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Suzy Chase has always been active and, as the host of a recipe podcast, the 58-year-old is thoughtful about what she eats. Although Chase says she struggled to maintain her healthy weight for most of her life, by her 50s she had a solid routine in place.But then the COVID-19 pandemic shut down her beloved workout classes, right on time for menopause to set in. Movement restricted and hormones akimbo, Chase’s weight crept back up. “Menopause and the pandemic collided at the same time that my fitness studio shut down,” she tells Yahoo. Even after the pandemic ebbed and the…

Tech investor Ross Gerber said the AI boom is nothing like the dot-com bubble — and Warren Buffett was wrong to slash his Apple stake.The cofounder and CEO of Gerber Kawasaki Wealth and Investment Management told Business Insider that he “traded through” the internet mania around the turn of the millennium. The AI craze “just isn’t comparable,” he said.The S&P 500’s 20%-plus returns in 2023 and 2024 may seem unsustainable, but the benchmark index delivered similar returns for five years from 1995 through 1999, Gerber said. He started his career with “perfect timing” in 1994, he added.When Magnificent Seven companies…

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain’s foreign minister has said he would support the expulsion of Israel Premier Tech from the Spanish Vuelta after the cycling team was targeted by a pro-Palestinian protest that disrupted the race.Spain’s top diplomat, José Manuel Albares, said late Thursday he would “understand and be in favor” of the Israeli team being removed, while adding his government doesn’t have the power to do so. He made the statement in response to a question by a journalist on Spain’s national radio RNE.“We have to send a message to Israel and the Israeli society that Europe and Israel…

xAI is opening an office in Seattle, and offering salaries as high $440,000.In an X post late on Thursday, Elon Musk’s AI startup said it was setting up a new office in the West Coast city, adding to existing sites in San Francisco, London, and New York.The company’s website is advertising three technical staff job openings that can be based in the new office, including positions working on xAI’s video and image generators.All three roles advertise annual salaries ranging from $180,000 to $440,000.Tech companies have been offering ever-larger salaries to AI workers during a competitive AI race. At OpenAI, technical…

Artificial intelligence has become corporate America’s favorite buzzword — but the payoff hasn’t arrived yet, according to Goldman Sachs.In the second quarter, a record 58% of S&P 500 companies mentioned AI on their earnings calls, Goldman analysts wrote in a Thursday note.Companies are quick to tout new AI tools for customer support, software coding, and marketing, but “the share of companies quantifying the impact of AI on earnings today remains limited,” they wrote.Few companies tied AI directly to profits, echoing a McKinsey survey showing more than 80% of firms said generative AI hasn’t meaningfully affected their bottom line.Still, that hasn’t…

Tom Brady, Kurt Warner, Russell Wilson and Ben Roethlisberger won Super Bowls in their second season in the NFL.Several other quarterbacks took big leaps in Year 2. Joe Burrow and Brock Purdy led their teams to conference championships. So did Dan Marino and Colin Kaepernick.Patrick Mahomes went to the AFC title game, losing to Brady. Mark Sanchez went there in his first two seasons. Carson Wentz finished third in MVP voting in his second season despite missing the final three games and playoffs.Seven sophomore quarterbacks enter Week 1 as starters, including six who were among the first 12 picks in…

NFL RedZone will no longer have seven hours of commercial-free football.The channel will still have seven hours of NFL action from the early- and late-afternoon Sunday windows, beginning at 1 p.m. EDT, but there will be ads airing regularly for the first time this season.“I hope everyone watches and they’ll still have the same RedZone feels that they’ve had for 16 years,” host Scott Hanson said Thursday night in a phone interview. The addition of ads, though, is not expected to impact the show since some of the ads could occur when all of the games are on a commercial…

SAO PAULO (AP) — Taylor Swift is very likely not aware of it, but she’s considered a good luck charm for the Brazilian soccer team hosting Friday’s game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Los Angeles Chargers. The unlikely connection between the pop superstar — whose fiancé is Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce — and one of the most popular clubs in soccer-mad Brazil lies in the release date of her albums dating to 2006. Corinthians has gone unbeaten in all but one game played right before each album release since then and all but one right after. Kansas City…

Emma Heming Willis says she mistook Bruce Willis’ early dementia symptoms for marital issues.”Conversations weren’t really aligning anymore, and our relationship started to shift,” she said.Last month, she revealed she had moved Willis to a one-story home nearby where he has round-the-clock care.Before Bruce Willis was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, Emma Heming Willis says she mistook his early symptoms as a sign that their marriage was in trouble.”It’s very gray to know where Bruce stopped and where his disease kicked in. I started noticing his stutter started to come back, but I never in a million years thought that was…

X’s product head said there’s a playbook for getting rich on the platform.Nikita Bier, who became the product head at X in July, took to the platform on Thursday to share his tips on earning money on X.He said that users should think about one subject matter they’re an expert on, and to keep posting about it. “It can be anything: plumbing, menswear, Indian food, furniture, social apps, whatever,” he said.”Post one unexpected insight you picked from your experience in that area. Keep it under 5 sentences. Do this every day for 6 months,” he added.Bier said that if someone…