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A view of Levi Strauss & Co. headquarters on July 8, 2026, in San Francisco, California.Heather Diehl | Getty ImagesLevi Strauss beat Wall Street’s quarterly expectations on the top and bottom lines on Wednesday, leading the retailer to increase its guidance and its dividend. The denim maker is now expecting full-year adjusted earnings per share to be between $1.46 and $1.52, up from a prior range of between $1.42 and $1.48. At the high end, that’s ahead of expectations of $1.50 per share, according to LSEG. Levi also raised its top-line outlook and is now expecting full-year sales to rise between 7%…

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“We basically work from the assumption that if we want data, then we need to obtain it ourselves,” Sapiezynski said of their account cloning approach. “Even if we did, for example, want to use the official TikTok researcher API, none of the user agency is covered there. You can see what content is available, but you cannot see individual timelines that will tell you how the algorithm reacts to a particular user watching or not watching a particular video. Similarly, with the European Union’s researcher data access, all of this data can only be accessed aggregated and not from a…

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The next leg of the artificial intelligence boom may not be built entirely on Earth. SpaceX has paved the way for another potential avenue in space technology: compute capacity in orbit. Orbital computing might even be more credible than AI data centers built on Earth, based on four structural trends, Morgan Stanley researchers found, citing tighter constraints on land-based AI data centers, falling launch costs, advances in optical satellite networking and the rising volume of data generated in space. Orbital compute is a virtual data center with server racks in space supported by solar arrays, cooling radiators and laser-linked satellite…

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SpaceX stock closed at $148 on Wednesday, below the company’s first trading price of $150 per share for a second day in a row.Elon Musk’s aerospace and defense contractor was included in the Nasdaq 100 index on Tuesday, less than a month after its stock market debut on June 12. The rapid inclusion in the Nasdaq 100 was due, in part, to the exchange’s revised rules for new public companies to become part of that widely-tracked benchmark.The SpaceX inclusion also required index funds and exchange-traded funds that are tied to the benchmark to buy shares of the company in order…

After the announcement that Reform UK leader Nigel Farage would quit his Clacton constituency and stand in a by-election, the serial election candidate Count Binface posted online: “Game on, Nige.”Jonathan Harvey, the man who dresses as a bin, spoke to the BBC’s Justin Webb and Nick Robinson on the Today programme on Wednesday.He is one of few people saying he will run against Farage in the contest after Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats all said they would not field candidates.”Get at least one affordable house, nationalising Adele and bring back Ceefax”, Binface told the BBC when asked about…

Michael Burry attends the premiere of “The Big Short” at Ziegfeld Theatre on Nov. 23, 2015 in New York.Dimitrios Kambouris | Getty ImagesMichael Burry of “The Big Short” fame said he bought shares of regulated sports-betting operators DraftKings and Flutter Entertainment, anticipating regulators will eventually crack down on prediction markets after competition from the upstarts pressured the stocks.Burry said Wednesday he purchased a full-sized position split roughly 60% in Flutter and 40% in DraftKings, buying Flutter at about $107 a share and DraftKings in the low $26 range. He said he could eventually increase each holding into a full standalone…

With the purse strings tightening on federal aid, more families may need to turn to private lenders to help pay for higher education. Private student loans require good credit (or a creditworthy co-signer) and offer fewer borrower protections than federal loans, but they have some upsides, too — including higher borrowing limits and a range of repayment term options.A 0.25% interest-rate reduction for enrolling in autopay is commonplace. But some of our top picks for student loan lenders come with cash-back rewards, rate discounts and other financial incentives. We’re not talking credit-card-level perks, but if you have to take on…