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I just love how baby elephants have no understanding of how absolutely massive they are so they just behave like big dog pic.twitter.com/ce8ntYqQAs
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) April 11, 2024

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ETF Upside

SEC ‘Housecleaning’ Collides with Shifting Regulatory Priorities

The SEC may walk back accredited investor standards and press forward on crypto regulation with a much smaller staff.

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Finance

Klarna Discovers Customers Prefer Buying Now to Paying Later

Klarna’s 100 million-user win sounds nice, but its users are increasingly struggling with the “pay later” part of the arrangement.

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Advisor Upside

LPL Taps Anna Kendrick in Latest Ad Campaign

While LPL traditionally marketed to advisors, the new effort aims to make its name more recognizable to everyday investors.

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Productivity Tech

Salesforce Patent May Double-Check Your Slack Chats

This isn’t the first time we’ve seen tech firms bring AI and machine learning into workplace monitoring.

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Advisor Upside

New Startup Offers Lending to the 401(k) for the 401(k)

Basic Capital wants to shake up retirement savings by financing multiples of workers’ contributions to increase the power of compounding.

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Banking

Banks Thrill to Potential Softening of Post-Crisis Capital Requirements

US regulators are reportedly set to relax capital requirement rules on banks that were brought in following the 2008 financial crash.

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CIO Upside

Combating Cyber-Espionage Requires Enterprises to Keep Their Eyes on the Endgame

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Going after corporate and IP data, nation-state hackers are targeting American private companies.

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Patent Drop

Glimpse into the future of technology.

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Google Patent Highlights AI and Quantum’s Symbiotic Relationship
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The Time and Place for AI Code Generators
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Into the Future: The Patent Drop Highlight Reel
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Amazon Tries to Help Alexa Get Personal

CIO Upside

AI May Never Completely Conquer Hallucination, Bias

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“These things, unsupervised, they still are acting like 4-year-olds.”

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ETF Upside

ETF Market’s Riskiest Corner Keeps Getting Riskier

Originally meant to track larger companies like Apple, single-stock ETFs have expanded to focus on notoriously volatile businesses like GameStop.

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Investments

Glass Lewis, ISS Grapple With Renewed Risk to Influencer Status

ISS, Glass Lewis face criticism from an oil giant engaged in a bitter proxy fight just as Congress renews scrutiny of advisory firms.

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ETF Upside

ETFs Lose Some Edge Over Mutual Funds as Fees Decline

The good news for the ETF industry is that fees don’t appear to be the reason people choose them.

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