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[ad_1] It wasn’t long ago that the very mention of “nuclear” was enough to unsettle people across the ideological spectrum.Between the meltdown of a nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island, explosions in Chernobyl, and an earthquake-powered disaster at Fukushima, the one thing people seemed to agree on was that nuclear was a dirty, if not dangerous, word.But times have changed, new insights and new data have emerged, and what once seemed unethical has been rebranded as clean, in every sense.The nuclear energy renaissance — fueled by Big Tech investment, a more favorable legislative climate, and shifting public opinion — hinges…

[ad_1] Rebecca Walser, CEO of Walser Wealth Management, joined CNBC’s “Power Lunch” on Wednesday to discuss Apple following a notable downgrade, as well as Netflix and Snowflake . Here’s what she had to say about each technology name during the ” Three-Stock Lunch ” segment. Apple Walser said she agreed with Needham analyst Laura Martin, who downgraded shares of the personal technology giant to hold from buy on Wednesday. Martin said the company is facing relatively high valuation and growth competition. Walser said concerns over President Donald Trump’s tariffs have weighed on the iPhone maker, with investors wondering what’s next…

[ad_1] It’s becoming a little easier to build sophisticated robotics projects at home. Earlier this week, AI dev platform Hugging Face released an open AI model for robotics called SmolVLA. Trained on “compatibly licensed,” community-shared datasets, SmolVLA outperforms much larger models for robotics in both virtual and real-world environments, Hugging Face claims. “SmolVLA aims to democratize access to vision-language-action [VLA] models and accelerate research toward generalist robotic agents,” writes Hugging Face in a blog post. “SmolVLA is not only a lightweight yet capable model, but also a method for training and evaluating generalist robotics [technologies].” SmolVLA is a part of…

[ad_1] The CEO of America’s largest bank has long been skeptical of the rise of private credit, even as JPMorgan Chase jumps on the nonbank lending bandwagon in an effort to compete.”I think that people who haven’t been through major downturns are missing the point about what can happen in credit,” Jamie Dimon said at the bank’s investor day in May.This week, Dimon’s concerns were bolstered by a report issued by Moody’s Analytics, a former advisor to the Treasury Department, and a Securities and Exchange Commission senior economist. The report warned that the growing practice of raising money from institutional…

[ad_1] The real estate sector has been a lackluster performer in recent weeks, but some dividend-paying stocks in the group could be showing signs of promise, according to Wolfe Research. While the S & P 500 was up more than 6% in May, the real estate sector only advanced about 0.9% in that time. Real estate’s performance last month coincided with a volatile period for longer-dated Treasurys, including the 10-year note, as investors grappled with shakiness around tariff policy and deficit worries as the House of Representatives cleared a massive tax and spending bill . The 10-year Treasury is closely…

[ad_1] Does David Zaslav deserve a $51.9 million payday?With Warner Bros. Discovery facing falling revenue, stalling earnings, and a 60% stock decline in the last three years, shareholders don’t think so.This week, they resoundingly rejected the proposed pay package for Zaslav, the company’s CEO, which would give him a 4% raise. Nearly 60% of shareholders’ non-binding votes were against this hefty package, which is an unusually high mark. (Zaslav’s stock-heavy compensation package is largely tied to boosting cash flow and paying down debt.)Although WBD shares have risen about 20% in the past year, they’re still trading below $10. That’s down…

[ad_1] Reddit is suing Anthropic for allegedly using the site’s data to train AI models without a proper licensing agreement, according to a complaint filed in a Northern California court on Wednesday. Reddit claims in the complaint that Anthropic’s unauthorized use of the site’s data for commercial purposes was unlawful, and alleges the AI startup violated Reddit’s user agreement. Reddit’s lawsuit makes it the first Big Tech company to legally challenge an AI model provider over its training data practices, joining a litany of publishers that have sued tech companies on similar grounds. The New York Times has sued OpenAI…

[ad_1] “My wife taught me something,” Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski told the crowd at London SXSW. He was addressing the headlines about the company looking to hire human workers after previously saying Klarna used artificial intelligence to do work that would equate to 700 workers. “Two things can be true at the same time,” he said. Siemiatkowski said it’s true that the company looked to stop hiring human workers a few years ago and rolled out AI agents that have helped reduce the cost of customer support and increase the company’s revenue per employee. The company had 5,500 workers two…

[ad_1] The number of companies that buy bitcoin to hold on their balance sheet has grown in recent weeks, helping the leading cryptocurrency hit its recent all-time high. But that newfound corporate support could soon become a downside risk to bitcoin’s price, according to Standard Chartered. While Strategy , formerly MicroStrategy, is the poster child for the bitcoin acquisition strategy by corporate treasuries, “imitators” have been gaining ground, Standard Chartered said in a report out Tuesday. Holdings by bitcoin treasuries have doubled over the past two months to just below 100,000 bitcoins, but their average purchase prices are far higher…

[ad_1] When you buy through our links, Business Insider may earn an affiliate commission. Learn moreThe Nintendo Switch 2 features 256GB of storage built in. Though that’s a lot more than the original Switch’s 32GB, it’s still a bit limited, especially if you plan to download a lot of games. Luckily, you can use a memory card to expand the Switch 2’s storage by up to 2TB, ensuring you have plenty of space to work with.The original Switch also supported memory cards, but while that system worked with standard microSD cards, the Switch 2 requires a new type: microSD Express.…