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[ad_1] This as-told-to essay is based on conversations with Kelly Beigle, 38, and Boris Krstevski, 39, a couple based in Washington, DC, who bought an apartment in the Lombardy region of Italy. The conversations have been edited for length and clarity.Kelly Beigle: I actually started looking to buy in DC back in 2014, and I thought the pricing was crazy. It’s only gone up exponentially since then.I just could never wrap my head around owning a million-dollar one-bedroom or two-bedroom condo. Why would you want to do that? It just means you’re going to have to continue working forever until…

[ad_1] “SaaS is going away,” said Dave Park, co-founder and CEO of Narada AI. The company is betting big on a different future for enterprise software, one powered by agentic AI. Change is coming “in the not-too-distant future,” Park said on Equity, TechCrunch’s flagship podcast. “The typical knowledge worker today deals with anywhere from 17 to 25 different SaaS tools and portals every day, wasting two and a half hours just manually looking up or updating these systems. We believe in a future where it’ll just be the data, the databases, and AI agents or agentic models that take your…

[ad_1] One corner of the energy market is poised to gain as data centers drive demand for natural gas-fueled power, according to TD Cowen – and a few of those providers pay attractive dividends, too. Midstream natgas companies own pipelines and other infrastructure to move oil and gas products, and the burgeoning demand for gas should continue into the 2030s, according to a team of TD Cowen analysts led by Jason Gabelman. This theme could contribute to consistent earnings and dividend growth compared to other energy companies that have more volatile earnings, they said in a report published Monday. “The…

[ad_1] CNN  —  America’s toy prices could rise later this year, particularly if higher tariffs take effect, Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks told CNN’s Audie Cornish, host of “The Assignment” podcast. Cocks said on this week’s episode of “The Assignment” that America’s current 30% minimum tariffs on China and apparent agreement to place 20% tariffs on Vietnam’s goods are “pretty significant,” but not unexpected. China and Vietnam are Hasbro’s main international suppliers. “We’ve been around for a while,” Cocks said. “We take a long-term view of things, and so our general reaction is: Be agile, but don’t overreact.” Hasbro, founded in…

[ad_1] While the tech world waits to see if Apple will ever debut a foldable iPhone, Samsung is full steam ahead on making its lineup of folding smartphones thinner.The South Korea-based tech giant continued its push into the foldable phone race on Wednesday, debuting slimmer and more AI-packed iterations of its Flip and Fold devices.During Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked July 2025 keynote, the company showed off a new wide-screen Galaxy Z Fold7, a smaller-scale Galaxy Z Flip7, and the Galaxy Watch8.They come with some new AI features, courtesy of Google, like increased personalization through Gemini Live. But with an emphasis on…

[ad_1] Of the 25 stocks within the VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH) , seven components are within 3% of their 52-week highs. ASML is not one of them — it’s trading about 30% below its own 52-week high which, ironically, was set almost exactly a year ago on July 11. However, ASML may be one of the most attractive components in the ETF, with potentially far more upside from current levels. The stock has performed well since its April lows, gaining about 40% through its most recent high in late June. Yet it hasn’t garnered much attention — especially compared to…

[ad_1] Linda Yaccarino took an impossible job. And she failed at it.That’s my tweet-length summary of Yaccarino’s two-year run at Twitter/X, which she announced via her own Twitter post Wednesday.The longer version of my analysis isn’t much longer.In 2023, Elon Musk brought on Linda Yaccarino to fix his ad business, which he himself had broken after buying Twitter in 2022. And as long as Elon Musk owns Twitter, no one can fix his ad business: It’s not big enough to be a must-buy for most advertisers, and his ownership generates potential headaches for any advertiser who thinks about investing money there.…

[ad_1] YouTube is preparing to update its policies to crack down on creators’ ability to generate revenue from “inauthentic” content, including mass-produced videos and other types of repetitive content — things that have become easier to generate with the help of AI technology. On July 15, the company will update its YouTube Partner Program (YPP) Monetization policies with more detailed guidelines around what type of content can earn creators money and what cannot. The exact policy language itself has not yet been released, but a page on YouTube’s Help documentation explains that creators have always been required to upload “original”…

[ad_1] Earlier this month, Adrian Holovaty, founder of music-teaching platform Soundslice, solved a mystery that had been plaguing him for weeks. Weird images of what were clearly ChatGPT sessions kept being uploaded to the site. Once he solved it, he realized that ChatGPT had become one of his company’s greatest hype men — but it was also lying to people about what his app could do. Holovaty is best known as one of the creators of the open source Django project, a popular Python web development framework (though he retired from managing the project in 2014). In 2012, he launched…

[ad_1] Nvidia has been around for over three decades, but the chipmaker became a household name only in the past couple of years.In 2025, the AI chipmaker became the first company to hit a $4 trillion market cap.Nvidia was founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem, “with a vision to bring 3D graphics to the gaming and multimedia markets.”The boom in AI technology has made it one of the most valuable companies in the world as companies scramble to buy its graphics processing units. Here’s what you need to know about Nvidia.HistoryNvidia’s origin story began at a…