US stocks declined Monday as cryptocurrencies resumed their slide and bond yields jumped after the Bank of Japan signaled it may soon tighten its policy.
The S&P 500 dipped 0.5% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 Index was down 0.4%. The Cboe Volatility Index hovered at around 17. Synopsys Inc. was among the biggest gainers in the S&P 500 after Nvidia struck a deal to invest $2 billion in the chip-design software maker.
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OpenAI today announced the inevitable, that ChatGPT will start showing ads in your queries, and they’re pretty prominent too. Ads run the modern internet, whether you like it or not, but AI chatbots have often been mostly devoid of them. Google has explicitly said that ads aren’t coming to the Gemini chatbot experience, for example,…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is prepared for launch carrying NASA’s IMAP mission, which will study the boundary of the Sun’s heliosphere and other scientific payloads, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., Sept. 23, 2025. Joe Skipper | Reuters SpaceX is preparing to go public next year and has opened a…
New York — If Roblox users want to chat on the online gaming platform, they’ll soon have to verify their age by providing a government ID or by letting an artificial intelligence age estimation tool photograph their face. The move comes as the platform faces a string of lawsuits and other claims that it has…
Corporate borrowers raised more than $95bn from 55 investment-grade bond deals in the first full week of January, the highest weekly volume since May 2020 © Reuters Companies are borrowing in the US bond market at the fastest pace since the Covid-19 pandemic, as Wall Street kicks off what is expected to be a record…
Apple’s senior vice president of hardware technologies Johny Srouji could be the next leading executive to leave the company amid an alarming exodus of leading employees, Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman reports. Srouji apparently recently told CEO Tim Cook that he is “seriously considering leaving” in the near future. He intends to join another company if he…
HARRISBURG, Pa. — The forecasts are eye-popping: utilities saying they’ll need two or three times more electricity within a few years to power massive new data centers that are feeding a fast-growing AI economy. But the challenges — some say the impossibility — of building new power plants to meet that demand so quickly has…