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Dakota Peters wasn’t sure what she’d do after high school.The 25-year-old Florida native weighed going to college but ultimately decided against it. Her older sisters taught her that if she didn’t have a specific direction for studying, she was better off just getting work experience in the real world.During her senior year of high school, Peters shadowed her family in their commercial real estate business and ultimately went to work for the company post-graduation in 2017. But by 2021, she felt it was time to tackle something different.She and her sisters started selling sneakers from their decades-long collection on Instagram…

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) speaks during a news conference following the weekly Senate Republican policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on June 17, 2025 in Washington.Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesA massive legislative package Senate Republicans are trying to pass this week would hurt the lowest-earning Americans financially while boosting the incomes of wealthier households, according to a Yale Budget Lab analysis issued Monday.The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” would reduce income by 2.9% (about $700) for the bottom 20% of households, according to the Yale analysis. These households have an income of less than…

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In a Monday interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the tech giant hasn’t seen significant price increases, and he explained the mitigation strategies his company and its sellers are using.”We did a lot of forward buying several months ago, and then a lot of our sellers, our third party selling partners, forward deployed a lot of inventory to avoid some of the issues with the uncertainty around where tariffs are going to settle,” he said. “And we have, so far, not seen prices appreciably go up.”President Donald Trump has issued steep wide-ranging tariffs on imports from…

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Digital illustration of a glowing world map with “AI” text across multiple continents, representing the global presence and integration of artificial intelligence. Fotograzia | Moment | Getty ImagesAs artificial intelligence becomes more democratized, it is important for emerging economies to build their own “sovereign AI,” panelists told CNBC’s East Tech West conference in Bangkok, Thailand, on Friday.In general, sovereign AI refers to a nation’s ability to control its own AI technologies, data and related infrastructure, ensuring strategic autonomy while meeting its unique priorities and security needs.However, this sovereignty has been lacking, according to panelist Kasima Tharnpipitchai, head of AI strategy…

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What a first half of the year it has been.In the first six months, the world saw a (not so) new U.S. president in the Oval Office, said president upend the global trade landscape, and a president in South Korea removed from office. Conflicts also broke out between India and Pakistan, as well as Israel and Iran (along with a U.S. airstrike thrown into the mix.)Chinese AI startup DeepSeek made its debut, stealing ChatGPT’s thunder for a while, and elections took place around the world, including in Germany, Australia, and even right here in sunny Singapore. We might just have to call…

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HANGZHOU, CHINA – JUNE 30, 2025 – A worker is working in the production workshop of a steel structure factory in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, China on June 30, 2025. CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesChina’s factory activity unexpectedly returned to growth among export-oriented manufacturers in June, a private survey showed Tuesday, as the country shrugged off headwinds from trade disruptions.The Caixin/S&P Global manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) came in at 50.4, beating Reuters’ median estimate of 49.0 and rebounding from 48.3 in May, which had been its worst contraction since September 2022.The private survey appeared to diverge from…

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An Apple logo is displayed on a smartphone with stock market values in the background.SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty ImagesApple is weighing using artificial intelligence technology from Anthropic or OpenAI to power a new version of Siri, instead of its own in-house models, Bloomberg News reported on Monday.Shares of the iPhone maker, which had traded down earlier in the session, closed 2% higher on Monday.Apple has had discussions with both companies about using their large language models for Siri, asking them to train versions of their LLMs that could run on Apple’s cloud infrastructure for testing, the report said, citing people familiar with the discussions.Apple’s investigation into third-party models is at an early stage and the…

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ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via EmailFast MoneyCNBC’s Alex Sherman joins ‘Fast Money’ with comments from the WNBA Commissioner on plans to expand the league with three new teams.03:434 hours ago Source link

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