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Wall Street’s longest running saga: The race to succeed JPMorgan CEO Jamie DimonCo-CEOs of Commercial & Investment Bank at JPMorganChase, Troy Rohrbaugh and Douglas Petno.Courtesy: JPMorganChaseThis will be the first chance that analysts have to directly ask JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon questions about succession planning after the sudden exit of Marianne Lake, who had been considered a top candidate.As CNBC and others reported last month, Dimon expects to remain CEO for roughly three more years, though that timeline could change, according to two people with knowledge of his thinking. After that, he’ll spend some time as chairman.Since Dimon has spent…

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“The film needed Tom,” Iñárritu said via video at a Warner Bros. screening last week. “We wanted to work together since the beginning of the century. I admired him as an actor for years, and that wasn’t a surprise for me. The surprise was discovering that the human being behind the actor was just as extraordinary as the performances I will see throughout his career. The transformation he went through was astonishing.” If the film turns out to be as good as this trailer, Cruise (and Iñárritu) might be looking at another Oscar nomination. John Goodman co-stars as a geriatric…

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Humanoid robot startup LimX Dynamics shows off its products at its Shenzhen, China, office on July 3, 2026.Evelyn Cheng | CNBCBEIJING — Humanoid startup LimX Dynamics is getting ready to go public, just over four years after it was founded during the pandemic.”Listing is a must,” said founder Will Zhang, emphasizing the importance of timing. He was speaking to reporters ahead of the company’s announcement Tuesday that it had raised $200 million in a pre-IPO round. Zhang compared the situation to Chinese electric car startups Nio, Xpeng and Li Auto, which successively listed in the U.S. from 2018 to 2020.…

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“Theaters, distributors, and the viewing public should not be forced to rely on Defendants’ empty commitments to protect them from the effects of an unlawful merger. They are better served if Paramount and Warner Bros. continue to compete for their business,” the lawsuit said. States do the job DOJ “refused to do” States further alleged that the merger will give Paramount too much control over the market for TV programming, and would be able to use that as leverage in bargaining with distributors: A distributor who rejects the combined company’s fee demands would risk losing, for example, CNN for news…

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AI agents are designed to do more than answer questions. They are meant to complete tasks. Sierra co-founder Clay Bavor joins CNBC’s Arjun Kharpal to discuss how AI agents are moving from demos into real business workflows, especially in customer service, sales and support.AI agents are designed to do more than answer questions. They are meant to complete tasks.Sierra co-founder Clay Bavor joins CNBC’s Arjun Kharpal to discuss how AI agents are moving from demos into real business workflows, especially in customer service, sales and support. Bavor explains how Sierra builds and tests customer-facing AI agents before they go live, why…

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Commercial buildings illuminated at dusk in Singapore, on Monday, Feb. 2, 2026. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesBloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesTaiwan’s second-largest contract chipmaker, United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), announced Tuesday its first mass-produced silicon photonics wafers manufactured within its Singapore facility.UMC is aiming to address the growing demand for high-speed optical interconnects in AI and hyperscaler data center networks.Collaborating with SILITH Technology, a local fabless chip design company, the joint team brought the silicon photonics platform from development to production readiness in 18 months, securing the technology to support next-generation AI infrastructure, UMC said in a statement. UMC…

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Higher-for-longer interest rates were once heralded as an attractive yield driver for private credit investors, but industry professionals say tighter monetary policy is becoming the sector’s next major stress point. Global central banks are grappling with renewed inflation pressures, following the energy squeeze caused by the Middle East war, which is raising the prospect of further interest rate hikes. That’s a problem for private credit, where debt is typically floating-rate — meaning debt-servicing costs for underlying borrowers in many portfolios are likely to stay higher, while lenders are forced to distinguish between temporary flexibility and deeper credit stress.It comes as…

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