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The Air “pebble” slots into bands from the bottom. Credit: Google The Air “pebble” slots into bands from the bottom. Credit: Google The Fitbit Air will have all the standard wearable health sensors: heart rate, accelerometer/gyroscope, infrared SpO2, and skin temperature. Google notes that the heart rate monitor isn’t as advanced as the one in the latest Pixel Watches, so the Air might not be as accurate during vigorous activity. The Air also has a vibration motor that can be used for alarms, but it’s not going to buzz for phone notifications like a smartwatch. The Fitbit Air launches on…
Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: Planet Fitness — Shares fell nearly 33% after the gym operator lowered its full-year earnings outlook. The company now sees its bottom line growing about 4% year on year. That’s down from a forecast that called for an expansion of 9% to 10%. Vital Farms — The egg producer’s stock dropped 20% on a surprise loss for the first quarter. Vital Farms lost 3 cents per share, excluding certain items. Analysts polled by FactSet expected a profit of 6 cents per share. The company also cut its full-year earnings outlook. Datadog…
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Paul Tudor Jones speaks onstage during the 2024 Robin Hood Benefit at Jacob Javits Center on May 13, 2024 in New York City.Kevin Kane | Getty ImagesBillionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones sent a warning signal on Thursday, arguing that the U.S. is late to the game on artificial intelligence regulation. “We need to do it tomorrow,” he told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Thursday. “We’re late already. We should have already done it.”According to Jones, governments need to watermark AI to distinguish between real content and deepfakes. As he raised these concerns, Jones also told CNBC that he recently…
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Customers browse in a used car lot in Glendale, California, Feb. 15, 2023.Mario Tama | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesDETROIT — Used car prices fell last month for the first time since October as gas prices rose amid the war in Iran.Cox Automotive’s Manheim Used Vehicle Value Index — which tracks prices of used vehicles sold at its U.S. wholesale auctions — decreased 1.6% last month compared with March and were up 1.8% compared with the same month a year earlier. Cox said affordability remains a key concern for buyers, which is driving increased demand for older vehicles and…
Investing.com — stock rose +2.75% in mid-day trading today to reach $425.35, extending a recovery from its 52-week low of $356.28 hit in late March, as a combination of a software stock recovery, lingering post-earnings momentum, fresh analyst upgrades, and a positive corporate action drove renewed buying interest. Microsoft’s fiscal Q3 2026 results, reported on April 29, showed revenue of $82.9 billion — an 18% year-over-year increase — with operating income rising 20% and diluted EPS of $4.27. That EPS figure beat the consensus estimate of $4.06, representing a 5.18% positive surprise. Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing unit, surged 40% in…
Last fall, we featured an extensive interview with Petter Törnberg of the University of Amsterdam, who studies the underlying mechanisms of social media that give rise to its worst aspects: the partisan echo chambers, the concentration of influence among a small group of elite users (attention inequality), and the amplification of the most extreme divisive voices. He wasn’t optimistic about social media’s future. Törnberg’s research showed that, while numerous platform-level intervention strategies have been proposed to combat these issues, none are likely to be effective. And it’s not the fault of much-hated algorithms, non-chronological feeds, or our human proclivity for…
Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg is expected to join President Donald Trump on his visit to China next week, a source familiar with the planemaker’s plans told CNBC on Thursday.Trump is currently set to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on May 14 and 15.Ortberg signaled in an earnings call late last month that China could soon place an order for a “big number” of Boeing planes, breaking a yearslong drought for the company.But any new deal with China is “100% dependent” on U.S.-Chinese relations, including the outcome of the Trump-Xi summit, Ortberg said.While Boeing has recently resumed deliveries…
GameStop’s mysterious financing letter underpinning its audacious $56 billion bid for eBay is emerging as a central issue in the proposed takeover, as questions mount over whether the deal is actually financeable.The video game retailer said it has lined up a $20 billion financing commitment from TD Securities, part of TD Bank. But a key condition attached to this letter could ultimately make or break the deal: the combined company would need to maintain an investment-grade credit profile, CNBC’s David Faber reported, citing people who have seen the document. Moody’s Ratings said Wednesday the proposed acquisition would be “credit negative”…