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[ad_1] Chrome is the world’s most popular web browser. But how much longer it belongs to Google is an open question.A court last year ruled that Google had violated antitrust laws by maintaining a monopoly on internet search. A second ruling in April found Google also monopolized open-web digital ad markets.The Justice Department asked a judge to force Google to divest its premier web browser to remedy the case. A court is expected to rule on that by the end of this month.Chrome, a free web browser developed by Google, is an important distribution tool for Google Search and its…

[ad_1] Anthropic has announced new capabilities that will allow some of its newest, largest models to end conversations in what the company describes as “rare, extreme cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions.” Strikingly, Anthropic says it’s doing this not to protect the human user, but rather the AI model itself. To be clear, the company isn’t claiming that its Claude AI models are sentient or can be harmed by their conversations with users. In its own words, Anthropic remains “highly uncertain about the potential moral status of Claude and other LLMs, now or in the future.” However, its…

[ad_1] The stock market continues to be extraordinary in the face of distressing headlines, but the growing concentration risk has more investors on edge. The S & P 500 is back at all-time highs as the bull case on Wall Street plays out. The artificial intelligence buildout is ramping up. Corporate earnings are topping expectations. Interest rate cuts seem inevitable, likely coming next month. On top of all that, the One Big Beautiful Bill will be stimulative for an economy where consumers are still spending. But the market’s ascent at a time of seasonal weakness and ongoing inflation concerns has…

[ad_1] Wells Fargo highlighted five companies that have more room to appreciate following their latest earnings. The Wall Street investment bank says stocks like Sunrun are compelling. Other overweight-rated companies the bank is bullish on include: RealReal, Spotify , Williams Companies and Nextracker. Spotify Technology Analyst Steven Cahall says he’s standing by the streaming music stock following its late July earnings report. Wells Fargo admitted the quarterly results weren’t overly exciting, but said Spotify remains a top pick with too many attractive catalysts to ignore. “[Estimates] are coming down and there is nothing particularly incremental to get excited about,” Cahall…

[ad_1] At 43, I was at the height of my professional career, living my dream life as a Southwest Airlines pilot. I traveled back and forth across the country multiple times every month and used my free passes on frequent vacations with my 8-year-old son.The airline business is built on seniority, and after 12 years, I was senior enough to fly only about eight days a month.I didn’t know my lifestyle was headed for a massive speed bump after learning I was pregnant with twins.Having twins in my 40s changed everything — especially my careerI had planned to keep flying…

[ad_1] Stocks such as eBay and Intel are among Wall Street’s most overbought names this week and could see a pullback ahead, according to one popular technical metric. Each of the three major U.S. indexes hit all-time highs this week. The records followed improved investor sentiment after fresh consumer inflation data supported hopes for an interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve’s September meeting. The S & P 500 and Nasdaq Composite gained 0.9% and 0.8% week to date, respectively, while the 30-stock Dow Jones Industrial Average added 1.7%. After this week’s rally, we used the CNBC Pro stock screener…

[ad_1] After spending most of my adult years living outside of the US, including seven years in Asia, and two in Mexico, I started wondering if it was time to settle down.I grew up in Northeast, Ohio, but besides a few months during the pandemic, I hadn’t lived there full-time since I was 18.I loved life abroad, from immersing myself in different cultures to the lower cost of living, but I was starting to want more stability.Plus, I was lonely and a bit envious of friends back home who were hitting different milestones like getting married, buying property, and having…

[ad_1] This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Jigar Bhati, a member of technical staff at OpenAI. He’s worked at the company since 2023 and previously worked as a software engineer at Twitter. This story has been edited for length and clarity.I was working at Twitter for almost seven years and was looking for a change in general. Twitter was a big tech company, and it was handling millions of users already. I wanted to join a company that was a bit smaller scale and work in a startup-like environment.When ChatGPT launched, software engineers were in awe. So…

[ad_1] My father’s sister Helen died unexpectedly in the fall of 2021. I’d known my aunt was ill and had made plans to fly from my home in New Orleans to Dallas to visit her, but she was closer to the end than we realized. I had loved Helen and written to her while she was sick, but we hadn’t been especially close, so I was surprised and grateful to find that she’d left me $20,000 in her will.Because the money was in Helen’s IRA, I received it as an inherited IRA, which has certain tax implications: In short, the…

[ad_1] This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kevin Ford, a 56-year-old retiree who lives in Las Vegas. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I was in a middle management position. In the beginning, I loved it. I think that’s what happens with a lot of these people who are quietly cracking: They love it at first, but some series of events leads to a misalignment.I had gotten my team to the point where they were doing good on their own. They had some issues, I got them running smoothly, and then I thought, “I don’t know if…