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Chinese President Xi Jinping (not pictured) holds a welcome ceremony outside the Great Hall of the People ahead of his meeting with US President Donald Trump, who is on a state visit to China, on May 14, 2026 in Beijing, China. VCG | Getty ImagesHello, my name is Katie Foley from London. This morning in our newsroom, we watched the final hours of US President Donald Trump’s visit to China. This included a bilateral meeting with President Xi Jinping over tea and a working lunch at Zhongnan Haiyuan, adjacent to the Forbidden City. Diplomatically and symbolically, the visit appears to…
AI video generation startup Runway doesn’t have a typical Silicon Valley pedigree. There are no Stanford University founders, no former Google founders, no nine-figure seed rounds that bought time by ignoring revenue. The three founders (two from Chile and one from Greece) met at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and founded the company in New York. Depending on who you ask, Runway could be one of the most influential AI companies today. Not because of what we’ve built so far, but because of what we’re going to build next. For the past few years, the AI industry…
This report is from this week’s The Tech Download newsletter. See what you see? You can subscribe here.The list of U.S. officials who accompanied President Donald Trump on Wednesday’s more than 20-hour flight from Alaska to China shows the U.S. delegation’s focus on Beijing. NvidiaMr. Jensen Huang, teslaElon Musk and appleTim Cook of the company was all in attendance, as were executives. meta, micron, Qualcomm and reasonable. It would be reasonable to assume that technology was a hot topic during the trip.The trip got off to a good start for the executives, with Chinese President Xi Jinping saying his country…
LONDON, UK – JULY 9: British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer will host the first roundtable of UK regional mayors with Andy Burnham (R), Mayor of Greater Manchester, at Downing Street, London, UK on 9 July 2024. Sir Keir Starmer hosted the first roundtable with metro mayors from 11 regions across England. (Photo by Ian Vogler – WPA Pool/Getty Images)WPA Pool | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesGold yields rose slightly on Friday as British Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces a leadership challenge from his Labor Party rival.The current mayor of Manchester, Andy Burnham, is expected to stand in the…
This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox.Happy Friday. Today marks Jerome Powell’s last day as Federal Reserve Chairman, marking the end of an era in central banking.Stock futures are falling this morning. The three major indexes rose yesterday and have been on a positive trend this week.Here are five important things investors need to know to start their trading day.1. Returning from BeijingOn May 14, 2026, Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump visited the Temple of Heaven in Beijing. Brendan Smialowski AFP | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump left Beijing…
Nothing is lost, only changed. And Outlander fans are about to experience something big when the series finale airs on May 15th. The period drama, which premiered in 2014 and is based on a book by Diana Gabaldon, introduced viewers to Caitriona Balfe’s Claire Randall, a World War II nurse who travels back in time to 1743 Scotland, and Sam Heughan’s Jamie Fraser, a Scottish warrior who is forced to marry Claire, who was already married before they fell in love. Fast forward to Season 8, and there’s much more time travel, romance, and historical rebellions ranging from the Jacobite…
Beckham and his wife Victoria reached a milestone in their combined wealth this year, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.Published May 15, 2026May 15, 2026Former Manchester United and England football star David Beckham has become Britain’s first billionaire sportsman, according to the Sunday Times Rich List 2026.Beckham and his wife Victoria are worth an estimated 1.185 billion pounds (about $1.583 billion) this year, according to the authors of the Rich List.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of listThis moves them to second place on the list of Britain’s richest athletes, behind the family of former F1 chief executive Bernie…
U.S. Treasuries soared Friday morning as traders focused on pricing in interest rate policy under new Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh following a week of mixed inflation data. yield of 30 year bond Yields rose 8.6 basis points to just under 5.1%, the highest level since May 22, 205, and near the highest level since October 2023.yield of 10 year treasury The note, the main benchmark for U.S. borrowing, rose 7 basis points to 4.55%.on the other hand, 2 year Treasury bill The yield, which tends to react in line with the Fed’s short-term interest rate decisions, rose more than…
As AI models become increasingly commoditized, startups are racing to build a software layer on top of them. One interesting entrant into this space is Osaurus, an open source Apple-specific LLM server. This allows users to move between different local AI models locally or in the cloud while keeping all their files and tools on their own hardware. Osaurus evolved from the idea of Dinoki, a desktop AI companion. Osaurus co-founder Terence Pae described it as a kind of “AI-powered Clippy.” Dinoki’s customers asked him why they should buy the app if they still had to pay tokens (units of…
“I once got a really high score on one screening,” Adamson recalled. “And I remember Jeffrey saying to me afterwards, ‘Get ready for this. This might only happen once in your life.'” It turned out to be a $3.5 billion franchise, an all-star cast, and 95 minutes of literally hilarious jokes, most of the cost of which was covered by Disney, and grossed $484.4 million upon its release on May 18, 2001. (To commemorate that milestone anniversary, Shrek will be re-released in theaters starting May 15th. The series has an Oscar nod, two holiday specials, a spin-off, a Broadway show,…