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A man is suing Aria Resort Casino and its parent company after waking up in a security holding area in handcuffs and being told he owed the casino $75,000, despite having no memory of how the debt was incurred. Michael Duke Thomson, a 64-year-old licensed attorney and longtime Aria player, said his last memory from…

Bitcoin BTC$89,629.86 drifted below $90,000 on Sunday during quiet trading, with investors showing limited appetite for risk ahead of a busy week of economic data and central bank events. The largest cryptocurrency was trading around $89,600 as of 12:40 p.m. UTC, down approximately 0.9% in the preceding 24 hours, marginally higher on the week, and…

LANSING, MI — The Powerball jackpot is now the sixth largest in the game’s history as there was no winner of the $1.05 billion grand prize for the drawing held on Saturday, Dec. 13. That means the drawing on Monday, Dec. 15 will be worth $1.1 billion, with a cash option of $503.4 million. The…

2 days ago Regan MorrisHollywood Getty Images Disaster, catastrophe and nightmare. That’s how Hollywood’s creative workers describe the fall of the once mighty Warner Bros, as Netflix and Paramount battle to buy the historic studio and tinsel town braces for more upheaval and job losses. Warner’s decline and impending sale – whether it’s to Paramount…

AI is transforming the job industry, and eliminating some roles in the process. But Jamie Dimon says soft skills will be more important than ever in the AI era. Last weekend, JPMorgan Chase’s CEO toldFox News’ Sunday Morning Futures that he doesn’t believe AI will lead to dramatic cuts in the labor force within the…

While Nvidia and Broadcom are both benefiting from the AI boom, Wall Street sees one stock as a much better buy. Semiconductor companies Nvidia (NVDA 3.30%) and Broadcom (AVGO 11.43%) are leading suppliers of artificial intelligence (AI) accelerators. Nvidia dominates the market with its graphics processing units, but Broadcom is gaining market share with custom…

Moneywise and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue through links in the content below. Consumer confidence dropped sharply in November, falling to its lowest point since April, when concern over President Trump’s tariffs was driving economic anxiety (1). Possibly as a result, Americans have pulled back on spending. A delayed report from the…

Bitcoin-heavy firm Strategy (MSTR) will remain in the Nasdaq 100 index, surviving the annual reshuffle that saw several household names dropped. The firm, which began as business software provider MicroStrategy, pivoted in 2020 to stockpiling bitcoin as its core strategy. It has since then accumulated 660,624 BTC worth $59.55 billion, and it was added to…

Michael Vi/Shutterstock People giving birth in cars is nothing new, but doing it in a car without a human driver is a new twist. It happened in San Francisco earlier this week, when a woman had a baby inside a Waymo robotaxi, reports KRON4. She was already in labor and on her way to the University of…

The Bank of Japan (BoJ) is expected to raise interest rates for the first time since January, increasing the policy rate by 25 basis points to 0.75% from 0.50%, according to Nikkei. The decision, which is expected on Dec. 19, would take Japanese interest rates to their highest level in roughly 30 years. The broader…

The AI computing market is a great place to invest. 2023, 2024, and 2025 have all been great years to invest in the artificial intelligence (AI) realm. With 2025 nearly over, the question becomes: Will 2026 hold more of the same? The concerns about whether the vast sums of money being spent to build out…

Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban Milwaukee Epic System’s campus in Verona, Wis.Photo courtesy of Mandy Aalderink (CC BY) The state of Texas in a new lawsuit claims Verona-based Epic Systems is running an illegal monopoly and restricting parents’ access to their children’s medical records. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed…

Armis, the Israeli-founded cybersecurity company, is in advanced talks to be acquired by ServiceNow in a deal that may be valued at as much as $7 billion, according to Bloomberg. The deal for the cybersecurity startup, which had been eyeing an initial public offering next year, could be announced in the coming days but talks…

Financial conditions in the agriculture economy are flashing more signs of strain as farmers’ costs remain high while prices for their crops stay low. A survey last month from the Chicago Fed found that third-quarter repayment rates in the Midwest for non-real-estate farm loans were lower than a year earlier for the eighth quarter in…

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman said he’s in regular contact with his peers in artificial intelligence, including OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis. In fact, Suleyman and Hassabis once worked together as cofounders of DeepMind, though Suleyman went on to cofound Inflection AI then joined Microsoft last year. In a…

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Dec 13 (Reuters) – ServiceNow is in advanced talks to buy Armis, a cybersecurity ​startup that had been eyeing an initial ‌public offering next year, in a deal that may ‌be valued at as much as $7 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the situation. The deal could be announced in…

HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese demand for foreign luxury cars is waning as customers opt for more affordable Chinese brand models, often sold at big discounts, catering to their taste for fancy electronics and comfort. That is bad news for European carmakers like Porsche, Aston Martin, Mercedes-Benz and BMW that have long dominated the upper…

Last month, the Atlanta Fed came out with a report showing a clear relationship between consolidation in grocery stores and the rate of food inflation. Unsurprisingly, where monopolies prevail, food inflation is 0.46 percentage points higher than where there is more competition. The study showed that from 2006-2020, the cumulative difference amounted to a 9%…

Scientists are experimenting with different alloys to figure out the right metals to use in potential fusion reactors. At the University of Miami, associate professor Giacomo Po from the College of Engineering has been studying high-entropy alloys. A high-entropy alloy is a metal material made up of equal parts of five or more principal elements….

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Corporate-law scholars say the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery has become a strange kind of legal nostalgia trip, dragging Paramount back to center stage for the first time in decadesand reviving vintage doctrines from Revlon to the “Cuban beer” defense as Netflix tries to lock up a once‑in‑a‑generation deal. What looks on the surface…

Highlights Rivian debuts its third generation in-house autonomy hardware platform, built on a custom chip developed in close collaboration with Arm. Arm compute platform based on our latest generation Armv9 architecture is integral to a wide range of Rivian’s advanced autonomy capabilities at scale in its future vehicles. AI is moving into the physical world…

Dec 12, 2025 What you need to know: Trump administration, take notice: TIME’s announcement recognized California as the global epicenter of AI innovation. SACRAMENTO – California is home to the world’s leading AI companies and research institutions. The Golden State leads and dominates in AI innovation, trust and safety standards, and workforce development – creating…

Juventus at its home stadium in Turin on Wednesday: the club has been controlled by the Agnelli dynasty since 1923 © Reuters Cryptocurrency giant Tether has made a €1.1bn all-cash offer to acquire Italian football club Juventus, in a bid underscoring the burgeoning ambitions and newfound riches of the stablecoin provider. El Salvador-based Tether said…

Some unexpected good news from the FDA: bemotrizinol, a sunscreen ingredient that has been used in Europe and Asia for decades, is finally being added to the allowable ingredients list for products sold in the U.S. Bemotrizinol is the active ingredient in sunscreens like Bioré Watery Essence, which has a cult following for being unlike…

Syracuse, N.Y. – Anheuser-Busch, the world’s largest beer maker, is closing three of its U.S. breweries in a move that is expected to send business and potentially jobs to its brewery near Baldwinsville, which is remaining open. The company said this week that after a “thorough review” of its operations, it has decided to sell…

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In March 2024, DeepMind and Inflection co-founder Mustafa Suleyman joined Microsoft to lead its AI division, focusing on advancing Copilot and other consumer AI products and research. Microsoft has been heavily invested in the generative AI landscape, especially after making a $1 billion investment in OpenAI back in 2019. Since then, the AI firm has…

A Los Angeles jury awarded $40 million on Friday to two women who claimed that talcum powder made by Johnson & Johnson caused their ovarian cancer. The giant health care company said it would appeal the jury’s liability verdict and compensatory damages. The verdict is the latest development in a longstanding legal battle over claims…