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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman walks between meetings on Capitol Hill, in Washington, U.S., July 29, 2026.Nathan Howard | ReutersOpenAI completed a secondary share sale totaling roughly $7 billion, allowing current and former employees to sell stock at the company’s $852 billion valuation, CNBC confirmed on Monday.The tender offer has been in the works since OpenAI closed its record-breaking $122 billion funding round in March. The deal will help alleviate some near-term pressure for liquidity, allowing employees to cash in a portion of their holdings ahead the company’s potentially massive IPO.Bloomberg was first to report the $7 billion figure.OpenAI rocketed into…

Trump Media & Technology Group on Monday reported a net loss of more than $238 million for its fiscal second quarter on revenue of less than $2 million.That loss, which dwarfed the almost $20 million it lost in the same period last year, was primarily due to declines in non-cash assets, including more than $190 million in losses from “digital assets, digital assets pledged, and equity securities,” the company said in a press release.The company’s $1.7 million in quarterly revenue mostly came through ad services on Truth Social, TMTG’s flagship social media product, which is used by President Donald Trump.…

Taylor Farms’ record Taylor Farms, based in Salinas, California, is a major distributor of fresh produce in the US. It has recently been in headlines for its connection to an ongoing, 47-state outbreak of the parasite Cyclospora. Taylor Farms’ Mexican-grown iceberg lettuce, distributed to at least 27 states, has been linked to cases in at least 15 states so far. In all, at least 22,723 cases of cyclosporiasis (confirmed and probable) have been reported in the US this year, according to the CDC. The total easily sets a record above standard yearly cases, which have been between 2,000 and 5,000…

New vape shops will require planning permission and councils will get more powers to stop betting shops, under government plans aimed at improving high streets.Prime Minister Andy Burnham said town centres had been “hollowed out” by decades of decline and “for many people, the high streets they grew up with have become unrecognisable”.BBC News has exposed organised crime on high streets across the country, revealing shops selling illegal cigarettes and vapes, selling cannabis and cocaine, enabling illegal working and suspected money-laundering.The Conservatives and Reform said the proposals would lead to “more empty” shops, without tax relief for other small businesses.Burnham…

Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesCybersecurity stocks CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks jumped more than 5% to new highs on Monday on renewed demand for artificial intelligence security tools following the industry’s annual Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. “The single most consistent theme across our conversations — partners, vendors, and customers alike — was that AI agents have fundamentally changed the threat landscape,” wrote analysts at BTIG in a note to clients.While AI agents have become the predominant attack threat and the environment is “meaningfully worse,” deployment and AI security tools are only in the early innings,” they…

Talk of the affordability crisis may be penetrating corporate boardrooms. Hot on the heels of the name and starting price for Ford’s new affordable electric truck, news leaked today that the sub-$30,000 Fathom isn’t the only cheap Ford in the works. According to a report at Automotive News, the automaker is working on a new entry-level crossover that will start at around $25,000, although don’t expect it in showrooms until 2029. The leak is courtesy of an unnamed Ford dealer, which, together with its peers, was shown an early prototype described as resembling a first-gen Ford Escape. The crossover is…

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks at Red Rock Casino Resort Spa in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., Aug. 5, 2026. Evelyn Hockstein | ReutersThe Trump administration on Monday narrowed its waiver of the Jones Act while extending it for another 90 days, leaving in place fewer U.S. shipping restrictions in an effort to keep fuel flowing amid the Iran war.President Donald Trump’s second extension of the waiver comes as the war continues to create economic turmoil through the disruption of global oil markets, just a few months before inflation-weary Americans head to vote in the midterm elections.After the Trump administration’s…

NVIDIA Corp. CEO Jensen Huang speaks during a joint press conference with representatives of Fujitsu Ltd., FANUC Corp. YASKAWA Electric Corp. and Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. on July 16, 2026, in Tokyo, Japan. Tomohiro Ohsumi | Getty ImagesNvidia is working with some of Wall Street’s largest asset management firms on a $500 billion effort to finance artificial intelligence infrastructure, a person familiar with the matter told CNBC Monday.The chipmaker has enlisted Apollo Global Management, Blackstone, BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners unit, Brookfield Asset Management, Goldman Sachs and KKR to assemble the capital package, according to the person, who spoke on the…

A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. NYSEGoldman Sachs’ Ashok Varadhan has a simple message for investors worried about higher interest rates, elevated oil prices and the durability of the economy: stay invested.Varadhan, the firm’s co-head of global banking and markets, pointed to three reasons for his constructive outlook: He doesn’t expect the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates this year, sees oil falling well below $70 a barrel later in 2026, and believes a resilient economy will increasingly benefit from productivity gains tied to artificial intelligence.”Stay invested would be my advice,” Varadhan said in…

Any dog owner would tell you that their canine companions are attuned to their humans’ emotional state and respond accordingly. Scientists have performed fMRI scans on dogs and identified a specific brain region that processes happy human facial expresses, like a smile, according to a new paper published in the journal iScience. They also found that dogs can tell the difference between negative facial expressions, specifically anger, sadness, and fear. “Humans are really good at picking up small details on the face, and so are dogs,” said co-author Raúl Hernández-Pérez of the University of Vienna. “This makes dogs very interesting.…