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☆ Sam Altman may be in his villain era, but no one seems to care
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-14 | by ( Madeline Berg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

As one VC partner told Business Insider at the time: "Sam is bigger than Taylor Swift." But the bigger you are, the faster the fall, and a few months later, things began to unravel. Others simply said Altman was overhyped, that he didn't have all the answers that the public and investors seemed to expect of him. Thanks to good old-fashioned capitalism, Altman and OpenAI have enjoyed business win after win and held their positions as the leaders in the aggressive AI race. "I thought Sam Altman did a really good job in the special," she told The Washington Post in a discussion about her TV program on artificial intelligence.

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But broadband companies have been focused on transitioning their customers to other affordable options to help them make up the expired discount, according to the companies’ earnings calls. In the wake of the ACP’s expiration, broadband companies have reported losing some customers. While broadband providers were generally supportive of the ACP, many in the industry believed the subsidy benefitted too wide a swath of U.S. households. During the second quarter, Charter reported a loss of 149,000 internet customers, while Comcast reported a decline of 120,000 broadband customers. Charter has tried to retain its low-income consumer base by rolling out new savings deals like offering ACP customers a free unlimited mobile line for one year.

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In the wake of the ACP's expiration, broadband companies reported losing some customers. "But that doesn't take away from the families for whom this was important, and could now lose access to broadband." Pete Marovich | ReutersStill, Sohn believes bipartisan support for the ACP should make reauthorizing it a political slam dunk for Democrats. While broadband providers were generally supportive of the ACP, many in the industry believed the subsidy benefitted too wide a swath of U.S. households. Charter Communications CEO Chris Winfrey said in July that the ACP's expiration impacted both losses and low income broadband connections after the company had "put a lot of effort into the ACP program."

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☆ What to watch at the Olympics today: Elimination games for U.S. women’s soccer and men’s basketball
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-06 | by ( Lauren Merola | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

There are six days of Olympic competition left and only four women’s soccer teams remain vying for gold. It’s also win or go home for the U.S. men’s basketball team, which went undefeated in pool play to emerge as the No. Trinity Rodman celebrates with Emily Fox after scoring the winning goal against Japan during the women’s quarterfinals of the Paris Games. Durant needs just four more points to become USA Basketball’s all-time leading scorer at the Olympics for both the men’s and women’s programs. The men’s long jump final, men’s 1,500-meter final, women’s 3,000-meter steeplechase and women’s 200-meter final close out a five-medal day in athletics.

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☆ Roaring Back After Crackdown, Bangladesh Protesters Demand Leader’s Ouster
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-03 | by ( Saif Hasnat | Mujib Mashal | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Fresh protests roiled Bangladesh on Saturday, just weeks after a deadly government crackdown, as demonstrators returned to the streets in what appeared to be the biggest numbers yet and escalated their demands to include the prime minister’s resignation. In its efforts to break last month’s student-led protests, which started peacefully but turned violent after demonstrators were attacked, the government detained student organizers, rounded up about 10,000 people and accused tens of thousands more of crimes such as arson and vandalism. A curfew and communications blackout quieted things down, and the students won a significant concession from the courts on their initial demand to end a preferential quota system for public-sector jobs. But the crackdown by the security forces of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina — which led to the deaths of more than 200 people — seems to have made many Bangladeshis even angrier and broadened the movement’s scope.

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Baird raised its price target on Apple by $40 to $240. BMO also increased its price target on Amazon to $230, implying upside of 27%. Hutchinson also raised her price target $65, a $3 increase that implies the stock can jump 17.3% over the next year from Wednesday's close. In addition to reiterating his outperform rating, Mizuho managing director Gregg Moskowitz upped his price target by $30 to $850. Analyst William Power reiterated his outperform rating on the tech titan and hiked his price target by $40 to $240.

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☆ With Biden's backing, Kamala Harris leads the pack in bid to replace him on the ticket
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-21 | by ( Dareh Gregorian | Yamiche Alcindor | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Vice President Kamala Harris received President Joe Biden's backing to take his place as the Democratic presidential nominee Sunday, an endorsement he made after announcing he is abandoning his re-election bid. Biden's decision to bow out breaks open the nominating process — meaning Harris or any other Democrat could seek the party's nomination. The Democratic National Convention is scheduled to begin August 19 in Chicago and with Biden's backing, Harris became the instant favorite. Harris, the first female vice president, would become the first Black woman and first person of South Asian descent to become a major party nominee. "We are ready to lock in and support Vice President Harris in her new role," Gavito said.

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☆ Sen. Joe Manchin calls on Biden to drop out of presidential race
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-21 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., is seen in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, September 6, 2023. Independent Sen. Joe Manchin on Sunday called on President Joe Biden to exit the race against former President Donald Trump. Along with Manchin, 36 Democratic lawmakers, including four senators, have called on Biden to exit the race and allow a new nominee to take the helm of the ticket. Over the past week, Manchin had been hinting at his slipping support for Biden as the presumptive Democratic nominee. Throughout the Biden administration, Manchin has positioned himself as a conservative Democrat, sometimes opposing large parts of the president's agenda.

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☆ The 'Trump trade' has divided health-care stocks into two camps. How to play the next moves
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Pia Singh | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

UNH 1M mountain UnitedHealth stock over the past month. Think Centene , Molina Healthcare , UnitedHealth and Humana , among others. Managed-care companies historically buck the broader trend of health stocks and outperform in the first year after an election, according to Raymond James. Unlike UnitedHealth, shares have fallen — down 3% — since the June debate. Raymond James sees Oscar Health , HCA Healthcare and Tenet Healthcare as beneficiaries of a victory by the left.

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☆ Biden has botched his comeback plan. Now the calls to replace him are growing.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

President Joe Biden has not quieted the doubters in his party. A sprint of post-debate activity hasn't been the fix Biden hoped it would be. A new series of reports say top Democratic leaders privately told Biden that he's toast. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementPresident Joe Biden has desperately tried to convince his fellow Democrats that he's still their best hope in a furious three-week sprint after his disastrous debate.

Persons: Joe Biden, hasn't, Biden, —, he's, Adam Schiff of California, bigwigs, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Hakeem Jeffries — Organizations: Democratic, Service, Business

☆ A Party Now Molded in Trump’s Image Prepares for a Coronation
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Michael Gold | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Exactly seven weeks ago, Donald J. Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts in Manhattan, an unprecedented conviction of a former president that looked like a political rock bottom. Since then, the Supreme Court handed him a critical legal victory that threw those felony convictions and more cases into limbo. President Biden’s disastrous debate plunged the Democratic Party into a rolling crisis. Thursday night, when Mr. Trump accepts the Republican presidential nomination for the third time, will be the culmination of an extraordinary run of good fortune and a testament to his political instincts. His address will also in many ways serve as the Republican Party’s coronation of a leader who went from rattling the conservative establishment to refashioning it entirely in his image.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Biden’s, — Organizations: Supreme Court, Democratic Party, Republican National Convention, Republican Locations: Manhattan, Milwaukee

☆ Private efforts to nudge Biden to step aside continue
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( John King | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Milwaukee CNN —The public calls from Democrats asking President Joe Biden to bow out of the presidential race have quieted in recent days, but private efforts to nudge the president and his top aides continue, several Democratic sources told CNN. “Lose everything,” is how one Democrat described a polling memo Greenberg sent to Biden’s inner circle in recent days. “Devastating,” was the one word answer of a second Democrat close to the White House who is familiar with the Greenberg memos. Greenberg has been a leading Democratic pollster for decades and his work includes advising Bill Clinton’s two winning presidential campaigns. In his NBC News interview Monday, for example, the president again made clear he has no intention of stepping aside.

Persons: Joe Biden, Democratic pollster, Stanley Greenberg, Biden, Greenberg, ”, Bill Clinton’s Organizations: Milwaukee CNN, CNN, Democratic, White, NBC, Republican, GOP

WASHINGTON — After he gave his State of the Union speech in March, President Joe Biden seemed to have quieted persistent fears that, at 81, he was no longer up to the job. But a Democratic lawmaker who shook hands with Biden in the House chamber that night was troubled by his appearance. Biden's poor showing at the debate with Donald Trump last week threatens to end his campaign just four months before the election. A third Democratic lawmaker said that in recent months, Biden looked "exceedingly tired" when the two were together. Yet the interview comes eight days after Biden's appearance onstage with Trump — time enough for perceptions of his poor performance to calcify.

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☆ Democrats are freaking out after Biden's debate performance
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewPresident Joe Biden wanted the earliest major presidential debate in history. Biden turned in a performance so disastrous that prominent Democrats are questioning if the president can even go on. Advertisement"It was a really disappointing debate performance from Joe Biden," Kate Beddingfield, Biden's former White House communications direction, said shortly after Axelrod. I loved Joe Biden, I worked for Joe Biden," Jones said. Related storiesOne former White House aide told Politico that Biden's performance was "terrible."

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☆ Biden vs. Trump: The 2024 presidential race turns to candidates’ bids for Black voters and the Supreme Court
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-17 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —Bitter tensions are escalating between Joe Biden and Donald Trump over race and the future of the Supreme Court as they gear up for the most critical presidential debate clash in years. This is why Trump spent Saturday in Michigan, seeking to take advantage of signs of waning enthusiasm for Biden among Black voters. According to CNN exit polls in 2020, Trump won about 1 in 10 Black voters. But a recent New York Times/Siena College poll found the ex-president winning more than 20% of Black voters in battleground states. But the Biden campaign seemed keen to show the president in an informal setting with Obama and stars including Julia Roberts and George Clooney.

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☆ Here's what it's like inside the operating room when someone gets a brain implant
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-25 | by ( Ashley Capoot | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +11 min

Bederson, system chair for the Department of Neurosurgery at Mount Sinai Health System, is no stranger to long hours in an operating room. In fact, it marked the 14th time that the company has placed its array on a human patient's brain. Four of Precision's arrays were carefully laid out on a table nearby. Using a pair of yellow tweezers called long bayonet forceps, Bederson began placing all four of Precision's electrode arrays onto the patient's brain. Real-time renderings of the patient's brain activity swept across Precision's monitors in the operating room.

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☆ When she lost weight, the comments about her body didn’t stop
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Madeline Holcombe | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

But her 80 pounds of weight loss while taking Wegovy has not come without challenges of its own, she said. But she warns that losing weight is not a cure for everything that’s not right in your life. Many people try to lose weight hoping to feel better about their body, only to find that they still don’t once they have lost the weight, Conason said. Conason recommends separating your efforts to improve your body image from any efforts you might take on to lose weight. Since her weight loss, Olivares has found that many of her social interactions begin with a comment about her body.

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☆ Racism Alleged at Multiple Globe Life Affiliates
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-10 | by ( Susan Antilla | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +20 min

"If I'd brought it up, I would have been blackballed," he told BI. She told BI that Lobello frequently sent her racist memes he found online that contained the N-word. AdvertisementBell, in the hat at right, at a team dinner for an AIL agency then known as Giglione-Ackerman. In the areas she was assigned, she told BI, "most of the people were uninsurable" because of poor health, hard drug use, and poverty. If you work at Globe Life or AIL and have information to share about the company, please contact Susan Antilla at susan.antilla1@gmail.com .

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☆ Biden Is Still Losing. His Campaign Should Stop Acting Like He Isn’t. - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-01 | by ( Ross Douthat | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

In February, there was a flurry of discussion about whether Joe Biden’s advancing age and seeming weakness in a matchup with Donald Trump meant that he should step aside. “The Drumbeat for Biden to Step Aside Will Only Grow Louder” ran one headline from that period, from Robert Kuttner in the American Prospect. All it took was Biden giving a passable State of the Union address: Thereafter his poll numbers marginally improved, the optimists on the Democratic side seized the rhetorical initiative, and the “should Biden step aside?” discourse faded into background noise. But it’s also quite consistent; since last fall, both candidates are bouncing around within a very narrow range. ), because voters aren’t paying close attention yet (but don’t they already know both of the candidates quite well?

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☆ Why do royal fans think Meghan Markle and Buckingham Palace are in a battle over jam? Here's the drama, explained.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-28 | by ( Lauren Edmonds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

AdvertisementSome royal fans think the Duchess of Sussex and Buckingham Palace are in a jam — specifically strawberry. Speculation that Buckingham Palace and Meghan Markle might be battling it out via fruit preserves began on Wednesday. Buckingham Palace. AdvertisementIt didn't take long for online users to draw comparisons between Buckingham Palace and American Riviera Orchard. AdvertisementAmerican Riviera Orchard and Buckingham Palace haven't commented on the speculationRepresentatives for Markle and Buckingham Palace did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

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☆ My friend said he'd be my sperm donor, and I was ecstatic. When we learned he was infertile, we were both heartbroken.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-17 | by ( Valerie Bauman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

I know this is going to sound crazy, but I've been trying to get pregnant for months now. I want to be a single mother by choice, and have actually been working with a sperm donor here in DC. But it occurs to me…you would be an excellent candidate for the role of biological father to my baby… Would you ever consider being a sperm donor? It really would mean a lot to me for my child to have a relationship with the donor. I chose David because I wanted to be able to be certain that I wasn't going to screw up my kid — at least not by using the wrong donor sperm.

Persons: David, I've, —, David I, Eddie, Valerie Bauman Organizations: Service, Union Square & Co Locations: inseminations, DC, Mexican American

☆ TikTok execs believed Biden joining the app meant a ban was no longer an imminent threat: WSJ
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

TikTok execs thought the US was mostly over banning the app after Biden joined, per WSJ. Then, the House introduced a bill that could result in a US ban on the social media app. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementBefore the House introduced its bill to ban TikTok, executives at the social media company were convinced that calls for a ban on the app had quieted — partially because of President Joe Biden.

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☆ Trump wins the Missouri caucuses and sweeps the Michigan GOP convention as he moves closer to nomination
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-02 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Win Mcnamee | Getty ImagesFormer President Donald Trump continued his march toward the GOP nomination on Saturday, winning the Missouri caucuses and sweeping the delegate haul at a party convention in Michigan. The steep odds facing Haley were on display in Columbia, Missouri, where Republicans gathered at a church to caucus. Supporters quickly moved to one side of the room or the other, depending on whether they favored Trump or Haley. Mike Parson signed a 2022 law that, among other things, canceled the planned March 12 presidential primary. Trump prevailed twice under Missouri's old presidential primary system.

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☆ My coworker dated 3 other women in the office before we fell for each other. We've been married for nearly 25 years.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-18 | by ( Kara Williams | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

When I first met my new coworker, Quent — a tall guy in glasses — I thought he was cute. But I had a live-in boyfriend , and Quent was just a few months divorced from a woman he’d met in the office. I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised when Quent eventually started dating someone new in our office social circle. “Just as friends,” we planned a weekend ski trip to Breckenridge with a colleague and her husband. AdvertisementToday, do I care that I was the fourth — and final — in the line of girls he dated at work?

Persons: —, Quent, he’d, I’d, “, ”, me, we’d, we’re Organizations: Service, Business Locations: Denver, Australia, Breckenridge, Moab, Hawaii, Colorado

All the while Eliza Babinska charged along, energy spilling out of her body like sparks of electricity. “Eliza hates this,” Vasilisa, her older sister, said with a giggle. When Vasilisa first saw her perform, she said: “I was like, that’s my sister? I saw her face, and I was like, whoa.”Even the way Eliza holds her head in class is imposingly regal. On the subway, her chin started to droop, almost as heavily as her eyelids.

Persons: Pati, Eliza Babinska, —, “ Eliza, ” Vasilisa, Eliza, Julia, Vasilisa, “ Organizations: New York City Ballet, School, American Ballet Locations: Queens, Manhattan, barre, droop

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