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re:Invent 2025, Amazon Web Services’ massive annual event, begins in earnest this week in Las Vegas. Last year’s event primarily focused on the company’s AI efforts, including new foundational models, services to tackle AI hallucinations, and new security measures. And based on what Amazon has announced so far, and the lineup of speakers and programs that you can explore further below, we’re likely to see similar results this year. The event officially begins tomorrow, December 2nd at 9am PT. Expect editorial coverage of keynotes, interviews with AWS executives, and a roundup of news as the week’s programs unfold. You can…
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro made his first public appearance in days on Sunday, ending domestic speculation that he had fled amid rising tensions with the United States. Maduro typically appears on Venezuelan television multiple times a week, but he has not been seen in public since Wednesday, when he posted a video of himself driving through Caracas on his Telegram channel, sparking intense speculation about his whereabouts. On Sunday, he attended the annual specialty coffee awards ceremony in eastern Caracas. Footage broadcast online showed the president sitting in front of a crowd, handing out medals to coffee producers and introducing…
Kris Jenner reveals her plastic surgeon has a ‘secret password’ for her examsKris Jenner debuts a new hairstyle for the holidays. The Kardashian family matriarch posed for a celebratory photo shoot with Khloe Kardashian, showing off her new short bob hairstyle with bangs. She paired her new look with a forest green satin halter neck dress and matching cardigan. Before unveiling his fresh bangs, Chris alternated between several different hairstyles, including a classic “do,” a more severe bob with side-swept bangs, and a slicked-back style. The 70-year-old captioned a Nov. 29 Instagram post with Khloe: “Thank you,” adding, “I hope…
UBS continues to bet on Carvana. The bank initiated coverage on the used car e-commerce platform with a buy rating and a 12-month target price of $450. This represents a 20% increase from Friday’s closing price. Analyst Joseph Spak praised Carvana’s potential as a “true disruptor and share gainer in a highly fragmented market.” He believes the company’s growth will be fueled by a shift to online sales and e-commerce platforms, providing customers with “a better experience and often better prices.” CVNA YTD Mountain CVNA YTD Chart “CVNA has a differentiated, best-in-class online platform and customer experience that positions us…
Nvidia on Monday announced new infrastructure and AI models to build the backbone technology for physical AI, such as robots and autonomous vehicles that can perceive and interact with the real world. The semiconductor giant announced Alpamayo-R1, an open inference vision language model for autonomous driving research, at the NeurIPS AI conference in San Diego, California. According to the company, this is the first vision language action model focused on autonomous driving. Visual language models can process both text and images together, allowing the vehicle to “see” its surroundings and make decisions based on what it sees. This new model…
Oppenheimer said this year’s market winners should continue to outperform through December. Stock prices got off to a shaky start to the month, with the S&P 500, Nasdaq Composite and Dow Jones Industrial Average all falling on Monday. Strong stocks such as Super Micro Computer and Broadcom all fell nearly 3% in intraday trading. But Ari Wald, head of technical analysis at Oppenheimer & Co., said in a note last week that December is the best-performing month of the year for momentum factors since 1928. He said the momentum factor tracks the performance of market leaders versus laggards over the…
Emilia Clarke’s brain aneurysmEmilia Clarke, who filmed battle scenes for Game of Thrones, published an essay in The New Yorker in 2019 titled “A Battle for My Life.”After suffering a severe headache at the gym, the actress writes, “I made it to the bathroom and fell to my knees feeling very, very sick.” “During that time, the pain was getting worse with shooting, stabbing, squeezing pain. On some level, I knew what was happening: my brain was damaged.”She was taken to the hospital for a brain scan.”The diagnosis was swift and ominous: a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a life-threatening type…
Morgan Stanley expects Nvidia and Broadcom to reap further gains going forward as momentum in artificial intelligence continues. The bank reiterated its exaggerated claims against Nvidia, the leading name in AI. Morgan Stanley’s price target is $250, up from $235, representing a 41% upside from Nvidia’s Friday closing price. “We continue to see NVIDIA maintaining dominant market share as the threat is exaggerated, but we don’t know exactly what will turn things around,” analyst Joseph Moore wrote. “Customers’ biggest concern over the next 12 months is whether they will be able to procure enough NVIDIA products in general and Vera…
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, attended the annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Media & Technology Conference held at Sun Valley Resort in Sun Valley, ID on July 8, 2025.David A. Grogan | CNBCOpenAI announced Monday that Thrive Capital, one of its lead investors, will take ownership of Thrive Holdings, a company it founded in April. The startup said it will embed engineering, research and product teams within Thrive Holdings to accelerate AI adoption and improve cost efficiency. Thrive Holdings acquires, owns and operates companies that it believes have the potential to benefit from technologies such as artificial intelligence. According…
Saint Marc, Haiti AP — Heavily armed gangs attacked a central Haiti region over the weekend, killing men, women and children as gangs torched houses and forced survivors to flee into the darkness. Police say 50% of the Artibonite area is now under gang control and have appealed for emergency assistance following large-scale attacks targeting towns such as Bercy and Pont Sonde. SPNH-17, one of Haiti’s police unions, said on Sunday X that “people cannot live, work or travel” and that “the loss of the country’s two largest sectors, the Western and Artibonite departments, is the biggest security failure in…