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Shayne Coplan, chief executive officer of Polymarket, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesMajor League Baseball on Thursday announced it was naming Polymarket its official prediction market partner. The association also signed a memorandum of understanding with Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Michael Selig.According to the announcement, Polymarket and its brokers will gain exclusive access to MLB logos and official data and receive “brand exposure” across league events. The MLB said the agreement will include a “comprehensive integrity framework.””Polymarket is about…

The Rivian R2 is on display during the 2025 Los Angeles Auto Show at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Nov. 23, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. Josh Lefkowitz | Getty ImagesUber Technologies plans to invest up to $1.25 billion in electric vehicle maker Rivian Automotive as part of a deal to deploy up to 50,000 robotaxis in several countries through 2031, the companies announced Thursday.The tie-up includes expectations for Uber, or its fleet partners, to purchase 10,000 autonomous versions of Rivian’s upcoming R2 electric vehicle, with the option to buy up to 40,000 more robotaxis beginning in 2030, according…

A version of this article first appeared in the CNBC Property Play newsletter with Diana Olick. Property Play covers new and evolving opportunities for the real estate investor, from individuals to venture capitalists, private equity funds, family offices, institutional investors and large public companies. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox. Barely four years after investors fled commercial real estate funds, due to fast-rising interest rates, some are now piling back in, as they rotate out of the once-hot private credit play . Investments in non-traded, publicly registered REITs went from $33.2 billion in 2022 to $5.7…

Key tips for a financial spring cleaning – CBS News Watch CBS News CBS News business analyst Jill Schlesinger breaks down some key tips as people clean before spring and as they prepare their taxes. (Sponsored by AT&T Business) Source link

Eli Lilly on Thursday said its next-generation obesity drug retatrutide cleared its first late-stage trial on Type 2 diabetes patients, helping them manage their blood sugar levels and lose weight. The drug lowered hemoglobin A1c — a key measure of blood sugar levels — by an average of 1.7% to 2% across different doses at 40 weeks compared to placebo, meeting the study’s main goal. Patients started the trial with an A1c in the range of 7% to 9.5%, and were not taking other diabetes medications. Retatrutide also met the study’s second goal, helping patients at the highest dose lose an average…

Are you an entrepreneur? Miro may want to hire you. Loading audio narration… In the last two and a half years, CEO Andrey Khusid said that the company, which makes a visual collaboration tool, has made a “big shift” in its hiring strategy.To get ahead in the AI era, “we decided to add more entrepreneurs,” Khusid told Business Insider.The CEO said that when he speaks about entrepreneurs, he’s not referring to people with side hustles or solo projects. He’s referring to founders with a focus on a specific area.Khusid estimated that in the past two and a half years, the…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ganesh Karthik Sankar, a 29-year-old UX designer at Google who previously worked at Amazon as a product designer. He lives in Seattle. The following has been edited for length and clarity.During my last job search, I had the opportunity to interview with all five MAANG companies — Meta, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google.By April 2025, I’d accepted an offer from Amazon and moved to Seattle. I was genuinely excited about the role — especially the opportunity to work on projects at a much larger scale. The compensation was also a significant…

The segment of private credit with the worst-looking numbers is not what is worrying investors the most. Loading audio narration… Smaller companies are showing the most strain, with 13% of private credit loans in the lower-middle market valued below 90% of their initial value, a marker for a distressed loan, which is an “alarming” sign, according to investment bank Houlihan Lokey.But those loans are just a “drop in the bucket” of the total dollar amount of direct lending, said Chris Cessna, a director in Houlihan Lokey’s financial and valuation advisory business. Instead, the larger concerns are in an industry that…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Akshat Prakash, the 27-year-old CTO of Camb.ai, based in Mountain View and Dubai. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I was born in a small village near New Delhi into a family of doctors who prioritized education. My father and I traveled to many different places, even when I was young.We moved from India to Ireland when I was in the second grade, and five years later, we moved back to India. I came to the US in 2016 for my undergraduate degree.10 years later, I split my time between California…

Reed Adams’ interest in China started on Google Maps.”I really like infrastructure,” said Adams, 20, a part-time travel content creator. “I would just spend time on Google Maps and see these huge new mega-projects in the Chinese countryside — huge towers and everything — and I sort of fell down that rabbit hole of looking at how China has developed.”At the time, Adams was 13. It wasn’t until 2025 that he’d saved enough money from working at Walmart and finally got to see China for himself. He shared his opinions on how it stacks up against the West on TikTok.”Western…