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People walk past an ad featuring Donald Trump and Solana, XRP and USDC Bitcoin in Hong Kong. Mae James | Sopa Images | Light Rocket | Getty ImagesTwo U.S. senators are calling on the Justice Department and Treasury Department to investigate a cryptocurrency company with close ties to President Donald Trump’s family over its alleged ties to North Korean and Russian illegal actors.Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Jack Reed (D-Mass.), minority members of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, expressed concerns in a letter Tuesday that World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency company heavily owned and operated by the…

Jerusalem — On Monday, dozens of Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian vehicles and homes in an occupied West Bank village after Israeli forces destroyed illegal settler outpost structures in the area. Two videos geolocated by CNN show multiple vehicles and a building on fire after the attack in the Palestinian village of Jhabua, about 15 kilometers (9 miles) southwest of Bethlehem. Video shows villagers struggling to put out the flames. Surveillance cameras in Jabua showed dozens of masked men breaking into homes and setting vehicles on fire. Diab Mashaleh, chairman of the Jhabua village council, told Palestinian state news…

“So I definitely planned out those beats and really important moments,” she continued. “And there’s a point in the origin of this story that’s very fundamental to how this book ends. So, yeah, for the first time in my life, I’m organized.” Additionally, in addition to wanting to ensure her world-building was thorough and immersive, the 41-year-old was also aware of what she calls potential “pitfalls” when drafting the second book in a trilogy, especially if readers have fallen deeply in love with the characters from the first book. In this case, the enemy-lover relationship between the human Saeris and…

Kevin Hassett, the Trump administration’s top economic adviser, said Monday that artificial intelligence could make workers so productive that companies would slow hiring.”I think there’s been mixed signals in the job market,” he said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” adding that there were “really, really positive signals in the output market.””We could see a bit of a period of near calm in the labor market as companies realize that AI is making their workforces so much more productive that they don’t necessarily need to hire young people straight out of college,” Hassett said after noting that U.S. gross domestic product (GDP)…

Intuit has signed a multi-year agreement with OpenAI worth more than $100 million that will allow the company’s tax and finance apps to work within ChatGPT and expand the use of OpenAI models across the company’s products. Intuit said tools such as TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks and Mailchimp will be accessible through ChatGPT, allowing users to ask questions and complete tasks such as estimating tax refunds, exploring credit options and managing business finances. With your permission, Intuit’s apps can access your financial data to generate responses and complete tasks like sending marketing messages or issuing bill reminders. Customers can also…

Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO and co-founder of Swedish fintech company Klarna, gives a thumbs up during the company’s IPO on the New York Stock Exchange on September 10, 2025 in New York City, USA.Brendan McDiarmid | ReutersKlarna The company beat Wall Street’s third-quarter revenue expectations in its first earnings report since going public on the New York Stock Exchange in September.The stock price fell 9%.Here’s how the company performed compared to LSEG’s expectations:Revenue: $903 million vs. $882 million expected.Revenue increased 26% from $706 million in the same period last year. The company reported a net loss of $95 million, down from…

Data shows that flight delays and the recent government shutdown are putting even more travelers on U.S. highways this Thanksgiving, increasing the risk of wrecks during what is already one of the most dangerous travel periods of the year. Based on 2024 data analyzed by Samsara, a technology company that tracks commercial vehicle safety, the accident rate was 65% higher on the Sunday after Thanksgiving compared to the previous Sunday. Kelly Soderlund, head of insights at Samsara, told CNN that this year could be even more dangerous due to the surge in drivers. The American Automobile Association predicts that approximately…

When Jerry Turner visited his wife Teresa Nist in New Jersey, he slept on the couch.Once Jerry and Teresa got married, she showed no signs of wanting to be together as a couple in any fantasy suite. When he visited her in New Jersey a week after taking his vows, he admitted that he felt “like an intruder in her home, like I didn’t belong.” The feeling was even greater when she asked him to sleep on the couch since she had a busy day in the morning. “The words that came out of my mouth were, ‘Yeah, no problem,'”…

take-two interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick said Monday that consoles aren’t going away, but the industry will move toward PCs over the next decade.”I think we’re seeing more of a shift to the PC, and I think businesses are going to be more open than closed,” Zelnick said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “But when you define a console as a property rather than a system, the concept of extremely rich games played for hours on a big screen never disappears.”Zelnick said consoles and mobile are about evenly split in the current market, but mobile is growing faster than consoles.I like big…

As part of Microsoft’s Ignite conference, Stack Overflow on Tuesday announced a new set of products aimed at positioning them as a valuable part of the enterprise AI stack. Built around the Stack Overflow Internal enterprise product, the company’s new version aims to transform traditional problem-solving forums into tools that translate human expertise into an AI-accessible format. At its simplest, Stack Overflow Internal is an enterprise version of a web forum, but with the additional security and administrative controls you’d expect. The new tool is specifically designed to feed internal AI agents using the model context protocol, and certain variations…