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By Jamie McGeever ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) – Nvidia (NASDAQ:)’s share price slump after its strong, but not exceptionally strong, second-quarter results raises a broader question for U.S. stocks: Are 2025 earnings growth forecasts too optimistic? The aggregate 2025 earnings growth forecast for S&P 500 companies has risen steadily from 13.7%…
Russia’s biggest problem isn’t related to sanctions or its diminished energy trade. Its greatest dilemma is that it is losing its mostly highly skill workers, who are fleeing amid the third year of grinding conflict in Ukraine.Richard Portes, an economist at the London Business School, foresees a grim future ahead…
Mount Everest looks more like a landfill every year as crowds of adventurous climbers flock to its slopes.Visitors have left an estimated 50 metric tons of waste on Everest. The mountain is so full of garbage that people have called it “the world’s highest garbage dump.”Nepal has tried all kinds…
Welcome back to our Sunday edition, a roundup of some of our top stories. As the debate over AI tools’ usefulness rages on, here’s an interesting data point. A recent survey found 77% of workers said the tech decreased their productivity and added to their workload.But first: What goes down…
Democrats have landed on a descriptor for JD Vance: Weird.”By the way,” Vice President Kamala Harris said at an Atlanta rally on Tuesday, “don’t you find some of their stuff to just be plain weird?”With Democrats eagerly resurfacing the Ohio senator’s years-old comments about “childless cat ladies,” Republicans are suddenly…
After former President Donald Trump tapped Sen. JD Vance as his running mate on Monday, all eyes turned to the 39-year-old Ohio Republican who was elected to office less than two years ago.In 2022, Vance was mostly known for his best-selling memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy.” But after Trump backed him in…
Democratic presidential nominees have won New York in every election since 1988, generally by double-digits.The 2020 election was no different, as President Joe Biden won the state by 23 points, powered largely by his massive advantage in New York City and its suburbs.But this year, Biden’s tepid poll numbers in…
The hits just keep on coming for booming tech giant OpenAI. The latest addition to its list of problems? Hackers.OpenAI, despite its name, has developed a reputation for secrecy. But it was still surprising to learn that hackers gained entry to the company’s internal messaging system all the way back…
NASA has confirmed that a hunk of space junk as big as a car hood found in North Carolina belonged to a SpaceX Dragon Capsule, according to an agency statement shared on X.The Dragon Capsule is a reusable spacecraft that carries astronauts and cargo to-and-from the International Space Station. But…
It turns out that AI chatbots not only have a tendency to be inaccurate, but they also lack a sense of humor.In a study published earlier this month, Google DeepMind researchers concluded that artificial intelligence chatbots are simply not funny.Last year, four researchers from the UK and Canada asked 20…
