Here are the most important news items that investors need to start their trading day: 1. Rate cut comedown The U.S. economy is chipping away at hopes for a string of interest rate cuts this year. Major U.S. stock averages fell on Wednesday — the third straight decline for the Dow Jones Industrial Average — … Read more
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, at the Hope Global Forums annual meeting in Atlanta on Dec. 11, 2023. Dustin Chambers | Bloomberg | Getty Images DAVOS, Switzerland — Sam Altman said he was “surprised” by the New York Times’ lawsuit against his company OpenAI, saying its artificial intelligence models didn’t need to train on the … Read more
Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook Inc. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Former Meta operating chief Sheryl Sandberg said Wednesday that she’s leaving the company’s board of directors. “With a heart filled with gratitude and a mind filled with memories, I let the Meta board know that I will not stand … Read more
Apple CEO Tim Cook attends the first meeting of the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board with US President Donald Trump in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, March 6, 2019. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images The Department of Justice is readying an antitrust case against Apple that could … Read more
Facebook co-founder and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg sits in his seat inside a bipartisan Artificial Intelligence Insight Forum for all U.S. senators hosted by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 13, 2023. Leah Millis | Reuters Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg must take part in a deposition as … Read more
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, at the Hope Global Forums annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, US, on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023. Dustin Chambers | Bloomberg | Getty Images DAVOS, Switzerland — The rise of generative artificial intelligence has dominated private and public discussion at the World Economic Forum as the world’s largest technology … Read more
DAVOS, Switzerland — Bitcoin does nothing, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said Wednesday on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum. “I call it the pet rock,” he added. Dimon is a long-time bitcoin critic. The bank chief said in 2021 at peak crypto valuations that bitcoin was “worthless,” and he doubled down on that sentiment last … Read more
The logos of Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft displayed on a mobile phone with an EU flag shown in the background. Justin Tallis | AFP via Getty Images A raft of major technology and media companies have signed an open letter accusing tech giants of failing to bring their businesses into full compliance with … Read more
The logos of Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft displayed on a mobile phone with an EU flag shown in the background. Justin Tallis | AFP via Getty Images A raft of major technology and media companies have signed an open letter accusing tech giants of failing to bring their businesses into full compliance with … Read more
A pedestrian walks past the TATA pop up store with a poster reading ‘The Future is AI’ ahead of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images DAVOS, Switzerland — For the last few years at the World Economic Forum cryptocurrency firms dominated the … Read more
