Tommaso Bondi, a professor of marketing at Cornell Tech and at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, offers insight.

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OpenAI claims the Chinese startup DeepSeek used its technology to create a competing artificial intelligence model. 

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Jura Liaukonyte, professor of marketing in Cornell University’s SC Johnson College of Business, says that in today's media landscape—characterized by a plethora of streaming platforms and channel—capturing the attention of a large, unified audience at a single point in time is exceedingly challenging.

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Bitcoin has had a rough month of declines, likely driven by the Federal Reserve’s planned tightening of its monetary policies this year. Will Cong says as the Federal Reserve tightens policies, we could see a reduction in demand for Bitcoin – but adds that investors can still use crypto assets to guard against excessive inflation by diversifying their holdings across the entire crypto sector.

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Robert Hockett and Will Cong weigh in on El Salvador becoming the first country to make bitcoin ‘legal tender,’ alongside the U.S. dollar.

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On Wednesday, vaping firm Juul announced it was replacing its chief executive, Kevin Burns, with KC Crosthwaite, formerly with tobacco giant Altria. The replacement follows reports of vaping-related lung diseases and growing concerns about the firm’s advertising towards children. Hyunseob Kim, professor of finance in the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University and an expert in corporate governance says that a former tobacco executive is a natural pick given their expertise with regulators, one of Juul’s most important audiences in the foreseeable future.

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In Walmart’s first social responsibility report, released this week, the company outlined its commitment to sustainable growth and reported a few key figures, including employee compensations. Wages for Walmart’s average employee are growing, according to the report. The retail giant is also investing in training and education programs. Hyunseob Kim studies corporate finance and labor economics at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, where he focuses on the effects of corporate governance and investment on wages and productivity. Kim says that Walmart is responding to an increasingly tight labor market.

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Thomas Jungbauer, assistant professor of strategy and business economics at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, comments on news that Google is testing a censored search engine for the Chinese market.

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Tom Schryver, visiting lecturer at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, comments on Uber's new product Express Pool.

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The Federal Reserve is scheduled to wrap up its two-day meeting on Wednesday afternoon, when it will announce its latest policy decisions. While experts do not anticipate a significant shift in the central bank’s posture, many are looking for signs on how the Fed is planning for potentially high inflation in the near future. Cornell experts, Sarah Wolfolds and Shawn Mankind, weigh in on the Fed's likely posture. 

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