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While OpenAI hasn’t yet settled on a way to implement ads for its blockbuster chatbot, an early screenshot the company showed off during its announcement late last year indicates that free-tier users will likely be painfully aware that the company is trying to sell them something.—
Victor Tangermann,
Futurism,
5 Feb. 2026 -
The beatdown on Alphabet shares came despite better-than-forecast revenue growth that indicates the company’s advertising sales are in no way being cannibalized by consumer adoption of AI, including its own Gemini AI chatbot and its AI Mode in Google Search.—
Jim Edwards,
Fortune,
5 Feb. 2026
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Their premise is that international-relations scholars are flailing in part because they’re trained to think of their field, as its name implies, as affairs between and among states.—
Andreas Kluth,
Mercury News,
10 Feb. 2026
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Analyst Robert Mollins’ price target of $5,440 implies an upside of 28%.—
Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
10 Feb. 2026
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The sheer pervasiveness of lopsided household labor suggests that this problem cannot be explained by a few individual bad actors.—
Jelena Kecmanovic,
CNN Money,
7 Feb. 2026
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Folarin’s haste in taking his sons suggests trouble.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
6 Feb. 2026
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Hart also shared that staying hydrated has been a challenge for her over the years, joking that her husband, musician Mark Wilkerson, notices her dislike for drinking water.—
Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
7 Feb. 2026
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Crockett notices who isn’t there, too.—
Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
3 Feb. 2026
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The website Seyvillas mentions there are several fruit stands as well as a restaurant and toilets nearby.—
Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Feb. 2026
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As with the Novartis commercial, neither Spencer nor Vergara mentions that Boehringer Ingelheim’s drug Jardiance is approved to treat patients who score high on that particular test.—
Damian Garde,
STAT,
5 Feb. 2026
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He’s best known for breaking up that colossus, which is spurring speculation that PayPal’s board intends to sell off segments of the firm’s business.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
10 Feb. 2026
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Berryman plans to use her share to buy a house, and her brother intends to pay off his car, officials said.—
Mark Price,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Hints (at).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hints%20%28at%29. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
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