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YouTube on Wednesday announced artificial-intelligence features for creators on its Shorts platform that tap into Google’s DeepMind video-generation model. The features, known as Veo, will allow creators to add AI-generated backgrounds to their videos as well as use written prompts to generate standalone, six-second video clips. YouTube CEO Neal Mohan said he hopes Veo will…

Background It's crucial to understand the concept of financial round-tripping and its implications for the market. Round-tripping is a deceptive practice that has gained notoriety in recent years due to its potential to mislead investors and manipulate financial statements. This fraudulent technique involves creating artificial transactions between two or more entities to inflate revenues, evade…

The European Union’s second-highest court on Wednesday said a 1.5 billion euro ($1.7 billion) fine imposed on Google by regulators should be annulled, siding with the U.S. tech giant after it challenged the ruling. The case stems from 2019 when the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, said Alphabet owned Google had abused its market…

I'm an amateur in the knowledge of stocks. im trying to learns and everyone starts somewhere.. i want to invest a lot of money into shares of a company. they do not give dividends but if they were to ever grow as a company could they give dividends per share later. How could they do…

Hi Everyone I received around $85,000 recently as a back payment for a long term consultancy assignment I was working. Instead of spending it, I was thinking of saving it on the side for the future. Now the question – should I put the amount in an ETF right now such as S&P 500. I’m…

Hi all, I know there are a lot of watchlist questions and posts already, and I apologize for adding 1 more but I couldn’t find a clear answer to this. Is there a stock watchlist app where I can track the growth of stocks/ETFs over a custom period of time together in 1 table/view rather…

This is the daily discussion, so anything stocks related is fine, but the theme for today is on stock options, but if options aren't your thing then just ignore the theme. Some helpful day to day links, including news: Finviz for charts, fundamentals, and aggregated news on individual stocks Bloomberg market news StreetInsider news: Market…

Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement [18 September 2024] https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/monetary20240918a.htm ​ Recent indicators suggest that economic activity has continued to expand at a solid pace. Job gains have slowed, and the unemployment rate has moved up but remains low. Inflation has made further progress toward the Committee's 2 percent objective but remains somewhat elevated. The Committee…

Boeing will furlough a “large number” of U.S. executives, managers and other staff, citing the ongoing machinist strike as the company races to preserve cash, CEO Kelly Ortberg told employees on Wednesday. The furloughs will affect tens of thousands of Boeing employees, a company spokesperson said. The plan came less than a week after Boeing’s…

Rates are going lower and so I assume anyone who bought anything at a high rate (post COVID) is going to re-finance. Who benefits from all that work? I dont mean who will sell more stuff (cars, houses, etc.) but who benefits from the massive amount of work that will be going thru the system…