A Major Retailer Is Hiring 250,000 Workers Ahead of the Holiday Season, Starting Around $19 an Hour
Amazon is hiring the same number of employees as it did in 2023 and 2024, while forecasts predict an increase in online holiday shopping this season.
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How to Keep the Right Perspective as a Day Trader
Your viewpoint can help or harm your day trading career.
Most Acquisitions Fail — Here’s How to Make Yours the Exception
Buying a company is the easy part. The challenge is getting your new team to feel like part of the same firm.
Google’s Gemini can now help you schedule Google Calendar meetings
Designed for one-on-one meetings, the tool lets you insert available time slots directly into an email, automatically creating a calendar invite once a recipient selects a time.
Google Meet launches an AI-powered makeup feature
Google Meet finally has a makeup filter for those days when you don’t feel like applying lipstick.
Coco Robotics taps UCLA professor to lead new physical AI research lab
Coco Robotics is working toward automating its fleet of delivery robots using its millions of miles of collected data.
You’ll soon be able to shop Walmart from ChatGPT
Walmart is partnering with OpenAI to let shoppers buy products directly through ChatGPT. The new integration will allow users to link their Walmart accounts, browse items ,and instantly check out — all within the chatbot.
OpenAI and Broadcom partner on AI hardware
OpenAI will purchase 10 gigawatts worth of AI accelerator hardware from semiconductor Broadcom.
6 Reasons You Should Google Yourself — and How It Could Save Your Brand
Your online presence is the first impression you make on employers, clients or even new friends. Inaccuracies or even malicious impersonations can tarnish the brand you’ve worked so hard to build.
Google updates Search and Discover with collapsible ads, AI features, and more
Google is rolling out updates to Search and Discover that introduce AI-powered features, improved navigation, and a new option to collapse ads. While users can now hide sponsored results, the “Sponsored” label will remain visible as they scroll — making ads persistent even when collapsed. Additional changes include new sports updates in Search and AI-driven topic previews in the Discover feed, launching first in the U.S., South Korea, and India.