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The JPMorgan Chase & Co. building before the ribbon cutting ceremony, at the firm’s new headquarters at 270 Park Avenue, in New York City, U.S., Oct. 21, 2025.Eduardo Munoz | ReutersA JPMorgan Chase-led group of banks cut their exposure to a private credit fund co-managed by KKR days before the asset manager announced it was spending $300 million to prop up the troubled vehicle.The fund, FS KKR Capital Corp., said Monday in a release that KKR will inject $150 million into the fund as equity and spend another $150 million to buy shares from investors who want to exit. Those…

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As of Monday, footage from Forza Horizon 6 can be seen in multiple YouTube videos and livestreams. In March, an unencrypted copy of Death Stranding 2 was similarly uploaded to Steam days before the game’s PC release, leading almost immediately to its availability on piracy sites. But Death Stranding 2 had already been available for over a year on the PlayStation 5 when that leak happened, somewhat blunting its overall impact. Back in 2018, the Denuvo copy protection for Hitman 2 was broken days before the game’s official launch date, thanks to the quick work of crackers working on an…

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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump greets Elon Musk as he arrives to attend a viewing of the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas.Brandon Bell | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump has invited executives from some of the biggest U.S. companies — including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Apple CEO Tim Cook, BlackRock’s CEO Larry Fink and Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg — to join his trip to China this week, according to a White House official.Also expected to join Trump’s delegation for meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping…

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Fear is a powerful emotion. Fear of missing out might even be more potent.Case in point: the rally in chips.The immediate impulse might be to jump in. If you’re in that camp, a more measured approach might be to use options and risk less capital.Chipmaker Applied Materials offers an interesting opportunity. The company reports earnings on Thursday. For investors looking to express a bullish view while avoiding the capital commitment and downside exposure of outright equity ownership, the June 400/480 in-the-money call spread offers an attractive alternative to long stock. By purchasing the “in-the-money” June 400 call, which is well…

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President Donald Trump on Monday said that what remains of the U.S. ceasefire with Iran is “on life support” after Tehran sent an “unacceptable” counter to Washington’s proposal to end the war.The state of the month-old truce is “unbelievably weak,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.”I would call it the weakest, right now, after reading that piece of garbage they sent us — I didn’t even finish reading it,” Trump said.”I would say the ceasefire is on massive life support, where the doctor walks in and says, ‘Sir, your loved one has approximately a 1% chance of living,'” he…

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White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett on Monday shrugged off any negative impact of artificial intelligence on employment, saying the emergent technology isn’t costing anyone their jobs right now.”There’s no sign in the data that AI is costing anybody their job right now, but we are studying the future of AI and what it means for the workforce, so we’ve got a big taskforce on that,” Hassett told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”Hassett’s comments come amid a wave of tech layoffs, as companies like Amazon, Meta and Oracle have announced rounds of job cuts, with some emphasizing AI’s role in…

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Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Technology sector myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.It’s a common view that EU growth policy amounts to stifling the first spark of entrepreneurial initiative with the dead hand of risk-averse technocracy (or “the dreaded EU working group”, as US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent quipped). It’s at least as true to say that EU policymaking is shaped by something more visceral but not necessarily better: an intense sense of Fomo.That fear of missing out is certainly the case for digital tech policy in general, and specifically for AI, the hottest…

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