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YouTube reportedly wants record labels to let it use famous voices for AI-generated music

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Broke

Lawsuits could disrupt laws around US broker fees, revamping how Americans buy houses

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Heard on the Block: “spot bitcoin ETF”

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Marvel’s “Spider-Man 2” broke PlayStation’s one-day sales record, selling 2.5M copies

🎶 YouTube’s AI singalong

I’m happy to do that, Dave (Jason Redmond/Getty Images)

ROBOMOP

Amazon tests humanoid robots as retailers pour $$ into automation

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Only a quarter of US households still have someone working remotely or hybrid

🤖 Amazon’s robo-workers

Hut, hut, price hike (Randy Shropshire/Getty Images)

Flex

After its biggest subscriber gain since 2020, Netflix continues to flex its pricing power

Student loan blues? Leverage the equity in your home.

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Big Banks’ earnings wrap

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The Crypto Catch-Up…

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During the pandemic, the average US family’s net worth grew 37% — the most on record

💪 Netflix flexes its gains

New Kirkland drop (Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)

Branding

Retailers are expanding store-brand offerings to nab deal-seeking shoppers

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HSBC reportedly bans texting on work phones over concerns regulators are lurking in Wall Street’s group chat

As rates soar, mortgage demand has hit its lowest level since 1995

🛒 The store-brand surge

Hope no one was on mute (Mandel Ngan/Getty Images)

Chiplomacy

Biden bars China from advanced Nvidia chips as the US closes up policy loopholes

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The Biggest Disruption To $martphones in 15 Years 🤳🏼

NBA ticket sales soar as international fans make a fast break for US sports

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The US government’s stash of 200K+ bitcoin is worth more than $5B

🚫 China’s chip dip

Bankruptcy: take one with meal (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Rite Aid files for bankruptcy as other pharmacy chains struggle with labor shortages

IProfit

Netflix takes a page from Disney’s playbook with a plan to open IRL venues

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“Minecraft” became the first video game to sell 300M copies

💊 Rite Aid’s bankruptcy pill

It’s not all Gucci (Future Publishing/Getty Images)

De-lux

Luxury brands are losing some luster as aspirational (and deep-pocketed) shoppers cut back on designer splurges

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At 2,749 pounds, the world’s heaviest pumpkin could be baked into about 700 pies

👛 The great de-luxification

Might have to switch back to paper and ink (Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

Breaking

Meta’s Threads is the latest social-media platform to move away from news

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Champagne

Delta’s summer profit soared on premium travel, but budget airlines may have a different story

APED

The Pentagon runs the top-performing school system in the US

🗞️ Meta’s bad news

Just throw ’em out (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

FEEDUP

California bans junk fees as the White House joins the fight against drip pricing

An engine the size of a basketball

Plug

The US gov’t wants EV buyers to get instant $7.5K tax credits, flattening a big speed bump

Sheconomics

Snacks Unwrapped: Claudia Goldin wins the econ Nobel Prize for her research on women’s pay

Over a quarter of holiday shoppers started buying gifts in September

🚯 Trashing junk fees

Time to start that “Infinite Jest” audiobook (Guillermo Arias/Getty Images)

LoneStuck

Thousands of cargo trucks are stuck waiting for inspections at the Texas-Mexico border

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Reopened

West Maui reopens as natural disasters and high temps take a toll on tourism

Austin, Dallas, and Houston have the highest office-vacancy rate of major US cities: 25%

🚚 Texas-border bottleneck