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April’s Inflation Report Finally Hints at Progress

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The CPI rose just 0.3% from the previous month. Perhaps most importantly, the annual core rate fell from a year earlier.

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Hyundai Patent Aims to Build Trust in Self-Driving Cars

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As AI takes the wheel, Hyundai wants to make sure backseat drivers are comfortable.

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What Happens If Section 230 Gets Sunsetted?

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A new bipartisan bill just introduced in Congress aims to make tech companies responsible for content posted on their platforms.

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Comcast is Building a Streaming Bundle with Peacock, Netflix, Apple TV+

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Comcast announced it would soon launch a new bundle that would package together its streaming service Peacock with Netflix and Apple TV+.

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Sony Is Past its PlayStation 5 Peak

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Sony said Tuesday that Playstation 5 sales rose over the past fiscal year, but it lowered its sales guidance over the next year.

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Private Equity Group Dodges FTC Antitrust Lawsuit

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A US judge ruled Tuesday that private equity groups still have legal cover from lawsuits involving their portfolio companies.

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Keith Gill Resurfaces, Kicks Off Another Meme-Stock Frenzy

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A rare social media appearance by a well-known daytrader boosted GameStop and other stocks that gained popularity during the 2021 craze.

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Temu Gets Spooked by Possible TikTok Ban

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The-commerce app, which has spent a fortune marketing itself in America, is reportedly starting to hedge its reliance on the US market.

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US Oil Industry Faces Wave of Antitrust Trouble

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US shale producers are on the receiving end of a wild well of class-action lawsuits alleging anticompetitive behavior.

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Meta’s Machine Learning AR Patent Fuses Its AI and Metaverse Bets

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Despite investors’ reaction to the company’s big spending, Meta’s potential to monetize AI and its access to data may give it a leg up in the long run.

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Biden Reportedly Planning a 100% Tariff on Chinese EVs

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But the ramped-up protectionist wave hasn’t extended to investor interest in new shares of Chinese companies.

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Bargain-Hunting Investors Are Bidding Up UK Stocks

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UK stocks have been outperforming US stocks on a broad index-based level for the past seven weeks, but this isn’t a case of a UK renaissance.

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Is the US Seeing a Startup Boom?

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After a slump through the latter half of the last decade, the US is experiencing a startup tsunami, according to The Economist.

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Uber’s Behavior Prediction Model May Come With Privacy Problems

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Uber wants to know how you feel before you even get into your ride.

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Microsoft Patent Could Broaden Large Language Models’ Horizons

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Microsoft wants its language models to be a little more adaptable.

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Can We Solve Climate Change by Suing Polluters?

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Climate litigation is rapidly transforming to offer the promise of big victories and big cash prizes for lawyers.

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Regulators Look to Expand Whistleblower Reward Programs

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In its 2023 full-year report, the SEC Office of the Whistleblower said it received 18,354 whistleblower tips, a 49% increase from 2022.

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TikTok to Start Labeling AI-Created Content

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The platform says it plans to identify and label content created by other AI tools, like Adobe’s Firefly and OpenAI’s Dall-E.

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Europe Wants to Fix Its Widening Productivity Gap With the US

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European productivity has increased only about 20% since 2000, about one-third the rate of the US.

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Google Wants to Use Machine Learning to Keep AI Data Unbiased

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The company’s latest filing adds another solution to several aiming to tackle the ever-present issue of bias at the source.

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Trump Media Delays Registration for Bitcoin ETF

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Vanguard’s Joe Davis on AI and the ‘Second Half of the Chessboard’

Joseph Davis, Vanguard’s global chief economist and global head of the Investment Strategy Group.

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China’s Revolutionary DeepSeek Turns to American Hardware for Upgrade

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