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Intel’s latest earnings report showed big demand for central processing units, or CPUs, as companies rush to build out their artificial intelligence capabilities, sending its stock surging. The numbers led investors to scoop up shares of another major chipmaker: Advanced Micro Devices. AMD shares soared more than 12% on Friday as Wall Street analysts were caught off guard by Intel’s CPU performance — which they believe will translate to other big CPU makers.”We figured CPUs were the next big bottleneck, but Intel’s results indicate that is already translating to very significant upside,” D.A. Davidson analyst Gil Luria wrote for in…
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference following a meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee at the Federal Reserve on Oct. 29, 2025 in Washington, DC.Alex Wong | Getty ImagesKevin Warsh, nominee for chairman of the Federal Reserve, arrives for his Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee confirmation hearing in Dirksen building on Tuesday, April 21, 2026. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty ImagesPirro said Friday that the Fed’s inspector general, an internal watchdog, had been asked to investigate cost overruns in the headquarters project, which had been the purported basis for her…
Crowlands Heath Golf Club features nine holes, two swans and, at £950, one of the cheaper annual membership fees in London. In the coming years, it might instead have close to 1,300 homes, if a recent proposal to redevelop the course moves forward. The golf course and its 78 members have landed in the unlikely foreground of a citywide debate over housing and its chronic undersupply. As the UK’s Labour government struggles to meet its election promises to deliver homes, some are pointing to underused golf courses as a means of helping achieve that goal. Housebuilding is proceeding at sclerotic…
A yearslong legal brawl between Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman heads to court in Northern California on Monday in a dramatic showdown between two of the most high-profile names in the tech industry. In his $134 billion lawsuit, Musk claimed that OpenAI, Altman and the company’s president, Greg Brockman, reneged on a vow they made to keep the artificial intelligence lab a nonprofit in perpetuity. OpenAI has since restructured so that it can operate a for-profit subsidiary, and it’s now valued at over $850 billion. Musk and Altman were once close friends, and were…
WASHINGTON, April 24 (Reuters) – Canada has approved a $4 billion natural gas expansion of ’s Westcoast pipeline system in British Columbia, the company said on Friday, in a move that will add about 300 million cubic feet per day of capacity to the network. The Sunrise Expansion Program is expected to contribute more than $3 billion to Canada’s economy and involve the hiring of about 2,500 workers from local communities and indigenous groups during construction, Enbridge said. The expansion will include constructing new pipeline segments along the existing system, additional natural gas compression capacity and upgrades and modifications to…
But where money does that come from? … SpaceX expects more than 90 percent of that market, or $26.5 trillion, to stem from the AI sector. The vast majority of that, $22.7 trillion, could come from AI for businesses. The company is moving ahead with an IPO expected this summer targeting a valuation of roughly $1.75 trillion and seeking to raise about $75 billion, which would make it the largest initial public offering in history. “We believe we have identified the largest actionable total addressable market in human history,” according to the filing. Falcon boosters have now landed 600 times.…
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Werner Schnell | Flickr Open | Getty ImagesEurope’s biggest economy was set for a rebound, but now it’s being hammered by soaring energy costs caused by the Iran war, prompting the federal government to halve growth forecasts. Germany’s flagship fiscal stimulus package is in the spotlight as ministers scramble to cushion the impact of higher bills.Before the war, the country had been powered by rising industrial orders, dropping inventories, and improving sentiment, thanks mainly to fiscal spending on defense and infrastructure.But higher energy prices and supply chain risks are “spoiling the German growth party before it even started,” said Carsten…
FILE PHOTO: Psilocybin or “magic mushrooms” are seen in an undated photo provided by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in Washington, U.S. May 7, 2019.DEA | ReutersThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday announced a series of measures aimed at accelerating the development of psychedelic treatments for serious mental illness.That comes after President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Saturday directing federal health agencies to expand access to emerging therapies.The move marks a significant shift toward supporting psychedelic-based medicines for conditions such as treatment-resistant depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and other substance use disorders, the FDA said.”Under President…
Investing.com — The U.S. stock market rally that began on March 31 remains intact despite oil over $100, software sector turbulence and unresolved Middle East tensions, according to Yardeni Research, which says the economy continues to ace its stress tests. climbed again on Thursday evening after reports emerged that Iran’s lead negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, resigned from peace talks due to interference from hardliners within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Yet Yardeni Research notes that futures markets are still signaling a sharp oil price decline over the next 12 months, and that sentiment indicators show the bull/bear ratio is not yet…