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[ad_1] Your next Dollar Tree run might be more expensive.Dollar Tree is raising prices on some items to $1.50 from $1.25 — and sending sticker-toting employees through some stores to make the change.At a Dollar Tree store in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, Business Insider saw employees covering up prices on spatulas, knives, and other home goods with round, red stickers. Red tags cover the prices on the tags of kitchen tools at a Dollar Tree store. Alex Bitter/BI One of the items, a pack of vinyl cleaning gloves, still rang up at $1.25. An employee at the store said the…

[ad_1] CNN  —  Journalists ask questions, vet the answers and report the results to the public. That’s pretty much the job description. But the Trump administration is claiming that it’s unpatriotic to do so. Several days after the US conducted airstrikes in Iran, as the public awaits a clearer picture of the strikes’ impact, President Trump is attacking CNN for reporting on an early US intel assessment that undercut his claims about Iran’s nuclear enrichment sites being “totally obliterated.” The New York Times is also being targeted by Trump because it matched CNN’s reporting. “They tried to demean the great…

[ad_1] The battle between the world’s two biggest retailers is heating up.Amazon said Tuesday that it is adding more than 4,000 “smaller” communities to its coverage area for same-day and next-day delivery service.The e-commerce giant said it has begun stocking more everyday essential items at delivery stations to ensure they’re available within hours of a customer placing an order.”Everybody loves fast delivery,” Worldwide Amazon Stores CEO Doug Herrington said in a statement.”Whether you live in Monmouth, Iowa, or in downtown Los Angeles,” he said, shoppers can soon get the “items you need to keep your household running every day, delivered…

[ad_1] Amazon is promoting rival streamers as it aims to make Prime Video a one-stop entertainment destination ahead of Netflix and YouTube.Amazon has built a big business by letting people easily subscribe to a wide array of streamers from HBO Max to Hallmark+ — via its “channels” program — and it’s leaning into it as it seeks to beat other tech giants in becoming the default destination for TV watching.Execs at Amazon underscored the point Wednesday at Prime Video Engage, an annual gathering it created last year to court its channel partners. Notably for the usually press-shy Amazon, it also…

[ad_1] From the moment OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stepped onstage, it was clear this was not going to be a normal interview. Altman and his chief operating officer, Brad Lightcap, stood awkwardly toward the back of the stage at a jam-packed San Francisco venue that typically hosts jazz concerts. Hundreds of people filled steep theatre-style seating on Wednesday night to watch Kevin Roose, a columnist with The New York Times, and Platformer’s Casey Newton record a live episode of their popular technology podcast, Hard Fork. Altman and Lightcap were the main event, but they’d walked out too early. Roose explained…

[ad_1] Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Nvidia shares hit a record high on Wednesday, marking a turnaround for the chip company following a rocky start to the year marked by US-China tensions over critical artificial intelligence technology.The US chip designer’s shares rose 4.3 per cent, putting Nvidia decisively ahead of Microsoft as the world’s most valuable company, with a $3.77tn market capitalisation compared with Microsoft’s $3.66tn.The rally came as Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang gave a bullish outlook at the company’s annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday about…

[ad_1] A new study suggests that Uber pulled off quite a feat — raising fares, lowering driver pay, and increasing profits — with a subtle change in pricing.The analysis, which is based on a trove of data from a single driver, offers some insight into a strategy that the researchers say explains the company’s financial turnaround.In 2022, Uber moved away from a formula based largely on the length of a trip and started rolling out what it calls “upfront pricing,” which gives a price to riders and potential earnings to drivers before they accept a trip. Behind the scenes, Uber’s…

[ad_1] This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Devon Asher, a 28-year-old podcast producer in Los Angeles. Asher works on shows for influencers, including Tana Mongeau and Trisha Paytas. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I always wanted to be a music video director.I moved to Los Angeles to get my film and television production degree. After college, I was working on all the cool commercials and music videos that I used to dream about working on. Then the pandemic hit, and the industry shut down in March 2020.I found video podcasting, and it changed everything for…

[ad_1] Richard Figuly has spent more than 30 years in the financial services business — but he owes his sense of discipline to his time in the military. Figuly is the head of core strategy in J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s fixed income group and a portfolio manager of the JPMorgan Core Bond Fund (JCBUX) . He was recently nominated by Morningstar for its 2025 outstanding fixed income portfolio manager award . “It was a big part of my life,” the 59-year old said of his military career. “I did it for so long that — once you get through your initial…

[ad_1] Question: Will you go to the theaters to see “F1,” the new Brad Pitt racing movie from Apple, this weekend?I might. Partly because I’m a big fan of air conditioning right now. And partly because the movie, directed by the same guy who made the “Top Gun” sequel, looks like it could have very cool racing sequences, at the very minimum.Bigger question, which isn’t a new one: Why is Apple making big-budget movies and putting them in theaters?Like I said, this isn’t a new query. Lots of people in media and tech have been trying to understand Apple’s approach…