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Want to make good investments? Avoid these 3 common mistakes, Morningstar portfolio manager says
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Want to make good investments? Avoid these 3 common mistakes, Morningstar portfolio manager says

Making good investments is key for those looking to accumulate wealth, but it’s not always easy —especially given the ongoing macroeconomic uncertainty and fears of a looming recession . From following fads with blind faith to trying to forecast market moves, Nicolo Bragazza, an associate portfolio manager at Morningstar Investment Management, names three investing mistakes […]

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Nvidia has become world’s ‘most important stock,’ adding pressure to upcoming earnings report
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Nvidia has become world’s ‘most important stock,’ adding pressure to upcoming earnings report

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang makes a speech at an event at COMPUTEX forum in Taipei, Taiwan June 4, 2024.  Ann Wang | Reuters For Nvidia investors, the past two years have been a joyride. But recently they’ve been on more of a roller coaster. As the primary beneficiary of the artificial intelligence boom, Nvidia has […]

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Meta says it found WhatsApp accounts linked to Iranian hackers targeting Biden and Trump
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Meta says it found WhatsApp accounts linked to Iranian hackers targeting Biden and Trump

Meta said Friday that it blocked a “small cluster” of WhatsApp accounts linked to an Iranian hacking group that was targeting officials associated with President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. The company said in a blog post that the bogus WhatsApp accounts appeared to originate from the Iranian threat actor dubbed APT42, which […]

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GM-owned Cruise will partner with Uber to offer driverless rides
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GM-owned Cruise will partner with Uber to offer driverless rides

A Cruise autonomous taxi in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday Aug. 10, 2023.  David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Uber Technologies and General Motors’ Cruise have agreed to a multi-year partnership, under which the embattled autonomous vehicle company plans to offer driverless rides to Uber users as soon as next year. The […]

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Perplexity AI plans to start running ads in fourth quarter as AI-assisted search gains popularity
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Perplexity AI plans to start running ads in fourth quarter as AI-assisted search gains popularity

Perplexity AI logo is seen in this illustration taken January 4, 2024.  Dado Ruvic | Reuters Perplexity AI, the artificial intelligence startup that’s been embroiled in controversy due to accusations of plagiarizing content from media outlets, plans to start running ads on its search app in the fourth quarter, CNBC has learned. The company, which […]

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RFK Jr. plans to end presidential campaign, will endorse Trump over Harris
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RFK Jr. plans to end presidential campaign, will endorse Trump over Harris

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., looks on during a campaign event to announce his pick for running mate at the Henry J. Kaiser Event Center on March 26, 2024 in Oakland, California.  Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to drop out of the presidential race on Friday and endorse […]

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Startup using blockchain to prevent copyright theft by AI is valued over  billion after fresh funding
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Startup using blockchain to prevent copyright theft by AI is valued over $2 billion after fresh funding

Generative AI models require huge amounts of training data to enable their systems to produce advanced outputs. But the data that goes into them is often from sources where copyright restrictions are in place. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images San-Francisco-based startup Story said Wednesday that it raised $80 million of funding for a […]

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Amazon-backed Anthropic hit with class-action lawsuit over copyright infringement
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Amazon-backed Anthropic hit with class-action lawsuit over copyright infringement

Anthropic, the Amazon-backed artificial intelligence startup, on Monday was hit with a class-action lawsuit in California federal court over alleged copyright infringement. Three authors said in the filing that Anthropic “built a multibillion-dollar business by stealing hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books,” including their own. Anthropic, which was founded by ex-OpenAI research executives, has backers […]

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Waymo has doubled its weekly paid robotaxi trips to 100,000 since May
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Waymo has doubled its weekly paid robotaxi trips to 100,000 since May

A Waymo autonomous self-driving Jaguar taxi drives along a street on March 14, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.  Mario Tama | Getty Images Waymo is now providing more than 100,000 paid robotaxi rides per week in the US, according to a LinkedIn announcement by its co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana. That’s double the 50,000 weekly paid trips […]

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Google IPO banker tracks two-decade journey from Silicon Valley upstart to  trillion
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Google IPO banker tracks two-decade journey from Silicon Valley upstart to $2 trillion

Twenty years ago, as Morgan Stanley banker Michael Grimes was helping lead the public offering for the young company behind the Google search engine, one of the most anticipated of the decade, he was among the first people offered a new email service. He had his pick of any identifier he wanted, so he asked […]

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