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The U.S. stock market has been in a state of turmoil this week, with hurdles being cleared one after another, from soaring oil prices and geopolitical tensions to five of the seven “excellent” earnings results.Next up is a blockbuster week of Q1 earnings season, with more than 100 S&P 500 members scheduled to report. Highlights include semiconductor leaders advanced micro deviceretail trading favorites Palantir and coinbaseand consumer stocks Uber to Disney.For momentum traders, AMD’s report after the bell on Tuesday is probably the most important. Semiconductors remain at the center of the bull market as the driving force behind the…
On Tuesday, OpenAI released a new foundational model called GPT-5.5 Instant. This replaces GPT-5.3 Instant as the default ChatGPT model. The company said the model reduces hallucinations in sensitive areas such as law, medicine, and finance, while maintaining the low latency of its predecessor. OpenAI released its latest GPT-5.5 model last month, claiming improvements in areas such as coding and knowledge work. The new model also achieved a score of 81.2 on the AIME 2025 math test, compared to the previous model’s score of 65.4. It also outperformed its predecessor on the MMMU-Pro multimodal inference benchmark with a score of…
Microsoft Xbox CEO Asha Sharma speaks to employees at the Xbox Town Hall on February 24, 2026 in Redmond, Washington.Provided by: Microsoftmicrosoft Xbox CEO Asha Sharma told employees in a memo on Tuesday that she is appointing a new leader as the software company looks to get its video game division back on a growth path.Sharma moved to Xbox in February after gaming chief Phil Spencer announced his retirement. She joined Microsoft in 2024 after holding executive positions at Microsoft. Meta and instacartPresident of Products for the CoreAI Engineering Group, which works on GitHub Copilot, Visual Studio Code, and other…
Mexico will make history this summer as the first country to host the World Cup three times, but the excitement over that record is not reflected among Mexican fans. Francisco Javier Ferreira remembers the two World Cups held in his home country in 1970 and 1986, but he will not be able to play in the third. The 70-year-old said the high price of tickets for the 13 games to be played on Mexican soil, the difficulty in obtaining tickets and the limited number of games allocated to Mexico as third host nation dampened his excitement as a fan. “Given…
ABCDEFG… kourtney kardashian Had to go elsewhere. Instead of attending the 2026 Met Gala with her sisters kim kardashian, Kendall Jenner, kylie jennerand mom kris jennerthe Lemme founder chose to stay in Los Angeles for a date night with her husband travis barker. of kardashian family The star posted a photo of an empty dinner plate on her Instagram Story on May 4, tagging Crossroads Kitchen and writing, “My husband’s date.” She also revealed her and Travis’ alternative plan for fashion’s biggest night: Netflix is a joke fest. Another post showed the couple appeared on Comedian Shane Gillis” at the…
On April 28, 2026, U.S. Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit aboard the M/V Bluestar III, a commercial vessel suspected of attempting to transit to Iran in violation of the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports. The U.S. military released the ship after conducting a search and confirming that the ship’s voyage did not include a port call in Iran.U.S. Marine Corps | CentcomU.S. Central Command on Monday denied Iranian state media reports that a U.S. warship transiting the Strait of Hormuz was hit by two missiles and forced to retreat.Centcom, the U.S. military command in charge of the Middle…
The state of Pennsylvania has filed a lawsuit against Character.AI, alleging that one of the company’s chatbots posed as a psychiatrist, violating the state’s medical licensing rules. “Pennsylvanians have a right to know with whom and what they are doing online, especially when it comes to their health,” Gov. Josh Shapiro said in a statement Tuesday. “We will not allow companies to deploy AI tools that mislead people into thinking they are receiving advice from a licensed medical professional.” According to state filings, a Character.AI chatbot called Emily identified itself as a licensed psychiatrist during an examination by a state…
US President Donald Trump disembarks from Air Force One after arriving from Miami at Joint Base Andrews, Florida, on May 3, 2026. robert schmidt getty imagesThe AI Standards Innovation Center announced the following agreements on Tuesday: google deep mind, microsoft And Elon Musk’s xAI will allow the U.S. government to evaluate artificial intelligence models before they are released to the public. CAISI, part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, “conducts pre-deployment assessments and targeted research to better assess cutting-edge AI capabilities and advance the state of AI security,” according to a release. The center said the announcement builds on CAISI’s…
Kylie Jenner’s eyebrows can’t keep up with her 2026 Met Gala look. After all, the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star revealed it wasn’t easy to dye her eyebrows and go back to brunette after attending the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual fundraiser on May 4 with them bleached. “I’m about to dye my eyebrows again,” she wrote in an Instagram Stories video on May 4. In the clip, Kylie’s makeup artist Ariel Tejada attempts to wipe away the remaining blonde from the Kylie founder’s eyebrows, only to be replaced with auburn eyebrows rather than her typical dark brown ones.…
President Donald Trump holds up an executive order during an event in the Oval Office of the White House on April 30, 2026. Signed an executive order expanding workers’ access to retirement accounts. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday expanding access to retirement accounts, saying young workers could have $465,000 in retirement accounts by the time they turn 65 if they save regularly. “In other words, they’re going to get rich,” President Trump said at the signing ceremony. But financial advisors disputed this characterization, saying $465,000 doesn’t necessarily qualify you…