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Twitter has begun applying for regulatory licenses across the US and designing the software required to introduce payments across the social media platform

Twitter has begun applying for regulatory licenses across the US and designing the software required to introduce payments across the social media platform, per FT. The integration of payments aligns with comments previously made by Musk – including a desire to offer fintech services such as peer-to-peer transactions, savings accounts and

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Microsoft - OpenAI Partnership Could Result in Workplace Emails, Slideshows, and Spreadsheets Using ChatGPT

Per Business Insider Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI will see more business-focused uses for ChatGPT. This comes as CEO Satya Nadella said they would be integrating the AI chatbot into different tools like workplace emails, slideshows, and spreadsheets. The news came with the announcement that Microsoft's Azure

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Morgan Stanley Says They are Comfortable with Their Position on Elon Musk's High-Profile Twitter Loan

In a recent interview, Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman was asked about the multinational investment management and financial services company's position with Twitter. The company was one of the lenders in Elon Musk's multibillion-dollar acquisition of the social platform. The interview with Bloomberg TV opened with

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Disney 'Avatar: The Way of Water' is Close to Beating 1997's Titanic Numbers at #4

Per Box Office Mojo After the first Avatar movie was able to top the charts as the world's highest-grossing film, the second movie, "Avatar: The Way of Water" is now closing in as it just surpassed "Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens"

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Chinese Company Baidu to Compete with ChatGPT with Its Own AI Platform

Per Bloomberg Baidu, a Chinese company that describes itself as "similar to the Google app" for Chinese speakers, is planning to release an AI chatbot service similar to ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI. News of this plan sent its stock rising by 5.8% after the report. The Chinese

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US Senator Josh Hawley Plans Nationwide TikTok Ban Bill: 'TikTok is China's Backdoor Into Americans' Lives'

Per Reuters US Senator Josh Haley is taking a strong stance against TikTok, saying it should be outright banned from the country. To take things a step further, he plans to introduce a bill that would ban the app nationally. The US Senate officially banned using TikTok on all government

OpenAI's ChatGPT has passed the United States Medical Licensing Exam

OpenAI's ChatGPT has passed the United States Medical Licensing Exam. It was found that ChatGPT “performed at or near the passing threshold” on the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE), adding that it demonstrated a high level of concordance and insight in its explanations to the answers. “These

The Biden administration has approved more than 16 million people for student loan forgiveness

The Biden administration has approved more than 16 million people for student loan forgiveness, per CNBC. More than 60% of the 26 million people who applied to the program have had their loans sent to servicers for discharge. In August, President Joe Biden announced that he’d forgive at least

Prosecutors seek to restrict Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX's bail terms after his apparent attempts to influence witnesses

Prosecutors seek to restrict Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX's bail terms after his apparent attempts to influence witnesses. Bankman-Fried used Signal and email to contact the current general counsel of FTX. He said: he'd “love to reconnect and see if there’s a way for us to

Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang no longer cooperating with investigation, per BI

Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison and FTX co-founder Gary Wang are no longer cooperating with the ongoing investigation into FTX and have declined to give FTX's lawyers requested information, per BI. They initially reported Sam Bankman-Fried's mom, brother, and former executives from his empire have not been

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Elon Musk Says: 'The Fed Could Crush the Value of the Entire Stock Market'

Per Business Insider Elon Musk has expressed his worries about how the Federal Reserve could potentially affect the entire stock market's value. He says that the Fed needs to tread carefully, especially when it comes to having a rate that would exceed 6%. During Tesla's Q4

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Home Sales Reach Lowest Pace Since Nov 2010, Dropping for the 11th Month in a Row in Dec

Per CNBC With rising interest rates and people wanting to be more frugal about their money, home sales have dropped to their lowest pace since Nov 2010. Sales were down for 11 consecutive months in a row in Dec 2022. With real estate sales down, US commercial real estate investors

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Citadel Securities Gets $9.66M Fine in South Korea for Local Stock Market Disturbance

Per Reuters The Financial Services Commission (FSC) of South Korea is slapping a $9.66 million fine on Citadel Securities, a US-based capital markets firm, for reportedly "distorting stock prices with artificial factors." An average of 1,422 stocks per day were affected from Oct 2017 until May

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Former US President Donald Trump Says Nukes Could Come Next

While current US President Joe Biden is sending tanks to Ukraine to aid them in their fight against Russia, former US President Donald Trump said ending the war should have been easy to do. Donald Trump: "FIRST COME THE TANKS, THEN COME THE NUKES. Get this crazy war ended,

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Sam Bankman-Fried's Brother Lobbied Members of the US Congress Using Misappropriated Funds

Per Bloomberg and CoinDesk Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder of FTX, is now facing charges while the investigation is still ongoing. It was previously mentioned that SBF's family was involved, but, recent filings reveal that his brother could have used misappropriated funds in his organization to lobby members

Working nine-to-five? That's no longer the norm for a majority of people

About a third of the global workforce worked more than 48 hours and about a fifth worked less than 35 hours in 2019, per Bloomberg. “There is a substantial amount of evidence that work–life balance policies provide significant benefits to enterprises, supporting the argument that such policies are a

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Amazon HR Staffers are Looking for New Jobs Themselves With Some Placing #OpenToWork on LinkedIn

Per Bloomberg Amazon HR staffers are now looking for new jobs for themselves despite still being employed at the company. This comes as even the HR staffers are worried about losing their jobs. The company has announced its plans to lay off over 17,000 workers (some reports say 18,

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Ex-White House Director of Communications Says His $10M Investment in FTX's Token FTX Dropped to Just $400K

Per Markets Insider Anthony Scaramucci, an American financier who has worked as a Director of Communications for the White House, said that his initial $10 million investment in FTX's key token has massively dropped in value. Now, his investment in the FTT token only got him $400,000.

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ChatGPT Took 30 Seconds to Make a $600 Article Per a Freelance Writer: AI 'Is Going to Take My Job'

Per Business Insider A freelance writer decided to test out ChatGPT and its ability to write articles and found that the tool could create a $ 600 article in just 30 seconds. The writer then shared his sentiments regarding the ability of the artificial intelligence tool. Henry Williams, a freelance writer,

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Emergency Expenses of $400 Can Only be Comfortably Afforded by One in Three Americans

Per Bloomberg An online survey on behalf of SecureSave found that of 1,100 adults in America found that only a third of Americans would be able to cover an emergency cost of $400 comfortably. This means that the remaining two-thirds of Americans would either be unable to cover the

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US Plans to Send M1 Abrams Tanks and Germany to Ship 62 Leopard 2s to Ukraine

Per The Globe And Mail The US and Germany have agreed to extend their help to Ukraine by sending almost 100 tanks. The US will send M1 Abrams tanks, while Germany will send its Leopard 2s. The US announced a plan that allowed it to purchase 31 M1 Abrams tanks,

Donald Trump will be reinstated on Facebook and Instagram

Donald Trump will be reinstated on Facebook and Instagram. Trump’s accounts will be reinstated “in the coming weeks” and come with “new guardrails in place to deter repeat offenses,” Nick Clegg, president, global affairs at Meta, said. "FACEBOOK, which has lost Billions of Dollars in value since '

Twitter staff can tweet from any account using a program formerly known as "GodMode"

Twitter staff can tweet from any account using a program formerly known as "GodMode," according to an FTC complaint seen by The Washington Post. Previously, numerous high profile accounts tweeted Bitcoin wallet transfers, initially with Elon Musk, Apple and Barack Obama. Per The Post, the complaint says: "

Senator Josh Hawley has introduced a bill that would ban TikTok in the US

Senator Josh Hawley has introduced a bill that would ban TikTok in the US. Hawley said that TikTok is "China's backdoor into Americans' lives," adding: "It threatens our children's privacy as well as their mental health. Last month Congress banned it on

Goldman Sachs CFO: the bank is seeing early signs of consumer credit deterioration.

Goldman Sachs CFO, Coleman said: the bank is seeing early signs of consumer credit deterioration. Recently, they also noted during their earnings that: “We tried to do too much too quickly,” CEO David Solomon said on the earnings call. “I think we probably in some places haven’t had all