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Good morning! A famous YouTuber canceled a reservation for a Tesla Roadster nearly eight years after he made it. Marques Brownlee, also known as MKBHD, discussed on his podcast why he dropped one of his two reservations for the car and the challenging process he faced getting some of his $50,000 deposit back.Another friendly reminder to subscribe to our upcoming money newsletter, First Trade.In today’s big story, fintech wunderkind Charlie Javice didn’t get much leniency on her prison sentence. That could say a lot about future deals in the space.What’s on deck:Markets: How to cash in on M&A’s revival.Tech: The…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — After years of failed attempts, Republicans in Nebraska have enacted a measure that uses taxpayer dollars to pay for private school tuition, despite voters repealing a newly-passed state law that would fund private school tuition with state dollars.Republican Gov. Jim Pillen signed an executive order opting the state into a federal school choice tax credit program included in President Donald Trump’s tax and budget bill passed in July.“I am not opting this in, I am cannonballing it into the state of Nebraska,” Pillen said as he announced the move Monday at Catholic school in Lincoln. He…

Nvidia rival Cerebras Systems raised a new round of private financing despite its previous plan be trading on the public market by 2025.   Silicon Valley-based Cerebras announced it raised a $1.1 billion Series G round on Tuesday that valued the AI hardware company at $8.1 billion. The round was co-led by Fidelity and Atreides Management with participation from Tiger Global, Valor Equity Partners, and 1789 Capital, among others.   Cerebras, which was founded in 2015 and offers chips, hardware systems and cloud services specifically designed for AI, has now raised almost $2 billion in its 10-year history. Its most recent prior financing was a $250 million Series F round in 2021 that was led by Alpha Wave Ventures and valued the company at…

You might best know chromium as a bright, shiny metal used in bathroom and kitchen fittings. But is it also essential for your health?In a form known as trivalent chromium, this metal is included in multivitamin pills and sold as a dietary supplement that companies claim can improve athletic performance and help regulate blood sugar.I’m a biochemistry professor with a long-standing interest in how metals function in biology. Although health agencies in the United States and other countries recommend chromium as a dietary requirement, eight decades of research have resulted in slim evidence that people derive any significant health benefits…

AI-powered app development is really taking off, and smartphone maker Nothing seems intent on capitalizing on the bandwagon: the company on Tuesday revealed Playground, an AI tool that lets users create apps with simple text prompts and deploy them to a platform of sorts known as Essential Apps. Currently all Playground lets you build are widgets, like a flight tracker, a next meeting brief, or a virtual pet, from scratch using text prompts, or customize an existing app on the Essential Apps platform to your purposes. More technical users can modify the code to fine-tune how an app works. Nothing…

Chase DeLauter, an outfielder with no major league experience, was included on the Cleveland Guardians’ roster for their Wild Card Series against the Detroit Tigers.Selected 16th in the 2022 amateur draft, DeLauter hit .278 with five homers and 21 RBIs in 34 games at Triple-A Columbus. He turns 24 on Oct. 8.DeLauter was sidelined by injuries for much of this year. He was hurt during a pregame workout at spring training on Feb. 28 and had bilateral core muscle surgery on March 4 for a sports hernia.After eight games at the rookie-level Arizona Complex League Guardians, DeLauter played his first…

Adtech company Vibe is trying to grab a slice of the growing streaming TV advertising pie by targeting brands that have never advertised on TV before.Vibe focuses on “performance marketers” who tend to buy ads on Instagram — think direct-to-consumer beauty brands or gaming apps. For those advertisers, advertising on TV can feel overwhelming and expensive, compared to spinning up a social media campaign in a few clicks.Founded four years ago, its self-service TV ad buying platform has been growing quickly. The company says it’s worked with more than 5,000 advertisers — from large companies, to app developers, and small…

The Minnesota Wild signed star left wing Kirill Kaprizov to an eight-year, $136 million extension on Tuesday, giving him the richest contract in NHL history.The 28-year-old Kaprizov will count $17 million against the salary cap beginning next season, through 2034. That’s the highest annual average salary of any player since the league’s cap era began in 2005, surpassing Edmonton’s Leon Draisaitl at $112 million over eight years, a $14 million annual average. Alex Ovechkin’s 13-year, $124 million contract signed with Washington in 2008 was previously the highest total value.“We never wanted to entertain Kirill not being here,” general manager Bill…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Lawyers for the Des Moines public schools leader detained by immigration authorities have asked an immigration court to put deportation proceedings on hold.Attorney Alfredo Parrish said his law firm filed the request for stay with the federal immigration court in Omaha on behalf of Superintendent Ian Roberts. Parrish did not elaborate on the filing, which was made under seal, but said his law firm planned a news conference later Tuesday.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained Roberts last week, saying the native of Guyana was living and working in the country illegally. A state board…

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Rory McIlroy didn’t get it quite right when he said winning the Ryder Cup on the road was one of the greatest accomplishments in golf. He left out “for the Americans.”McIlroy offered this observation a month before the 2023 matches in Rome, and it made perfect sense. The Americans had gone 30 years since last winning the Ryder Cup on European soil. Does anyone think it will be any easier two years from now in Ireland?Yes, it had been since 2012 that Europe won away from home. But that’s only two road losses. One was at…