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Tuesday, July 8, 2025, at an Amazon facility on Amazon Prime Day in Queens, New York, USA.Klaus Gagliano | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAmazon’s website and shopping app went down for some users on Thursday, leaving consumers unable to check out, access account information or view product prices.Troubles on the site spiked around 2 p.m. ET, and more than 22,000 users had reported problems two hours later, according to Downdetector, a website that tracks crash reports. The issue appeared to be mostly resolved by 8pm ET. Amazon said the incident was caused by “software code deployment.””We regret that some customers may…
Beijing — China has spent the past five years cultivating domestic innovation and new technologies. The next five years will be dedicated to deploying the fruits of that labor to transform our economy and our standing in the world. This will be the overarching message as thousands of delegates from across China gather in the Chinese capital for “Two Sessions.” The “Two Sessions” are carefully planned annual meetings in which the nation’s leaders lay out their priorities for the year ahead and the rubber-stamp legislature approves them. The pomp and ceremony of the rally has long been a symbol of…
Gypsy’s Rose Blanchard explains her decision to wear a wig while showing her natural hairgypsy rose blanchard She sheds light on her weight loss secrets. It’s been over two years since she passed away. be released from prison accused of conspiring to murder her mother Claudine “Dee Dee” BlanchardGypsy showed off her body transformation and revealed how she was able to lose so much weight. “Okay, I’m not a gatekeeper. My weight loss is due to my living environment,” she captioned it. Video posted on Instagram on March 4th. “My lifestyle has changed a lot since I was released two…
Laurene Powell Jobs attends the Clinton Global Initiative 2024 Annual Meeting at the Hilton Midtown on September 24, 2024 in New York City. John Nation | Getty ImagesA version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter by Robert Frank, a weekly guide for high-net-worth investors and consumers. Sign up to receive future editions directly to your inbox.Concerns about an artificial intelligence bubble roiled stock markets in February, but ultra-wealthy investment firms were still making bullish bets on fast-growing AI startups. For example, Laurene Powell Jobs’ investment and philanthropy firm, Emerson Collective, participated in a $1 billion round…
this year’s morgan stanley The lineup of technology, media, and communications conferences overlapped, with Dario Amodei and Sam Altman (both central figures in the Pentagon drama), Jensen Huang, Satya Nadella, and dozens of enterprise software CEOs trying to convince investors that they can survive AI calculations. I spent a day on the ground reporting, and then spoke with David Chen, head of global technology investment banking at Morgan Stanley, to unpack what I’d heard.Chen said the biggest change from last year was the nature of the questions. In 2025, companies were talking about leveraging artificial intelligence to reduce expenses, such…
2026 Actor of the Year: Yerin Ha talks about pitching Bridgerton’s heated rivalry crossoverNicola Coughlan doesn’t want to make a big fuss about her appearance. The Bridgerton actress, who stars as Penelope on the Netflix show, explained that she doesn’t like to talk about her body or her weight loss. “Sometimes the thing I say that pisses people off is, ‘I’m not into body positivity,'” she said in an interview with Elle magazine on March 4. “There are many things I am passionate about, but not just one thing,” Coughlan continued. “It’s someone else’s. It’s not mine.” In fact, the…
Berkshire Hathaway announced Thursday that it has resumed stock buybacks for the first time since 2024, and separately announced that new CEO Greg Abel has personally purchased $15 million worth of stock, the equivalent of his annual after-tax income.Abel told CNBC he plans to continue using his entire paycheck to buy Berkshire stock every year.The Omaha, Nebraska-based conglomerate said in a regulatory filing that it began repurchasing its Class A and Class B shares on Wednesday. According to its annual report released over the weekend, Berkshire’s stated policy allows the company to buy back its own stock at any time…
On Thursday, OpenAI released GPT-5.4. This is a new foundation model that is being touted as “the most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work.” In addition to the standard version, GPT-5.4 is also available as an inference model (GPT-5.4 Thinking) or a model optimized for high performance (GPT-5.4 Pro). The API version of this model will be available in a context window of 1 million tokens, the largest context window ever available in OpenAI. OpenAI also stated that GPT-5.4 was able to solve the same problem with significantly fewer tokens than its predecessor, highlighting improved token efficiency. The…
Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, speaks to Bloomberg TV in San Francisco on December 9, 2025.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAnthropic CEO Dario Amodei acknowledged Thursday that the U.S. government has designated the company a supply chain risk, saying he has “no choice” but to challenge the designation in court.The startup has been at odds with the Department of Defense over how its artificial intelligence model, known as Claude, is used, and late last week learned through social media posts that it was being blacklisted from government contracts.Anthropic sought assurances that its technology would not be…
Check out the companies making the biggest moves in pre-market trading: BJ’s Wholesale Club — The warehouse giant fell 4.5% after its full-year earnings guidance fell short of expectations. BJ’s Wholesale expects adjusted earnings to be between $4.40 and $4.60 per share, compared with the consensus estimate of $4.66 per share, according to FactSet. However, profits and sales for the fourth quarter exceeded expectations. Trade Desk — Shares soared 19% after The Information reported that OpenAI was in early talks with Trade Desk to sell ads. Broadcom — The leading chipmaker soared 6.4% after reporting strong first-quarter results, including a…