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‘I want her to choose the best strategy’: My wife’s Social Security is just $900. Should she claim spousal benefit at 62?

“She was a teacher at a school district, so didn’t put much into Social Security.”

Shein faces existential threat as tariffs hit low-price model, putting new focus on services

Shein has won over consumers with its low prices but is now seeing shoppers flee after new tariffs and changing …

House Dems call for AI companies to testify on recent hacks: ‘Clear risk to safety’

A group of House Democrats is calling on leaders of Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies to testify in Congress …

OpenAI tightens controls on its new model over cybersecurity risks, as AI security debate intensifies

The AI lab said it could not rule out a new model had reached "Critical" capability, meaning it could launch …

The U.S. economy is shedding jobs. Why that’s good news for stocks.

A weaker labor market may mean the Federal Reserve can cut interest rates amid benign wage inflation, says 22V.

Santoli: Stocks return to their winning ways. But was July's brief pain enough to satisfy the market gods?

The stock market's winning history – a hit rate of 100% over any past 20-year span - is well understood. …

Mark Zuckerberg takes on the AI doomers in 6,500-word essay

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a response to the gloom about artificial intelligence coming from both inside and outside …

Trump’s foreign licensing business booms to $59.5 million as Gulf developers pay

Nearly two-thirds of Trump’s foreign licensing fees came from two Gulf developers, in the UAE and Qatar, including one pursuing …

Is $1 million enough for a household to retire? The answer keeps changing.

The Moneyist: “Some readers — and couples — would be grateful to retire on half that amount.”

World's biggest chipmaker TSMC's sales surge 45% amid buoyant AI demand

TSMC makes chips for Big Tech customers like Nvidia and Google, so the firm's financial figures are closely watched as …

This is the hottest ZIP Code where homes are selling fast

This housing market is not for the weak, observes one buyer in America’s hottest ZIP Code.

These analysts say Elon Musk’s ambitious AI plans for SpaceX should be taken seriously, thanks to Microsoft

If Elon Musk can expand its compute capacity swiftly, Microsoft could be perfectly positioned to monetize this “one-in-a-generation opportunity”