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If you can’t beat it, join it: Fiverr is responding to the AI revolution—both a threat and an opportunity for its business—by integrating artificial intelligence into its platform. The company announced its new AI-driven tools on Tuesday alongside the release of its latest earnings.Fiverr operates a marketplace that connects freelancers offering services such as programming, graphic design, translation, and voice-over work with organizations. However, many of these tasks can now be performed using AI, a shift that has significantly impacted the freelance market. In response, Fiverr is launching new products designed to adapt to this transformation.”AI is not the enemy,…

There are plenty of ways to categorize stocks. Some investors think of growth stocks versus value or dividend stocks. Or megacap, large-cap, mid-cap, and small-cap if you sort by market capitalization. There’s also a more formal organization technique based on stock market sectors. According to the most commonly used classification system, there are 11 stock market sectors. At the time of this writing, nine of those sectors are beating the S&P 500 (^GSPC 1.59%) year to date (YTD). You may be wondering how that is possible, given that the S&P 500 is one of the most well-known stock market indexes.…

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Mirimar has named Zach Foster as its new chief strategy officer (CSO), the agency confirmed to ADWEEK. He succeeds Meredith Chase, who left the post in 2023. Foster brings over 15 years of experience to Mirimar. He joins the indie agency full-time after working with the team as a freelance partner for the past two years. Before that, the exec worked on strategy at agencies such as Droga5, Goodby Silverstein & Partners, and Venables Bell & Partners. He also founded his own consultancy firm, FosterBrands, in 2021.Whereas Chase prioritized new business, Foster’s goal is to build a team of full-time strategists to…

Johnson has ruled out two of the biggest potential cuts: paying fixed, shrunken rates to states for care and changing the calculation for the share of federal dollars that each state receives for Medicaid. Just a few years ago, Johnson spearheaded a report that lobbied for some of those changes during the first Trump administration. Johnson insisted in a CNN interview that the focus will instead be ferreting out ‘’fraud, waste and abuse, in Medicaid, although it’s unlikely to deliver the savings Republicans seek.GOP pressure over Medicaid is mounting, with some state party leaders joining the calls to preserve the…

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Freelancing is on the rise and some of the most successful self-employed workers are the ones tapping into the biggest and fastest-growing freelance markets. Flexjob’s 2024 State of Remote Freelance Jobs Report looks at the ever-changing world of remote freelance work to identify future career opportunities.In the report, you’ll find the top ten careers for freelance workers in 2024, the most popular job titles, ten companies most likely to hire freelance workers and how to find work. Ready to join the remote work revolution? Let’s go.The rise in remote freelance workFreelance workers are having a greater impact on the US…

Solana (SOL) creator Anatoly Yakovenko believes Bitcoin’s (BTC) main use case is as insurance for the collapse of a superpower. In a new thread on the social media platform X, Yakovenko says Bitcoin is an expense and not an investment – something to protect against the possible collapse of a country touting economic and military might. “BTC has no value. In the best light, it’s insurance. Based on my lifetime priors, there is a 1% chance a superpower will collapse any given year. It’s worth it for me to spend 1% of my wealth on some asset that might not…

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The Finance Ministry recently published operating instructions regarding 2024 compensation payments to freelance (self-employed) IDF reservists.Due to the war, many Israelis have been called up to the IDF reserves for months at a time. Thirty days a year in peacetime is an ancient dream. In fact, for freelancers, downtime in the IDF reserves can be a nightmare for their business.Employees called up are reimbursed by the National Insurance Institute through their employer’s payroll. But it is different for freelancers. The operating instructions spell out the raw deal freelancers get and how to perhaps mitigate this with a 150% “business…