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Google Research Since the release of DALL-E 2 at the end of 2022, text-to-image generators have been all the rage with plenty of worthy competitors entering the market. Now, over a year later, we are at the dawn of a new technology: AI video generation.  On Tuesday, Google Research released a research paper on Lumiere, a text-to-video diffusion model that can create highly realistic video from text prompts and other images.  Also: The best AI image generators of 2024: DALL-E 2 and… Source link

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Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) continued to plummet on Thursday, dropping 16% in midday trading after the company reported a $3.42 billion loss in the second quarter, partly due to obstacles related to its recent merger. “We knew it was going to be messy, but this was pretty awful,” Geetha Ranganathan, Bloomberg Intelligence senior media analyst, told Yahoo Finance. The company expects 2022 adjusted EBITDA to come in between $9 billion and $9.5 billion, a decline from previous forecasts of $10… Source link

The brutal 2022 for stocks amid rising interest rates and soaring inflation has been particularly rough for technology-based growth stocks, and that could be an opportunity for longer term investors. “Every rally we’ve seen in tech has been met with harder selling in a lower low,” Jefferies Equity Research Analyst Brent Thill told Yahoo Finance (video above). “Right now, it feels pretty, pretty awful, which is a great sign.” For investors with a three- to five-year window, he added, now is a… Source link

The meme stock craze — which multiplied the value of beleaguered companies like GameStop (GME) and squeezed hedge funds that bet against them — became a symbol of the populist fight between small-time traders and Wall Street juggernauts. But the most visible figures associated with the movement on behalf of everyday traders, which took off in January 2021, shared something in common: their gender. Keith Gill, a day trader who rose to prominence through his YouTube persona “Roaring Kitty,”… Source link

Facebook (FB) shares took a hit Tuesday following news Monday that it’s seeing headwinds from Apple’s (AAPL) recent iOS privacy changes and waning interest among younger consumers. The news came after Facebook reported earnings that beat on profit but missed on revenue. While the company’s stock was down nearly 5% just before 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, MKM Partners analyst Rohit Kulkarni told Yahoo Finance Live that the social media giant’s earnings were actually better than feared. During… Source link

The once red-hot SPAC market continues to be touch and go, at best.  Third quarter to-date, an average of six SPAC [special purpose acquisition company] IPOs have raised $1.2 billion in total capital each week, according to fresh data out of Goldman Sachs on Thursday. That pace is down sharply from the boom period seen in the first quarter, when an average of 21 SPACs raising $6 billion in capital came to market each week.  Goldman points to increased regulatory concerns — in part fueled… Source link

As the proposed $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill continues to receive pushback in the Senate—even from within party lines—looming tax hikes in 2022 have become an ever-increasing concern. According to Kevin Simpson, Capital Wealth Planning founder and chief investment officer, tax increases next year is the most likely scenario. “I’m pretty certain we’re going to get tax hikes next year in 2022,” Simpson told Yahoo Finance Live. “None of us like that but we’ve got to pay for a… Source link

Billionaire “Bond King” Jeffrey Gundlach says the stimulus and the Federal Reserve’s low interest rates have “been a very deep punch bowl spiked pretty heavily with 100-proof liquor,” and “once this party ends, the hangover is going to be in the form of a sharp drop in economic growth.” Gundlach, the founder and CEO of $137 billion DoubleLine Capital, explained that the economic picture in the U.S. is “very hard to divine” because of the government’s intervention. “It’s like pushing on like a… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Call it the Pretty Big Short. Michael Burry, whose huge, wildly profitable bets against the housing bubble were made famous in “The Big Short,” is wagering that long-term U.S. Treasuries will fall. His Scion Asset Management held $280 million of puts on the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF at the end of June, according to a regulatory filing released this week, an increase from $172 million three months earlier. The options contracts would make money if TLT, as the… Source link