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U.S. Vice President and Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks to supporters during a campaign rally in Romulus, Michigan, U.S., August 7, 2024.  Rebecca Cook | Reuters Former President Donald Trump on Sunday falsely accused his November election opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, of using AI technology to fabricate images of the crowd sizes at
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U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks with members of the media before boarding Air Force Two at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in Romulus, Michigan, U.S., August 7, 2024. Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday fiercely disagreed with former President Donald Trump‘s suggestion this week that U.S.
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OpenAI, the company behind the ChatGPT chatbot, was founded in 2015 by a number of researchers, academics and entrepreneurs, including Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and Elon Musk. Altman and Brockman are still at OpenAI, serving as CEO and president, respectively. Musk departed in 2018. At the time, OpenAI said Musk left to avoid a conflict
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A general view of a Tim Hortons Drive-Thru coffeehouse and restaurant at Lakeside Retail Park on February 5, 2024 in Grays, United Kingdom. John Keeble | Getty Images Restaurant Brands International on Thursday reported quarterly revenue that beat analysts’ expectations, fueled by better-than-expected sales at Tim Hortons and the company’s international restaurants. “We certainly were planning
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U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris holds a campaign rally with her newly chosen vice presidential running mate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., August 6, 2024.  Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, her newly minted running mate, made their first public appearance
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Monday blamed Vice President Kamala Harris for the stock market‘s dramatic plunge, months after claiming he deserved credit for the market’s then-record upswing. “Of course there is a massive market downturn. Kamala is even worse than Crooked Joe,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social about Harris, the
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A pedestrian walks past a display board showing the morning numbers on the Tokyo Stock Exchange along a street in Tokyo on August 5, 2024.  Richard A. Brooks | Afp | Getty Images A rapid unloading of “carry trades” extended on Monday, with market participants seeking to roll back on the popular strategy amid a
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Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris. Andrew Kelly | Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump took turns insulting each other Saturday over a weekslong dispute about when and where they would debate each other. The former president has
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A “For Sale” sign in front of a home in Arlington, Virginia, on Aug. 22, 2023. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images The average rate on the popular 30-year fixed mortgage dropped 22 basis points to 6.4% Friday, according to Mortgage News Daily. That is the lowest rate since April 2023. The 15-year fixed
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Signage outside the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York on March 23, 2023. Stephanie Keith | Bloomberg | Getty Images With quarterly earnings from tech’s mega-cap companies largely in the rearview mirror, one thing is clear: Wall Street is nervous. The Nasdaq Composite slumped 3.4% this week, bringing its three-week slide to 8.8%. That’s the worst
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