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• Hamas has reportedly agreed to a cease-fire proposal from Qatar and Egypt.
• Previous proposals included the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners.
• But an Israeli official told Reuters this plan wasn't acceptable and called it a "ruse."

Hamas announced Monday that it had accepted a cease-fire proposal from

Google is streamlining the process of setting up two-factor authentication (2FA). Instead of entering your phone number first to enable 2FA, you can now add a “second step method” to your account such as an authenticator app or a hardware security key to get things set up.

This should make it safer to turn on 2FA, as it lets you avoid using less

• Delphine Arnault, eldest child of LVMH head Bernard Arnault, is the CEO of Christian Dior.
• Apart from a brief stint at McKinsey, her career has spanned multiple roles for LVMH since 2000.
• All of her siblings also work at LVMH brands, including Louis Vuitton, Berluti, and TAG Heuer.

Delphi

• Official NBER recession data says US recessions have become less common over time. 
• But some economists have argued that flawed historical economic data puts this claim in question.  
• A variety of factors should be making the US economy more recession

Seeing a famous face appear considerably younger than their actual years in a brand-new movie can be startling—Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destinydid all right by Harrison Ford, but even Jeff Bridges shudders at his appearance in Tron: Legacy. But 93-year-old Star Trek legend William Shatner is willing to take his…

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• Two Stifel employees have left following an investigation into their conduct.
• They worked in London for the St. Louis-based investment bank.
• Stifel told The Times of London it had "investigated and have taken appropriate action."

Two employees of Stifel have left the investment bank following an investigation into their conduct with a cleaning contractor.

The Times of

• Famed investor Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway placed a $2.7 billion bet on Paramount in 2022.
• It hasn't worked, at all — Buffett just said he has sold all his stock and lost "quite a bit of money."
• Let's do some math to figure out what that means.

What's going to happen to

• Fisker is closing down its Manhattan Beach headquarters, three sources told Business Insider.
• The company has said it could run out of money and file for bankruptcy.
• Fisker has had a number of layoffs over the past few months.

Fisker has begun to close its Manhattan Beach office

OpenAI and the developer platform Stack Overflow have announced a partnership that could potentially improve the performance of AI models and bring more technical information into ChatGPT.

OpenAI will have access to Stack Overflow’s API and will receive feedback from the developer community to improve the performance of AI models. OpenAI, in turn

The gendered feud over the temperature setting in the office or at home might be overblown, new government-led research suggests. The study found little difference between how men and women self-reported the chilliness of their surroundings. There was also no major distinction between the sexes in the temperatures…

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• A coming recession could end up sparking a "violent correction" in stocks, Gary Shilling told BI.
• The top forecaster pointed to warning signs of a downturn, such as a weaker job market.
• A full-blown recession could kill investor speculation, sending stocks crashing, he warned.

Investors should be prepared for a recession with the potential to send the stock market plummeting

• The US economy may already be mired in recession, Danielle DiMartino Booth told Bloomberg TV.
• Downside labor revisions and rising job losses indicate a downturn has hit, the QI Research CEO said.
• She argues that by one unemployment indicator, a recession was triggered in October 2023.

The US is already mired in recessionary downturn, and rising job losses