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The stock market rode a big rally in software stocks to fresh highs on Thursday despite another hot inflation report. The Nasdaq gained 0.9%. The Dow rose 25 points to post a slight gain and eke out a fresh record, too.

Yahoo Finance Tech Editor Dan Howley comes on Market Domination to break down the day’s leading tech stories, including private AI developer Anthropic (ANTH.PVT) nearing a $1 trillion valuation after its latest funding round. The company is reportedly targeting a mega-IPO for late 2026.

Yahoo Finance Tech Editor Dan Howley comes on Market Domination to break down the day’s leading tech stories, including private AI developer Anthropic (ANTH.PVT) nearing a $1 trillion valuation after its latest funding round. The company is reportedly targeting a mega-IPO for late 2026.

The federal government is giving newborn Americans $1,000 to invest in the stock market while handing Robinhood millions of future customers in the process.

UBS analyst Jay Sole says AI will "accelerate GDP growth" that will fuel increased fashion and footwear spending by U.S. consumers.

A bullish Wall Street call on Twilio is now centered around a metric that can get overlooked when investors focus mostly on revenue growth. Bank of America argues the company’s profit mix could become a bigger driver for the stock as Twilio pushes deeper into higher-margin product areas. In a Bank ...

Early SpaceX investor Peter Diamandis says Musk could eventually combine Tesla and SpaceX after the IPO.

Eli Lilly shares are on pace to hit a new all-time closing high on news of increased insurance coverage for its blockbuster weight-loss drug Zepbound. Lilly shares were recently up 4.4% to $1,130.90. Pharmacy-benefit manager CVS Caremark decided to add back Lilly’s Zepbound weight-loss drug to its lists of preferred drugs.

Sony launches new premium Bravia TVs and audio products before its home entertainment joint venture begins in 2027.

A $5 million settlement at the end of the Biden administration became the focus of a lobbying campaign by the billionaire brothers.

Anthropic has closed a $65 billion Series H round at a $965 billion post-money valuation, marking what could be the AI startup's final private fundraise before a highly anticipated IPO.

Anthropic is more valuable than OpenAI in latest funding round.

The CBS News program installed journalist Nick Bilton in the role and will part ways with current show leader Tanya Simon.

Costco releases Q3 results late Thursday as retailers warn that higher fuel prices and inflation pressures could hit consumer spending.

The bank plans to challenge a ruling last week involving a wealth manager fired over a Super Bowl party.

There is a number most people stop being able to picture once it gets past a billion. You can imagine a million dollars. You can almost imagine a billion. A trillion is already abstract. Five trillion, however, is folklore. That is the territory Nvidia (NVDA) is now operating in, and it is the part ...

Goldman Sachs COO John Waldron called out inflation as "the single biggest risk element" to the economy on Thursday during a talk at the Bernstein Strategic Decisions Conference in New York.

The United States Postal Service said Thursday it reached a $10 billion deal to provide “last-mile” package delivery services for DHL eCommerce, an arm of German package services provider DHL. The USPS said in December it intended to open its last-mile delivery network to large and small shippers, expanding beyond current arrangements with Amazon and UPS. Postmaster General David Steiner said in a call with reporters that since the USPS delivers to 170 million locations six days a week, “we are the best last-mile provider by default.”

Investing.com -- Meta Platforms’ major push into subscription services across Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Meta AI, a move that could generate billions of dollars in recurring revenue.

XPENG (NYSE:XPEV) said it expects a sharp rebound in second-quarter deliveries after a weaker first quarter, while management outlined a broader push to position the company around “physical AI” applications including advanced driver assistance, Robotaxis and humanoid robots. Co-founder, Chairman a

Diana Shipping (NYSE:DSX) reported a sharply higher first-quarter profit as the dry bulk shipowner benefited from improved charter rates, lower interest expense and an unrealized gain tied to its investment in Genco Shipping & Trading. Chief Executive Officer Semiramis Paliou said the dry bulk

Dell Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:DELL) shares rose about 7% on Wednesday after the US Department of Defense announced a five-year, approximately $9.7 billion enterprise software agreement involving Dell Federal Systems to provide and manage Microsoft-related software and cloud services for the US...

US equity indexes rose amid speculation of an agreement over a path to end the war against Iran and

Anthropic on Thursday said it is launching an upgraded ‌Claude Opus 4.8 model even as ‌it works to release its powerful, market-moving Mythos model ​to all customers in the coming weeks. Mythos is the AI lab's large language model with advanced cybersecurity capabilities that have ‌raised concerns among ⁠executives and world leaders about its impact. As a part of Project ⁠Glasswing, major tech firms such as Amazon, Microsoft and Apple are permitted to ​use Mythos ​for cybersecurity purposes.

Anthropic has debuted its new flagship AI model Opus 4.8.

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Johnson & Johnson seems to have perfected the art of the biotech deal. Rather than spending billions on acquisitions, it has built much of its pharma empire through partnerships that capture huge upside for bargain prices.