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Chances of a recession are "vanishingly low"
  • The odds of a US recession are "vanishingly low," Wells Fargo's head macro strategist says.
  • "The underlying economy is pretty good, but it's not hot enough yet to spook the Feds. So [it's] a good comfort zone for a lot of people."
  • He said the Fed will have to lower rates soon before high borrowing costs start to do damage.

The US is likely


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When Tenet released in 2020, it did so under the worst of circumstances. The context of the pandemic made the film a lightning rod when writer-director Christopher Nolan encouraged people to see it in theaters. Compared to his other recent movies, the time-bending spy thriller saw a more muted reaction. It made $365…

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Tumblr and WordPress are reportedly set to strike deals to sell user data to artificial intelligence companies OpenAI and Midjourney. 404 Media reports that the platforms’ parent company, Automattic, is nearing completion of an agreement to provide data to help train the AI companies’ models.

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Oh, would you look at that. It’s Pokémon Day, an annual celebration commemorating the game’s launch on this very day in 1996. Fun fact: Pokémon was first a video game, but it was quickly adapted as a trading card game and anime, both of which are arguably equally as



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Ten years, billions of dollars, multiple leadership changes, and dozens of rumors later, the Apple Car project is dead. A new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says that Apple has officially canceled the car, breaking the news to nearly 2,000 employees who had been working on it on Tuesday.

As part of the change, Apple will move “many employees working on the car” to the company’s artificial



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Dr. Jerome Adams, the former US surgeon general in a suit and bowtie
  • Former US Surgeon General Jerome Adams said he got a $5,000 bill for a recent ER visit.
  • He's fighting the bill, which he said has been "mentally taxing."
  • His experience highlights big problems with US healthcare, including high costs and no transparency.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the OpenAI DevDay event on November 6, 2023 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the OpenAI DevDay event on November 6, 2023 in San Francisco, California.
  • OpenAI alleged The New York Times hired someone to "hack" its platforms.
  • The Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft in December for copyright infringement.
  • OpenAI also alleges that the Times gamed its platforms to generate deceptive evidence for its case.

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The New York Times is currently suing OpenAI for copyright infringement and claims that the influential tech startup used its journalistic material to train its chatbot, ChatGPT, without paying the proper licensing fees. But Sam Altman’s company is fighting back against these accusations with some accusations of its…

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Reddit is losing money, it reports in its IPO documents. But why? It's at least partly because of R&D spending.
  • Reddit is going public.
  • It lost nearly $91 million last year, the company said in its newly filed IPO documents.
  • Why's it losing so much? It's at least partly because it's spending so much on R&D.

Reddit is going public with a time-tested business model pioneered by