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Uber said its users could sign up from Monday for a chance to ride in London's first robotaxis powered by AI technology from British start-up Wayve as soon as regulators give the go-ahead for launch, which it expects in the coming months. Autonomous vehicles are a strategic priority for the ride-hailing company, and it has partnered with more than 30 firms across the world on self-driving freight, delivery and taxi services, with millions of autonomous trips already taken. In London, it is working with Wayve to launch services that will work as regular UberX, Uber Electric or Uber Comfort, except the vehicle will be driven by AI.
Stock market investors could be facing a specter they haven’t had to navigate since early April, when the bull market in tech caught fire and powered domestic indices out of their early year torpor and tensions between Washington and Tehran simmered into a fragile truce effort. The two-day surge in volatility follows a series of events that have tested the strength of the current tech market wave, pushed the Federal Reserve into a challenging position of moving toward rate hikes while defying President Donald Trump’s public call for easier policy, and unsettled investors hoping for an extended cease-fire agreement between the U.S. and Iran. “At the same time, growing expectations of Fed tightening have caught an investor base overweight equities and overweight emerging markets,” said ING’s Chris Turner, the bank’s global head of markets.
Nvidia's entry into the AI PC market with its RTX Spark superchip last week is less a breakthrough for regular users than a high-stakes bet that a largely unproven concept can find wider appeal, analysts said. It's a claim that PC makers HP and Dell have made for nearly three years now, only to be met with skepticism from Wall Street and consumers, with high prices outweighing tangible benefits. Nvidia, though, appears to be selling a different version of the AI PC than what exists today, one aimed more at developers and content creators who have long favored Apple's high-end MacBook Pros.
Samsung Electronics' co-CEO and head of its chip division, Jun Young-hyun, said on Monday he discussed cooperation in next-generation foundry chips with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during a meeting in Seoul. Jun said Samsung and Nvidia are currently collaborating on autonomous driving chips and Groq AI accelerator chips, and also discussed cooperation on future generations of semiconductor products. He added that the two companies had extensive discussions on long-term cooperation, including in high-bandwidth memory (HBM) 4E and HBM5 chips.
June S&P 500 E-Mini futures (ESM26) are up +0.71%, and June Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQM26) are up +1.40% this morning, signaling a rebound from Friday’s selloff on Wall Street as investors stepped in to buy the dip in technology stocks even as tensions in the Middle East pushed oil prices higher.
By Mike Dolan June 8 (Reuters) - What matters in U.S. and global markets today By Mike Dolan, Editor-at-Large, Finance and Markets Wall Street is holding its breath after Friday’s withering chip
June 8 (Reuters) - S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures climbed on Monday, as chip stocks steadied after plunging to over two-week lows, though renewed strikes in the Middle East kept investors largely at bay.
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PepsiCo has 41 trucks on the road in Arizona, Texas and Arkansas, bringing the technology into the mainstream.
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(Bloomberg) -- Strategists at some of Wall Street’s biggest banks are looking past Friday’s tech-led selloff, saying earnings growth should support stocks through the end of the year. Most Read from BloombergHouse Republican Says Hegseth’s D-Day Remarks ‘Inappropriate’Trump Says He, Not Congress, Is in Charge of Kennedy Center in ReversalWhy Oil’s Not at $200 After the Biggest Supply Shock in HistoryIsrael Strikes Iran After Missile Attack, Imperiling Trump TalksAI Trade Unwind Rocks Korean Trad
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The UK competition regulator on Monday launched a probe into eBay's $1.2 billion purchase of Gen Z-focused fashion resale platform Depop from Etsy. The deal was announced earlier this year and is expected to help Etsy double down on its core handmade and vintage goods marketplace in pursuit of a turnaround. The firm has been grappling with softer demand and strong competition from online e-commerce platforms such as Amazon.
The 10 largest U.S. IPO stocks in history have collectively underperformed the S&P 500 by a wide margin.
Planet Labs ties defense momentum to an AI push as Q1 FY27 revenues hit a record $94.2M, backlog tops $906M, and full-year sales outlook rises.
US stock futures were mixed as concerns about a Middle East ceasefire continued to weigh, and investors braced for fresh inflation data and a blockbuster SpaceX IPO this week.
US stock futures were mixed as concerns about a Middle East ceasefire continued to weigh, and investors braced for fresh inflation data and a blockbuster SpaceX IPO this week.
(Bloomberg) -- Private market dealmakers attending SuperReturn in Berlin this week are likely to be handed a short but sharp to-do list by their investors: give us our money back.Most Read from BloombergHouse Republican Says Hegseth’s D-Day Remarks ‘Inappropriate’Trump Says He, Not Congress, Is in Charge of Kennedy Center in ReversalWhy Oil’s Not at $200 After the Biggest Supply Shock in HistoryIsrael Strikes Iran After Missile Attack, Imperiling Trump TalksAI Trade Unwind Rocks Korean Traders L
(Bloomberg) -- Ingredion Inc. agreed to buy Tate & Lyle Plc for £2.7 billion ($3.6 billion), in a move that marks the end of the UK company’s near-century on the London Stock Exchange.Most Read from BloombergHouse Republican Says Hegseth’s D-Day Remarks ‘Inappropriate’Trump Says He, Not Congress, Is in Charge of Kennedy Center in ReversalWhy Oil’s Not at $200 After the Biggest Supply Shock in HistoryIsrael Strikes Iran After Missile Attack, Imperiling Trump TalksAI Trade Unwind Rocks Korean Trad
Investors are counting down to the end of the week when Elon Musk’s rocket maker SpaceX is expected to start trading on the Nasdaq in what could be the largest IPO on record. Also, Apple’s developer conference kicks off Monday where the tech giant will unveil its latest tools and technologies.
There's a silver lining in the Fed's initial June inflation forecast -- but we're nowhere close to being out of the woods.