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Amazon Patent Preps for the Quantum Future

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Its recent patent could help correct errors quickly and scale devices.

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Choosing a Security Firm? Here’s What You Need to Consider

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“We’re fighting criminals that are adapting faster than those bigger companies.”

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DeepSeek’s Rise is the Tip of the Open-Source Iceberg, Experts Say

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“You have to be tracking open source as an option.”

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Advisors On Edge After $1T DeepSeek Selloff

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The AI boom may be just getting started, but new competitors are making it harder to pick the ultimate winners.

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Citi Shakes Up Again After Private Bank Exec Departs

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The bank is restructuring the unit that caters to some of its wealthiest clients, according to an internal memo.

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No Time to Waste? There’s a Zero-Day Options ETF for That

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Interest in options among both professional and self-directed investors is surging, and new 0TDE ETFs are gaining popularity.

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Hypersonic Missiles Startup Raises $100 Million for “Non-Nuclear Deterrent”

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The startup promises to fill a void in one area where US military research and development has been caught flat-footed.

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OpenAI Suggests DeepSeek Illicitly Used ChatGPT to Build its AI

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To be clear, OpenAI has not yet come down hard saying DeepSeek definitely stole its intellectual property.

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Starlink, Apple, and T-Mobile Bring Satellite Service to Smartphones

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The trio will allow any T-Mobile iPhone user running iOS 18.3 (and presumably future versions) to tap the Starlink network.

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Spotify Wants Everyone To Know How Much It Gives the Music Industry

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On Tuesday, Spotify put out a press statement saying that its collective payments to the music industry for 2024 totaled $10 billion.

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DeepSeek May Be Leveling the AI Playing Field

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Just a day after flipping out about DeepSeek’s scary good cheap AI, Silicon Valley is saying the competition is going to make us all better.

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GM Pitches Tariff Contingency Plan to Skeptical Investors

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The stakes could hardly be larger for General Motors, which pitched a simple message to investors: We have a plan and the future is bright.

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The AI Arms Race Is Here. Should Advisors Care?

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New developments are kicking off a new era in AI investing and have advisors closely monitoring their tech allocations.

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M&A Hit Record Highs in 2024

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There were 272 transactions last year, and that breakneck pace isn’t expected to slow down anytime soon.

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NASAA’s Proposal to Limit ‘Advisor’ Title Faces Pushback

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Groups like LPL Financial and SIFMA say the rule conflicts with the Regulation Best Interest framework.

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The US Housing Market is Becoming Bifurcated

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Sales of new homes picked up considerably to end 2024. But sales of old homes are at their slowest pace since 1995.

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LinkedIn Cofounder Hoffman’s New AI Oncology Startup Raises $25 Million

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Behind the blinding white light of Monday’s trillion–dollar AI wipeout that was a spot of unabashedly good AI news.

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Less is More: Who’s Afraid of DeepSeek?

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Yesterday saw a huge selloff in US tech stocks after a Chinese AI chatbot app DeepSeek shot to the top of the Apple App Store. Why the fuss?

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How Enterprises Can Leverage the ‘Linchpin’ of Internal Data

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“AI is only as useful as the data you give it,” said Cohere’s Autumn Moulder, director of infrastructure and security

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Banks Ready to Offload $3 Billion in Previously Unmoveable X Debt

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Banks expect to get 90 to 95 cents on the dollar. It’s actually not a bad deal, considering where things were just months ago.

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Financial advisor news, market insights, and practice management essentials.

Walmart Patent Signals AI Transformation for Bricks-and-Mortar Retail

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Why AI Augmentation Tech Is More Than a ‘Cost-Cutting Tool’

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Why Access Controls May Be AI’s Biggest Security Vulnerability

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