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| | 🧠 What do you think? | Artificial intelligence | | | 📊 Stocks | | | Winners and losers | Earnings, upgrades, and acquisitions | Kroger beat Q2 adjusted profit expectations, surging shares over 6%. RH jumped 17.1% on strong Q2 revenue. Adobe hit a revenue record in Q2 but forecast lower-than-expected Q4 revenue, dropping shares 9%.
| Market movers | The FDA granted approval for Apple's AirPods Pro 2 to serve as over-the-counter hearing aids via a software update. General Mills sold its North American yogurt business to French dairy firms Lactalis and Sodiaal for $2.1 billion. Faraday Future doled out big raises and bonuses to its CEO and founder despite delivering just 13 cars in 10 years. Microsoft laid off another 650 Xbox employees. According to a report from Reuters, Amazon and Flipkart violated competition laws in India. Meta made its AI info label less visible on content edited or modified by AI tools. OpenAI unveiled o1, a new AI model that can effectively fact-check itself by "reasoning."
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| | |     | | 🌍 Global Perspectives | | 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 An Israeli airstrike on a UN-run school in Gaza killed six UN staff members and injured 18 others. 🇨🇳 🇳🇴 China extended visa-free entry to Norway and 12 other European countries until the end of 2025. 🇬🇷 Greece unveiled measures to boost its lagging birthrate, including tax breaks and childcare benefits for new parents. 🇧🇷 🇧🇴 South America surpassed its record for fires with over 346,000 hotspots recorded this year.
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| | 📊 Crypto | | 21Shares diversified custodians for its crypto ETFs, adding Anchorage Digital Bank and BitGo alongside Coinbase. Grayscale's new XRP Trust launch sparked an 8% price surge. eToro restricted crypto trading to only Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Ethereum following a $1.5 million SEC settlement. A new bill proposed a joint SEC-CFTC committee to shape US crypto regulations.
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| | 🧠 Errata | A hacker tricked ChatGPT into giving out detailed instructions for making homemade bombs. Ex-CrowdStrike employees say the cybersecurity firm prioritized speed over quality for over a year before the catastrophic software failure. A 650-foot tsunami in Greenland fjord made waves that lasted 9 days, scientists found. Apple Vision Pro's eye tracking exposed what people type, allowing researchers to reconstruct passwords and messages with up to 92% accuracy. A Florida woman faces up to 10 years for a romance scam that stole $2.7 million from lonely elderly folks. A marine salvage crew has discovered the wreck of the French steamship Le Lyonnais, which sank in 1856 off Massachusetts, killing 114 people.
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| | 📺 What to Watch Today |  | Full Interview: Salvage crew finds wreck of French steamship off Massachusetts |
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| That’s all for today. Did I miss anything? Smash the reply button to let me know. | Cheers, | Wyatt |
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