Microsoft reports $65.6 billion in quarterly sales as investors look to know if AI spending worth it

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Microsoft’s Differential Transformer cancels attention noise in LLMs

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Tech - The New York Times - October 21

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World - Financial Times - October 18

China set to post slowest quarterly growth this year: analysts

World - Yahoo News - October 16

This $350 Oura Ring 4 Tracks Your Sleep. Is It Worth the Splurge?

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Tech - The New York Times - October 18

Is a fixed-rate HELOC worth it now? Here's what some experts think.

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Tariff surge would damage global growth, IMF warns

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Business - Financial Times - October 22

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NatWest Lifts Guidance Again After Quarterly Profit Beat

The U.K. high-street bank raised its revenue and profit outlook for the second time this year after its third-quarter results topped market expectations, lifting shares to an over 13-year high.

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