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Veteran Spanish centre-back Sergio Ramos, 39, on Tuesday announced that he will not renew with Liga MX club Monterrey.In an Instagram post, Ramos, who joined the club in February, bid a fond farewell to the club and the league.”Saying goodbye is never easy. A chapter that began full of hope in February is coming to an end, a chapter that allowed me to discover a country, a city, a style of football… and that leaves me with many new experiences and, above all, many friends,” he wrote.Editor’s Picks”I will forever be proud to have worn the Rayados captain’s armband, to…

Slack CEO Denise Dresser during TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, Oct. 29, 2024.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesOpenAI on Tuesday announced that it’s tapped Slack CEO Denise Dresser as its chief revenue officer. Dresser will oversee the artificial intelligence startup’s global revenue strategy across both customer success and enterprise, OpenAI said in a release. After spending more than a decade as an executive at Salesforce, Dresser was named Slack’s chief executive in 2023. Salesforce acquired the messaging company for more than $27 billion in 2020.”I’ve spent my career helping scale category-defining platforms, and I’m looking forward to bringing that…

President Donald Trump’s decision to let U.S. tech giant Nvidia sell more advanced semiconductors to China is getting pushback from some Republicans wary of giving Beijing an edge in the global race to AI dominance.The agreement, which Trump announced in a Truth Social post Monday evening, would allow Nvidia to sell its H200 artificial intelligence chips to China on the condition that the U.S. government gets 25% of the sales.The H200 chips aren’t Nvidia’s most advanced, but are more powerful than the company’s H20s, which were previously developed specifically for the China market.The White House, over the summer, gave approval…

Mutual fund companies are increasing access to a type of investment that provides guaranteed income for life. Last week, mutual fund firm and index investing pioneer Vanguard announced a new line of target-date mutual funds, which will allow shareholders to use some of their retirement savings to buy an annuity, an instrument sold by insurance companies that guarantees the policy holder a certain amount of regular income over a set period of time.The mutual funds are expected to be available in 2026, the Wall Street Journal reports, and will only be available within defined-contribution plans, such as 401(k)s. Vanguard joins…

FILE PHOTO: Instacart shopper, Loralyn Geggatt makes a delivery to a customer’s home in Falmouth, MA on April 7, 2020.David L. Ryan | Boston Globe | Getty ImagesGrocery delivery app Instacart uses artificial intelligence pricing tools that have caused many U.S. shoppers to pay higher or lower prices for identical products from the same store, according to a new study. The study, released Tuesday by Groundwork Collaborative, a progressive advocacy group, Consumer Reports and news organization More Perfect Union, enlisted 437 shoppers across four cities to add the same items to their carts within the Instacart app from the same…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal agents used pepper spray to push through an angry crowd that blocked their vehicles as they checked identifications in a heavily Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis on Tuesday, amid the Trump administration’s ongoing crackdown targeting the community.City Council Member Jamal Osman, a Somali American who represents the neighborhood, witnessed the confrontation, as did an Associated Press videographer. Minnesota’s Somali community — the largest in the U.S. — has been on edge the past couple of weeks since President Donald Trump said in a social media post Thanksgiving night that he was terminating Temporary Protected Status for them.It…

You’ll need to earn close to $200,000 a year to be within the top 10% of U.S. household incomes, though the exact threshold depends on where you live. A recent Visa analysis calculated the income and net worth households need to be considered “affluent” across the U.S., which the report defines as households in the top 10% in terms of either income or net worth. Visa based the thresholds on 2024 U.S. Census survey data.Nationally, those thresholds are about $210,000 a year in income or a net worth of roughly $1.8 million. Net worth is a measure of a household’s…

KUWAIT: The interior ministry on Tuesday urged drivers to exercise caution and adhere to traffic safety guidelines during the ongoing rainfall. In a press statement, the ministry emphasized avoiding sudden braking, maintaining safe distances between vehicles, monitoring weather alerts, ensuring tyre safety, using windshield wipers, driving below speed limits and refraining from driving through flooded areas. Drivers were also advised against using mobile phones while on the road and instructed to call the emergency number (112) if assistance is required.The meteorological department forecast rain of varying intensity, occasionally thundery, across the country until Thursday, with possible fog forming in some…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military flew a pair of fighter jets over the Gulf of Venezuela on Tuesday in what appears to be the closest American warplanes have come to the South American country’s airspace since the start of the Trump administration’s pressure campaign.Public flight tracking websites showed a pair of U.S. Navy F/A-18 fighter jets fly over the Gulf — a body of water bounded by Venezuela and only about 150 miles at its widest point — and spend more than 30 minutes flying over water. A U.S. defense official confirmed that a pair of jets conducted a…

Investors say that Walmart ‘s transfer of its common stock listing to Nasdaq is emblematic of its intention to be viewed as a tech-enabled, e-commerce company rather than a traditional discount retailer. On Tuesday, Walmart transferred its primary listing to the technology-heavy Nasdaq from the New York Stock Exchange, where it has traded since 1972 — making it the largest company to ever make the move. The Bentonvile, Arkansas-behemoth will keep the same “WMT” trading symbol it’s had for the past 50 years. In an interview with CNBC’s ” Squawk Box ” on Tuesday morning, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon cited…