has been rocked by user dissatisfaction and tighter regulation.

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