Amazon acquires ‘approachable’ humanoid maker Fauna Robotics
Fauna’s first product, called Sprout, is a $50,000 bipedal robot that’s 3.5 feet tall and designed to be “approachable and human-friendly.”
OpenAI shutters short-form video app Sora as company reels in costs
OpenAI said it’s closing Sora, the short-form video app that went viral after its launch six months ago
Meta must pay $375 million for violating New Mexico law in child exploitation case, jury rules
Jury reaches a verdict in New Mexico trial in which the state’s attorney general alleged that Meta failed to safeguard its family of apps from child predators.
Google partners with Agile Robots, growing its AI robotics footprint
Google’s DeepMind division has been partnering with more robotics companies in recent months.
Trump says U.S. and Iran are ‘in negotiations right now,’ Tehran is ‘talking sense’
“Operation Epic Fury continues unabated” to achieve President Donald Trump’s military objectives, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.
Short bets in software peak but tension still builds in stocks such as UiPath
Short interest as a percentage of float in the S&P 1500 Software Index has edged lower after peaking on Feb. 26, according to S3 Partners data.
World has ‘never experienced’ soaring refining margins like this, TotalEnergies CEO tells CNBC
TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyanné on the Iran war, the $1 billion deal with the White House, investment in the U.S., and more.
The charts to watch in tech, gold and emerging market stocks as volatility persists
Todd Gordon also talks about the portfolio changes he’s made to navigate this environment.
Baltimore is first U.S. city to sue over Grok deepfake porn as legal pressure mounts on Musk’s xAI
Following international regulatory probes, lawsuits are piling up in the U.S. against Elon Musk’s xAI and its Grok chatbot.
Kuwait says Strait of Hormuz closure is beyond catastrophic, will trigger domino effect across global economy
Iran is holding the world economy hostage by blockading the Strait of Hormuz, said Shaikh Nawaf Al-Sabah, the CEO of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation.