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Although reports indicate—and Adams said was the case in Utah—that communities have genuine concerns fueling the rise in opposition, not everyone agrees that the immense community backlash in the US is rational or proportionate. On Bluesky, Will Stancil, a lawyer, activist, and housing policy researcher, commented on HeatMap’s poll, suggesting it seemed unusual for public opinion to shift so quickly without “some major data center disaster.” In his thread, Stancil boosted a reply suggesting that data center backlash “hit the algo,” raising a theory that social media is possibly driving anti-data center sentiment. And while O’Leary blamed himself and Adams for…

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The Federal Reserve logo is visible on the William McChesney Martin Jr. Building on December 9, 2025 in Washington, DC. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesChances that the Federal Reserve increases interest rates this year shot up from 25.3% to 52% in the last week on prediction markets platform Kalshi. Those odds come after Friday’s report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed nonfarm payrolls hit 172,000, comfortably exceeding Dow Jones expectations of 80,000. A Fed hike before July 2027 also jumped from 54% to 65% in the past week on Kalshi.Fed rates increasing mean the Federal Reserve…

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This photograph shows a set up smart-phone screen displaying the logo of main social media platforms including Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit, Telegram, X, Bluesky, Tiktok and Whatsapp.Martin Lelievre | Afp | Getty ImagesGovernment action to ban social media platforms risks strengthening Big Tech’s grip on the industry further, limiting access for smaller players, an exec at BlueSky has warned.Rose Wang, Bluesky’s chief operating officer, told CNBC on the sidelines of SXSW in London on Wednesday that the smaller open-source platform isn’t opposed to regulation but that smaller players in the industry should be protected. “I support the protection and the…

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(Check out Carter’s worthcharting.com for actionable recommendations and live nightly videos.) The Philadelphia Stock Exchange Semiconductor Index finally has recouped all its relative losses to the S & P 500 Information Technology Sector. It can only be one of two things from here, going forward: A “triple top,” which means go underweight semis vis-à-vis any tech sector exposure…or “records are meant to be broken,” which means remain overweight/get overweight semis in anticipation of a breakout in the relative strength chart- to new all-time highs. Frankly, it’s a coin toss here. An interesting and critical juncture, as all will know. We…

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“Following new leaks, Roscosmos has elected to proceed with a more extensive repair operation on Friday, June 5,” NASA spokesperson Bethany Stevens wrote on X. “Out of an abundance of caution, NASA has directed all four of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-12 members and NASA astronaut Chris Williams to assume an elevated safety posture in the Dragon spacecraft while the repair is underway.” Back to normal After about 90 minutes, the communications officer at mission control in Houston told the crew that they could reopen hatches and reenter the space station. The specific repair task that caused NASA to issue the…

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Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. Stocks are falling hard on Friday , likely putting an end to the S & P 500 ‘s 9-week win streak. After driving the market’s gains for the past several months, technology and AI infrastructure stocks sold off sharply, sending the Nasdaq down about 3% and marking its worst day since October. The AI trade started to wobble on Thursday after Broadcom failed to raise its 2026 and 2027 AI semiconductor…

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Apple heads into next week’s Worldwide Developers Conference with its stock near record highs, iPhone momentum improving and one unresolved question hanging over Tim Cook’s final developer conference as CEO: Can Apple finally deliver the artificial intelligence experience it promised two years ago?The expected centerpiece of WWDC is a major overhaul of Siri, Apple’s long-criticized voice assistant. Analysts expect Apple to show a more powerful version of Siri with a standalone chatbot-style app, personal context, on-screen awareness, the ability to handle multi-step commands and deeper routing to outside models, potentially including Google’s Gemini.For investors, WWDC is a test of whether…

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New Chairman of the Federal Reserve Kevin Warsh arrives during a swearing in ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on May 22, 2026. Aaron Schwartz | Afp | Getty ImagesAnother big jobs report in May has pretty much swept aside the possibility of interest rate cuts anytime soon — and in the process underscored the tricky policy path ahead for new Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh.The chance of rate reductions already had been on life support heading into Friday’s nonfarm payrolls report. But the unexpectedly strong gain of 172,000, compounded by sharp upward revisions…

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