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Aaron D’Souza says he saw something broken in America’s media system after he helped lead the lawsuit that bankrupted media company Gawker. Those who felt hurt by the coverage had little recourse to fight back. His solution is software. D’Souza says his latest startup, Objection, aims to use AI to determine truth in journalism. And for $2,000, anyone can dispute an article, triggering a public investigation into the claim. (Sousa is also the founder of the Enhanced Games, an Olympic-style competition that allows the use of performance-enhancing drugs, and is scheduled to be held for the first time in Las…
Tim Brown, co-founder and co-chairman of sports shoe manufacturer Allbirds, speaks on stage at the digital trade fair OMR Festival on May 10, 2023.Marcus Brandt | Picture Alliance | Getty Imagesallbirds made a surprising announcement Wednesday that it is pivoting from shoes to artificial intelligence. The move boosted the company’s minuscule market capitalization’s stock price (valued at about $21 million at Tuesday’s close) by more than 700%. The stock price rose from less than $3 a day earlier to more than $17.The company announced in a release posted on its investor relations page that it will focus its business on…
Nairobi, KenyaReuters — A Kenyan court on Wednesday sentenced a Chinese man to a 1 million shilling ($7,746) fine and 12 months in prison for trying to smuggle live ants out of the country. The judge in the case said a harsh sentence was needed as a deterrent, given the spate of ant trafficking cases in Kenya. This is available to markets such as China, where hobbyists pay large sums of money to maintain ant colonies in large transparent containers known as fornicariums, where they can study the ants’ complex social structure and behavior. Chinese national Zhang Kegun was arrested…
Khloe Kardashian had doubts about doing her own show with Lamar Odom”Khloe & Lamar” first aired on E! on April 10, 2011, and seemed like a natural spinoff from the mothership “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” which already spawned “Khloe & Kourtney Take Miami” and “Kourtney & Kim Take New York.” But according to Chloe, now 41, that wasn’t her idea. “Khloe and Lamar were greatly guided by Lamar,” she said in a written statement. “I was really thin. And I didn’t really want to jeopardize the family brand, which was Keeping Up at the time. I thought there were…
Check out the companies with the biggest premarket moves: Bank of America — Shares rose more than 1% after the banking giant reported better-than-expected first-quarter results. Bank of America had revenue of $30.43 billion and earnings per share of $1.11. Analysts had expected sales of $29.93 billion and earnings of $1.01 per share. BofA’s strong performance was supported by its equity sales and trading division. Broadcom — The chipmaker soared more than 2.5% after announcing plans to offer Meta and 1 gigawatt of custom chips in the future using Broadcom’s technology. Broadcom CEO Hock Tan also said he would resign…
Jim Cramer’s CNBC Investment Club hosts a “Morning Meeting” livestream weekdays at 10:20 a.m. ET. A recap of Wednesday’s key moments. 1. The major averages were mixed on Wednesday. The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average fell about 200 points, while the S&P 500 index rose about 0.3%. Leading the way was the Nasdaq, up nearly 1%. The tech-heavy index hasn’t seen a decline since March 30. Bond markets have calmed down again, continuing to give stock prices the breathing room they need, Jim Cramer said. Oil prices also didn’t rise much, with U.S. benchmark WTI crude gaining just 30 cents…
The US and Iran have little choice but to strike a deal. This has been an unspoken truth since the war began, but it is even more evident in the five days since the end of the ceasefire. For the United States, the first round of talks in Islamabad, despite its marathon duration, appeared to be a coordinated performance aimed at consolidating American influence. The Iranian port blockade was implemented so quickly that the White House likely already had this escalation in mind. It will take time to fully understand the economic pain the blockade is about to inflict on…
“Maradona started dying 12 hours before his actual death,” said the prosecutor in the new trial over the Argentine’s death.by AFP and APPublished April 15, 2026April 15, 2026The medical team of soccer legend Diego Maradona was a “group of amateurs” who missed a chance to save his life, Argentine prosecutors said at the start of a new trial into his death.The trial of seven medical workers accused of negligence in Mr Maradona’s death resumed on Tuesday, nearly a year after the original trial collapsed when the presiding judge resigned after appearing in a documentary about the case.Maradona, considered one of…
Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-New Mexico) speaks to reporters after a roundtable discussion on rising energy costs at the Capitol on March 17, 2026 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty ImagesThe top Democrat on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is questioning whether the Trump administration properly planned the de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz, which has disrupted energy markets for weeks as the war with Iran drags on.In a letter dated Tuesday to Energy Secretary Chris Wright that was shared exclusively with CNBC, Sen. Martin Heinrich (D.M.) asked for answers to a series of questions about…
“Give me a token. Give me a token. I want it fast. I want it cheap. I want it now.” This is the mantra for developers building software based on generative AI models, or at least what Parasail CEO Mike Henry is hearing. Parasail provides cloud computing services to companies running AI models for inference, and Henry told TechCrunch that the company generates 500 billion tokens per day. What about tokenmaxxing? Henry is an executive at Groq, an LLM-focused chipmaker where he built the company’s cloud products. We recognized early on that developers building software based on AI models wanted…