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[ad_1] OpenAI’s Sora app for AI videos is a viral hit, despite being invite-only for now and limited to users in the U.S. and Canada at launch. On its first day, Sora saw 56,000 downloads, and is now ranked as the No. 3 Top Overall app on the U.S. App Store, according to new data from app intelligence provider Appfigures. The firm estimates Sora’s iOS app pulled in a total of 164,000 installs during its first two days, September 30th and October 1st. The day-one figure puts Sora’s debut ahead of the performance of other major AI app launches, including…
[ad_1] While shares of Best Buy (BBY) have underperformed the S & P 500 in 2025, a recent breakout suggests a “change of character” and further upside potential for this big box retail name. After BBY gapped lower into its April 2025 low, the stock quickly rebounded back to its previous swing high from late March. But while the S & P 500 and Nasdaq-100 pushed higher in May and June, Best Buy settled into a sideways range between support around $63 and resistance at $73. In early September, the stock finally broke above its major resistance level around $73, which…
[ad_1] Google is bringing its AI coding agent Jules deeper into developer workflows with a new command-line interface and public API, allowing it to plug into terminals, CI/CD systems, and tools like Slack — as competition intensifies among tech companies to own the future of software development and make coding more of an AI-assisted task. Until now, Jules — Google’s asynchronous coding agent — was only accessible via its website and GitHub. On Thursday, the company introduced Jules Tools, a command-line interface that brings Jules directly into the developer’s terminal. The CLI lets developers interact with the agent using commands,…
[ad_1] Remember the Apple Vision Pro?Remember? It was a big, ambitious swing from Tim Cook and Co. — a $3,500 headset that lets you experience “augmented reality” — or, if you follow Apple’s demands for branding — “spatial computing.”Apple first showed off the Vision Pro in the spring of 2023, and then started selling the device in February 2024, and since then … you really haven’t heard much about it.Unless you’ve seen periodic articles about how the device hasn’t taken off, so developers aren’t building for it, which makes it harder to sell, which makes developers even less likely to…
[ad_1] My eighth-grade home economics class taught me that chores get done faster when you work in pairs. One person scrubs the dishes while the other dries and puts them away.So, imagine if your significant other keeps asking where you keep the pot lids or insisting that the dishes look cleaner when you do them. Perhaps you decide that dishwashing should be a solo chore. Anything is better than having to give your partner a nightly tour of the kitchen.This pattern of deliberately performing a task poorly to avoid doing it is called weaponized incompetence. Social media is full of…
[ad_1] Allan Brooks never set out to reinvent mathematics. But after weeks spent talking with ChatGPT, the 47-year-old Canadian came to believe he had discovered a new form of math powerful enough to take down the internet. Brooks — who had no history of mental illness or mathematical genius — spent 21 days in May spiraling deeper into the chatbot’s reassurances, a descent later detailed in The New York Times. His case illustrated how AI chatbots can venture down dangerous rabbit holes with users, leading them toward delusion or worse. That story caught the attention of Steven Adler, a former…
[ad_1] (This is The Best Stocks in the Market , brought to you by Josh Brown and Sean Russo of Ritholtz Wealth Management.) Josh — Today we’re going to talk about a name that’s been on the Best Stocks list since breaking out in May. It’s spent the entire summer consolidating a very large gap higher but the stock has refused to back off. It quite literally demands our attention. We’re bringing it to you now to tell you the story before another breakout out of this consolidation, which looks to be imminent. As Sean will explain, Veeva Systems is…
[ad_1] AI search startup Perplexity is making its new Comet browser available to everyone in the world for free as it works to position the product against big browsers and search engines. For certain paid subscribers, the startup has also launched a new “background assistant” to handle multiple tasks via Comet. Perplexity first launched Comet to subscribers of its $200-per-month Max plan three months ago, and since then, “millions” have signed up on the waitlist to download the browser. Comet’s main feature is a sidecar assistant that joins you while you browse, helping to answer any questions you may have about the web page you’re on, summarize content, manage…
[ad_1] We discussed in November BJ’s Wholesale Club in this column when the stock was trading ~$87. The observation we made at the time was that, although the regional wholesale operator larger and better-known national competitor, Costco , was growing faster — it was also trading at roughly double the forward valuation. At the time, BJ’s was trading at ~25 times forward estimated earnings, half the 50 times forward estimated earnings that Costco commanded, and proposed a bullish trade in the name. That was eell-timed as it turned out. BJ’s proceeded to rally nearly 40% in the next five months,…
[ad_1] Consumer AI is having its breakout moment — and few startups have captured the spotlight this year quite like Phia. The AI-powered shopping assistant has become one of 2025’s buzziest launches, not only for its vision of how Gen Z shops, but also for the powerhouse founders leading it: Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27–29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West, the two will take to the Disrupt Stage to share how they’re building Phia into a durable consumer brand, what it takes to scale in one of tech’s most competitive markets, and how…