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AI can take some of the strain out of handling everyday finances, from disciplined saving to avoiding scams, paying off debt and reaching your money goals.

Open this photo in gallery:Commercial trucks head toward U. S. customs from Surrey, B. C., in 2024. Jennifer Gauthier/ReutersTrucking and logistics company Mullen Group Ltd. MTL-T has signed a deal to buy Willson International Ltd., a customs brokerage firm with operations in Canada and the United States. Financial terms of the agreement were not immediately available. Willson has more than 330 employees in Canada and the U. S., that provide customs and logistics services. It is expected to continue to operate as a stand-alone business within Mullen Group. The existing senior management team, led by Jim McKinnon, will remain responsible for overseeing Willson’s operations. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter.

A wave of corporate results that could help determine whether the stock-market rally has more room to run — or whether investors are growing wary of the companies that powered it.

Open this photo in gallery:Anthropic's logo is displayed at the company's Tokyo office. The Claude developer is planning one of the biggest IPOs in history as a public benefit corporation. Kim Kyung-Hoon/ReutersAI lab Anthropic, the developer of Claude, said on Sunday it will commit 5 per cent of its shares to a new public benefit fund so it has increased flexibility and scale to make donations for the “public good.”The proposed fund would be established as a wholly owned limited liability company and would receive an additional 2 per cent of Anthropic’s shares, at the board’s discretion, for every 50-per-cent increase in the company’s value above a baseline that has yet to be disclosed. The move comes at a time when Anthropic is planning one of the biggest IPOs in history as a public benefit corporation, a legal structure that requires management to consider certain broader interests as well as turning a profit for investors. It also comes against the backdrop of concerns around AI safety, following security breaches by AI systems and dire warnings from industry heads about the possibility of severe, even existential, risks of runaway AI development.

The history of technological progress suggests that as AI spreads, the employment impact will hit women more than men.