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CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Wednesday that Eli Lilly will soon become the first drug company to reach a $1 trillion stock price. Immediately after that, the stock price exceeded $1,000 for the first time. At trading highs, the market capitalization exceeded $950 billion. To reach $1 trillion, the stock would need to reach nearly $1,058. “People are starting to realize that there’s probably more value to this,” Kramer said in “Squawk on the Street.” He pointed to the White House’s recent GLP-1 agreement with Lilly and rival Novo Nordisk that will reduce the price of some obesity drugs for Medicare…
Cursor, an AI coding tool for developers, continues to eat up venture capital as its valuation continues to rise. On Thursday, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal, Cursor announced a $2.3 billion funding round, valuing the company at $29.3 billion. The round more than doubles the company’s previous valuation of $9.9 billion, which reached $900 million in a Series C round in June. This latest funding was co-led by existing investor Accel and new addition to the cap table, Coatue. Strategic investors such as Nvidia (enterprise customer) and Google (AI model supplier) also participated in this round. Joshua…
Taylor has been open about the anxiety her fame has caused in her past relationships, but she also emphasizes that she doesn’t have to overdo it when it comes to spotlighting her relationship with Travis. In fact, Taylor noted that the fact that Travis, 36, finds online speculation and discussion “funny” has helped them feel more comfortable and secure in their relationship. “Even if he’s watching something and he thinks it’s funny and it’s not affecting his day at all, it totally affects the way I metabolize these things,” Taylor explained in August’s Her appearance with him Jason Kelce’s podcast…
After you go to work, come home, do your chores, and eat dinner, you may be too exhausted to do anything but rot in your bed or read the Scroll of Doom.Laura Mae Martin, executive productivity advisor at Google, says one potential solution to this burnout is to give yourself homework. You may have seen something similar on TikTok. People are giving themselves “personal curricula” or academically inspired syllabuses to help them learn a new language, complete an art project, or read a series of old books in their free time after work.The idea that adding more tasks to your…
Google is rolling out a series of AI shopping updates ahead of the holiday season. The company announced a number of new tools and features Thursday, including conversational shopping in Google Search, new shopping features within the Gemini app, agent checkout, and even an AI tool that lets you call your local store to see if the item you want is available. The company believes the additions will help improve the online shopping experience, which even today can involve a lot of grunt work, Vidhya Srinivasan, Google’s vice president and general manager of advertising and commerce, explained in a press…
Omar Marquez | Light Rocket | Getty ImagesSki season is approaching Uber I would love to take you to the slopes.The ride-hailing company on Thursday announced Uber Ski, which allows users to book round-trip rides to about 40 mountains in the U.S., Canada, Switzerland and France, according to a release. The service will be available until March.Uber has partnered with Vail Resorts to allow passengers to book Uber Reserves directly to the mountain resort company’s various destinations. Users can purchase the Epic Pass, which grants access to over 90 ski and snowboard resorts, directly in the app.Passengers can reserve an…
Israeli settlers set fire to a mosque and sprayed graffiti in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, the Palestinian Authority said, the latest in a surge of increasingly brazen settler attacks against Palestinians. The Ministry of Awqaf and Religious Affairs said the settlers’ attack on the Hajja Hamida Mosque in Salfit, in the northern West Bank, was a “heinous crime and a blatant attack on Muslim sentiments.” “As a result of the attacks, some mosques were set on fire by settler gangs and defaced with racist graffiti. With the frequency and nature of crimes systematically escalating, settler gangs continue to…
FAA air traffic control tower at LaGuardia Airport (LGA) in Queens, New York, United States, Friday, November 7, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe Department of Transportation late Wednesday froze flight cuts it imposed less than a week ago, as air travel disruptions eased across the United States hours before the longest government shutdown ended.The department implemented the freeze before the House approved a funding bill that would keep the government operating through January. President Donald Trump signed the bill on Wednesday, according to the White House.According to aviation data firm Cirium, 816 flights departing from the United…
Two teenage founders walked into Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham’s backyard with an idea that no one in agriculture seemed to want: an AI model that could help design better pesticides. By the time they left, they had a new business model and a new company, eventually gaining support from Graham. Now, that reimagined company, Bindwell, has raised $6 million in a seed round co-led by General Catalyst and A Capital, with a personal check from Graham himself. Rather than selling AI tools to traditional agrochemical giants, the startup designs new pesticide molecules in-house using its own models and licenses…
Joby Aviation’s hybrid aircraft.Provided by: Joby Aviationjoby aviation Three months after the company partnered with a government contractor, it completed its first test flight of a hybrid defense aircraft. L3 Harris on the project.The company announced Thursday that the launch was successful on Nov. 7 at Joby’s facility in Marina, California. Chairman Paul Sciara told CNBC that the flight demonstrates Joby’s ability to move quickly from “concept to demonstration” to meet growing military needs.Joby and L3Harris first announced in August that they were collaborating on developing military aircraft with autonomous and piloting capabilities.Under the Trump administration, the U.S. government has…