Chip maker AMD is cutting a deal with startup Ultra. The venture will use Blockchain technology for publishing, licensing and managing video games. Yahoo Finance's Dan Roberts joins Seana Smith on The Ticker to discuss.
Google has debuted its $499 Pixel 8a smartphone with generative AI capabilities.
Palantir stock's plunge appeared to halt a recent rally in other stocks favored by retail traders.
Apple on Tuesday unveiled its next generation of iPad Pros and Airs — models that will boast faster processors, new sizes and a new display system as part of the company's first update to its tablet lineup in more than a year. The showcase at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California, comes after the company disclosed its steepest quarterly decline in iPhone sales since the pandemic’s outset, deepening a slump that’s increasing the pressure on the trendsetting company to spruce up its products. Apple is expected to make a much bigger splash next month during an annual conference devoted to the latest version of its operating systems for iPhones, iPads and Mac computers — software that analysts expect to be packed with more artificial intelligence technology.
Belarus on Tuesday launched drills involving missiles and warplanes capable of carrying tactical nuclear weapons, which close ally Russia has deployed there amid tensions with the West over Ukraine. The Belarusian maneuvers began a day after Russia announced plans to hold similar drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons in what it cast as a response to statements by Western officials signaling possibly deeper involvement in the war in Ukraine. It was the first time such an exercise had been publicly announced by Moscow. Belarus' Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin said a unit of Iskander short-range missiles and a squadron of Su-25 fighter jets will take part in the drills.
Rivian will give investors a crucial first quarter update on its financials as the pure-play adventure EV maker attempts to turn the tide from losses to profit this year.
Florida's top prosecutor and a Catholic medical group on Tuesday sued the Biden administration in an effort to block a rule that they say will force doctors to provide gender transition care against their judgment or face heavy penalties. The lawsuit by Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody and the Catholic Medical Association (CMA), filed in federal court in Tampa, takes aim at a new rule published by the U.S. Department of Health and Services (HHS) on Monday that would ban discrimination in healthcare on the basis of gender identity.
While the Biden administration has not formally denied the potential sale, it is essentially taking action through inaction.
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft blasted off with NASA astronauts onboard for the first time on Monday, kicking off a high-stakes test flight to the space station.
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With 110 years of life behind her, Yoshiko Miwa isn’t going to wallow in the negative, and she doesn’t want you to either.
As pro-Palestinian demonstrations escalate on college campuses around the country, critics of President Joe Biden 's handling of the Israel-Hamas war suggest this summer's Democratic National Convention could be hit by protests and scenes of chaos that undermine his reelection campaign. Already, 65-plus organizations in Chicago and elsewhere have formed a coalition to “March on the DNC" when it opens there on Aug. 19. Activists have sued in federal court, alleging First Amendment violations because the city has only offered permits for demonstrations miles from the United Center, where Biden is scheduled to accept the Democratic presidential nomination.
Approximately 450 planes potentially could be involved, a source told CBS News.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday hosted Chinese leader Xi Jinping for a high altitude lunch at a childhood haunt in the Pyrenees mountains, pressing a message to Beijing not to support Russia's war against Ukraine and to accept fairer trade.Xi, who is due to host Russian President Vladimir Putin in China later this month, warned against using the Ukraine crisis "to cast blame, smear a third country and incite a new Cold War".
The Atlanta City Council has agreed to pay $3.8 million to settle a lawsuit by the family of a church deacon who died in a struggle with a city police officer following a minor car crash. Deacon Johnny Hollman's family sued the the city, Officer Kiran Kimbrough and Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum in January, alleging Kimbrough used excessive force after the 62-year-old refused to sign a citation finding him at fault for the crash. An attorney for Kimbrough has said Hollman resisted arrest and Kimbrough acted lawfully when he deployed his stun gun and used force.
Israel sent tanks into Rafah in southern Gaza, seizing control of the border crossing with Egypt Tuesday, an operation the UN said denied it access to the key humanitarian passage.UN humanitarian office spokesman Jens Laerke said Israel had denied it access to both Rafah and Kerem Shalom -- the other main Gaza aid crossing, on the border with Israel -- with only "one day of fuel available" inside the besieged territory.
ExxonMobil will still be producing oil and gas in 2050, the energy company's CEO told Yahoo Finance, but fossil fuels will likely be a smaller part of the business.
Artificial intelligence lacks the human judgement skills needed to set interest rates, the head of the Monetary Authority of Singapore said on Monday. But AI could make it easier for criminals to launch cyber attacks, said Chia Der Jiun, managing director of Singapore's central bank. He said AI was being used in some economic models and in areas such as fraud detection, but stressed it was not at a stage where it could "supplant human judgement".
Ukraine has detained two security officials allegedly involved in a Russian plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelensky, which Kyiv’s state security service said it foiled.
e Tuesday, according to the website PowerOutage.us, while 18,000 were without power in Missouri and almost 10,000 in Arkansas.
President Joe Biden is set to condemn acts of antisemitism in a keynote speech this morning at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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