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A Waymo autonomous taxi outside the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, US, on Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesWaymo is recalling almost 3,900 robotaxis in the U.S. to fix software issues after some cars drove into freeway construction zones, according to notices filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.The voluntary recall, the Alphabet-owned company’s second in just over a month, followed 13 known incidents where Waymo robotaxis drove into construction zones on freeways in Phoenix, or entered freeway lanes with active construction in the San Francisco area, the filings published Thursday said. Waymo’s…

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United States Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gives a statement as he arrives for a NATO Defence Ministers meeting on June 18, 2026 in Brussels, Belgium. Omar Havana | Getty ImagesDefense Secretary ​Pete Hegseth announced a Pentagon-led review of American forces in Europe on Thursday, and criticized some NATO allies over defense spending and reluctance to participate in the Iran war. “It’s a ​review that some countries ‌will ⁠fail, and others will pass with flying colors,” Hegseth ​told ​NATO ⁠defense ministers in Brussels, Reuters reported. Hegseth added that the six-month review is designed to “ensure that NATO is moving fast and irreversibly”…

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A student student sits in a lecture hall while class is being dismissed at the University of Texas at Austin on Feb. 22, 2024 in Austin, Texas.Brandon Bell | Getty ImagesThe Trump administration announced on Thursday that it will offer federal student loan borrowers who sign up for autopay a 1-percentage-point reduction on their interest rate, starting July 1. Borrowers on autopay currently have access to a 0.25-percentage-point discount.Federal student loan holders who aren’t already enrolled in autopay have until Sept. 30 to do so, if they want to benefit from the lower interest rate. The discount will last through…

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In May, the federal government announced without warning that it would take apart a network of ocean monitoring systems that it had spent over $350 million to build. No reason was given for the decision to shut down the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), but suspicion immediately focused on the network’s role in tracking climate change. But the OOI also provides data that’s useful for weather forecasting and fisheries management, leading to widespread opposition. Today, it appears that the opposition has won, as the government will announce that it’s reversing the decision. The big remaining question is how much damage the…

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SpaceX celebrates their IPO at the Nasdaq on June 12th, 2026.Adam Jeffery | CNBCThe average investor who bought SpaceX shares in the open market after its debut has seen nearly all of their gains disappear as a sharp pullback erased a large chunk of the stock’s post-IPO surge.Shares of SpaceX fell 6% Thursday to just under $180 a share. The stock’s five-day volume-weighted average price, or VWAP, is $179 a share. VWAP measures the average price a security has traded throughout the day, weighted by trading volume and is widely used by traders to gauge investors’ positioning.The move suggests the…

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NBA Deputy Commissioner Mark Tatum speaks during the second round of the 2019 NBA Draft at the Barclays Center on June 20, 2019 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.Sarah Stier | Getty ImagesThe NBA plans to name winning bidders for 12 permanent European teams in the next 60 to 90 days, Deputy Commissioner Mark Tatum said in an exclusive CNBC interview. The European league remains on track to debut in October 2027, he said. The 12 new teams will be located in Rome, Milan, London, Manchester, Paris, Lyon, Madrid, Barcelona, Berlin, Munich, Athens and Istanbul. They’ll be joined by…

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