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The government has urged the regulator Ofcom to use all its powers – up to and including an effective ban – against X over concerns about unlawful AI images created on the site. Ofcom’s powers include the ability to obtain a court order to prevent third parties from helping the Elon Musk-owned platform from raising…

In this article RIO-GB Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Rio Tinto and Glencore are back in talks about a possible $260 billion megadeal Rio Tinto Glencore‘s London-listed shares popped 10% on Friday, after it was confirmed a possible $260 billion takeover bid from Rio Tinto was back on the table. Shares were last seen…

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Investors are likely to see some market turbulence in 2026, but the addition of dividend growth companies can help cushion their portfolios. “Bouts of volatility, such as those sparked by macro-, geopolitical- and policy uncertainty, as well as periodic shifts in sentiment around [artificial intelligence] are likely to remain a feature of equity markets,” Nuveen…

Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, plans to spend $20 billion on a data center in Southaven, Mississippi JACKSON, Miss. — Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI is set to spend $20 billion to build a data center in Southaven, Mississippi, Gov. Tate Reeves announced Thursday, calling it the largest private investment in the state’s history….

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MiniMax is one of China’s leading LLM developers, generating most of its revenue from image and video applications © Raul Ariano/Bloomberg A Chinese rival to DeepSeek closed more than 100 per cent higher in its trading debut on Friday, as the country’s AI hopefuls rush to tap public markets to fund model development and global…

At 36 weeks, the TOGETHER-PsA study met its primary endpoint of 50% improvement in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) activity based on ACR50 in addition to ≥10% weight reduction with concomitant Taltz and Zepbound compared to Taltz monotherapy   In a key secondary endpoint, use of Taltz and Zepbound delivered a 64% relative increase in the proportion of…

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is being used to flood X with thousands of sexualized images of adults and apparent minors wearing minimal clothing. Some of this content appears to not only violate X’s own policies, which prohibit sharing illegal content such as child sexual abuse material (CSAM), but may also violate the guidelines of…

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he intends to ban large institutional investors from buying additional single-family homes. “I am immediately taking steps to ban large institutional investors from buying more single-family homes, and I will be calling on Congress to codify it. People live in homes, not corporations,” Trump wrote in a post on…

In this article JNJ Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Johnson & Johnson said on Thursday that it has reached an agreement with the U.S. President administration to cut drug prices for Americans. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images Johnson & Johnson said on Thursday that it has reached an ⁠agreement with U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration…

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve is expected to cut short-term rates in 2026, with its key interest rate settling at 3.4% towards the end of President Donald Trump ‘s term in office in 2028, according to a new report released Thursday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. Despite the Fed’s cuts, however, the budget office…

New York and Philadelphia Edge Network Activation Positions Datavault AI to Capture Significant Share of Insurance and Financial Sectors, Healthcare Industry and Enterprise Opportunities with Real-Time, Zero-Trust Quantum Encrypted Data Tokenization PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA / ACCESS Newswire / January 8, 2026 / Datavault AI Inc. (Nasdaq:DVLT), today highlighted the strategic importance of its New York and…

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Jan 8 (Reuters) – Merck is in talks to ​buy cancer drug developer ‌Revolution Medicines, the Financial Times ‌reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. Shares of Revolution were ⁠up 5.2% ‌in afternoon trading. Merck has been pursuing an ‍acquisition of Revolution Medicines, however, a deal has not been ​finalised, the report ‌said,…

In this article RIO-GB Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT 19 November 2025, China, Shanghai: Boats sail past downtown Shanghai on the Huangpu River. The tallest building on the skyline is the Shanghai Tower (rear). Bernd von Jutrczenka | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Defense stocks across Asia climbed Friday as investors continued to monitor…

Futures-options traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange’s NYSE American (AMEX) in New York City, U.S., Jan. 7, 2026. Brendan McDermid | Reuters The S&P 500 rose to new highs on Friday, notching a weekly gain, following the release of the latest jobs report. The broad market index closed up 0.65%…

Chatbot makers must protect kids, NCMEC says X has been very vocal about policing its platform for CSAM since Musk took over Twitter, but under former CEO Linda Yaccarino, the company adopted a broad protective stance against all image-based sexual abuse (IBSA). In 2024, X became one of the earliest corporations to voluntarily adopt the…

A Rio Tinto mine in Western Australia. A merger between Rio Tinto and Glencore would create a group with an enterprise value of more than $260bn © Carla Gottgens/Bloomberg Glencore and Rio Tinto have restarted talks over a potential megamerger to create the world’s largest mining company, nearly a year after previous deal discussions between…

General Motors on Thursday said it will lose another $6 billion as a result of its decision to pull back on electric cars. It comes on top of a $1.6 billion charge it disclosed in October for changes to its EV plans. It’s another sign of the significant cost to traditional automakers after President Donald…

Merck has been on a buying spree to fill an impending revenue hole when cancer treatment Keytruda begins to lose patent protection in 2028 © Marko Georgiev/Getty Images US pharmaceutical group Merck is in talks to buy Revolution Medicines, a cancer drugmaker with a market capitalisation of more than $20bn in what would be the…

President Donald Trump speaks during a bill signing ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, Dec. 12, 2025. Francis Chung | Politico | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Thursday said he is “instructing my Representatives” to buy $200 billion in mortgage bonds, claiming that doing so will drive…

New York, NY — January 8, 2026 — Datavault AI Inc. (Nasdaq: DVLT), a leader in instant data monetization & enterprise digital twins, announced it will deliver enterprise-grade AI performance at the edge in New York and Philadelphia through an expanded collaboration with IBM (NYSE: IBM) using the SanQtum AI platform. Operated by Available Infrastructure,…

The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis announced today that the goods and services deficit was $29.4 billion in October, down $18.8 billion from $48.1 billion in September, revised. U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services Deficit Deficit: $29.4 Billion –39.0%° Exports: $302.0 Billion +2.6%° Imports: $331.4 Billion –3.2%° Next release:…

Paramount is sticking by its $30 per share tender offer for Warner Bros. Discovery, arguing in a statement Thursday morning that its all-cash bid remains “superior” to the deal that WBD signed with Netflix, and urging WBD shareholders to back its bid. “Our offer clearly provides WBD investors greater value and a more certain, expedited…

Liv McMahonTechnology reporter Getty Images OpenAI has launched a new ChatGPT feature in the US which can analyse people’s medical records to give them better answers, but campaigners warn it raises privacy concerns. The firm wants people to share their medical records along with data from apps like MyFitnessPal, which will be analysed to give…

Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. Markets: The S & P 500 was roughly unchanged on Thursday, but there’s a significant market rotation happening underneath the surface. Many technology winners and other…

SAN JOSE, Calif. – January 8, 2026 –PayPal today announced that they are teaming up with Microsoft to support the launch of Copilot Checkout in Copilot, enabling shoppers to discover, decide, and pay—without ever leaving the Copilot experience. PayPal will power surfacing merchant inventory, branded checkout, guest checkout and credit card payments, starting with Copilot.com. This integration…

Paramount Skydance‘s David Ellison is still trying to make its case to Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders that it’s the better suitor — after WBD’s board again rejected its latest takeover offer this week. In an announcement Thursday, Paramount noted the “Warner Bros. Discovery decision not to engage on Paramount’s $30.00 per share, fully financed all-cash…

WASHINGTON — U.S. filings for jobless benefits rose in the last week of 2025 but remain historically low, despite signs that the labor market is weakening. The number of Americans filing for jobless claims for the week ending Jan. 3 rose by 8,000 to 208,000, up from 200,000 the previous week, the Labor Department reported…