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When Justin Kim, co-founder and CEO of Hupo, first launched his company about four years ago, it wasn’t selling AI-powered sales coaching to banks, finance services, or insurance companies. The company originally began as Ami, a mental wellness platform focused on how people manage pressure, form habits, and change behavior over time. “I’ve always been a big sports fan – basketball, football, Formula One, MMA – and what draws me to all of them is performance. In my free time, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about what actually drives human performance. People are very different, but across sports,…

People grow houseplants for all kinds of reasons. They provide a connection to nature and can make a room feel more inviting. They’re also pretty. And if pretty is what you’re after, I’ve got some lookers for you.Some of the most striking houseplants are succulents with unusual leaves. Unlike blooms that fade, unique foliage can steal the show year-round.All succulents should be planted in well-draining potting mix, ideally one formulated specifically for cactuses and succulents, in a container with a drainage hole at the bottom. Let their soil dry out before watering them again.Krinkle KurlOne of my favorites is Krinkle…

Robin Vince President & CEO BNY Mellon, speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box at the WEF Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 16th, 2024. Adam Galici | CNBCBNY, which calls itself the world’s largest custody bank, is raising a pair of key performance targets as CEO Robin Vince says a turnaround that began when he took over three years ago is taking hold.The bank is boosting its medium-term targets for pre-tax margin and return on tangible common equity by 5 percentage points each, to 38% and 28% respectively, according to materials provided by the bank.Vince, a former Goldman Sachs executive who…

Adventure travel leader, G Adventures, has announced a new partnership with Approach Guides providing travel advisors free access to designed, co-brandable content experiences.This investment in new technology, currently available for travel advisors will better support the trade community, making it easier for advisors to sell G-Adventures travel itineraries. “G Adventures always has its finger on the pulse of what advisors need to be successful,” said Steve Lima, VP of growth for US and Latin America for G Adventures in a statement. “This partnership with Approach Guides is an investment in making marketing easier, faster and more effective. Advisors will have…

Artificial intelligence is moving quickly into drug discovery as pharmaceutical and biotech companies look for ways to cut years off R&D timelines and increase the chances of success amid rising cost. More than 200 startups are now competing to weave AI directly into research workflows, attracting growing interest from investors. Converge Bio is the latest company to ride that shift, securing new capital as competition in the AI-driven drug discovery space heats up. The Boston- and Tel Aviv–based startup, which helps pharma and biotech companies develop drugs faster using generative AI trained on molecular data, has raised a $25 million…

A Delta Air Lines Boeing 767-332(ER).Joan Valls | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesDelta Air Lines’ earnings could jump more than 20% this year from 2025 thanks to robust travel demand, particularly at the high end of the market, and potentially reach a record, CEO Ed Bastian said.Delta on Tuesday forecast adjusted earnings per share of between $6.50 and $7.50 this year, compared with analysts’ estimate for $7.25 a share.The carrier, the first airline to report quarterly results this year, forecast an increase in sales of as much as 7% in the first three months of 2026 and adjusted earnings of between…

Brazil’s competition watchdog has ordered WhatsApp to put on hold its policy that bars third-party AI companies from using its business API to offer chatbots on the app. The agency has also started an investigation against the company to determine if the policy is anti-competitive. “According to the investigations, there is possible anti-competitive conduct of an exclusive nature that arises from the application of the New WhatsApp Terms (“WhatsApp Business Solution Terms”) imposed by Meta to regulate the access and offer, by providers of artificial intelligence tools, of its technologies to WhatsApp users,” the Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica (CADE) said. CADE said it would investigate if Meta’s terms are exclusionary to competitors and…

Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., during the America Business Forum in Miami, Florida, US, on Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesJPMorgan Chase on Tuesday posted fourth quarter results that topped expectations on better-than-expected revenue from the bank’s trading operations. Here’s what the company reported:Adjusted earnings: $5.23 a share vs. $5 consensus estimate from LSEGRevenue: $46.77 billion vs. $46.201 billion expectedBanks have enjoyed a Goldilocks-type environment for the last few quarters, with a rebound in Wall Street trading and investment banking, falling interest rates, stable consumer credit and deregulation providing…

Amazon offered a bit more insight into how it sees its AI platform competing in the real world at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week. Namely, Amazon plans to leverage the extensive footprint its devices already have in the home as well as consumers’ existing familiarity with its Alexa brand. “Ninety-seven percent of devices we ever shipped can support Alexa+,” noted Amazon Alexa and Echo VP Daniel Rausch in an interview at CES. He said the latest figures Amazon has on hand indicate the company has sold more than 600 million devices, and the “vast majority” will…

Ever since Ronald Reagan was president, the Environmental Protection Agency has assigned a value to human life. If you think too long about it, it’s a bit crass, but the upshot was to provide some cost-benefit analysis of pollution controls. Lowering pollution can prolong human life, so if the health benefits of reducing pollution outweighed the costs, then there was an economic argument to be made in favor of those reductions.  Every administration since has assigned some value to human life when determining how to regulate air pollution. The Trump administration is planning to throw decades of accepted practice out…