Meta AI star Yann LeCun is reportedly leaving the company. These quotes explain why. – Business Insider

A trader works as the Dow Jones Industrial Average surpasses the 50,000 mark on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., Feb. 6, 2026. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Stocks surged on Friday as technology stocks recovered following several days of heavy selling in the sector and bitcoin rebounded…

Netflix has triumphed so far in the bidding war for WBD, but Paramount has launched a hostile bid and threatened a proxy fight © Reuters Netflix is facing a US government antitrust review into its nearly $83bn deal to buy Warner Bros Discovery, as Paramount continues to pursue a rival bid for the Hollywood media…

Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. NEW ORLEANS — A cholesterol-lowering injection that’s been on the market for nearly a decade has now shown its power to cut cardiovascular events in people considered at high risk but who…

Seven families filed lawsuits against OpenAI on Thursday, claiming that the company’s GPT-4o model was released prematurely and without effective safeguards. Four of the lawsuits address ChatGPT’s alleged role in family members’ suicides, while the other three claim that ChatGPT reinforced harmful delusions that in some cases resulted in inpatient psychiatric care. In one case,…

The Delaware Supreme Court made its ruling in the fight over Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s $55 billion pay package from 2018, reversing the Court of Chancery’s decision and reinstating the pay package. But the Court still penalized Musk $1 plus attorney’s fees due to the award’s unfairness. The ruling is the latest and likely last…

(These are the market notes on today’s action by Mike Santoli, CNBC’s Senior Markets Commentator. See today’s video update from Mike above.) The market’s ability to absorb the unwind of the AI-infrastructure trade is being tested more urgently; its efforts to rotate away from danger by moving to banks, value stocks and consumer cyclicals hitting…