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AI industry looks to repeat crypto lobbying success and put war chest to work in midterm elections
The polling site at Davies Student Center on Election Day, Nov. 5, 2024 at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The Washington Post | The Washington Post | Getty Images The age of the AI super PAC is here, and it has ballot boxes across the U.S. in its sites ahead of […]
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Northeast gets last brunt of winter storm that brought ice, snow, cold to much of the U.S.
The U.S. work week opened with yet more snow dumping on the Northeast under the tail end of a colossal winter storm that brought ice and power outages, impassable roads, canceled flights and frigid cold to much of the southern and eastern United States. Deep snow — over a foot (30 centimeters) extending in a […]
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Therapists say they see more workers anxious about AI: It’s ‘a fear of becoming obsolete’
Fiordaliso | Moment | Getty Images Over the last few years, Emma Kobil, a trauma counselor in Denver, started noticing a new topic coming up with her patients: artificial intelligence. “I’ve had clients lose their jobs due to AI, and it’s something we’ve processed in our sessions,” Kobil said. Often, they express “shock, disbelief and […]
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Advisors to the ultra rich say AI isn’t a gamechanger for landing new clients
D3sign | Moment | Getty Images A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox. Market data firms have been pitching artificial intelligence as the key to locating elusive ultra-high-net-worth clients. But […]
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Salesforce’s Benioff calls for AI regulation, says models have become ‘suicide coaches’
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said Tuesday that “there has to be some regulation” of artificial intelligence, pointing to several documented cases of suicide linked to the technology. “This year, you really saw something pretty horrific, which is these AI models became suicide coaches,” Benioff told CNBC’s Sarah Eisen Tuesday at the World Economic Forum’s flagship […]
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College students and teens could be fueling the prediction markets boom
A version of this article first appeared in the CNBC Sport newsletter with Alex Sherman, which brings you the biggest news and exclusive interviews from the worlds of sports business and media. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox. As prediction market trading volume booms, Truist analysts say there could be an unlikely source […]
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JPMorgan’s looming question: What happens when CEO Jamie Dimon leaves?
As Wall Street’s top bankers huddled in New York last month, preparing to convince Elon Musk’s SpaceX that they should be chosen to lead its upcoming IPO, one firm wasn’t letting its star advisor miss the bake-off. Among the squad of JPMorgan Chase investment bankers flying 2,500 miles west to California to pitch SpaceX was […]
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Fed Chair Powell says he’s under criminal investigation, won’t bow to Trump intimidation
US Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference following a Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting in Washington, DC, on Dec. 10, 2025. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Federal prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, he confirmed on Sunday evening. Powell said the […]
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Epstein files: Reps ask judge to appoint monitor to ensure all documents released
Representative Ro Khanna, a Democrat from California, during a news conference outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. Graeme Sloan | Bloomberg | Getty Images Two members of the House of Representatives asked a federal judge in New York on Thursday to appoint a so-called special master to ensure […]
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Judge disqualifies federal prosecutor in investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James
U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York John A. Sarcone III joins Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Craig Tremaroli for a news conference to announce the arrest of an accused online sexual predator on Monday, April 28, 2025, in the U.S. Attorney’s Office at the James T. Foley Federal Courthouse […]
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