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A Topgolf location in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on March 20, 2024.Kent Nishimura | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSports entertainment, equipment and apparel stock Topgolf Callaway Brands surged on Monday after a high-profile corporate director bought shares in the company.Shares rose 11%, hitting their highest level since May 13.Stock Chart IconStock chart iconTopgolf Callaway shares surged on Monday.The moves comes after board member Adebayo Ogunlesi purchased about $2.5 million worth of shares last week, disclosed in a securities filing on Friday.Purchases by corporate executives and directors can sometimes be seen as a vote of confidence in the company, and this purchase comes…

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OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman appears on screen during a talk with Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella at the Microsoft Build 2025 conference in Seattle, May 19, 2025.Jason Redmond | AFP | Getty ImagesOpenAI has hit $10 billion in annual recurring revenue less than three years after launching its popular ChatGPT chatbot.The figure includes sales from the company’s consumer products, ChatGPT business products and its application programming interface, or API. It excludes licensing revenue from Microsoft and large one-time deals, according to an OpenAI spokesperson.For all of last year, OpenAI was around $5.5 billion in ARR.…

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California Governor Gavin Newsom (R) speaks as California Attorney general Rob Bonta looks on during a news conference at Gemperle Orchard on April 16, 2025 in Ceres, California.Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday that he will sue President Donald Trump for his deployment of the National Guard to deal with protests over federal immigration enforcement actions in Los Angeles.Trump “flamed the fires and illegally acted to federalize the National Guard,” Newsom said in a social media post.”The order he signed doesn’t just apply to CA,” Newsom wrote in the post on X. “It will allow him…

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Alexander Spatari | Moment | Getty ImagesBusiness leaders are walking back recessionary expectations for the U.S. that initially spiked in the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s tariff announcement, according to data released Monday.Less than 30% of CEOs forecast either a mild or severe recession over the next six months, per Chief Executive Group’s survey of more than 270 taken last week. That’s down from 46% who said the same in May and 62% in April.The share of CEOs polled this month who said they expect some level of growth in the U.S. economy also shot up above 40%. That’s nearly…

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