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RENTON, WASHINGTON — Boeing will begin building new 737 Max airplanes on July 6 at a final assembly line it’s opening north of Seattle, CEO Kelly Ortberg told CNBC on Friday.  “We’re adding another production line, it’s really a carbon copy of what you see here in Renton,” Ortberg said. “We’ll be loading our first airplane on July 6, so just about a month from now, we’ll be bringing that [fourth] line alive.” The new 737 Max final assembly line in Everett, Washington, will serve as a catalyst for increasing Max production to 52 jets per month — a pace that’s expected to…

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So it will be really quite quick. Zero to 62 mph (100 km/h) takes 2.6 seconds. Zero to 125 mph (200 km/h) is just 6.8 seconds. Don’t expect a Veyron-rivaling top speed, but Audi says it will do more than 217 mph (350 km/h, assuming you have somewhere to try those kinds of top speeds. The powertrain combines three 148 hp (110 kW) axial flux electric motors—two for the front wheels and one for the rear axle—with the 788 hp (588 kW) V8, which still manages to rev to 10,000 rpm despite a pair of turbochargers. The lithium-ion traction battery…

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Bitcoin signage in Times Square in New York, Dec. 9, 2025.Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesBitcoin’s dire start to June worsened on Friday, with the cryptocurrency on course to trade more than 17% lower for the week. The week-long sell-off was exacerbated after a stronger-than-expected May jobs report sent yields higher and pressured risk assets. Bitcoin fell 4% on the day to $60,856.33.The last time it traded below $60k was on September 18, 2024.The decline began after crypto treasury company Strategy sold a small amount of its bitcoin holding, weighing on sentiment and forcing hundreds of millions of dollars in…

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SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attend an event to pitch AI for businesses in Tokyo, Japan Feb. 3, 2025. Kim Kyung-Hoon | ReutersOpenAI’s next model is being designed by another model in a sign that AI is reaching “superintelligence,” SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son told CNBC.The billionaire’s comments come amid a warning from Anthropic that artificial intelligence development may need to be slowed down to deal with the implications of the rapid pace of improvement. Son runs SoftBank, one of the world’s biggest tech investors and one of the largest OpenAI shareholders. In an interview with CNBC…

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Amazon’s original Proteus robot has been rolled out in 25 fulfilment centers in the U.S.Sawdah BhaimiyaAmazon has unveiled its latest warehouse robot that can take commands in conversational language, underscoring how AI-powered automation is advancing as companies continue to slash their corporate workforce in AI-driven efficiencies. The tech giant’s next-generation Proteus is an autonomous mobile robot, which is designed to understand natural language commands from workers and transport items in warehouses. It was launched at the company’s Delivering the Future event in London on Thursday. The original Proteus was first deployed in Amazon fulfillment centers in 2022 to assist workers,…

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Daniel Radcliffe takes a bow onstage during curtain call at “Every Brilliant Thing” Opening Night at Hudson Theatre on March 12, 2026 in New York City. Theo Wargo | Getty ImagesBroadway just wrapped its highest-grossing season on record, offering another sign that consumers are willing to spend on experiences even as concerns about inflation and economic uncertainty linger.The 2025-2026 show season topped the prior year’s record and generated nearly $1.91 billion in ticket sales, according to industry data from The Broadway League.”Even in a challenging economic environment, Broadway remained notably on par with last season, reflecting both the resilience of…

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I was raised in a Mac household, beginning with the 128k and extending through the Plus, the Classic II, and so many Performas. (One of my dad’s friends even gifted me a Newton. Like Jobs himself, I found the experience of actually using it quite confounding.) By 1998 and 1999, we were all surfing those Bondi Blue iMac G3 waves—my high school journalism classroom even had a few! It was the dawn of a new millennium, and Y2K fears aside, things were looking pretty good. At the time, I knew only vaguely about why Apple had struggled—OK, sucked—in the mid-90s.…

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