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The free AI program starts beta testing in September.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The startup began testing Instinct in private beta in February and quickly generated substantial interest among venture capitalists, who are among its earliest users.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Negative beta stocks are those that tend to move in the opposite direction to the overall market.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
Actresses Rachel Sennott and Kristen Bell are among the celebrities who have spoken publicly about taking beta blockers, along with the influencer Khloé Kardashian.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
So I went down and spoke to Doerr and Jim Clark, and I began using the beta version of the Mosaic browser.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
Any beta higher than 1 means a stock is more volatile than the S&P 500, while betas of less than 1 are less wild.
From Barron's ● Dec. 1, 2025
Consider the performance of a hypothetical portfolio that buys the 10% of stocks with the highest betas and sells short the decile of stocks with the lowest betas.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2025
“We’re betas pretending to be alphas,” Denton said.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2022
In the final segment, we focus on the betas coming out of Cupertino this week.
From The Verge ● Jul. 15, 2022
Greek letters move across the undersides of his eyelids: isosceles triangles, betas, sine curves.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
