SEC Small Business Advisory Committee to Explore Modernizing Market Access

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The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee announced that it will hold a meeting on Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 10 a.m. to explore ways to modernize public market access and encourage IPOs and small public company capital formation. The meeting will be open to the public and held at the SEC’s headquarters at […]

Meta Muse Image AI generator raises Instagram scraping, consent, and privacy concerns

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Meta has launched Muse Image, an AI image generator from Meta Superintelligence Labs. Critics and users raise concerns that the tool can pull photos from public Instagram accounts via prompt tags, with opt-in enabled by default. Experts cite consent, data privacy, image-scraping, and deepfake risks, despite watermark safeguards and Meta’s stated user controls. Business Updated: […]

EPFO rolls out upgraded CITES platform, FY26 PF interest by July 15 | Finance News

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The government on Wednesday rolled out the upgraded Centralised IT Enabled Services (CITES 2.01) platform for the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), migrating about 340 million member accounts from over 120 decentralised databases to a unified national system.   The upgraded platform is expected to significantly improve claim processing, service delivery and member […]

Best Tech Stocks Right Now • Updated Daily • Benzinga

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Invest in the best tech stocks today with Webull or Robinhood. The technology sector is made up of companies that operate in the semiconductor, artificial intelligence (AI), software, computer hardware, and other industries related to information technology. This sector includes some of the world’s most well-known and largest companies, such as Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and […]

The billable hour is a trust contract. AI just broke the terms

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A tax partner finishes researching a complex ruling for a client. Work that used to take a senior associate four or five hours now takes 11 minutes. She sends the answer to the client, then looks at her timesheet and stops. Processing Content Most people will frame this as a billing problem. No adjustment to […]

EPFO portal revamp: 10 changes in PF claims, withdrawals and transfers every member should know

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The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has moved its entire member database to a centralised platform under the Centralised IT Enabled Services (CITES) project, Union Labour and Employment Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Wednesday. The move is aimed at making EPFO services faster, transparent and user-friendly. According to Mandaviya, the CITES project modernises EPFO’s service […]

Employers Plan to Hire in Second Half of 2026, but Nearly Half Can’t Fill Open Roles

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Express Employment Professionals-Harris Poll: Growing workloads, newly created positions and turnover are driving demand through year-end. OKLAHOMA CITY, July 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Employers are heading into the second half of 2026 with plans to hire, but many are still struggling to find the workers they need. A new Express Employment Professionals-Harris Poll survey found […]

Global Market: Euro zone bond yields hit near one-month high as oil surge fuels ECB rate hike bets

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Euro zone government bond yields climbed to their highest levels in nearly a month on Wednesday as a sharp jump in oil prices heightened inflation concerns and prompted investors to increase bets on further interest rate hikes by the European Central Bank, according to Reuters. Germany’s benchmark 10-year government bond yield rose 5 basis points […]

SpaceX Readies Expansion of Grok AI Model

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SpaceX is expanding access to its latest AI model after positive feedback in beta testing. Grok 4.5 will become available to the public Thursday (July 9), SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wrote in a post on the company-owned social media platform X early Wednesday (July 8).  “It is an Opus-class model, but faster, more token-efficient and […]

How to Protect Yourself From Credit Card Theft

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Last fall, I received an email that appeared to be from my web host. The email claimed that there was a problem with my payment information and asked me to update it. I clicked on the link in the email and entered my credit card number, thinking that a recent change I’d made to my […]