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A German national flag on a barge near the Volkswagen AG factory in Wolfsburg, Germany, on Tuesday, March 10, 2026.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesGerman auto giant Volkswagen on Friday reported weaker-than-expected second-quarter profit, citing the discontinuation of its top electric vehicle in the U.S. and negative mix effects, as it revised down its sales forecast for 2026.Europe’s biggest carmaker posted an operating profit of 3.5 billion euros ($3.98 billion) for the April to June period, down nearly 10% from a year ago and missing expectations of 4.3 billion euros, according to an LSEG-compiled consensus. The company also flagged it…
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With the genome sequencing, the researchers estimated that the bacteria in the two urine samples diverged from a common ancestor one to two years before the woman’s current state. Then, more recently, the hypervirulent urine bacteria disseminated, spreading to the woman’s brain. The woman’s doctors noted that two years before her brain abscess, she was hospitalized with a urinary tract infection. Heterovirulence Bacterial evolution within a single patient is not particularly new. Infecting bacteria often adapt to have a fitness advantage in their victim. But in most cases, the variant with the biggest edge overtakes the population. In less common…
Soldiers from the US Army in a simulated village during the Combined Resolve “Greywolves” exercise at the US military Hohenfels Training Area in Hohenfels, Germany, on Thursday, April 30, 2026. Alex Kraus | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe Pentagon lowered its official death toll for the Iran war to 14 from 18 in the space of a day, after the Trump administration removed four service members killed this month from the count, according to the defense casualty analysis system. The Pentagon’s casualty database showed seven of the 14 total deaths were classified as “hostile.” The New York Times reported the change…
A visitor walks next to the logo of the Indian multinational pharmaceutical company Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories during the Bio Asia 2026 summit in Hyderabad, Telangana, India, on February 18, 2026. (Photo by Jwala Kotesh/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesU.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs on generic drugs will increase the price of these medicines for patients in the country, Erez Israeli, the chief executive of Indian drugmaker Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, told CNBC’s ‘Inside India’ on Thursday.Generic drugs are a low-margin business and “this kind of level of tariff cannot be absorbed” by the company, Israeli said, adding…
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CANADA – 2026/05/23: In this photo illustration, the CXMT (ChangXin Memory Technologies) logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen. (Photo Illustration by Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesChangXin Memory Technologies’ massive listing is stoking fears that its market debut could pull cash from Chinese equities, as investors raise funds to get a piece of the country’s largest memory chipmaker. The Shanghai STAR Market listing, expected on July 27, has become the latest focus for investors after Chinese technology shares pulled back in recent sessions. CXMT raised $8.6 billion in Asia’s largest IPO so far…
Late media mogul Ted Turner used conservation easements to preserve ranch land, including nearly 114,000 acres south of Bozeman, Montana.Kevin Fleming | Corbis Documentary | Getty ImagesA version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.Congress is moving to expand a land preservation tax incentive that has spent nearly a decade under IRS scrutiny. House and Senate proposals of the farm bill would create a new program to provide funding to landowners who agree to keep forests intact…
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Scenarios covered by the bill text include when an AI pursues a goal that is not the goal intended by the system’s developer or operator, when it sabotages or interferes with a lawful instruction to shut down, and when it conceals a capability or action from monitoring or shutdown mechanisms. More ominously, the law would cover “conduct of such technology that is unintended by a developer or operator of such technology and causes the death of not fewer than 10 individuals or economic damages of not less than $100,000,000.” While that is an extreme scenario, the other scenarios described in…