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[ad_1] Dividend stocks can be a good way to earn income, but investors shouldn’t sacrifice quality when searching for yield. UBS has compiled a list of stocks, using quantitative models and fundamental analysis, that not only pay dividends but are also high quality. Those names make up its UBS Global Quality Dividend Payers Index. The firm recently forecast 7.2% dividend growth over the next 12 months in the U.S., the largest increase in its global coverage. The probability of a dividend cut in the U.S. is 4.5%, making it the safest region for dividends, analyst Amanda Belcaid said in a…

[ad_1] Hugging Face’s new programmable Reachy Mini bots launched this week. The AI robots are open source, Raspberry Pi-powered, and come with cartoonish antennae and big googly eyes. They don’t do much out of the box. And that’s kind of the point. Today, on TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Max Zeff, and Anthony Ha dig into the launch of Reachy Mini, which pulled in a surprising $500,000 in sales in its first 24 hours. As open source companies like Hugging Face explore physical products, Kirsten and Max agree that Reachy Mini might be the Seinfeld of AI hardware: the…

[ad_1] Sarah Smith, founder and managing partner of the eponymous Sarah Smith Fund, announced Thursday the final closing of a $16 million Fund I.  Smith launched her eponymous fund in 2022 and is a solo GP. She said she’s “stunned” by what AI can unlock for firms like hers, solo and next generation. “I can’t imagine doing venture any other way now,” she said. “While I believe company building still requires a team effort, I believe early-stage investing is best done solo.” She appreciates how she can make fast decisions that don’t require committee approval. She’s also taken to using…

[ad_1] Cognition’s AI coding agent Devin has scored a major customer: Goldman Sachs, the bank’s CIO, Marco Argenti, told CNBC. “We’re going to start augmenting our workforce with Devin, which is going to be like our new employee,” Argenti told the outlet, adding that it plans to roll out hundreds of instances of Devin, potentially growing to thousands. The bank currently employs around 12,000 human developers, it says.  Despite the financial industry’s reputation for being slow and stodgy, Goldman Sachs tends to be cutting edge, and it’s been internally using developer copilots since at least 2024, it said. Devin is…

[ad_1] AI code editors have quickly become a mainstay of software development, employed by tech giants such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.In an interesting twist, a new study suggests that AI tools might actually be slowing experienced developers down.Experienced developers using AI coding tools took 19% longer to complete issues than those not using generative AI assistance, according to a new study from Model Evaluation & Threat Research (METR).Even after completing the tasks, participants couldn’t accurately gauge their own productivity, the study said: The average AI-assisted developers still thought their productivity had gained by 20%.How the study was set upMETR’s study recruited…

[ad_1] Amazon , a serious year-to-date laggard (+2.8% vs SPY +6.5%, QQQ +8.7%, & XLK +10.5%) is judged at present to be an excellent “catch-up” trade to the market. It is also judged to be a good “pair trade” versus Walmart . The charts herein tell the tale. We recommend buying AMZN itself, believing the stock is poised to advance back to its former all-time high of Feb. 4 at the $242.52 level ( about 8% from where the stock is trading at present. We recommend buying AMZN and shorting WMT, making the case that AMZN is a good long…

[ad_1] Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the worldIn the late 1960s, after the discovery of natural gas deposits in the North Sea, the Dutch economy changed dramatically over a relatively short period. In 1964, the country had exported almost no gas; a decade later it exported the equivalent of 74mn tons of oil.The gas exports raised the value of the guilder, and taxes on the windfall allowed the Dutch to increase social spending, as research by Michael Ellman of the University of Amsterdam in the late…

[ad_1] CNN  —  The chief executive of the world’s leading chipmaker warned that while artificial intelligence will significantly boost workplace productivity, it could lead to job loss if industries lack innovation. “If the world runs out of ideas, then productivity gains translates to job loss,” said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria when asked about comments made by fellow tech leader Dario Amodei, who suggested AI will cause mass employment disruptions. Amodei, the head of Anthropic, warned last month that the technology could cause a dramatic spike in unemployment in the very near future. He…

[ad_1] Retail investors’ fingerprints are all over the stock-market rally since the tariff-triggered lows in April with high-flying meme stocks emerging as top performers. Goldman Sachs’ retail favorite basket, consisting of U.S. equities most popular among the retail community based on flows, hit an all-time high on Wednesday, overtaking the previous peak from the infamous GameStop trading mania of spring 2021. “Institutions have been the emotional ones, while retail investors have consistently added,” Mark Hackett, chief market strategist at Nationwide, told CNBC. “This has become something of a self-fulfilling prophesy, as the more that buying of dips has worked engrains…

[ad_1] Nvidia’s rapid rise to $4 trillion has created a breathtaking windfall for its relatively small workforce.The AI chip company employs only about 36,000 people, representing an unprecedented concentration of wealth.Take this example from Levels.fyi, which specializes in analyzing tech industry compensation. It shows how pretty regular individual contributors at Nvidia have likely become millionaires. Anyone above this job level is probably experiencing even more life-changing wealth right now.Levels.fyi took a look at a real Nvidia job offer from September 2022. A mid-career hardware engineer got this pay package back then: $180,000 salary, $50,000 in stock, and a $40,000 cash…