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☆ Top investors say these stock sectors are 'super cheap' and Warren Buffett likes them both
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Jesse Pound | In Jesse-Pound | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

I mean they're always kind of cheap, but they're really cheap," Link said. Housing stocks have risen sharply, with the SPDR S & P Homebuilders ETF (XHB) up about 23% over the past year. Both investors agreed that energy stocks could see a similar rally to housing in the years ahead. "I believe what we are seeing with homebuilders is going to happen with energy stocks in two to three years. In addition to energy stocks being cheap, they could also see fundamentals improvement if oil prices continue to rise, Link said.

Persons: Fundstrat, Tom Lee, Stephanie Link, Lee, Warren, Link Organizations: CNBC, Hightower Advisors, Berkshire, Occidental Petroleum, Chevron, Diamondback Energy, Exxon, Devon Energy Locations: Horton, Chevron, homebuilder

"High level, we want this to become something like your personal AI friend," said developer Div Garg, whose company MultiOn is beta-testing an AI agent. The race towards increasingly autonomous AI agents has been supercharged by the March release of GPT-4 by developer OpenAI, a powerful upgrade of the model behind ChatGPT - the chatbot that became a sensation when released last November. GPT-4 facilitates the type of strategic and adaptable thinking required to navigate the unpredictable real world, said Vivian Cheng, an investor at venture capital firm CRV who has a focus on AI agents. OpenAI itself is very interested in AI agent technology, according to four people briefed on its plans. There are at least 100 serious projects working to commercialize agents, said Matt Schlicht, who writes a newsletter on AI.

Persons: Siri, Alexa, Tony Stark's, Kanjun Qiu, Reid Hoffman, Mustafa Suleyman, Qiu, OpenAI, Vivian Cheng, CRV, Aravind Srinivas, Jarvis, Yoshua Bengio, Satya Nadella, Apple's Siri, it's, Google, Edward Grefenstette, Jason Franklin, WVV Capital, Hesam Motlagh, Matt Schlicht, Anna Tong, Jeffrey Dastin, Kenneth Li Organizations: Microsoft, Google, U.S . Federal Trade Commission, Reuters, FTC, OpenAI's, Financial Times, Amazon, Alexa, Investors, WVV, Google Ventures, Entrepreneurs, Thomson Locations: Silicon, Jarvis, GPT, Cognosys, San Francisco, Palo Alto

☆ As the world gets hotter, millions of workers face up to the challenge of heat stress and productivity losses
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Anmar Frangoul | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

According to those involved in the report's production, warmer working environments can create some very challenging scenarios indeed. Issues relating to productivity also apply to equipment, facilities and buildings, Fox said. "The economic losses due to heat stress at work were estimated at US$280 billion in 1995," the U.N. agency said. "This clothing can be quite cumbersome … and quite hot to wear, even under cold conditions," Fox said. Fox noted that buildings of this type haven't particularly been designed with heat ingress — especially extreme heat ingress — in mind.

Persons: Tim Fox, Fox, Marco Bertorello, that's, Laura Kent, Jorge Guerrero, Yolanda Díaz, Díaz, It's Organizations: World Meteorological Organization, of Mechanical Engineers, CNBC, International Labour Organization, Workers, AFP, Getty, ILO, Fox, Factories, Health, Safety, Spain's, Labour, Social, State Meteorological Agency, Spain's Labour Ministry, Reuters, heatstroke . Trade, Union Locations: Europe, Italy, Ronda, Spain, Madrid, heatstroke, Britain, Ireland

☆ The Titan tragedy will join the Byford Dolphin accident as one of the most gruesome deep-sea incidents in history
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The Titan tragedy joins the Byford Dolphin accident in history's most gruesome deep-sea incidents. It joins the Byford Dolphin accident of 1983 — another deep-sea chamber compression incident but with a very different set of circumstances that killed five and injured one. The Byford Dolphin incidentOn November 5, 1983, four divers — Edwin Coward, Roy Lucas, Bjørn Bergersen, and Truls Hellevik — returned from a deep-sea commercial mission near the Byford Dolphin oil rig. Graphic showing the layout of the living chambers and the diving bell where the Byford Dolphin accident happened. Unlike the divers near the Byford Dolphin oil rig, the Titan passengers didn't have any excess nitrogen in their blood.

Persons: — Edwin Coward, Roy Lucas, Bjørn Bergersen, Hellevik —, IFLScience, William Crammond, Giertsen, it's, Crammond, Martin Saunders, Stefan Williams, uncrewed submersibles, James Cameron, Cameron, It's, Williams Organizations: Titan, Service, Obscura, Divers Alert, of Forensic Medicine, Science Times, Daily Science, University of Sydney, Good Morning America, ABC News, Eiffel, NBC

☆ 16 years ago, people spent days in lines around the block to buy iPhones. Apple is announcing a new gadget today and no one seems to care.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Nicholas Carlson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Today, Apple is launching itself into a whole new area of gadgets. No one seems to care, with Apple reportedly projecting low sales the first year. Just about 16 years ago — on June 29, 2007 — the Internet was introduced to a new micro-celebrity. The fact remains that behind him on that day 192 months ago, a line curled around the block. Did you even know, before you opened this post, that today, Apple is launching another massive new product?

Persons: Greg Packer, Dima Gavrysh, REMY, Steve Jobs's, Hasan Chowdhury, Dan Ives, Siri Organizations: Apple, Press, LA, Associated, Reuters, Developers, Bloomberg, Wedbush Securities Locations: New York, France, Cupertino

☆ Manhattanhenge is coming to New York City tonight. Here's where to see it best.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( Tim Levin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Manhattanhenge is happening in New York City on Monday. It's the phenomenon where the setting sun perfectly aligns with the city's street grid. The astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson coined the term. The term Manhattanhenge was coined by the popular astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, a native New Yorker. The Tudor City Overpass in Manhattan and Hunter's Point South Park in Queens are two more scenic spots, he says.

☆ 4 great white sharks showed up in New York and New Jersey waters early, having migrated thousands of miles for food
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( Mark Reeth | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Every year great white sharks head for feeding grounds in waters near the northern US and Canada. One of them is an 8 foot 8 inch male juvenile named Jekyll who weighs just shy of 400 pounds. OCEARCH has been capturing, tagging, and tracking great white sharks since 2007 in order to study their migratory patterns. These great white sharks have traveled thousands of milesAccording to the OCEARCH tracker, a male juvenile great white nicknamed Jekyll has traveled 1,595 miles in 103 days from Georgia to the waters of Atlantic City, where his tracker pinged his location on May 15th. Simon, another male juvenile, traveled 1,520 miles in the last 106 days from Florida to join revelers in the waters of Fire Island on May 2nd.

☆ All the ways cars suck, according to the guy who wrote the book about it
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Knowles told Insider why Americans, and the world, love cars so much, despite the downsides. One person even wrote to The New York Times, suggesting that pedestrians crossing their street should point their guns at anyone driving in self-defense, Knowles wrote. Now, thanks to lobbying efforts by the automotive industry to move pedestrians off the roads and into cars, Americans view cars much differently, he said. Cars suck because they blow — chemicals and particulate matter, that is, Knowles wrote. Despite this, Knowles wrote, cars persist.

☆ Paul Tudor Jones says he's always going to keep a small amount of bitcoin in his portfolio
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Tanaya Macheel | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Legendary hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones said he's still hanging on to his bitcoin and always will. "So I'm sticking with it, and I'm going to always stick with it as a small diversification in my portfolio." Bitcoin has a fixed supply cap of 21 million coins, as designed and mandated by the Bitcoin code. "They've done so well recently because of the fact that we have had these great risk premiums," Jones said about bitcoin and gold. Jones has also previously said on CNBC that buying bitcoin is like investing in an early tech company .

☆ Hardcore wrestling fans are torn over the WWE-UFC merger – but they love the drama
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Natasha Piñon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

For wrestling fans, though, the story's not about those numbers. And wrestling fans aren't afraid to share their opinions. Some are worried that a return to a pay-per-view model for WWE's flagship event, WrestleMania, is on the horizon. The WWE's exclusive streaming deal with Peacock, which includes WrestleMania streaming rights, is set to expire in 2026. In late March, before the UFC deal was announced, WWE CEO Nick Khan said the company keeps fans' price sensitivity in mind.

☆ Last time Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina called a rape accuser greedy and crazy he won. It's a different world now.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

By the time he won an acquittal in a high-profile, 2011 Manhattan criminal trial, Tacopina had attacked what he called her "functional tolerance" for alcohol. She remembered in graphic detail being immobilized in her bed — too drunk to resist — as she was allegedly raped, she told jurors. "She called him a rapist," Tacopina told the jury in openings Monday. "I can dance backwards and forwards in four-inch heels," she told Tacopina when he questioned her dressing-room balancing act. "It caused me to realize that staying silent does not work," she told Tacopina of the courage she saw in that #MeToo wave.

☆ A Philadelphia food-delivery driver hunting for big tips says he declines 75% of orders and hangs out in wealthy areas: 'I'm not doing this to gamble. I'm doing this to make money'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Jacob Zinkula | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The 22-year-old said he didn't accept orders with low tips and wealthy neighborhoods tipped better. The majority of orders he sees do include a tip, Jack said. As inflation continues to weigh on Americans' pocketbooks, even more customers may decide to cut back on delivery tips to save a buck or two. Jack DoorDashLooking for big tips is like a 'treasure hunt'Jack doesn't just cross his fingers and hope for orders with big tips. Today, Jack said his DoorDash and Uber Eats tips were roughly at a pre-pandemic level, if not slightly higher.

☆ US military releases combat drone footage of a mysterious object — what looks like a silver orb. The Pentagon says it's not aliens.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Rebecca Cohen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The US Military released a video showing a mysterious silver orb flying in the Middle East. The head of the Pentagon office who reviews these incidents said there's no evidence of aliens. He added that his office is reviewing more than 650 incidents of UFOs reported by the military. The video released by the military shows a silver orb flying across the screen of a sensor located at a Middle Eastern military base. Correction: April 20, 2023 — An earlier version of this story's headline incorrectly identified who discussed the mysterious object.

☆ My editor's note to the newsroom on AI: Let's think of it like a 'bicycle of the mind'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Nicholas Carlson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Ask AI to make suggested edits to your writing to make it more readable and concise. Ask AI to make suggested edits to your writing to make it more readable and concise. Ask AI to summarize old news stories and suggest lessons that can be learned from them. For me, the really exciting thing about using generative AI is that I keep figuring out new ways to use it. Editors: It is already impossible for you to know if work produced by your colleagues was created using AI.

☆ People are ticked that delivery drivers complained about stingy tips in a viral New York Times article. Here are the 5 main reasons people don't think they should tip more.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Jacob Zinkula | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Food delivery drivers are struggling to make ends meet, according to a recent New York Times article. While many delivery drivers said they benefited from larger tips during the beginning of the pandemic, some said this generosity has since faded. Why should sushi delivery drivers earn 10 times as much as pizza delivery?" (3) Drivers should be tipped based on how difficult their delivery wasSome commenters argued that food delivery drivers' tips should be based on how far — and what weather they had to endure — to make the delivery. "Someday, all of these gig workers will be too old to keep this kind of hustle up.

☆ DeSantis says he's considering adding new taxes and tolls at Disney World to punish the company over its power play
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Ron DeSantis acknowledged Disney had "tried to pull a fast one" over control in Florida. Ron DeSantis of Florida has pledged he isn't done with trying to control Walt Disney World. He pledged that the company, which had benefitted from a special carve-out for decades, would eventually pay its debts and taxes. DeSantis said the legislature would void Disney's actions and also consider taxes on hotels, new tolls, and developing properties. Ron DeSantis made at Hillsdale College.

☆ DeSantis leaves everyone on a cliffhanger on his retribution over the Disney power play: 'Buckle up'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Ron DeSantis acknowledged Disney had "tried to pull a fast one" over control in Florida. Ron DeSantis of Florida has pledged he isn't done with trying to control Walt Disney World. DeSantis didn't say what would come next in his battle with the family-favorite company, a feud that first began in early 2022. First DeSantis signed a bill into law in April 2022 to dissolve the Reedy Creek district that oversees Disney. On his book tour stops, DeSantis frequently boasts about taking on Disney over the Parental Rights bill, which he said was necessary to protect children.

☆ I watched Ben Affleck's new 'Air' movie with 72 Nike veterans. Here's what they said the movie got right and what it got wrong about the race to sign Michael Jordan.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Matthew Kish | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The movie also shows how early Nike employees didn't hesitate to break rules. The scene sums up what's right, and what's wrong, with the movie, according to former and current Nike employees. It shows early Nike employees didn't hesitate to take risks. Nike veterans said the movie captures the company's willingness to take risks, especially early executives like Phil Knight, played by director Ben Affleck. Affleck, who also played Knight in the movie, nailed the story's arc, by all accounts.

☆ I went to see Ben Affleck's new "Air" movie with some Nike veterans. Here's what they said the movie got right and what it got wrong about the race to sign Michael Jordan.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Matthew Kish | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

☆ Tim Cook says today's kids are 'born digital' and warns parents to 'set some hard rails' around screen time
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-03 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Men's lifestyle magazine GQ published an in-depth profile of Apple CEO Tim Cook on Monday. Cook said today's kids are "born digital," but warned there should be "hard rails" on screen time. Cook was also described as someone who does not personally "log on all that much." "Kids are born digital, they're digital kids now," Cook was quoted saying in a lengthy profile of him published in GQ on Monday. In the GQ profile, Cook suggested that Apple is not driven by fostering digital addiction.

☆ The 7 best military commanders of all time, according to Napoleon Bonaparte
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Daniel Brown | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Napoleon, one of history's great military commanders, encouraged his officers to study these leaders. You won't find the Duke of Wellington, who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo, on the French emperor's list. download the app Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy PolicyNapoleon Bonaparte is recognized as one of the greatest military commanders of all time. "Your own genius will be enlightened and improved by this study, and you will learn to reject all maxims foreign to the principles of these great commanders," Napoleon said. We've ranked the commanders based on Napoleon's comments and their own achievements:

☆ Locks of hair compose a symphony of genetic information on Beethoven
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-22 | by ( Will Dunham | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Researchers said on Wednesday his genome showed the German composer was both genetically predisposed to liver disease and had hepatitis B virus infection. The new findings suggest there were multiple factors behind his liver disease including genetics, viral infection and alcohol consumption. "Prior to this study, alcohol was the only definitely known risk factor for Beethoven's liver disease." Beethoven experienced progressive hearing loss starting at age 29 and by 44 his hearing loss was complete, though he continued to compose masterpieces. There was no evidence found for conditions hypothesized by some experts such as otosclerosis or Paget's disease, Begg said.

☆ Brendan Fraser wins best actor Oscar for ‘The Whale’
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The film was adapted from Samuel Hunter's 2012 play of the same name. The role marked his return to the big screen as a leading man after a nine-year absence from major roles. The film drew criticism from some reviewers who said its depiction of Charlie relied on tropes of depressed, obese people. Some spoke out against its use of prosthetics rather than casting an obese actor. (Writing by Ben Kellerman; editing by Jonathan Oatis)((benjamin.kellerman@thomsonreuters.com))Keywords: AWARDS OSCARS/ACTOROur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ The coast of Southern California is becoming a hotspot for great white sharks
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Great white shark numbers are increasing off the coast of Southern California's beaches. Adult white sharks can reach 12-20 feet, but they rarely come close to the shoreline. California banned actively targeting white sharks in 1994, as well as certain fishing nets that often entrapped the sharks. Warning signs for shark sightings remain in Long Beach, California, on May 16, 2017, where Great White sharks and their pups have been sighted regularly off southern California beaches. Researchers emphasized it is still safe to swim along the Southern California coast, which sharks have historically inhabited longer than us.

☆ Jim Cramer says the Fed can't calm a market where 'nothing is predictable'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-27 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

CNBC's Jim Cramer on Monday said the Federal Reserve cannot get a clear vision of the economy right now because macro factors and unpredictable human behavior are distorting the markets. Over a year into the war in Ukraine, food and oil prices are massively warped, according to Cramer. Both of these markets have been artificially dictated by geopolitics rather than the natural dynamics of supply and demand. They are coming out of the pandemic and leaving the job market, pushing up travel demand and creating all sorts of unpredictable patterns. With all of these factors, Cramer said, "it's insanely hard to predict consumer behavior, which is why the Fed's moves to date seem to have little impact."

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