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☆ Groq CEO Jonathan Ross reveals strategy to lead AI chip market
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-24 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

While many AI companies have focused on training large language models, Groq seeks to make them run as fast as possible using chips it developed called LPUs, or language processing units. The gambit is that as AI models get better, inference — the part where the AI makes decisions or answers questions — will demand more computing power than training will, positioning Groq to reap the rewards. Groq's special (and tightly patented) sauce is its specialized chip design says Ross. Dean asked Ross's team to design a chip based on a specific type of integrated circuit they were using, and the result was Google's first tensor processing unit, a chip designed specifically for AI. Watching the AlphaGo program land a complex "shoulder hit" move on its opponent was validation for Ross that faster inference meant better, smarter AI.

Persons: Groq, Ross, —, Google's, Jeff Dean, Dean, Ross's, Lee Sedol Organizations: Rivals, Nvidia, Google

☆ Beyoncé to appear alongside Harris at Houston rally
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-24 | by ( Jeff Zeleny | Elizabeth Wagmeister | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Beyoncé will appear alongside Vice President Kamala Harris at a rally Friday in Houston, a person familiar with the planning tells CNN, the first joint appearance with the music icon whose anthem has been the soundtrack of the Harris campaign. The appearance, in which Beyoncé will appear with Willie Nelson, is designed to be one of the biggest closing acts of the campaign. Beyoncé all but gave her endorsement to Harris months ago, giving her permission to use her song “Freedom” as her official campaign anthem, CNN first reported in July. At one point, rumors of Beyoncé appearing at the Democratic convention threatened to overtake Harris’ acceptance speech. During her remarks, the vice president is expected to warn of the threat a second Trump term poses to women’s reproductive freedom.

Persons: CNN —, Kamala Harris, Harris, Willie Nelson, Beyoncé’s, Beyoncé, Taylor Swift —, —, “, Swift, Barack Obama, Jay, Hillary Clinton, ”, Donald Trump, Roe, Wade, Colin Allred, Republican Sen, Ted Cruz, Brené Brown Organizations: CNN, Democratic, Democratic National Convention, Biden, Trump, Harris, Republican Locations: Houston, Harris, Chicago, New Orleans, Cleveland , Ohio, Texas

☆ Republican EV attacks are flooding Michigan, putting Democrats on the defensive in a critical battleground
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-24 | by ( Catherine Boudreau | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

EV supporters point to dozens of new EV and battery plants announced in Michigan in the last two years. Political strategists told Business Insider that the anti-EV messaging was drowning out positive ones in Michigan, putting Democrats on the defensive in a critical battleground. "We've run some advertising trying to make the massive surge of new EV manufacturing at jobs in Michigan famous, because nobody knows about them," Murphy said. But that analysis didn't account for jobs created by new EV and battery manufacturing plants popping up across the country. Democrats are hitting back on Republicans' EV attacks, arguing that the US has to build its own domestic EV manufacturing base to compete with China.

Persons: —, Donald Trump, Mike Rogers, Kamala Harris, EVs, they've, Mike Murphy, Murphy, Biden, Murphy's, Rogers, Harris, Shawn Fain, Trump, Sen, JD Vance, Fain, POLITICO's, Elissa Slotkin Organizations: EV, Service, Michigan Republican, Senate, Trump, Republicans, Biden, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington Post, Policy Institute, United Auto Workers, E News, Republican National Committee, Democratic, Rogers Locations: Michigan, China, North Carolina, Georgia, Europe, South America

☆ Bernstein naming Meta the new 'set-it-and-forget-it' stock comes down 2 things
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-24 | by ( Paulina Likos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

In the battle of the tech giants, Wall Street firm Bernstein favors Meta Platforms over Alphabet . The analysts raised their Meta price target to $675 per share from $600 and kept their outperform buy rating on the stock. Bernstein acknowledged the valuation of Meta stock versus Alphabet "feels stretched" at the moment. Big picture Bernstein's bullish assessment of Meta's future growth prospects comes as the stock has significantly outperformed both the overall market and Alphabet. META YTD mountain Meta Platforms YTD Before Wednesday's 3% drop in an ugly market, Meta closed Tuesday just 2% off its record close of $595.94 on Oct. 4.

Persons: Bernstein, Meta, Shein, we're, Jim Cramer's, Kamala Harris, Jim, Jim Cramer Organizations: Wall, Google, Meta, Adobe, Facebook, CNBC Locations: Wednesday's, U.S

☆ Reddit Ad Targeting Gets Boost From Memorable AI Acquisition
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-24 | by ( Lara O'Reilly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Reddit acquired Memorable AI in August in a deal that valued the startup at just under $40 million, including performance-based earnouts. Memorable AI uses AI models to predict which images and videos will catch users' attention and encourage them to engage with an ad. Acevedo, a Memorable AI cofounder who had been the startup's CEO, now leads product for Reddit's new ads media intelligence team, which combines data on creative performance with the company's advertising AI models. Fosco, a fellow cofounder who had been Memorable AI's chief technology officer, leads engineering in the ads intelligence team. "The acquisition of Memorable AI, coupled with its focus on creative effectiveness, now gives Reddit the missing piece to continue improving performance for our advertisers," Fosco said.

Persons: Reddit, Acevedo, Fosco Organizations: Unilever, Mars, MIT

☆ Google VP Amin Vahdat leads the company in innovating with AI chips
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-24 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

With its core business under threat, Google has spent the past two years pouring resources into building its own AI chips. In charge of those efforts is Vahdat, one of Business Insider's 2024 AI Power List picks. Vahdat has been at the company for more than a decade and is today setting the direction for Google's silicon strategy. That also means working closely with Google DeepMind to take its breakthrough models and integrate them throughout Google's products, whether YouTube's creator tools or Google's search ads. See Business Insider's full AI Power List

Persons: Vahdat Organizations: Google, Amazon, Microsoft

☆ Matt Steiner Leads Meta's AI Ads Resurgence
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-24 | by ( Lara O'Reilly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Steiner is Meta's vice president of monetization infrastructure, ranking, and AI foundations. AI and machine learning have been key to Meta's recent resurgence, particularly in areas like ad targeting and measurement that were hampered by Apple's 2021 privacy update. His team works on innovations like large AI models that can support multiple inputs and prediction outputs across different advertiser goals, like clicks or sales. It's also integrating AI into Meta's self-service Ads Manager product to help advertisers drive better performance. Meta said in July that more than 1 million advertisers had used at least one of its generative AI ad features in the past month.

Persons: Steiner, Meta

☆ The CEO of Perplexity said the AI-powered search engine isn't trying to replace the news
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-23 | by ( Melia Russell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas addressed the lawsuits the company is facing from news publishers. At a WSJ conference appearance, Srinivas said Perplexity was previously in conversations with Dow Jones. "Let's talk about the elephant in the room," Aravind Srinivas, cofounder and CEO of Perplexity, opened his interview at Wall Street Journal's Tech Live conference. People are directly going to [The] New York Times, The Wall Street Journal," Srinivas said. So, for example, a user can ask Perplexity about a shoe company that has just gone public on Wall Street.

Persons: Aravind Srinivas, Srinivas, Perplexity, Dow Jones, —, Rupert Murdoch's Dow Jones, Mark Penn, Deepa Seetharaman, Anthropic, Claude, It's, OpenAI Organizations: Service, Tech, New York Post, Journalism, New York Times, Street, Microsoft Locations: New York

☆ WPP's former dealmaker is joining investment bank Canaccord Genuity — a sign advertising M&A could heat up
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-23 | by ( Lara O'Reilly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Canaccord Genuity is hiring the former WPP dealmaker Lance Maerov to work on ad and media M&A. 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 . AdvertisementThe Canadian investment bank Canaccord Genuity is hiring a former top dealmaker at the advertising giant WPP for its advertising and media mergers-and-acquisitions practice, Business Insider can exclusively reveal. Canaccord Genuity didn't respond to requests for comment.

Persons: Lance Maerov, —, Genuity, It's, IPG, Martin Sorrell, Maerov, Sorrell, Mark Read, Andrew Scott, Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein Organizations: WPP, Service, Madison, Mars United Commerce, Publicis Groupe, Verve, Jun, Epsilon, Street, Nike, Tata Consultancy Services, Street Journal, Real Media, Weinstein Co, Vice Media Locations: British

☆ Behind CNN’s investigation on deceptive political fundraising that costs elderly donors their retirement savings
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-22 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

CNN —A new CNN investigation documents how political campaigns have deceived the elderly and people with dementia with badgering, personalized text messages and prechecking boxes for recurring donations. Read the report, which illustrates the aggressive text messaging and charts how recurring donations can add up to hundreds of thousands of dollars drained from retirement savings. The team spent a significant chunk of that time gathering and reviewing the stories of elderly donors from a variety of sources: public records, complaints filed with government agencies, lawsuits and cold-calling donors. RAPPARD: Experts we spoke to told us that elderly donors are the backbone of grassroots fundraising efforts. It became clear to us throughout our reporting process the kind of effect these tactics were having on elderly donors.

Persons: Blake Ellis, Melanie Hicken, Yahya Abou, Ghazala, Audrey Ash, Anna, Maja Rappard, ELLIS, WinRed, Donald, Trump, –, ABOU, Casey Tolan, ”, Donald Trump, Don Jr, Karen, Gabe Ramirez, Democratic Sens, Amy Klobuchar, Dick Durbin, WOLF, TRUMP, Marjorie Taylor Greene Organizations: CNN, Republican, New York Times, Republican Party, Golden Eagles, Netflix, Democratic, Federal, Commission, Republicans, Trump Locations: WinRed, inboxes

☆ Elon Musk's X has made hundreds of thousands of dollars from his super PAC
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-22 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk's super PAC has spent over $200,000 on advertising on X. AdvertisementElon Musk's super PAC has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to promote content on X, underscoring how the billionaire businessman's politics and business ventures are continuing to collide. Make your plan to vote today and help President Trump win Georgia and secure the border! — America PAC (@theamericapac) September 1, 2024A spokesperson for America PAC declined to comment. America PAC has spent over $100 million to elect Trump, as well as at least $10 million on over a dozen House GOP candidates.

Persons: Elon, —, Musk, Kamala Harris, Harris, Trump, Donald Trump Organizations: Elon Musk's, Service, PAC, Georgia, America PAC, WIRED Locations: Musk's, Arizona , Nevada , Pennsylvania, Michigan , Wisconsin, Georgia, North Carolina, America

☆ 26-year-old cold-emailed a CEO weekly to get $150,000 for his startup: 'That's brilliant, and I hate you,' says Mark Cuban
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-22 | by ( Natalie Wu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Niantic initially rejected Bell's pitch, so he emailed the company's CEO once per week for three months — ultimately securing $150,000 in startup funds, Bell said. "That's brilliant, and I hate you, because now everybody out there is going to send us 600 emails a week," investor judge Mark Cuban told Bell in response. His Austin-based app, Card.io, is a social game where users compete for turf in their city by walking, running or biking. The app is free, with individual and group subscription tiers that remove ads and offer social media-type functions for members. "I told my mom, 'We're going to be on this show one day, Mom, and I'm going to bring you,'" he said.

Persons: Destin Bell, Bell, Niantic, Mark Cuban, Austin, Card.io Organizations: Developers Initiative, CNBC

☆ Advertisers and publishers call on Apple CEO Tim Cook to suspend the iPhone's new Distraction Control feature
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-22 | by ( Lara O'Reilly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

French media and ad groups are calling on Apple to suspend its new "Distraction Control" feature, Business Insider is exclusively reporting. AdvertisementA group of French trade associations representing around 800 companies in the advertising and media sectors has sent an open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, calling for the tech giant to suspend the rollout of the iPhone's new "Distraction Control" feature. Distraction Control, which became available with iOS 18 this fall, allows users of the iPhone's Safari browser to hide elements on webpages like images, pop-ups, or ads. The letter urges Apple to suspend the rollout of Distraction Control and to provide technical documentation about its functionalities and any planned updates. AdvertisementAppleInsider later reported Apple had changed the name of the feature from Web Eraser to Distraction Control and updated it to include a popup explaining that it would "not permanently remove ads."

Persons: —, Tim Cook, It'll, Apple, doesn't, Pierre Devoize, Alliance Digitale, AppleInsider Organizations: Apple, Service, Business, Europe's, Data, Alliance, de, Presse, Union des Marques, European Commission . Publishers, Safari, News Media Association, Publishers

☆ A college student who tracks Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg's private jets says his Threads accounts have been suspended
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-22 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Jack Sweeney's Threads accounts that track the flight paths of private jets have been suspended. AdvertisementJack Sweeney, a college student who tracks the private jets of several high-profile people, including Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, says his Threads accounts have been suspended. He said he received no warnings or communications from the Big Tech company before the accounts were suspended. AdvertisementThe college student first made headlines in 2022 after Musk offered him money to stop publicly sharing his flight information. In December 2022, Sweeney's jet-tracking accounts were suspended by X. Musk, who took over the social media company months earlier, called the accounts a "physical safety violation."

Persons: Jack, Elon Musk, Taylor Swift, —, Jack Sweeney, Mark Zuckerberg, Sweeney, Kim Kardashian, Donald Trump, Zuckerberg, Swift, Musk Organizations: Meta, Service, Elon, Big Tech, Meta's, Business, US Federal Aviation Administration, Twitter, University of Central, X Locations: University of Central Florida, Orlando

☆ Kamala Harris: A jittery campaign makes big plans to clinch a narrow win
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-22 | by ( Edward-Isaac Dovere | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

To get there, the campaign is finalizing marquee, attention-grabbing events showcasing Harris, with symbolic backdrops aimed at driving home the message. JB Pritzker, a Harris campaign co-chair. Harris supporters wear custom “Kamala is brat” shirts at a rally in Milwaukee on August 20, 2024. The Harris aides CNN spoke to expressed a jittery self-confidence, but they also kept using phrases such as“jump ball” and “down to the wire” and the occasional emoji with nauseous green cheeks. But some Harris voters and even some on-the-ground operatives and volunteers are.

Persons: Kamala Harris ’, They’re, Donald Trump, ”, Arnold Palmer, they’ll, Harris, Jen O’Malley Dillon, ” David Plouffe, Barack Obama’s, ” Plouffe, –, Joe Biden –, Donald Trump wouldn’t, “, JB Pritzker, Kamala, Jovanny Hernandez, Doug, “ Kamala, CNN, ’, Mary, Charlamagne, Julia Roberts ’, “ We’re, Trump, Biden, White, Tim Walz, Charlie Neibergall, ” Walz, Michael Flynn’s, Mike Flynn’s, ’ ” Walz, We’re, Jaime Harrison’s, it’s, Martin Luther King Jr, Harrison, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Frederick Douglass ’, ” Harrison, can’t, Liz Cheney, who’ve, ” Nancy Quarles, ” Quarles, Jennifer Norris, Walz, Blaine McKillip, Ronald Reagan, They’ve, McKillip, ‘, “ I’m, Jim Watson, Chris Deluzio, ” Deluzio, “ They’re, ” Harris, Plouffe, ” CNN’s Alison Main Organizations: CNN, Trump, Democrats, Gov, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, USA, Jewish, Democratic, Biden, “, Minnesota Gov, Minnesota, Advisers, Democratic National, Pennsylvania Academy, Fine Arts, Supreme, Republican, Wyoming, Republicans, Oakland County Democratic Party, Saunders County Democrats, Harris, Getty Locations: ”, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Southfield , Michigan, Georgia, Minnesota, Papillion , Nebraska, Nebraska, North Carolina, Michigan, Detroit, Wahoo , Nebraska, Omaha, Latrobe , Pennsylvania, AFP, Pittsburgh

☆ The election is still incredibly close with 2 weeks to go, with warning signs for both Trump and Harris in the Sun Belt
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-22 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Harris and Trump are aiming to win in the Sun Belt, but there are challenges for both candidates. AdvertisementWarning signs in the Sun BeltTrump is looking to flip Arizona and Georgia, states that he won in 2016 but lost to now-President Joe Biden in 2020. In the poll, Harris is earning the support from roughly 74% of Black voters, a robust figure. But it's well below the 88% support that Biden received from Black voters in Georgia four years ago. And the poll also showed that nearly 18% of Black voters remained undecided, in a state where Black voters could make up roughly 30% of the electorate or more.

Persons: Harris, Trump, —, Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, Dan Kanninen, Liz Cheney, Melina Mara, Harris isn't, It's, Cheney, Joe Biden, George W, Bush, Brandon Bell, Biden, Nikki Haley, Mitt Romney, Trump's, it's Organizations: Washington, Schar, Service, Republicans, Democratic, Trump, NBC, Getty, Sun, Republican, Nevada, GOP, Biden, South Carolina Gov, Black Locations: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada , North Carolina , Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Michigan , Pennsylvania, Phoenix, Atlanta

☆ Exonerated 'Central Park Five' sue Trump for defamation after debate comments
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-21 | by ( Marlene Lenthang | Marlene Lenthang Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

The five men who make up the Central Park Five, and now call themselves the Exonerated Five, have filed a defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump over his remarks during the presidential debate last month. And I said, well, if they pled guilty they badly hurt a person, killed a person ultimately. And if they pled guilty — then they pled we’re not guilty." Further the victims of the Central Park assaults were not killed." In their trials, they were charged with the assault of the female jogger as well as other assaults and robberies that occurred in Central Park.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, — Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, Korey Wise —, —, we’re, Trump’s, Steven Cheung, Kamala Harris’s, ” Shanin Specter, ” Organizations: Central, New, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Salaam, Member Locations: Pennsylvania, Central Park, New York, Eastern District

☆ Black women face a maternal health crisis, and advocates want that to be an election issue
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-21 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +10 min

“Black maternal health and reproductive health has to be a conversation that I hear from any candidate for me to be on board to vote for them,” she said. Black women in the U.S. also face greater risks bearing children. “The landscape for reproductive health for Black women has gotten far more dangerous in the last two and a half years,” she said. When asked, the Harris campaign did not point to specific policies on Black maternal health. Desta-Bell said she’s found growing interest from voters about the state of Black maternal health and reproductive justice.

Persons: Francisca Shaw, “, ” Shaw, Kamala Harris, Republican Donald Trump, Amber Thurman, Shaw, ”, . Georgia —, Leah Wright Rigueur, Regina Davis Moss, Harris, Joe Biden, ” Davis Moss, Harris ’, Nikema Williams, Hank Johnson, Sen, Jon Ossoff, Jacquelyn Martin, Biden, Keisha Lance Bottoms, Trump, Janiyah Thomas, Nadia Brown, Joyce Drayton, —, Drayton, ProPublica, Candi Miller, Thurman, Naomi Desta, Bell, They’ve, she’s Organizations: Seattle’s University of Washington Medical Center, Reuters, University of Washington Medical Center, Democratic, Republican, Facebook, Supreme, Centers for Disease Control, Johns Hopkins University, Senate, Georgia Democratic Party, Georgia, Georgetown University, Georgia Black Republican Council, Republican Black, Women’s Health Locations: Georgia, U.S, Atlanta , Georgia, United States, . Georgia, Michigan, Atlanta, Florida, Desta

☆ Top DeSantis attorneys penned cease-and-desist letters threatening to prosecute TV stations over abortion ad, affidavit says
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-21 | by ( Liam Reilly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Ron DeSantis penned the cease-and-desist letters sent by Florida’s health department threatening to criminally prosecute local TV stations over their airing of an abortion rights ad, the department’s former general counsel said in court documents. “I did not draft the letters or participate in any discussions about the letters prior to October 3,” Wilson wrote. Spokespersons for DeSantis and the Florida Department of Health did not immediately respond to CNN requests for comment. Wilson’s allegations come after local TV stations began airing an ad by Floridians Protecting Freedom, the group behind the state’s “Yes on 4 Campaign,” promoting a ballot measure seeking to overturn the state’s six-week abortion ban by enshrining abortion rights in the state’s constitution. Local TV stations also received support from FCC chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, who said earlier this month that “threats against broadcast stations for airing content that conflicts with the government’s views are dangerous and undermine the fundamental principle of free speech.”

Persons: Ron DeSantis, John Wilson, Sam Elliot, Wilson, Ryan Newman, Jed Doty, “, ” Wilson, Newman, Doty, ” Newman, Caroline, ” Caroline, Floridians, Joseph Ladapo, Jessica Rosenworcel, ” Organizations: New, New York CNN, Gov, Florida’s Department of Health, DeSantis, Florida Department of Health, CNN, Floridians, Ladapo Locations: New York, Florida, Local

☆ What to know about Perplexity, the buzzy — and controversial — AI startup targeting a big funding round
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-21 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Perplexity is eyeing a massive funding round this year, The Wall Street Journal had reported. The Times alleged that Perplexity was violating copyright laws by using its content to create news summaries, according to Reuters. In a statement to Reuters, Srinivas said: "We are very much interested in working with every single publisher, including The New York Times. AdvertisementOn Monday, the Journal and New York Post owner News Corp. filed a lawsuit against Perplexity, also alleging copyright infringement. While Perplexity has dealt with criticism from media outlets, its rival OpenAI has struck deals with publishers to use their content.

Persons: —, Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho, Andy Konwinski, Srinivas —, Jeff Bezos, Forbes, Srinivas, OpenAI, Microsoft — Organizations: Corp, Street Journal, Service, Google, Street, New York Post, Business, Nvidia, SoftBank's, Forbes, Wired, New York Times, News Corp, The New York Times, Microsoft, Reuters, The Times, Perplexity

☆ How Kamala Harris took on the ‘big banks’ after the foreclosure crisis
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-21 | by ( Katie Lobosco | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Washington CNN —Vice President Kamala Harris often touts how she took on the “big banks” as attorney general of California to deliver mortgage relief to homeowners hit by the 2008 foreclosure crisis. The oft-repeated story references how Harris helped negotiate a multistate mortgage settlement with five of the nation’s biggest banks that delivered financial relief to homeowners and set standards for lenders. Harris also secured a separate agreement with three of the banks, guaranteeing a certain amount of relief for California homeowners. Mortgage relief for homeownersAs a result of the national settlement, mortgage relief was delivered to homeowners in several different forms, such as principal reductions, interest rates cuts, other kinds of loan modifications or short sales. There were also some direct payments sent to people who wrongfully lost their homes to foreclosure, according to the National Mortgage Settlement website.

Persons: Kamala Harris, Harris, It’s, “, ”, Joe Biden’s, Beau Biden, Jamie Dimon, Ira Rheingold, Katie Porter, Irvine –, ” Rheingold, Lisa Sitkin, Sitkin, servicer Organizations: Washington CNN —, Democratic National Convention, ”, JPMorgan Chase, National Association of Consumer Advocates, Mortgage, National Mortgage, University of California, Irvine, National Housing Law, Consumer Financial, Bureau Locations: California, Delaware

Where to watch What We Do in the Shadows in the USWhat We Do in the Shadows airs on FX in the US. If you don't have cable and hope to watch the show live, you'll need to subscribe to a live TV streaming service like Sling TV, Fubo, or DirecTV Stream. Sling TV Subscription For just the essentials without any extra fluff, Sling TV is the streaming service you're looking for. Hulu subscriptions start at $10/month, but you can try out the streaming service free for one month. Check price at HuluWhere to watch What We Do in the Shadows in the UKWhat We Do in the Shadows seasons 1-5 are available to stream on Disney Plus in the UK.

Persons: Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, Matt Berry, Kayvan Novak, Natasia Demetriou, Mark Proksch, They're, Guillermo, Harvey Guillén, we've, We'll, ExpressVPN Organizations: Business, FX, DirecTV, Entertainment, DirecTV Stream, Hulu, Disney Plus, Apple Locations: Staten

☆ CNBC Daily Open: Who’s watching Netflix shares? Everyone
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-21 | by ( Yeo Boon Ping | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. What you need to know todayThe bottom lineThere's a YouTube series called "I Like to Watch," in which two people react to Netflix shows. While it has accumulated an ardent fanbase for the hosts' kooky reactions, the series is, essentially, a show about Netflix shows. Netflix shows are often all of the above. Many of us like to watch Netflix shows.

Persons: Ashish Vaishnav, Richard Broughton, Ampere, Doug Anmuth, — CNBC's Sean Conlon, Ryan Browne, Lisa Kailai Han, Alex Harring Organizations: Netflix, Lightrocket, CNBC Locations: Mumbai

☆ Why a hedge fund made a podcast about a shake-up it's pushing for at Southwest Airlines
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-21 | by ( Shubhangi Goel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Elliott Investment Management launched a podcast to influence Southwest Airlines shareholders. AdvertisementLast week, activist firm Elliott Investment Management launched a podcast as part of its efforts to influence Southwest Airlines shareholders. Related storiesElliott said its "Stronger Southwest" podcast will have one-on-one conversations with the firm's nominated directors. But companies like Southwest and Disney, which saw similar activist interest last year, have a lot of individual investors. Before the podcast, Elliott rolled out a website and accounts on Instagram, X, and YouTube.

Persons: —, Elliott, Bob Jordan, Jordan, Gary Kelly, Southwest's, Gregg Saretsky —, Scott Bisang, Bisang, Cas Sydorowitz, Georgeson, Sydorowitz, Disney, Nelson Peltz, Bob Iger Organizations: Elliott Investment Management, Southwest, Service, Apple, YouTube, Bloomberg, Disney, Hollywood

☆ Gun YouTube creators are leaving the platform as the company cracks down on firearm videos
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-20 | by ( David Ingram | David Ingram Is A Tech Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +11 min

At least four large YouTube channels devoted to firearms have announced they’re quitting the platform and moving to rival services with looser rules. YouTube, which is owned by Google, has for years imposed rules on gun videos. YouTube says gun videos are only one part of its enormous app. Responsible firearms content is just one part of this vibrant mix of communities,” the company said in a statement. A successful YouTube gun channel can make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in ad revenue and sponsorships, Bloomberg News reported this year.

Persons: they’re, they’ve, ” Jon Patton, ” Patton, it’s, Attorney Alvin Bragg, Donald Trump, Matt Carriker, Carriker, YouTube’s, ”, “, hasn’t, Alexander Reville, podcasters, “ You’ve, we’re, Guns.com, Joel Persinger, Chris Mijic, Persinger, “ GunTubers, ” Justin Wagner, Nick Fuentes, John Kinman, Greg, Greg Kinman, YouTube ”, we’ve Organizations: YouTube, Google, Bloomberg News, Gun Safety, Attorney, Trump, Firearms, NBC News, Safety Locations: Manhattan, California, Pennsylvania

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