Author: arthursheikin@gmail.com

[ad_1] “That shot,” the man said, “was poo!”His jeer came during the afternoon matches on the first day of competition at the Ryder Cup, from within a crush of spectators craning their necks to see the 14th hole. The days before the event, friends and colleagues warned me, a golf novice, to expect the kind of taunting and rowdiness that ended up making headlines as the tournament progressed.Between the Long Island crowds, fierce national pride, and President Donald Trump’s attendance, I prepared myself for mild anarchy at the biennial tournament between the US and Europe. So what stood out instead…

[ad_1] ChatGPT users in the U.S. can now make Etsy and Shopify purchases within conversations, marking a next step toward the future of online shopping — both for consumers and the platforms that control product discovery, recommendation, and payments. In other words, OpenAI might be on the path to reshaping who holds power in e-commerce.  OpenAI’s new “Instant Checkout” feature is available to ChatGPT Pro, Plus, and Free logged-in users buying from U.S.-based Etsy sellers, with more than 1 million Shopify merchants like Glossier, Skims, Spanx, and Vuori “coming soon,” per OpenAI.   Instant Checkout builds on previous shopping features on ChatGPT that surfaced relevant products, images, reviews, prices, and direct links to merchants in response to shopping questions like…

[ad_1] Dividend-paying stocks may start to gain more attention from investors as the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates, but not all strategies are created equal. The Franklin Templeton Equity Income Fund (FISEX) focuses on finding income while investing in high-quality companies. The fund is rated four stars by Morningstar and is ranked in the top quintile when it comes to total returns so far this year and last, according to Morningstar . “We want companies that are leaders,” said Matt Quinlan, lead portfolio manager of the Franklin Equity Income strategy. That means “companies that are continuously investing, innovating, expanding ……

[ad_1] (PRO Views are exclusive to PRO subscribers, giving them insight on the news of the day direct from a real investing pro. See the full discussion above.) The earnings season doesn’t start in earnest until next week, but New York Stock Exchange insider Jay Woods flagged two reports coming Tuesday that may be pivotal for traders. French fry maker Lamb Weston and Nike are set to post their quarterly results before the bell. Both stocks have struggled this year, losing 16% and 8%, respectively. However, Woods thinks the results could drive them past key resistance levels. (Watch full video…

[ad_1] It’s no secret that vibe coding — using AI-powered coding tools to build apps and websites via natural language prompts — is exploding in popularity. In July, Swedish vibe coding startup Lovable hit $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) just eight months after launch, plans to close the year at $250 million ARR and thinks it will hit $1 billion ARR within the next 12 months. Meanwhile, Replit said earlier this month that its ARR soared from $2.8 million to $150 million in less than a year. These companies’ remarkable growth has fueled a wave of competitors, many of which are also…

[ad_1] It’s no secret that vibe coding — using AI-powered coding tools to build apps and websites via natural language prompts — is exploding in popularity. In July, Swedish vibe-coding startup Lovable hit $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) just eight months after launch. It plans to close the year at $250 million ARR and thinks it will hit $1 billion ARR within the next 12 months. Meanwhile, Replit said earlier this month that its ARR soared from $2.8 million to $150 million in less than a year. These companies’ remarkable growth has fueled a wave of competitors, many of which are also…

[ad_1] Land, energy, capital, and experience.Access to those four things are what gives Prologis, one of America’s largest warehouse owners, an edge in the data center space, said Susan Uthayakumar, the company’s chief energy and sustainability officer, on Tuesday at Business Insider’s “The Resiliency Playbook” event.”When you have the capital, when you have the land, when you know how to build things, it makes sense for us to be doing what we’re doing,” Uthayakumar said of the company’s growing data center business.Prologis, which has a portfolio of 1.3 billion square feet across more than 5,500 buildings globally, made its name…

[ad_1] Amazon Web Services wants its AI applications to gain more traction organically, without leaning heavily on sales teams.Rivals such as Cursor and Windsurf have seen better grassroots adoption than AWS’s coding assistant Q Developer, while larger enterprise customers tend to favor Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot, according to an internal Amazon document obtained by Business Insider.Q Developer did manage to see “occasional successes” selling directly to senior executives, but such wins required intensive sales involvement, the document explained.To close the gap, AWS recently launched Kiro, an AI coding assistant designed to attract more self-serve developers.”Until recently, AWS did not have a…

[ad_1] On Monday, Anthropic launched a new frontier model called Claude Sonnet 4.5, which it claims to offer state-of-the-art performance on coding benchmarks. The company says Claude Sonnet 4.5 is capable of building “production-ready” applications, rather than just prototypes, representing a leap in reliability from previous AI models. Claude Sonnet 4.5 will be available via the Claude API and in the Claude chatbot. The pricing for developers is the same as Claude Sonnet 4: $3 per million input tokens (roughly 750,000 words, or more than the entire Lord of The Rings series) and $15 per million output tokens. In the…

[ad_1] Copper futures have found their footing after a sharp tariff-related decline in late July. The weekly cloud model, near $4.60 per pound, has bolstered price over the past several weeks and our indicators are improving. The weekly stochastics have their first oversold upturn since January in a bullish intermediate-term catalyst for copper, and the weekly MACD histogram has four consecutive upticks to suggest momentum is improving. Fibonacci resistance levels are $4.93 per pound and $5.30 per pound. Copper miners like Southern Copper (SCCO) stand to benefit from a rise in copper prices. SCCO has reversed a cyclical downtrend with…