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Pizza Hut joins Starbucks in an AI move customers did not see coming

Companies love a good origin story for a technology bet. They almost never love the cleanup story that follows. For the last three years, every quarterly call from a consumer-facing chain has carried some version of the same promise. Artificial intelligence would cut labor costs, speed up service, and turn legacy operations into something investors

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Major airline cancels more flights until March, travelers to get refunds

While global oil and jet fuel prices have seen their first major drop in months since the start of the war with Iran, almost every major airline is adjusting their flying schedules well past the summer in response to widespread uncertainty across the Middle East. German national airline Lufthansa removed 2,000 less-trafficked flights from its

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Clark Howard pokes holes in popular retirement tools

Millions of Americans approaching retirement plug their savings into free online calculators and trust the output as financial truth.  Those projections often deliver a single number or a reassuring green checkmark, creating a dangerous sense of certainty about the future.  Clark Howard, consumer finance expert and host of “The Clark Howard Podcast,” has raised serious

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Medicare unknowingly funded a billion-dollar fraud ring

A federal jury in Florida convicted the man behind one of the largest Medicare fraud operations ever prosecuted in the state. Brett Blackman, the 42-year-old founder and CEO of a health care software company called HealthSplash, owned and controlled a platform that generated fabricated medical prescriptions. The system produced bogus doctors’ orders for medical equipment

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