Watch live coverage as the Texas House are scheduled to vote today on the GOP's plan to redraw the state's congressional map after Democratic lawmakers returned to Austin. Democrats fled the state for weeks to block a vote on the map, and several planned to spend the night last night on the statehouse floor in protest. Democrats are expected to debate and challenge the legality of Texas GOP's new plan to gerrymander five new GOP congressional seats in the state, before voting today. For more context and new ...

and and you take that and you combine it with the omniverse which I think is the most phenomenal thing out there and instead of doing things in in the physical world you say well I'm going to develop a drug to solve some disease but it's very very costly it's billions of dollars it's years and years and there's FDA approval and I don't know if it's going to happen or not and we have 10 different avenues that we need to explore we cannot do them uh in sequence we cannot do them in parallel so we're going to ...

Welcome back. Family offices have sharply increased their bets on alternative investments. CNBC Wealth editor Robert Frank is here.They're getting in on the game. What we've been talking about for a while as well, of course, certainly getting into, they've been in the game for a while, getting more now. Family offices have in fact become the fastest growing market for alternative and private assets. In fact, the number of family offices with exposure to alternative investments has increased by over 500% sin ...

Social Security is financed on what's called a pay as you go basis, which means that the taxes paid in by today's workers immediately go out the door to pay benefits for today's retirees. That means that Social Security is very subject to demographic changes to the number of workers per retiree. If you go back to the 1960s, we had five or six workers paying in for every retiree collecting benefits from the system.Today, we have about three. Going forward, we'll only have around two workers per beneficiary. ...

With the feds dealing with Francine and you're seeing it in the day to day to day is the continuing tug of war between the employment and growth side and the inflation side. And you and I have talked about this on this program, their greatest desires to avoid having both problems. They don't want that word stagflation.And this playing out markets and everybody watching this in the day to day to day. So I think a week or two ago, you had this a good CPI number. Stock market equities rally.And literally a day ...

Our Congresswoman from New York 21, Elise Stefani. >> Thank you, Mark, for that kind introduction. It is truly humbling to be here to commemorate and honor the great John Zerlo.You know, I'm going to turn this back to you, Mark. This crowd is not being respectful of John Zerlo is deeply respectful. I'm going to turn it back to you.Sounds like one of my concerts. That's Republican woman, Congresswoman Elise Stfanic of New York booed off the stage during uh an event in her home district on Monday. The congres ...

For the junior engineers, 1x engineers, they often are bad at something, right. If the AI can bridge that gap, it takes them from zero to one and to be able to do something they were not able to do before, they go to 10x or even more. So, if that's the case, then it's more valuable for them.If it's a 10x engineer that is working on something where you need many years of experience to work on a system that a new junior engineer completely doesn't understand, then the 1x engineer is useless. So no AI is going ...

Google expected to launch its newest Pixel product lineup just hours from now for a look at where AI fits into the smartphone picture. Let's get over to Steve Kovak. He's in Brooklyn at the site of today's made by Google event.Steve, hey there, David. Yeah, this is going to be the annual Pixel event for Google where they show off their new phone, their new earbuds, and their new smart watches. But also AI is going to be the real story here.The hardware is kind of uh we already know what to expect there. Goo ...

There's Target this morning announcing it has chosen its next leader in the wake of the retailer's sluggish sales and stock price. COO and company veteran Michael Fiddlekey will succeed Brian Cornell as CEO in February of next year. Our Sarah Eisen's here post tonight with more on the change at the top on comps on their reiteration of fullyear guidance.>> Yeah, no question Fideli is going to have a tough job coming in February 1. He's been at the company since 2003. started as an intern, has worked in merch ...

So Target CEO succession getting more attention than its results this morning after more than 11 years as CEO Brian Cornell will transition to executive chairman at the end of the fiscal year. So February 1st, current COO, former CFO and 20-year Target veteran Michael Fideli will take the top job in February. Fideli told reporters, I'm quote stepping in with urgency to rebuild momentum and return to profitable growth.He's got three priorities. He says, first, we have to lead with merchandise beyond the occa ...