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JPMorgan Chase offered $1 million to settle sexual assault and harassment claims brought by a former investment banker weeks before he filed a lawsuit filled with lurid allegations that have captivated Wall Street.
The AI trade again boosted major U.S. stock indexes, with the S&P 500 rising 1.5% to a record and the Nasdaq and Dow gaining 2% and 1.2%, respectively.
Recent labor-related reports suggest that the U.S. job market is reviving after a sluggish stretch for employment for most of the past year.
Eurozone wage growth is set to slow this year, despite the rise in energy prices that has accompanied the conflict in the Middle East.
In a letter accompanying Disney’s quarterly results the company’s new chief executive laid out a vision for its future, one that uses technology to reach consumers and increase profit.
Novo Nordisk lifted its full-year guidance after the Wegovy maker reported increasing demand for its new weight-loss pill.
Samsung’s market capitalization surpassed $1 trillion as its stock continued to benefit from the artificial-intelligence boom.
CVS beat Wall Street’s earnings expectations and upgraded its full-year projections, adding to a string of stronger results from health insurers.
Uber reported higher revenue and gross bookings for the first quarter, as trip volumes and the number of its active users continued to grow.
Iran and the U.S. are working with mediators to hammer out a 14-point memorandum of understanding that would establish a framework for a monthlong period of talks to end the war.
The U.S. and China are weighing official discussions talks on artificial intelligence as the countries’ competition for preeminence in the technology threatens to become the arms race of the digital era.
The FBI searched the office of a Virginia state lawmaker who was instrumental in the Democrats’ recent push to redraw congressional maps.
A federal judge unsealed a purported suicide note from Jeffrey Epstein, who died in August 2019 in jail after he was charged with sex trafficking conspiracy.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told a congressional panel he was surprised when he received an invitation to visit Epstein’s private island in 2012.
A trial began for a man accused of establishing a clandestine police station affiliated with China’s government that operated in Manhattan’s Chinatown.
Commuters who drive for 90 minutes or more each way to work are being hit hard by rising gasoline prices, with some skimping on other purchases to meet the cost.
Died: Ted Turner, 87, media giant who helped define the cable-TV industry.
At Anthropic's developer conference Dario Amodei says the company could grow by 80x in 2026 and its growth rate is "crazy" and "too hard to handle"
Elon Musk says he spent time with Anthropic "to understand what they do to ensure Claude is good for humanity"; Musk called Anthropic "evil" and "misanthropic"
As founders race to make their companies "legible" to AI they must keep the things that make them hard to copy "illegible" or risk commoditizing their moat
Swiss pharmaceutical group Roche agrees to acquire US-based PathAI which makes AI diagnostic tools for up to $1.05B with $750M upfront closing in H2 2026
Specialist chipmaker Silex raised $220M in a Stockholm IPO and jumps nearly 160% in trading the strongest open for a sizable European IPO in almost five years
The Pentagon's mishandled blacklisting of Alibaba and Baidu in February shows how the Trump administration is often at odds with itself on how to approach China
Amazon plans to merge MX Player into Prime Video in India combining free and paid streaming catalogs on a single platform over the next few months
Source: Samsung offered to allocate 13% of operating profit to chip division staff; unions threaten an 18-day walkout seeking a 15% share and a 7% wage hike
Analysis: South Korea's equity market overtakes Canada's as the world's seventh largest driven by Samsung and SK Hynix whose stocks have more than doubled YTD
Arm expects the AGI CPU its own AI chip for data centers to drive $2B in sales in FY2027 and FY2028 doubling its March 2026 sales guidance for the period
Moonshot the Chinese AI startup behind Kimi chatbot raised $2B at a $20B valuation led by Meituan's venture arm; Moonshot's ARR topped $200M in April 2026
Bristol Myers Squibb's Massachusetts facility boosted drug production volume for clinical and commercial use by 40% with AI a bright spot in US manufacturing
Bengaluru-based Pronto an on-demand home-help service raised a $20M Series B extension from Lachy Groom at a $200M valuation up from $100M in March
FanDuel CEO Amy Howe departs after five years succeeded by President Christian Genetski as parent company Flutter reports MAUs fell 3% YoY to 14.4M in Q1 2026
Anthropic researchers detail "model spec midtraining" which adds a stage between pretraining and fine-tuning to improve generalization from alignment training
Sources: the US and China are considering recurring talks on the security risks posed by AI models with Scott Bessent leading the American side
A US appeals court strikes down a 2023 FCC rule banning broadband access discrimination based on income race and more; Chair Brendan Carr welcomes the ruling
Scale AI wins a $500M DOD contract through the Chief Digital and AI Office to help sift data and assist in decision-making after receiving a $100M deal in 2025
Musk v. Altman: Shivon Zilis testifies her relationship with Musk didn't influence her duties as an OpenAI board member; she left in 2023 after Musk started xAI
Filing: Meta asks a judge to overturn the jury's verdict in the Los Angeles social media addiction trial or order a new trial citing Section 230 protections
Snap reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to $1.53B in line with est. and says it ended its $400M Perplexity deal announced in November; SNAP drops 4% after hours
DoorDash reports Q1 revenue up 33% YoY to $4.04B vs. $4.14B est. and forecasts Q2 marketplace gross order value above estimates; DASH jumps 11% after hours
Arm reports Q4 revenue up 20% YoY to $1.5B says AGI CPU demand will drive $2B in sales in 2027 and 2028 over 2x its prior guidance; ARM jumps 11% after hours
Google Chrome silently installs a 4GB Gemini Nano model on desktop devices; Google says it has been offered since 2024 and users can remove it via settings
Corgi which provides insurance for startups and uses AI to generate quotes manage claims and more raised a $160M Series B led by TCV at a $1.3B valuation
Musk v. Altman: Mira Murati testifies that Sam Altman lied to her about the safety standards for a new OpenAI model and that he made her work more difficult
Instacart reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $1.02B GTV up 13% to $10.29B and orders up 10% compared with a 16% growth a year earlier; CART drops 11%
Anthropic says it signed a deal with SpaceX to use "all of the compute capacity" at Colossus 1 giving it access to over 300 MW of new capacity within the month
Google releases Multi-Token Prediction drafters for its Gemma 4 models which use a form of speculative decoding to guess future tokens for faster inference
Sources: Microsoft is considering delaying or dropping its 2030 goal of matching its hourly power use with renewable energy purchases amid the data center boom
Anthropic says it is doubling Claude Code's five-hour rate limits for paid plans and removing Claude Code's peak hours limit reduction for Pro and Max plans
SpaceX signs an agreement with Anthropic to provide access to Colossus 1 and says Anthropic expressed interest in partnering for orbital compute capacity
Anthropic updates Claude Managed Agents with "dreaming" a scheduled process that reviews recent work and updates memory available in research preview
Sources: DeepSeek is in talks to raise $3B to $4B led by China's national AI fund valuing DeepSeek at up to $50B
London-based Ethos which lets companies use AI for hiring including for voice interviews and profile analysis raised a $22.75M Series A led by a16z
Google DeepMind takes a minority stake in the maker of Eve Online a multiplayer role playing game set in outer space and plans to train its tech on the game
SCOTUS rejects Apple's request to temporarily block a judicial order in the Epic Games lawsuit that found Apple in violation of court-mandated App Store changes
The UK FCA says it is investigating PayPal Mastercard and Visa for alleged anti-competitive behavior in a rare antitrust investigation by the regulator
Google updates AI Mode and AI Overviews to add "a preview of perspectives" from firsthand sources like social media and Reddit presented as "Expert Advice"
Morgan Stanley rolls out a crypto trading pilot on ETrade charging clients lower prices than Coinbase and Robinhood ahead of a wider launch later in 2026
Apple's R&D spending hit 10.3% of revenue in Q2 up from 7.6% in Q1 and 9% in Q2 2025 amid the AI boom; Q2 revenue rose 17% YoY while R&D jumped 34% YoY
Nvidia is investing $500M in Corning as part of its partnership to expand US manufacturing of fiber optics for AI infrastructure; GLW jumps 20% pre-market
reMarkable Paper Pure review: the new $399 e-paper slate has a great display responsiveness and design but no backlight or typing and some software issues
Magnitt: startup funding in the Middle East and North Africa was flat YoY at $799M in Q1 amid the Iran war; Saudi VC firms are pressing ahead with fundraising
A profile of David Sacks appointed as White House AI adviser in December 2024 who has a ruthless devotion to self-interest and helped pass the GENIUS Act
Sources: in a reshuffle LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky will lead Microsoft's new Work Experiences Group including Teams after 35-year veteran Rajesh Jha retired
Corning and Nvidia partner to open three advanced manufacturing plants in North Carolina and Texas dedicated to optical tech boosting Corning's US capacity 10x
OpenAI partners with Microsoft AMD Broadcom Nvidia and Intel researchers to detail the Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC) protocol to help scale compute
Instacart reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $1.02B above $1.01B est. GTV up 13% YoY to $10.3B and orders up 10% YoY to 91.2M as users focus on affordability
Crypto miner Hut 8 signs a lease worth $9.8B over 15 years to provide computing power to a "high-investment-grade company" at its Nueces County Texas campus
Uber reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $13.2B below $13.3B est. Gross Bookings up 25% YoY to $53.7B trips up 20% YoY to 3.6B and a $1B revenue UK tax law hit
Document: SpaceX proposes a $55B investment to build a Terafab chip facility in Grimes County Texas with potential total capital expenditures reaching $119B
Finnish AI lab QuTwo led by ex-AMD Silo AI CEO Peter Sarlin raised a 25M angel round at a 325M valuation and secures $23M in committed partnership revenue