By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Transportation Department said he would allow an ongoing government probe into Tesla’s advanced driver assistance system to continue. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in October opened an investigation into 2.4 million Tesla vehicles equipped with Full Self-Driving (FSD) software after four…
By Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan described the Middle East in late September 2023 as “quieter” than it had been in two decades. That assessment did not age well. Just eight days later, Hamas launched a deadly surprise attack from Gaza into Israel, triggering a war…
By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The CEO of one of the world’s biggest defense contractors, L3Harris Technologies, told President-elect Donald Trump’s government efficiency panel in a letter on Wednesday that the Pentagon’s huge contracting system is too slow and bureaucratic to meet threats posed by China and Iran and needs to be reformed. The…
LONDON (Reuters) – Apple and Amazon have successfully fought off a mass lawsuit in Britain over alleged collusion between the tech giants to remove resellers of new Apple products from Amazon’s website, a tribunal ruled on Tuesday. The lawsuit was brought by consumer law academic Christine Riefa on behalf of around 36 million British consumers…
By Eduardo Baptista, Katie Paul and Krystal Hu (Reuters) – New users have piled in to Chinese social media app RedNote just days before a proposed U.S. ban on the popular social media app TikTok, as the lesser-known company rushes to capitalize on the sudden influx while walking a delicate line of moderating English-language content,…
(Reuters) – Microsoft is planning to halt hiring in part of its consulting business in the U.S. in a bid to cut costs, CNBC reported on Tuesday, citing an internal memo. The tech giant is looking to manage overall expenses as it looks to continue investments in its artificial intelligence (AI) efforts. Earlier this month,…
By Nupur Anand MIAMI (Reuters) – Wall Street bankers are already upbeat about a revival in mergers and acquisitions this year that will buoy broader investment banking activity. It may take some time for deals to materialize, but buyouts including bank deals could gain momentum in the second half of 2025. Here are quotes from…
By Bhanvi Satija and Patrick Wingrove (Reuters) -Eli Lilly’s stock tumbled 8% on Tuesday after it forecast fourth-quarter sales of weight-loss drug Zepbound below Wall Street estimates, marking the second time sales have disappointed since the drug’s launch in late 2023. The company’s shares were trading at $739.23, on track for their worst single-day decline…
By Ahmed Aboulenein and Amina Niasse WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The nation’s three largest pharmacy benefit managers have significantly marked up the prices of certain medicines, including for heart disease, cancer and HIV, at their affiliated pharmacies, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday. From 2017 to 2022, the companies — UnitedHealth Group’s Optum, CVS Health’s…
(Reuters) – Generative artificial intelligence bellwether OpenAI said on Tuesday that it is introducing a beta feature called Tasks to ChatGPT, signaling the company’s foray into the virtual assistant space, competing with Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa. Tasks will enable ChatGPT users to request tasks to be performed at a future time, including one-time reminders…
