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Former OpenAI Execs Secure $450 Million Funding for Google-Backed AI Venture Anthropic -- Should Microsoft Be Worried?: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/733637/artificial-intelligence.jpg
Former OpenAI Execs Secure $450 Million Funding for Google-Backed AI Venture Anthropic -- Should Microsoft Be Worried?

The artificial intelligence (AI) start-up battle is heating up.

While OpenAI, backed by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has grabbed much of the attention in the artificial intelligence industry, a team of

GlobalFoundries Believes the Semiconductor Recovery Is Here, but There's a Catch: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/733673/copy-of-jose-najarro-2023-05-23t133107927.png
GlobalFoundries Believes the Semiconductor Recovery Is Here, but There's a Catch

GlobalFoundries (NASDAQ: GFS) projects to be free-cash-flow positive this year, even with a semiconductor recovery happening slower than previously anticipated. Want to learn more about what

Is It Too Late to Buy Snowflake Stock?: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/733547/a-person-with-a-laptop-looking-at-servers-in-a-data-center.jpg
Is It Too Late to Buy Snowflake Stock?

Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW) has had quite a year so far in 2023, propelled higher by strong results to close out last year and a broader recovery by technology stocks. Share prices of the cloud-based

Sorry to Say: Claiming Social Security at 62 Could Leave Your Retirement Lacking: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/732798/senior-couple-worried-looking-at-bills-finances-debt.jpg
Sorry to Say: Claiming Social Security at 62 Could Leave Your Retirement Lacking

The folks at MassMutual surveyed people in or near retirement last year, asking 13 questions about Social Security -- and 65% of respondents either failed or got a D. That's rather concerning, since

1 Super Stock That Could Join Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet in the $1 Trillion Club: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/733395/a-digital-render-of-a-self-driving-car-stopped-at-a-cross-walk-surrounded-by-people.jpg
1 Super Stock That Could Join Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet in the $1 Trillion Club

In 1901, United States Steel became the world's first $1 billion company. But by 1955, vehicle manufacturing was the largest creator of value, with General Motors beating every other company in the

PayPal Is Using AI to Supercharge Profits: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/733635/paypal-ai-profits.png
PayPal Is Using AI to Supercharge Profits

PayPal's (NASDAQ: PYPL) profits grew in the most recent quarter, partly by keeping costs under control. Fool.com contributor and finance professor Parkev Tatevosian digs deeper into how PayPal could

Why Is B. Riley Financial's Dividend So High?: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/733391/people-in-business-environemtn-shake-hands-investment-bank-deal-making.jpg
Why Is B. Riley Financial's Dividend So High?

Dividend stocks can be an excellent source of passive income and a solid component of a diversified portfolio. High-yielding dividend stocks are particularly enticing because of the prospect of

Better Buy: Amazon vs. Costco Wholesale: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/733505/investor-using-computer-home.jpg
Better Buy: Amazon vs. Costco Wholesale

The returns from these two leading retail brands prove that you can find great investments by looking at the brands you use every day.

A $1,000 investment in Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) would have turned

Medtronic Stock: Bull vs. Bear: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/733621/health-monitoring-getty.jpg
Medtronic Stock: Bull vs. Bear

Medtronic (NYSE: MDT) is on a roll. Its shares have soared close to 15% year to date, easily outperforming the S&P 500.

But is Medtronic a stock to consider buying right now? Here are the bull and

Should You Buy This 9.2%-Yielding Dividend Stock on the Bounce?: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/733281/retired-woman-investing-laptop-401k-ira.jpg
Should You Buy This 9.2%-Yielding Dividend Stock on the Bounce?

There must be a catch. That's what most of us think when we come across something that seems almost too good to be true. 

For example, Omega Healthcare Investors (NYSE: OHI) pays a dividend that

Want Growing Passive Income? Consider Buying This Stock: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/733518/a-doctor-and-patient-at-an-appointment.jpg
Want Growing Passive Income? Consider Buying This Stock

The most reliable dividend-paying stocks all have one major trait in common: They all aim to meet the needs of the patients or customers whom they serve. As one of the largest diagnostic companies

Shopify's CFO Highlights the Strength of the Business: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/733459/its-time-to-celebrate-43.png
Shopify's CFO Highlights the Strength of the Business

Investors were concerned that after economies reopened, Shopify's (NYSE: SHOP) business would struggle. Fool.com contributor and finance professor Parkev Tatevosian explains why that hasn't been the

Comcast Stock: Buy, Sell, or Hold?: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/733501/friends-watching-movie-night-streaming.jpg
Comcast Stock: Buy, Sell, or Hold?

With talks of a bull market on the way, some investors might be wondering which sectors are worth exploring. Streaming stocks were fruitful during the worst days of the COVID-19 pandemic when people

Coca-Cola Stock: Buy, Sell, or Hold?: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/733456/three-women-drinking-cola-restaurant.jpg
Coca-Cola Stock: Buy, Sell, or Hold?

Because of how much the restaurant sector struggled during the pandemic, sales for Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) were hurting as well. But the giant drink business has now posted nine straight quarters of

3 Smart Reasons to Buy Palantir Stock: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/733526/artifical-intelligence-gettyimages-1276832742.jpg
3 Smart Reasons to Buy Palantir Stock

Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) is off to a torrid start in 2023. The popular artificial intelligence (AI) stock is already trading up more than 80% since the start of the year. 

And yet, plenty

Better Buy: Medtronic vs. Johnson & Johnson: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/733571/gettyimages-1220595235.jpg
Better Buy: Medtronic vs. Johnson & Johnson

Healthcare stocks make great additions to your portfolio at any time. You generally can count on the biggest players for a certain stability in earnings. That's because, in good times and in bad

Tesla Has a Growing Inventory Problem: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/733365/0x0-model3_20.jpg
Tesla Has a Growing Inventory Problem

Tesla's (NASDAQ: TSLA) inventory has exploded over the last year, despite the company slashing prices to increase the volume sold. In this video, Travis Hoium covers why inventory is such a big

3 Brilliant Warren Buffett Investment Strategies to Help Build Your Retirement Savings: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/733374/buffett17-tmf.jpg
3 Brilliant Warren Buffett Investment Strategies to Help Build Your Retirement Savings

Warren Buffett looks for undervalued companies with a wide economic moat. He shuns get-rich-quick investments and focuses on picking businesses rather than stocks.

The Oracle of Omaha's magic touch

Best Stock to Buy: Tesla vs. Plug Power: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/733632/its-time-to-celebrate-44.png
Best Stock to Buy: Tesla vs. Plug Power

Fool.com contributor and finance professor Parkev Tatevosian compares Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) and Plug Power (NASDAQ: PLUG) and picks his favorite stock to buy.

*Stock prices used were the afternoon

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1 Red Flag for Disney Stock Investors

The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) was shocked at the onset of the pandemic when it had to temporarily shut the turnstiles to its theme parks. Fool.com contributor and finance professor Parkev

If You Invested $3,000 in Upstart in 2022, This Is How Much You Would Have Today: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/733335/person-stocks-1.jpg
If You Invested $3,000 in Upstart in 2022, This Is How Much You Would Have Today

Artificial intelligence-assisted lender Upstart (NASDAQ: UPST) went public toward the end of 2020 and shortly after saw its stock soar into the stratosphere. Over the last year and change, the

3 Dividend King Stocks That Can Make You Money in Your Sleep: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/733454/hugging-money-peace-of-mind-sleep-at-night-financial-security.jpg
3 Dividend King Stocks That Can Make You Money in Your Sleep

If you'd like to collect regular cash payments from stocks but would also like to take a passive approach to investing, you've got options. Lots of stocks are not only generating reliable dividends

3 No-Brainer Stocks to Buy With $100 Right Now: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/732976/one-hundred-dollar-bill-cash-money-dividend-income-invest-wages-salary-getty.jpg
3 No-Brainer Stocks to Buy With $100 Right Now

It's amazing what a difference a year can make on Wall Street. In 2021, the broader market was virtually unstoppable, with all three major U.S. stock indexes seemingly notching one new high after

Got $1,000? Buy These Hot Growth Stocks Before They Take Off: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/733398/man-in-specs-holding-a-phone-and-looking-at-a-chart-on-a-laptop.jpg
Got $1,000? Buy These Hot Growth Stocks Before They Take Off

The past year has been terrible for growth stocks as surging inflation, high interest rates, and fears of an economic slowdown led investors to park their funds in safer assets, which explains why

HSA Limits Are Getting a Major Boost in 2024. Here's Why It Pays to Max Out.: https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/733659/man-30s-smiling-laptop-gettyimages-1181035364.jpg
HSA Limits Are Getting a Major Boost in 2024. Here's Why It Pays to Max Out.

Healthcare is an expense that seems to burden Americans at just about any age, which is why it's important to have money on hand to pay for it. That's where health savings accounts, or HSAs, come