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Meta Platforms has offered to give rival AI chatbots including OpenAI free access to its social messaging service WhatsApp in Europe, but will start charging them ‌once they hit a limit, two people with knowledge of the matter said on Tuesday. The details of ‌the offer, previously unreported, come as Mark Zuckerberg's tech and social media giant that also controls Facebook, looks to appease increasingly tough EU regulators ​that are tightening the screws on Big Tech. Meta submitted its proposal to EU antitrust regulators last week after the European Commission said it was considering an order requiring the firm to provide rivals access to WhatsApp until it wraps up an ongoing investigation into the case.

All three major US stock indexes were down in late-morning trading Tuesday, as the 30-year Treasury

Saudi Arabia-backed artificial intelligence company Humain has picked Goldman Sachs to advise on a financing package to build data centres in the kingdom that ‌could be worth at least 20 billion riyals, two sources with knowledge of the matter ‌told Reuters, as the firm races to expand capacity amid a regional AI push. The move illustrates how Saudi Arabia, like Gulf neighbours ​Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, is accelerating its AI build-out to capitalise on surging global demand for computing power. The country is also banking on cheap energy to power data centres - a powerful lure for hyperscalers such as Google, Microsoft and Meta that are driving AI adoption.

Meta plans about 8,000 layoffs while raising AI-related capital spending.

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NextEra Energy has agreed to acquire Dominion Energy in a $66.8 billion all-stock deal, creating the world's largest regulated electric utility with over $400 billion in enterprise value.

Investors watch whether AI chip demand can still outpace forecasts

President Trump’s trading activity surged in the first quarter, totaling more than 3,700 transactions, according to recent financial disclosures. The disclosures, published by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics late last week, include millions of dollars in transactions relating to companies such as Nvidia, Alphabet and Amazon.

US stocks have been predicted to start Monday trading in the red, as they ended last week, with investors continuing to worry about rising bond yields, stubborn inflation and the economic fallout from higher oil prices. Dow Jones futures were down around 262 points or 0.4%, while S&P 500...

Investors already factor in cyclicality in the chip industry. The bad news is that they’ve frequently gotten their assessments wrong.

Broadcom (AVGO) stock has gained about 36% since the April 6 closing price of $314.43, trading at $428.61 according to Yahoo Finance at the time of writing, Friday afternoon, May 15. Meanwhile, the SPDR S&P 500 index (SPY) is up about 12.5% in the same period. Why has Broadcom outpaced the ...

By Eduardo Baptista and Che Pan BEIJING, May 16 (Reuters) - The chairman of China's securities regulator and Beijing's party secretary held talks with Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser in China and discussed

Alphabet's YouTube and Snap have reached settlements in the first case set for trial in litigation seeking to force ‌social media platforms to cover the costs school districts incur to combat a youth ‌mental health crisis they say the companies fueled. The settlements were detailed in court filings on Friday in federal court in Oakland, ​California, and resolve claims by a Kentucky school district that is still due to take Facebook and Instagram parent Meta Platforms and TikTok to trial on June 15. Terms of the settlements with Breathitt County School District in rural Eastern Kentucky were not disclosed.

Meta posted record profits in the first quarter of 2026. Its revenue hit $56.31 billion, and its net income came in at $26.8 billion. Three weeks after those results, the company is set to hand out roughly 8,000 pink slips. For employees watching that math unfold in real time, the message from the ...

Aptos is not a typical crypto startup. It was built by former Meta engineers who spent three years working on the Diem blockchain (formerly Libra) before spinning out as an independent network. Co-founders Mo Shaikh and Avery Ching took the Move programming language, the parallel execution engine, ...

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has gained more than 100% year to date, according to Yahoo Finance at the time of writing, Friday morning, May 15. Meanwhile, the SPDR S&P 500 index (SPY) is up slightly below 10% in the same period. AMD has outpaced the S&P 500 by a huge margin. That is ...

Financial disclosures for US President Donald Trump showed hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of transactions involving securities in major...

Financial disclosures for US President Donald Trump showed hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of transactions involving securities in major...

Financial disclosures for US President Donald Trump showed hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of transactions involving securities in major...

Wall Street braces for what could be the largest stock market debut in history, but the most cited academic on US IPO performance is warning buyers to sit on their hands. SpaceX is reportedly targeting a valuation of roughly $1.75 trillion in its planned offering, and Reuters this morning lined the deal up against three ... The Professor Who Tracks Every US IPO Just Issued a Warning on SpaceX: “Most of the Time, Things Don’t Go According to Plan.”

SpaceX is targeting a valuation of roughly $1.75 trillion in its upcoming ‌initial public offering, in what could be the ‌biggest-ever stock market debut by a U.S. company on Wall Street. The ​listing of Elon Musk-led SpaceX could easily dwarf many of the biggest U.S. IPOs on record, including those of Alibaba, Visa and Facebook, now Meta Platforms, which analysts ‌say reflects high growth ⁠expectations from the rocket and satellite company that it may struggle to meet. Analysts ‌say SpaceX's proposed valuation reflects in part how much investors are being asked to pay for future growth.

By Laurie Chen and Casey Hall BEIJING/SHANGHAI, May 15 (Reuters) - With red-carpet treatment, selfies and culinary diplomacy, America's richest and most powerful executives - from Tesla's Elon Musk to

Bill Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square will disclose a ‌new position in Microsoft later in ‌the day, the billionaire investor said on Friday, arguing ​that the tech giant sits at a "highly compelling valuation". Ackman's new closed-end fund Pershing Square USA, which debuted on the NYSE ‌last month, has ⁠also recently made Microsoft a core holding, he said in a ⁠post on social media platform X. Pershing's bet on Microsoft comes amid Ackman's growing ​appetite for ​tech holdings.

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More than 50 employees have reportedly left Elon Musk’s newly merged SpaceXAI since February, raising questions about burnout, leadership changes, talent poaching, and whether liquidity events weakened retention incentives.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping told a delegation of American executives traveling with President Trump in Beijing that China will open wider to foreign business. “U.S. companies are deeply involved in China’s reform and opening up, and both sides have benefited from this,” said Xi after Trump introduced the entrepreneurs to him one by one, according to Chinese state media. Elon Musk was seen at the summit venue with his 6-year-old son and Tom Zhu, a senior vice-president of Tesla who oversees the carmaker’s operations in China.

By Giselda Vagnoni ROME, May 14 (Reuters) - An Italian parents' group and a number of families faced off against Meta and TikTok on Thursday in the first hearing of a lawsuit that seeks to restrict

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Doximity (NYSE:DOCS) reported fiscal fourth-quarter revenue above the high end of its guidance and said it is entering what management called an “AI investment year,” with higher spending planned for artificial intelligence products even as near-term growth in the digital pharma advertising market r