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The Red Raiders chased a transfer star, fought to keep him eligible and built a contender around splashy spending. Meanwhile, Will Hammond kept showing up, kept believing, and quietly won the team.

LPL Financial opened its Focus 2026 conference in San Diego this week with a clear message for the more than 6,000 financial advisors and industry professionals in attendance: the firm is betting big ...

David Silver is a billionaire, sort of. His stake in Ineffable Intelligence—the artificial intelligence lab he founded—is worth an ungodly fortune. But he stands to collect none of that money himself.

A new chatbot called ChatTJB has been making waves in San Francisco after advertising itself as the “leading chat interface powered by AI” — only for curious users to discover that the supposed ...

Rich DeMuro visits the Braille Institute to learn how the blind and low vision community is using Meta’s AI smart glasses to read menus, translate text, identify nearby objects and navigate everyday ...

A news flash that won’t surprise anyone: Screen time is bad for young kids. The latest such reminder came from a systematic review conducted by a consortium of British researchers, who found that more ...

The S&P 500 industrials sector has a forward price-to-earnings ratio above 30, well above its long-term average. Industrial stocks are benefitting from the AI data center buildout and related power ...

You’ve gotta hand it to tech bros, they sure know how to try to take something terrifying and spin it in a way that makes their tech sound whimsical and exciting. Inevitably, they fail to shift the ...

Fox News political analyst Guy Benson is a dad again — and the conservative commentator’s growing family is drawing congratulations from some of the biggest names in Republican media circles. Benson, ...

Technology, Media, and Telecom stocks now control nearly half the S&P 500, sitting 9 points above the dot-com bubble's peak concentration. Tech sector capex surged 876% since 2019, raising free cash ...

George Orwell famously wrote that it takes a constant struggle to see what's in front of one's nose. That may be truer than ever. These days we barely register things that 20 years ago would've seemed ...