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[ad_1] CNN — Jon Stewart pulled no punches Monday over CBS’s cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s late-night show. During Monday night’s broadcast of “The Daily Show,” Stewart’s first since Colbert on Thursday shared that “The Late Show” would not return beyond May 2026, the late-night veteran lambasted CBS for canceling the program. “The fact that CBS didn’t try to save their No. 1 rated late-night franchise that’s been on the air for over three decades is part of what’s making everybody wonder … was this purely financial or maybe the path of least resistance for your $8 billion merger,” Stewart said…
[ad_1] New York AP — More than 5.2 million aboveground swimming pools sold across the US and Canada over the last two decades are being recalled after nine drowning deaths were reported. The recall covers a range of Bestway, Intex Recreation and Polygroup pools that were sold by major retailers as far back as 2002. According to Monday notices published by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada, these pools have compression straps running along the outside of the product — which “may create a foothold” for small children and allow them to access the water unattended. That…
[ad_1] Stocks @ Night is a daily newsletter delivered after hours, giving you a first look at tomorrow and last look at today. Sign up for free to receive it directly in your inbox. Here’s what CNBC TV’s producers were watching as the S & P 500 and Nasdaq Composite posted fresh records, and what’s on the radar for the next session. Alphabet’s streak If the stock closes higher on Tuesday, it’ll tie its longest winning streak in history. Right now, the tech giant and member of the ” Magnificent Seven ” has been up for nine straight days. Alphabet…
[ad_1] Tech CEOs are in their extremely hardcore, “No More Mr. Nice Guy” era. At TikTok and its owner, ByteDance, the idea of prioritizing performance over being “nice” has long been part of its DNA.ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming once said that “people who always try to be nice aren’t really moral,” according to company materials. He was discussing differentiating performance, and said that trying to make everyone happy by giving low and high performers equal grades could harm TikTok’s best workers.Zhang left the company in 2021, but his line on niceness remains in updated materials for managers, BI has learned.TikTok…
[ad_1] I’ve been lucky enough to have a flexible career as a digital director. I’m a contract worker, which has always given me great flexibility, especially while raising my kids.My career has adapted to my kids’ schedules at each stage of their development. For example, I could only work through pre-K hours, and when my youngest went to kindergarten, I worked all five workdays. I worked that full-time contract role for one year after my youngest started kindergarten.However, this summer I decided to change my schedule again: I now work only three days a week in the office and spend…
[ad_1] JPMorgan Chase may still be positioned for more gains in 2025 despite its impressive year-to-date run, according to Eddie Ghabour of Key Advisors Wealth Management. The firm’s co-founder and CEO joined CNBC’s ” Power Lunch ” on Monday to offer his take on the stock, as well as a pair of other market movers. Here is what Ghabour said during the “Three-Stock Lunch” segment. JPMorgan Chase Shares of JPMorgan Chase have already rallied 22% this year, with the big bank’s trading desk benefiting from an especially volatile market lately. On Monday, CNBC reported that JPMorgan was overhauling the leadership…
[ad_1] Making it as a social media startup ain’t easy.Zeen, the maker of a social collage platform, confirmed to Business Insider on Monday that it was shutting down operations.”If there was any other way to keep it going, we would’ve done that,” cofounder Miri Buckland told BI. “Ultimately, over the last couple of months, it became clear that it wasn’t going to grow to the scale that it needed to as a VC-backed startup.”Buckland cofounded the company, which was originally called Landing, with Ellie Buckingham in 2019. The startup raised a total of $9 million in venture capital from firms…
[ad_1] Dylan Serota hosts monthly dinner parties with chief technology officers. The topic everyone’s wanted to talk about lately is AI coding tools, he told Business Insider.Serota is CEO of Terminal, a talent platform for software engineers and developers. Last year, he told Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale that none of his dinner party guests believed AI would cut into software engineering jobs. Even as AI coding tools have grown more self-sufficient, Serota hasn’t changed his view.That doesn’t mean the job of a software engineer isn’t changing.”There’s absolutely consensus that the job is evolving,” Serota told BI. “There’s job evolution, not…
[ad_1] ChatGPT receives 2.5 billion prompts from global users every day, OpenAI told Axios. About 330 million of those are coming from users in the U.S. These numbers show just how ubiquitous OpenAI’s flagship product is becoming. Google’s parent company, Alphabet, does not release daily search data, but recently revealed that Google receives 5 trillion queries per year, which averages to just under 14 billion daily searches. Independent researchers have found similar trends. Neil Patel of NP Digital estimates that Google receives 13.7 billion searches daily, while research from SparkToro and Datos — two digital marketing companies — estimates that…
[ad_1] Hopefully not Grok’s companions … A new study by a U.S. nonprofit focused on the lives of kids and families, Common Sense Media, has found that a vast majority of U.S. teens (72%) have tried an AI companion at least once. By “companion,” the study is focused on AI chatbots that are designed for users to have more personal conversations with, not AI assistants that work as homework helpers, image generators, or voice assistants that just answer questions. For instance, the study’s definition of AI companions could include those digital AI personas provided by companies like Character.AI or Replika, but…