In many ways, Elon Musk is the world’s biggest doomsday prepper. The billionaire entrepreneur has made his fortune and reputation chasing a future bettered by technology. The flip side of his optimism…
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Here’s how much money you need to buy a $400,000 home with 8% mortgage rates
U.S. home buyers face a tough real-estate market, with the 30-year mortgage near 8%. Exactly how tough is it to buy a house these days? MarketWatch worked with Redfin to find out…
Stacking Boxes? Treating Cancer? AI Needs to Learn Physics First
Artificial intelligence has dazzled the world in the past year, largely because of large language models like ChatGPT that seemingly converse with users. But this kind of AI isn’t great at tackling…
Inside Kanye West’s troubled Adidas partnership: Tears. Rage. Thrown shoes. Even a scrawled swastika.
The ending of the partnership between the artist Kanye West, who now goes by Ye, in October 2022 appeared to come after weeks of his comments about Jewish people and Black Lives…
The 9 Most Over-the-Top Perks Companies Are Using to Bring Workers Back to the Office
AS COMPANIES TRY to lure staff members back to the office postpandemic, they are using such perks to boost morale, create a unique corporate culture and even attract new talent, “it is…
No, you don’t need to buy Costco’s $4,500, 157-piece Le Creuset cookware set
No, you don’t need to spend $4,500 on that 157-piece Le Creuset cookware set from Costco COST, -0.83%. The pricey package has become an everyone-is-talking-about-it sensation, owing largely to social media. A…
Sam Bankman-Fried Tells Jurors He Didn’t Commit Fraud
Sam Bankman-Fried made a direct appeal to jurors who will decide his fate, testifying Friday that he made mistakes large and small while running crypto exchange FTX but didn’t defraud customers out…
So you spent $1,000 on Bad Bunny concert tickets. Here’s how to recover.
You got ‘em. But at what cost? The summer and fall of 2023 have offered music fans endless opportunities to drop big dollars on concerts. Artists ranging from pop icons like Beyoncé…
Google Commits $2 Billion in Funding to AI Startup Anthropic
Google agreed to invest up to $2 billion in Anthropic, building on its earlier investment in the artificial-intelligence company and adding fuel to the race between startups trying to achieve the next…
Financial advisers make rich people richer. But is that all there is?
In 1989, author Marsha Sinetar wrote a bestselling book, “Do What You Love, The Money Will Follow.” She urges readers to pursue a career that stokes their passion. Many advisers take that…