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Check out the companies making the biggest moves in pre-market trading: Nvidia — President Donald Trump said the U.S. will allow the tech giant to ship its H200 artificial intelligence chip to countries including China. The US gets a 25% cut of sales, but this is only given to approved customers. The stock rose 1%. Ares Management — Shares rose 8.6% after the alternative investment manager announced it would join the S&P 500 starting Thursday. Ares replaces Keranova, which was acquired by Mars. CVS — The drugstore giant’s stock rose more than 2% after the company announced its 2026 profit…
Anysphere, the company behind the popular AI coding assistant Cursor, is not considering an IPO anytime soon, co-founder and CEO Michael Tuell said on stage at Fortune’s AI Brainstorm conference on Monday. After reaching $1 billion in annual revenue in November and raising $2.3 billion last month at a valuation of $29.3 billion, Tuell said his company is instead focused on building more capabilities. For example, he noted that Cursor’s homegrown LLM is tailored to support specific products. Cursor acknowledged the existence of these models in a blog post in November, saying, “Our in-house models currently generate more code than…
A framed eagle is seen through the construction fence of the Mariner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Building, the headquarters of the Federal Reserve Board, on September 16, 2025, in Washington, DC.Kevin Dietch | Getty Images News | Getty Images The US Federal Reserve is widely expected to cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to a range of 3.5% to 3.75% on Wednesday.However, given that traders are almost certain that a rate cut will occur (88.6% chance to be exact, according to the CME FedWatch tool), this news has likely already been priced in by…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has reaffirmed that his country has no intention of conceding territory to Russia as talks over a U.S.-proposed peace plan continue with no clear end in sight. “We absolutely don’t want to give up anything. That’s what we’re fighting for,” Zelenskiy said. “We have no legal right to do so under Ukrainian law, the constitution, international law or, to be honest, moral law.” Russia has insisted on territorial concessions as part of a settlement to stop the invasion of Ukraine. The original plan proposed by President Donald Trump outlined some of these concessions. Earlier Monday, Trump…
Emilia Clarke’s brain aneurysmEmilia Clarke, who filmed battle scenes for Game of Thrones, published an essay in The New Yorker in 2019 titled “A Battle for My Life.”After suffering a severe headache at the gym, the actress writes, “I made it to the bathroom and fell to my knees feeling very, very sick.” “During that time, the pain was getting worse with shooting, stabbing, squeezing pain. On some level, I knew what was happening: my brain was damaged.”She was taken to the hospital for a brain scan.”The diagnosis was swift and ominous: a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a life-threatening type…
My Top 10 Things to Watch Tuesday, December 9th 1. Stocks were little changed this morning after yesterday’s down session. Traders are awaiting the Fed’s next interest rate decision on Wednesday afternoon. According to the CME FedWatch tool, the market has priced in 89% odds of a 25 basis point (bp) cut. This is the third rate cut this year. 2. President Donald Trump said club name Nvidia could ship H200 AI chips to certain customers in China in exchange for a 25% cut to the U.S. government. Wells Fargo analysts called this an “incremental positive.” The company’s stock rose…
Kabir Narang, a founding general partner at B Capital and an early backer of several Indian startups, has left the global venture firm, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed with the company. Narang is laying the groundwork for a new investment platform expected in 2026 that will focus on “compounding at the intersection of technology, AI, and global capital flows,” according to a memo shared with the founders and seen by TechCrunch. After joining B Capital in March 2017, Mr. Narang co-led the firm’s Asia strategy and chaired the global investment committee from Singapore. During his tenure, he supported Indian startups…
‘Wicked’ costume designer Paul Tazewell details collaboration with Ariana Grande and Cynthia ErivoCynthia Erivo I know fans all over Oz were curious. she clothing. one particular Costume Piece became independent soon after the release of. Wicked: For Good When featured prominently in a romantic scene with Elphaba, played by Cynthia. Jonathan BaileyThis is Fiero. And while viewers quickly memed something called the “sex cardigan,” evil The star explained that this costume served a very special purpose. “I wanted to provide an opportunity to see this character, who everyone has seen at this point as this strong fighting woman, this evil…
President Donald Trump’s approval ratings are declining as Americans become dissatisfied with his handling of the economy. With stock prices still near all-time highs and corporate earnings strong, will there be yet another divide between Wall Street and Main Street? Not exactly, according to the results of the latest CNBC CFO Council survey. CNBC’s CFO Council Q4 Survey shows that executives and the public are not that far apart in how President Trump has handled his work in the first year of his second term, but a majority of chief financial officers remain optimistic about the U.S. economy despite a…
This week on StrictlyVC Download, Connie Loizos speaks with Science Corp. founder Max Hodak about how brain-computer interfaces are coming faster than anyone realizes. The co-founder and former president of Neuralink shares how his company recently achieved perhaps the biggest breakthrough in vision restoration in decades, with tiny retinal implants smaller than a grain of rice helping 80% of blind people read again. In this conversation, they also explore the near-term commercialization path for BCI through medical applications, the long-term potential for enhancing cognitive function and “combining” multiple brains, and why Science, which has raised $260 million from investors to…