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Amazon’s stock price performance hasn’t been particularly noteworthy lately. However, CEO Andy Jassy’s latest annual letter to shareholders reinforced our resolve to stick with this policy. Why: Amazon takes a lot of shots on goal, and the company’s track record suggests that our patience will be rewarded if enough shots go in the back of the net and we start seeing profits. Wall Street agreed, at least Thursday, with the stock up 4.5%. While encouraging, this rally only pushes the stock back to where it has been since the beginning of the year. Amazon’s attacks are coming from everywhere: the…
OpenAI on Thursday announced what power users have been asking for: a $100/month plan. The previous plans were free (now includes ads), the $8/month Go plan (also includes ads), the $20/month Plus plan (no ads), and the Pro plan up to $200 (also ad-free). OpenAI’s pricing plans page currently doesn’t list any $200 per month plans. However, that top layer is still available, OpenAI confirmed to TechCrunch. According to the model maker, Plus (which remains $20 per month) and the new $100 Pro tier are tailored to support daily use of ChatGPT’s coding tool Codex. The $100 Pro plan offers…
In the age of artificial intelligence, companies aren’t completely abandoning Salesforce, but the way they use it and what they expect from it is changing. For Morgan DeBaun, CEO and co-founder of digital media group Blavity, the cost savings enabled by AI are a big factor in how he sees Salesforce going forward. Blavity, which aims to serve Black audiences, spends about $1 million a year on enterprise software from about a dozen vendors, including Salesforce. When the current six-figure contract expires in early 2027, DeBaun plans to replace Salesforce’s customer relationship management (CRM) platform with a more cost-effective AI…
Jonah Hill privately reveals that he married Olivia Miller and gave birth to their second childJonah Hill has taken a leap forward in his personal life. It’s been nearly three years since the 21 Jump Street star welcomed his first child with Olivia Miller, and the pair have privately married and welcomed their second child together. “I have two kids now,” Hill told Martin Scorsese in an April 9 interview magazine article. “The only thing that separates me from my family is the editing room. I love writing and I love filming, but editing is like dessert every day. Even…
Every weekday, Jim Cramer’s CNBC Investment Club releases the Homestretch, a practical afternoon update to coincide with the last hour of trading on Wall Street. The S&P 500 is on a seven-year upward trajectory as markets continue to recover following the easing of tensions in the Middle East. Stock markets initially got off to a slow start for the day amid uncertainty over the opening of the Strait of Hormuz. The impasse on the Iranian side of the negotiations is Israeli operations in Lebanon. At one point during the day, WTI crude oil was trading at $102 per barrel. However,…
Matthias Bork | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesOpenAI on Wednesday announced a Pro Chat GPT tier that increases the limits of Codex, OpenAI’s artificial intelligence-powered coding assistant, aiming to compete with Anthropic’s popular Claude Code.In an announcement posted at “The Plus plan remains the best plan at $20 for consistent, daily use of Codex, and the new $100 Pro tier provides a more accessible upgrade path for heavy daily use,” the company wrote in a post on X.The new tiers bring the number of ChatGPT subscription tiers to five for personal use: Free, Go, Plus, and now two Pro tiers.…
Ivana Trump was President-elect Donald Trump’s first wife. Born in 1949 in Gottwald, Czechoslovakia (now Zlín, Czech Republic), she rose to fame as a competitive skier. And thanks to her marriage to Austrian ski instructor Alfred Winklemayer in 1971, Ivana was able to travel frequently outside Czechoslovakia.According to her book Raising Trump, the model met Donald three years after their 1973 divorce while on a trip to New York for a Canadian fashion show before the Montreal Olympics. The two married in 1977 and had three children: Donald Trump Jr. born in 1977, Ivanka Trump born in 1981, and Eric…
U.S. oil prices rose on Thursday, but fell back from their trading highs after Israel agreed to negotiations with Lebanon.west texas intermediate crude oil Futures for May delivery rose more than 3% to close at $97.87 per barrel. International benchmark Brent crude oil futures for June delivery rose more than 1% to settle at $95.92.U.S. crude soared above $100 a barrel in early trading as markets realized Iran was restricting traffic through the Strait of Hormuz despite a cease-fire agreement with the United States. The CEO of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) said on Thursday that the strait was…
Brett Taylor, co-founder and CEO of Sierra, a startup that develops customer service AI agents for enterprises, believes the way humans and software interact will change in the near future. Last month, Sierra released Ghostwriter, an agent designed to build other agents. The startup aims to replace traditional click-based web applications with natural language using this “agent-as-a-service” tool. Users simply describe what they want, and Ghostwriter autonomously creates and deploys dedicated agents to perform the task. The idea of replacing software with language-based prompts is interesting in large part because many of the tools companies currently use aren’t used regularly,…
‘Real Housewives of Rhode Island’ cast features Bachelor alums and RHONJ fan favoritesRhode Island’s rumor mill is working overtime. The Real Housewives of Rhode Island’s Lula Neeme Pontarelli wasn’t shy about featuring photos of her husband Brian Pontarelli getting cozy with another woman during the latest episode of the Bravo series. The affair drama first came to light in December 2024 after co-star Jo-Ellen Tiberi warned Lula about scandalous snapshots shared on social media. “Jo Ellen apparently posted some pictures of Brian and his cockroaches,” Lula said in a confessional. “At first I thought Jo-Ellen was trying to support me…