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The electric pickup startup Slate Auto started the week well. This morning, it announced it has raised $650 million in its latest funding round. Slate is a refreshing outlier among the aspiring new electric vehicle OEMs. Lucid debuted with an electric sedan that intended to move the game on from the Tesla Model S. Rivian…

An Aramco oil tank is seen at the Production facility at Saudi Aramco’s Shaybah oilfield in the Empty Quarter, Saudi Arabia. Ahmed Jadallah | Reuters Crude oil production in the major Gulf Arab exporters plunged in March due to the Iran war, according to data released by OPEC on Monday. Iraq took the biggest hit…

41.6% Absolute Difference in the Cema-Cel Arm Over the Observation Arm Exceeded Clinically Meaningful Benchmark Based on Literature of 25-30% MRD Reduction Occurred Rapidly Following Cema-Cel Treatment with a 97.7% Median Decrease in Plasma ctDNA at Day 45 Compared to a 26.6% Median Increase in the Observation Arm Cema-Cel Treatment Well-Tolerated with Most Patients Managed…

In this article RVMD Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Pancreatic cancer, illustration Nemes Laszl | Science Photo Library | Getty Images Revolution Medicines‘ drug for pancreatic cancer succeeded in a highly anticipated Phase 3 trial, almost doubling the typical length of survival and slashing the risk of death by 60% versus chemotherapy, the company…

HONG KONG (AP) — China is poised to benefit from the Iran war as global energy disruptions accelerate a shift away from fossil fuels and toward clean technologies and renewable power, industries that China dominates, experts say. Most of the oil and gas from the now mostly shut Strait of Hormuz was Asia-bound. Asian nations…

It’s been nearly a decade since Delta Air Lines raised the bar for U.S. business-class with the debut of its fancy Delta One cabin. With lie-flat beds and sliding privacy doors, Delta One cemented flying suites as the new industry standard at the front of the plane. Now, as Delta has watched its two top…

In an interview with BBC News, Matt Kaufman, Roblox’s chief safety officer, said the company’s age‑estimation system, which includes facial analysis, is now used by more than half of its daily users, amounting to tens of millions of people worldwide.

Workers at one of the nation’s largest meatpacking plants who staged a multiweek strike have reached an agreement with plant owner JBS USA, the company and labor union representatives announced Sunday. The Swift Beef Co. plant in Greeley, Colorado, will immediately return to normal operations after weeks of uncertainty, JBS USA said in a statement….

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange, April 13, 2026. Brendan McDermid | Reuters The S&P 500 rose on Monday as investors hoped that a deal would eventually be struck between the U.S. and Iran. The broad market index jumped 1.02% to end at 6,886.24, the highest close since before the…

By the end of 2024, inflation in the U.S., which had soared in the aftermath of the Covid-19 lockdowns, was almost back to the Federal Reserve’s goal of 2%. Even so, during the 2024 presidential campaign, candidate Donald Trump promised he would bring prices down on Day One, beginning with energy prices, thanks to new…

For all the hype about data centers in space, there just aren’t very many GPUs up there. As that starts to change, the near-term business of orbital compute is starting to take shape. The largest compute cluster currently in orbit was launched by Canada’s Kepler Communications in January, and boasts about 40 Nvidia Orin edge…

Two suspects were arrested for negligently discharging a gun outside the OpenAI CEO’s residence on Sunday. Two suspects were arrested for negligently discharging a gun outside the OpenAI CEO’s residence on Sunday. Apr 13, 2026, 9:25 AM UTC Jess Weatherbed is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her…

Oil prices have dominated headlines and policy discussions since the start of the US-Israel war on Iran. In the six weeks since the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran, crude prices have risen sharply, driving up fuel costs and placing strain on households across the globe. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of…

Lauren Sánchez Bezos is dishing on the cringe-worthy morning ritual she shares with the world’s third-richest man. The 56-year-old wife of Jeff Bezos, 62, told the New York Times that she and the tech billionaire start their day at 6 a.m. by listing 10 things they are grateful for —with one rule: no repeats from…

Virtually every major outlet has referred to JD Vance’s one day bid to make peace a “marathon,” reaching new heights of infantilizing measures for these clowns. We’ll get more details of why that effort failed: once again the US came without experts, JD had to keep calling Daddy (who was busy at a UFC match),…

LNG Shock Hits Supply Chains as War Disrupts Global Flows | OilPrice.com Irina Slav Irina is a writer for Oilprice.com with over a decade of experience writing on the oil and gas industry. More Info Trending Discussions Premium Content By Irina Slav – Apr 12, 2026, 6:00 PM CDT The Middle East war has triggered…

Asian stocks fall as naval blockade threat injects new turmoil into financial markets. Published On 13 Apr 202613 Apr 2026 Oil prices have risen sharply following US President Donald Trump’s announcement of a naval blockade of Iran. Brent crude, the international benchmark, rose more than 8 percent on Sunday to top $103 a barrel. Recommended…

Just days before Christmas 2025, leaders of nine pharmaceutical companies clustered in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, where Teddy Roosevelt’s 1906 Nobel Peace Prize once hung. Photographers flocked for pictures as the executives, three women and six men, stood awkwardly, tapping their feet and drumming their fingers while waiting for President Donald Trump….

President Donald Trump’s economy seems to be doing well now but that could rapidly change, according to a respected financial journalist. “Based solely on performance, Wall Street has been thrilled to have President Donald Trump in the White House,” wrote The Motley Fool’s Sean Williams on Sunday. “During Trump’s first, non-consecutive term, the mature-stock-driven Dow…

The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. Ford has been in a multi-year process of renovating its world headquarters campus, actively changing the longstanding architectural landscape in Dearborn. As originally reported by Automotive News, these changes involved renaming Carroll…

Online data is generally pretty secure. Assuming everyone is careful with passwords and other protections, you can think of it as being locked in a vault so strong that even all the world’s supercomputers, working together for 10,000 years, could not crack it. But last month, Google and others released results suggesting a new kind…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home appears to have been the target of a second attack Sunday morning, two days after a 20-year-old man allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at the property, The Standard has learned. The San Francisco Police Department announced (opens in new tab) the arrests of Amanda Tom, 25, and Muhamad Tarik Hussein,…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell summoned bank executives for a meeting this week where they encouraged the executives to use Anthropic’s new Mythos model to detect vulnerabilities, according to Bloomberg.  Indeed, while JPMorgan Chase was the only bank listed as one of the initial partner organizations with access to the…

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech OpenAI leaders horrified staffers after proposing an “insane” plan to enrich the company by pitting world governments against each other. This anecdote of near comic-book-villainry comes from The New Yorker’s sweeping new investigation into CEO Sam Altman, which…

X is cutting back on payments to accounts that are “flooding the timeline” with clickbait and rapid-fire news aggregation, according to its head of product Nikita Bier. Bier wrote Saturday that “[a]ll aggregators had their payouts reduced to 60% this cycle” and said they’ll see another 20% reduction in the next pay cycle. He also…

American Airlines pilots will finally be able to offer airplane trading cards to passengers, though it’s proving to be a bit controversial. In this post: American pilots now have access to airplane trading cards Airlines try to create brand loyal customers (or so they claim), and also like to encourage people to be aviation geeks,…

A hotel at one of Miami’s most exclusive locations was demolished Sunday to make way for something bigger.Demolition experts completed the controlled implosion of the former Mandarin Oriental, Miami, on Brickell Key, a human-made island at the mouth of the Miami River, across from downtown. It marked the largest implosion for Miami in more than…

A Southern California couple is sharing a warning to other potential homebuyers after they said they fell victim to a mortgage fraud scheme that nearly cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars. The couple, who asked ABC News to identify them only by their first names, Lynette and Scott, said the incident occurred when they…

Saturday night, footage was posted of an eye popping United Airlines arrival into Newark, filmed from a car’s dashcam. The plane looks to me like a Boeing 777 on short final. Its landing gear is down and it’s descending onto runway 29. The car appears to be near the Newark Airport / I-78 – US…

As Californians face soaring prices at the gas pump, the newly re-opened Santa Ynez Pipeline is now churning out 60,000 barrels of oil a day. During an exclusive visit to the newly reopened platforms, where oil is once again flowing through onshore pipelines in Santa Barbara following a Trump executive order, The California Post sat down with…

Vytautas Kielaitis/Shutterstock If you thought that the US Air Force had enough planes to ensure it didn’t have to venture into the used airliner market, then think again. It turns out that the USAF is buying Boeing 747s from German airline Lufthansa. However, this isn’t the Air Force “spreading its wings” and opening up a…

Oil prices are jumping 7% as President Trump orders a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, tightening global supply. At the same time, empty tankers originally bound for the Middle East have rerouted to U.S. Gulf Coast ports, snapping up domestic crude and giving American producers an extra lift. Brent crude jumped to $96 per…

At the HumanX AI conference in San Francisco this week, thousands of techies descended upon the city’s Moscone Center, where discussion focused on the ways agentic AI is changing the business. Agents, which automate business and coding tasks, have begun to be deployed across industries — largely through enterprise and consumer-focused chatbots. Naturally, I wanted…