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[ad_1] AI-powered coding tools have become so popular over the past few months that almost every major tech company is either using one or making its own. Makers of these so-called “vibe-coding” tools are a hot commodity at the moment, with startups like Lovable and Cursor fending off buyers and investors keen to tap a hot trend. Google’s now become the latest to hop on this bandwagon: the company is testing a vibe-coding tool called Opal, available to users in the U.S. through Google Labs, which the company uses as a base to experiment with new tech. Opal lets you…

[ad_1] Oppenheimer is going all in when it comes to Carvana . The investment firm upgraded its rating on the online used-car seller to an outperform rating from perform. Analyst Brian Nagel accompanied the move by setting a price target of $450 for the stock. Shares of Carvana have surged 60% in 2025. Nagel’s price target implies that the stock could rally another 38% from its Thursday close. CVNA YTD mountain CVNA YTD chart “CVNA represents a unique, digitally-driven disruptor, within the expansive and inefficient domestic used car marketplace,” the analyst wrote. “Following significant fundamental and financial repositioning, the CVNA…

[ad_1] 2025-07-25T11:03:24Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Intel shares fell more than 8% after announcing 25,000 job cuts and scrapping European projects. The tech giant’s move is part of a turnaround plan to improve its financial performance. AEye, Deckers Outdoors, UnitedHealth, and AST SpaceMobile also saw notable premarket moves. Intel, AEye, Deckers Outdoor, UnitedHealth, and…

[ad_1] Piper Sandler is the latest firm to highlight Palantir as a strong winning candidate in the artificial intelligence boom. The bank initiated coverage of the software stock at an overweight rating and price target of $175, which offers upside of approximately 13% from Palantir’s Thursday closing price. Shares have surged nearly 105% this year. PLTR YTD mountain PLTR YTD chart Piper Sandler analyst Brent Bracelin called Palantir a solid buy, despite its massive year-to-date runup. “No doubt, PLTR carries a rich valuation premium and remains a high-risk investment, but it also has a one-of-a-kind growth+margin model that if proven…

[ad_1] Jereome Powell isn’t taking the bait — and it’s a lesson for us all.For months, Trump has lobbed a slew of ad hominem attacks, from “Mr. Too Late” to “knucklehead” and “numbskull,” at the Federal Reserve chairman, who has declined to cut interest rates as fast as Trump would like. Trump has also called on Powell to step down.The pair’s latest face-to-face encounter came on Thursday, when they jointly toured the Federal Reserve headquarters, which is undergoing a yearslong, $2.5 billion renovation project.At one point, Trump and Powell exchanged words about the cost of the renovation, a key talking…

[ad_1] When my husband and I married in 2008, we made a big mistake. Though at the time, it felt like a good investment.We bid adieu to our beloved two-bedroom Astoria, Queens rental and bought an apartment seven miles southeast in Forest Hills.Initially, we wanted to stay in Astoria, where our commute into Manhattan was just 30 minutes, and we could walk to a restaurant with a different global cuisine every weekend for months without repeating.However, a one-bedroom apartment, a third smaller than our rental, cost an average of $425,000 in Astoria, and we didn’t think the price was right,…

[ad_1] Over the course of my career in Big Tech, I’ve been lucky to work at several successful, fast-growing companies. At Meta and Airbnb, I helped scale research and design teams from 2012 to 2022, ultimately becoming Head of Design Studio at Airbnb.I loved building teams of talented people, but it wasn’t all roses. Rapid changes and looming crises were constants, as they seem to be at most companies.For example, I was working at Airbnb when COVID-19 hit in 2020. The company lost 80% of its business in a matter of weeks, and by May, I was forced to lay…

[ad_1] A new, exclusive club has “eyes and ears” throughout DC, laser-focused on the city’s most successful and interesting people.Ned’s Club in DC bills itself as a modern alternative to what some see as a stuffy club scene, and it’s careful about who it lets through the doors. It relies on a selective committee — its “eyes and ears” — to vet potential members who span industries, ages, and political stripes, Gareth Banner, the managing director, told Business Insider.”It’s about curation. It’s not just, ‘I can afford it, therefore I get in.’ We do our homework and we look at…

[ad_1] The record-breaking stock market will tumble before September, but a recession effectively is “canceled,” a leading strategist told Business Insider.”I expect US stocks to experience a sharp but brief correction in the summer,” Vincent Deluard, the director of global macro strategy at StoneX, a financial services network, told BI in an interview.In a recent note, Deluard raised the prospect of a “brutal but brief” sell-off in late July or early August. He based the call on Donald Trump’s tariff-negotiation period ending on August 1 and potentially spooking markets; the likelihood of further interest-rate cuts being delayed because of accelerating…

[ad_1] Google DeepMind’s CEO says there is a simple reason Meta is spending millions of dollars to attract AI talent.”Meta right now are not at the frontier, maybe they’ll they’ll manage to get back on there,” said Demis Hassabis on an episode of the “Lex Fridman” podcast published on Thursday. “It’s probably rational what they’re doing from their perspective because they’re behind and they need to do something.”In the last few weeks, Meta launched an all-out talent war, offering researchers from frontier labs such as OpenAI up to $100 million pay packages to join its superintelligence division. Recent big-name hires…