Anthropic CEO calls for slower AI development after security incidents

Alphabet (GOOG -1.24%)(GOOGL -1.43%) will pay its next dividend on Sept. 14 — $0.22 per share, a rate the company raised 5% in April. The payout works out to about $10.8 billion a year across about 12.2 billion shares. In June, the same tech company sold about $50 billion of new stock in a single…

By Erik Hertzberg (Bloomberg) — Canada’s trade surplus widened to its largest in four years as the country’s energy, metals and mineral sectors helped fill global supply gaps left by disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz. The country’s trade surplus hit $4.2 billion up from $3.4 billion in April, Statistics Canada reported on Tuesday. That’s…

Artificial intelligence may be changing where consumers decide what to buy before it changes where they pay for it. “We are seeing adoption for shopping, but not yet for autonomous payments,” Visa CEO Ryan McInerney said Tuesday (Sept. 8) at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference. Consumers are using large language models and other…

Investors can still achieve strong results by understanding the state of the market and doing their own due diligence, rather than relying solely on external assistance. While the majority of the national real estate market has entered a downturn, it hasn’t been all doom and gloom for investors, according to property commentator Tom Panos. On…

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Key insight: Community banks have long been reliant on — and constrained by — a handful of core-banking technology vendors. But enterprise artificial intelligence licenses offer the chance to transcend those limitations. What’s at stake: Stepping out with an enterprise AI license isn’t without risk, but it offers a path to more control within the…