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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent arrives to testify during a Senate Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on April 22, 2026 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty ImagesTreasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday that “many” oil-rich U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf have requested a financial backstop amid economic turbulence from the war with Iran. Bessent’s comments go further than White House assertions to CNBC on Tuesday, where an official said the U.S. had not yet been formally asked to establish a currency swap line by the United…

Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe on April 22, 2026 drives the first customer-ready electric R2 SUV off the assembly line at the company’s plant in Normal, Illinois.Courtesy RivianRivian Automotive on Wednesday said it has started production of its new R2 all-electric vehicle for customers at its plant in Normal, Illinois.The start of production is a crucial milestone for the company ahead of customer deliveries, which are scheduled for later this spring. Investors will be watching for the company to ramp up production for the foreseeable future.Rivian expects the R2 — an updated, less expensive EV that looks like its…

Coffee companies launch satellite-based program to track deforestation Source link

So the new chips allow for faster training, but Google also says you get more useful computation for every volt you pump into a TPU 8t. The company claims a “goodpute” rate of 97 percent, which means less waiting and wasted effort. With better handling of irregular memory access, automatic handling of hardware faults, and real-time telemetry across all connected chips, TPU 8t spends more time actively advancing model training. When training is done, AI models run in inference mode to generate tokens—that’s the process happening behind the scenes when you tell a model to do something. This doesn’t require…

Kristi Noem, secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), during a news conference at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) headquarters in Washington, DC, US, on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026. Valerie Plesch | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesA Chilean man who admitted stealing then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s Gucci handbag as part of a string of purse thefts in Washington, D.C., last year was sentenced on Wednesday to three years in prison, the Department of Justice said.The crook, Mario Bustamante Leiva, 50, is residing in the U.S. illegally and will be subject to deportation at the end of his…

OpenAI has abandoned plans to rent compute capacity directly from a Norwegian data center, days after confirming it paused a similar project in the U.K.Microsoft is taking the extra compute previously earmarked for OpenAI at a planned 230MW “Stargate Norway” facility in Narvik. OpenAI is now in discussions to rent capacity from Microsoft instead, a spokesperson for the company told CNBC.The AI company said in 2025 it had the opportunity to be an “initial offtaker” at the data center, which OpenAI positioned under the umbrella of its “Stargate” infrastructure project and was being built by UK AI cloud startup Nscale.OpenAI…

Tesla’s earnings report is coming after markets close on Wednesday, but those figures won’t be a top driver of movement in the stock, Wall Street analysts said. Signals about the company’s longer-term ventures in energy storage, autonomous driving, AI chips, and robotics are more likely to matter to the share price. Tesla is facing declining vehicle profitability as well as the loss of its regulatory credit advantage due to Republicans’ 2025 tax-cutting legislation. Investors want to hear from CEO Elon Musk on the earnings conference call about progress in other areas of the business to offset these declines and drive…

Proxy advisor ISS urges ConocoPhillips shareholders to vote for independent board chair Source link

Daniel Shapero, CEO of LinkedIn and Ryan Roslansky, EVP of LinkedIn and Microsoft Office.Courtesy: LinkedInMicrosoft has tapped Dan Shapero to be the new CEO of its LinkedIn division, succeeding Ryan Roslansky, who has run the subsidiary since 2020 and last year took on additional responsibility in Microsoft’s Office productivity group. The change is effective immediately.”Dan has led sales, marketing, and product across the most important parts of this business,” Roslansky wrote in a LinkedIn post on Wednesday announcing the move. “He knows our members, our customers, and carries the mission in a way that’s genuinely rare.” Roslansky, who came to…

The prime minister was questioned at PMQs about allegations that Downing Street had asked about a diplomat role for the then-communications chief. Source link