ALL THE MONEY NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW | | | | Daniel de Visé | Personal Finance Reporter
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Good morning! It's Daniel de Visé with your Daily Money. It's Friday, so let's review the week's tastiest consumer news. |
President Donald Trump , who famously has a sweet tooth, once received a handpicked selection of his favorite red and pink Starburst candy from former House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy. |
For that payment, I could get a house. . . |
Car buyers set a record in the second quarter as more opted for whoppingly long-term loans and monthly car payments that rivaled some home mortgage bills. |
According to second-quarter data crunched by Edmunds.com, the share of new-vehicle buyers to commit to monthly payments of $1,000 or more hit an all-time high of 19.3%, or nearly 1 in 5 consumers. |
Musk touts erratic chatbot |
One day after his chatbot Grok had a Nazi meltdown, Elon Musk trumpeted the launch of Grok 4 in an hourlong, late-night live demo. |
Joined by researchers from his artificial intelligence company xAI, the tech mogul showed off the flagship chatbot's mental gymnastics, from solving a complex math problem to predicting the winner of the World Series. |
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Daniel de Visé covers personal finance for USA Today. | | To the chagrin of advocates and HHS, Mars is not making promises on banning artificial dyes like others in Big Food. What that means for Trump, RFK. | | One in five car buyers in the second quarter agreed to a $1,000-a-month car loan payment and increasingly more are taking out seven-year-long loans. | | | | "This is the smartest AI in the world," Musk said. He did not mention the chatbot's viral posts praising Hitler and calling itself "MechaHitler." | | | | Barbie's first doll with Type 1 diabetes, which is available now for $10.99 each, includes a glucose monitor and insulin pump. | | | | If you drink only water at restaurants, dwell in a dark home and force every last globule of toothpaste from the tube, you have "poor-people" habits. | | | | WorldAtlas ranked the Georgia-based favorite in a list of the 10 least nutritious fast food restaurants in the U.S. See where it ranked. | | | | Sick and tired of all of the annoying subscription emails spamming your inbox? Don't despair, Google has help. | | | | USA TODAY staff tried the McDonald's Snack Wrap as soon as it hit the menu on July 10 following a long hiatus. Here's what they said. | | | | The four-day Amazon Prime Day sale ends tonight, July 11 and we've hand-picked the top last-chance deals you'll want to add to your shopping cart. | | | | Our app gives you award-winning coverage, crosswords, audio storytelling, eNewspaper and more. | | | | | Sign up for the news you want | Exclusive newsletters are part of your subscription, don't miss out! We're always working to add benefits for subscribers like you. | | | | | |
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