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Financial freedom may take $10 million

Troy Millings, left, and Rashad Bilal, co-creators of Earn Your Leisure. Source: Tyrell Davis Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings are among a growing class of financial influencers who want to help people be smarter about money. The duo — a former financial advisor and a teacher, respectively — launched the …

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Google commits to invest $2 billion in OpenAI competitor Anthropic

Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Google agreed to invest up to $2 billion in Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup founded by ex-OpenAI executives, CNBC has confirmed. The commitment involves a $500 million upfront cash infusion and an additional $1.5 billion to be invested over time, an Anthropic spokesperson …

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Why food giants think you’ll eat a mustard Skittle and caviar Pringle

French’s mustard-flavored Skittles. Nike sneakers with a Tiffany & Co. blue swoosh. A “crisps and caviar” snack kit from Pringles and The Caviar Co. While brand partnerships are a tried-and-true tactic to get attention, the marketing mashups of 2023 take it to a whole new level. Fueled by Mattel’s more …

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How to save by taking funds from inherited retirement accounts now

Elenaval | Room | Getty Images More from Year-End Planning Here’s a look at more coverage on what to do finance-wise as the end of the year approaches: But if beneficiaries put off withdrawals or take only that minimum early on, they could wind up with a “giant RMD” at …

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Intel pops after earnings show progress toward $3 billion in savings

Intel stock closed up 9.3% on Friday after the company beat Wall Street expectations for profit and sales. On Thursday, the chipmaker reported earnings per share of 41 cents, adjusted, versus the LSEG estimate of 22 cents. It posted $14.16 billion in revenue for the quarter, ahead of analyst expectations …

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New tool lets artists ‘poison’ their artwork to deter AI companies

Artists who want to share their artwork often face a tough choice: keep it offline or post it on social media and risk having it used to train data-hungry AI image generators. But a new tool may soon be able to help artists deter AI companies from using their artwork …

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Google paid $26 billion in 2021 to become a default search engine

Google CEO Sundar Pichai (L) and Apple CEO Tim Cook (R) listen as U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a roundtable with American and Indian business leaders in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on June 23, 2023. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images Google paid $26.3 …

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FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried testifies before the jury in fraud trial

Former FTX Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried, who faces fraud charges over the collapse of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, walks outside the Manhattan federal court in New York City, U.S. March 30, 2023.  Amanda Perobelli | Reuters FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried told jurors in his criminal trial on Friday that he …

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Alex Rodriguez wishes he’d bought Amazon, Microsoft, Starbucks in ’90s

Alex Rodriguez has a few regrets — including not thinking more about the stock market as a young baseball player in Seattle during the 1990s dot-com boom. “When I was in Seattle — I started in 1993 — I wish I would have just bought a bunch of the locals,” …

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‘AI exposure’ is new buzz term for softening talk about job losses

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence has raised many concerns, prominent among these AI job displacement and mass layoffs throughout the economy.  Unlike previous eras of technology and innovation, when job loss fears centered mainly on manual work, this time it is so-called white collar jobs, now also referred to …

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