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Chicago weighs major sports betting tax hike in $16.6 billion budget

Chicago is weighing a $16.6 billion city budget, and one part of it is catching the eye of the sports betting world. The proposal would shake up how sports wagering is taxed inside city limits. Chicago is planning to significantly … Continue reading

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Apple’s App Course Runs $20,000 a Student. Is It Really Worth It?

Apple, Michigan taxpayers, and one of Detroit’s wealthiest families spent roughly $30 million training hundreds of people to build iPhone apps. Not everyone lands coding jobs right away.

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Economy grows, chip tariff delay, new S&P 500 record and more in Morning Squawk

Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.

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Amazon faces ‘leader’s dilemma’ — fight AI shopping bots or join them

Agents like OpenAI’s Instant Checkout and Perplexity’s Instant Buy threaten to reshape the e-commerce landscape.

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Alphabet-backed Motive Gears Up for IPO Amid AI Expansion and Legal Battles

The San Francisco-based company had previously filed confidentially and is now moving ahead with a public disclosure of its finances and business. The post Alphabet-backed Motive Gears Up for IPO Amid AI Expansion and Legal Battles appeared first on TechRepublic.

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US Imposes Visa Bans on Five Europeans Over Alleged Pressure on Tech Platforms

The State Department said it could expand the list if other foreign actors “do not reverse course.” The post US Imposes Visa Bans on Five Europeans Over Alleged Pressure on Tech Platforms appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Pinterest Users Are Tired of All the AI Slop

A surge of AI-generated content is frustrating Pinterest users and left some questioning whether the platform still works at all.

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Coinbase Buys The Clearing Company to Expand Into Prediction Markets

The fintech firm looks to be moving from a crypto exchange to an “Everything Exchange.” The post Coinbase Buys The Clearing Company to Expand Into Prediction Markets appeared first on TechRepublic.

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‘Witch hunt’: Ex-EU commissioner Breton denounces U.S. visa ban targeting ‘censorship’

The former EU commissioner and four anti-disinformation campaigners were the subject of U.S. travel sanctions.

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MiniMax Unveils M2.1 to Bring Multilingual Programming Gains to Open AI Models

Chinese AI startup’s release is a major update to its open-source model series, aimed at multi-language programming and everyday office automation. The post MiniMax Unveils M2.1 to Bring Multilingual Programming Gains to Open AI Models appeared first on TechRepublic.

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