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Mar
28

Some of Silicon Valley's biggest names are wading into the battle for AI expertise

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images Big Tech companies are engaged in a fierce battle for AI talent.CEOs and founders have taken to making personal appeals to attract and retain top talent.The competition for workers has led to some aggressive attempts to poach workers. The war for AI talent is causing some Big Tech execs to tak...

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28

Stock market today: US futures tread water ahead of Easter break and PCE inflation

NYSE traders. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images US futures were trading flat ahead of the opening bell on Thursday. It's the last day of first-quarter trading before markets close for the Easter break.The S&P 500 is poised to post its best first quarter since 2019.  US futures dipped ahead of the opening bell on the final day of the first quarter fo...

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Mar
28

The top places in the US where everyone is moving

Many Texas counties saw positive net domestic migration between July 1, 2022, and June 30, 2023. Pgiam/Getty Images A Census Bureau press release said 62% of counties had "positive net domestic migration in 2023."Kaufman County, Texas, had the highest positive net domestic migration rate among counties.All counties in Maine saw positive net domesti...

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Mar
28

A 105-year-old man who has been going to Bojangles every week for decades was thrown a surprise party for his birthday by the restaurant

Charlie Lentz (right) pictured at his 105th birthday celebrations at a Bojangles restaurant in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with Bojangles regional manager Horace Spencer (left). Courtesy of Bojangles Bojangles surprised one of its regulars with a party to celebrate his 105th birthday.Charlie Lentz has been going to the restaurant in North Caroli...

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28

14 college majors where the typical graduate is making at least $100,000 by the middle of their careers

Mid-career college graduates with one of 14 majors are earning at least $100,000 a year, per a New York Fed analysis. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi The New York Fed analyzed the mid-career wages of college graduates with a bachelor's degree.Those graduates aged 35 to 45 with one of 14 majors had a median wage of at least $100,000 a year. Nine of those 14...

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Mar
28

Puerto Rican tax breaks are luring wealthy newcomers. A millennial says that's bad news for members of her generation with dreams of careers and homeownership.

The median price for houses in San Juan, Puerto Rico is nearly $1 million. Oscar Gutierrez/Getty Images Puerto Rico is becoming a popular destination for mainland Americans seeking tax breaks.However, an influx of wealth is driving up housing costs.Young Puerto Rican professionals are being forced to seek opportunities abroad. Finding good jobs and...

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Mar
28

A boomer couple left coastal Florida after 3 decades for rural Missouri because the Sunshine State 'is definitely not paradise anymore'

Married couple Sherry Meaders and James Michael Dunne moved from the Florida coast to rural Missouri. Sherry Meaders Retired couple Sherry Meaders and James Michael Dunne moved from Florida to rural Missouri.The couple moved due to Florida's rising insurance costs, population influx, and political changes.Some former Florida residents are choosing ...

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Mar
28

Mortgage Interest Rates Today, March 28, 2024 | Rates Are Down This Week. Will They Stay That Way?

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Mar
28

Uh oh — it looks like ChatGPT's AI model got lazy again

GPT-4 users have been complaining that the model has gotten lazy again. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Getty Images OpenAI's top model has a problem: it seems to keep getting lazy.Users of GPT-4 have taken to the ChatGPT maker's forum to complain.They're so frustrated that they're looking to rival AI models until there's a fix. OpenAI's GPT-4 seems to h...

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28

Foreign companies have lost over $100 billion in the process of leaving Russia since it started the war in Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin. Getty Images Foreign companies exiting Russia over its invasion of Ukraine have amassed losses of $107 billion.Putin's regime has intensified punitive measures on companies that want to leave Russia.Despite thousands pledging to leave, only 372 companies have exited Russia since the war started. Foreign companies t...

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Mar
28

Palworld maker Pocketpair teams up with Tencent Cloud so you don’t have to wait for multiplayer servers

Palworld creator Pocketpair just teamed up with Tencent, the world's biggest game company on cloud technology.Read More

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Mar
28

The ship that crashed into the Baltimore bridge carried 764 tons of hazardous material, and some containers have been breached, NTSB says

Officials are ascertaining how best to deal with the removal of the debris blocking the Patapsco River. Screenshot/NTSB At least 56 containers of hazmat goods were on board the Dali when it crashed, the NTSB said.Some of the containers were "significantly breached" and some are in the water, officials said.The 984-foot ship is still caught under th...

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Mar
28

Paris Hilton hopes her kids 'aren't as addicted to social media' as she is when they grow up

Paris Hilton says she hopes her kids "aren't as addicted to social media" as she is when they grow up. Charles Sykes/Bravo Paris Hilton says she hopes her kids "aren't as addicted to social media" as she is when they grow up.She made the comments during a panel at the "A Day of Unreasonable Conversation" summit, per People.Hilton previously told BI...

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Mar
28

Prepare for the #motivational doom scroll — LinkedIn is trialing TikTok-style short videos

LinkedIn logo displayed on a smartphone with LinkedIn on screen seen in the background, in this photo illustration. On 16 October 2023, in Brussels, Belgium. Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images LinkedIn is experimenting with presenting video posts in a short-form, infinite-scrolling format.The company confirmed the trial to TechCrunch on Wednesd...

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Mar
28

The Baltimore bridge disaster is just the latest knock to global shipping and trade

The Dali crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on March 26, 2024. Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images Supply chains disruptions have repeatedly come under the spotlight in recent years.The collision of the Dali containership with the Baltimore Key Bridge is the latest risk to supply chains.Geopolitics, climate change, and shipping incident...

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Mar
28

Take-Two to acquire Gearbox from Embracer

Take-Two announced today that it has acquired Borderlands developer Gearbox for $460M, over 60% less than what Embracer paid for it in 2021.Read More

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Mar
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Mark Zuckerberg says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is basically the Taylor Swift of tech

"He's like Taylor Swift, but for tech," Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said of Nvidia's Jensen Huang. STR/JIJI Press/AFP via Getty Images; Ashok Kumar/TAS24 via Getty Images; Sam Yeh/AFP via Getty Images Music has Taylor Swift, and AI has Jensen Huang — at least, according to Mark Zuckerberg.Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg likened Nvidia's CEO to ...

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Mar
28

Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling had a 'non-verbal agreement' about who stays home with the kids. That's probably not going to work for you, experts say.

Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling had a "non-verbal agreement" that she would step back from acting to be a mom if they had kids. Sonia Recchia/Getty Images Eva Mendes says she had a "non-verbal agreement" with Ryan Gosling to step back from acting when they had kids."It was like a no-brainer," Mendes said on the "Today" show, adding she was "lucky" to h...

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Mar
28

Safety investigators likely to look into whether 'dirty fuel' contributed to Baltimore Bridge collapse

The Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed on Tuesday. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Contaminated fuel may have contributed to the Baltimore Bridge disaster, industry experts say.A large container ship ran into the Francis Scott Key Bridge early Tuesday morning.Officials will probe whether dirty fuel played a part in the incident, per The Wall Street Jo...

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Mar
28

2 bodies recovered from the Baltimore bridge collapse were 'trapped' inside a submerged pickup truck

The steel frame of the Francis Scott Key Bridge sits on top of the container ship Dali after the bridge collapsed, Baltimore, Maryland, on March 26, 2024. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Two victims of the Baltimore bridge collapse were recovered from the Patapsco River Wednesday.Police said divers located a red pickup trick that the men were "trapped...

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