Anthropic Nears $1.5 Billion Joint Venture With Wall Street Firms
Anthropic, Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman each expected to invest around $300 million; Goldman Sachs also an investor.
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GameStop Offers to Buy eBay for $56 Billion
CEO Ryan Cohen said GameStop has built a roughly 5% stake in eBay and was offering $125 a share in cash and stock.
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An Aluminum Crisis Is Roiling the Auto Industry
America's top-selling vehicle, the Ford F-150, bears the brunt of metal-supply-chain woes.
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Berkshire CEO Greg Abel Takes the Stage, Making a Case for the Post-Buffett Era
New leader says company has shortlist of acquisition targets, as its cash pile grows; assures investors that culture isn't changing.
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Tesla Drivers Face a New Problem With FSD
Tesla faces an issue with its improving self-driving product. Don't worry, it isn't all bad.
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The Fuel-Price Crunch That's Turning Into a Disaster for Airlines
The higher costs that took down Spirit are squeezing an entire industry, especially the budget carriers.
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Actors Reach Tentative Deal With Studios and Streamers
The multiyear agreement makes a repeat of the 2023 Hollywood labor strikes unlikely
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The Quest to Use AI to Help Find New Drugs
Drug companies like Eli Lilly and Roche are racing to build supercomputers to help fix the 90% failure rate in drug development.
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Nostalgia Powers Big Debut for 'The Devil Wears Prada 2'
Hollywood is using warm fuzzies for decades-old pop culture to draw audiences to theaters.
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Netflix, in a First, Plans Full Theatrical Release for 'Narnia'
Theater owners and filmmakers have long pushed for the entertainment giant to give its movies a Hollywood-style release in cinemas.
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OpenAI Wants to Go Public. First Sarah Friar Needs to Get It to Grow Up.
The chief financial officer is managing Sam Altman-and ambitions for one of the biggest IPOs ever.
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China's 'Teapot' Refiners, Targeted by U.S., Offer Financial Lifeline to Iran
A sector that once rebelled against Beijing has grown into a critical tool for working around sanctions.
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Meta Platforms Acquires Humanoid Robot Startup Assured Robot Intelligence
The startup's team will join Meta to focus on optimizing its models for robotics applications.
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Apple Boosts Starting Price for Mac Mini After AI Demand Surge
Chief Executive Tim Cook has said desktop computers are likely to face a supply-demand imbalance for several months.
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Exxon Stock Slips. CEO Warns 'Full Impact' of War is Coming.
Shares rise after the oil major beats Wall Street's earnings target.
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Chevron Stock Wavers After Earnings. It's Pumping Out Fuel at a Record.
The decline in earnings has to do with how Chevron accounts for the change in the value of its financial hedges, which are designed to blunt the impact of fast-moving commodity prices.
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Top AI Companies Agree to Pentagon Deals for Classified Work
The contracts give the Defense Department more AI options after it declared Anthropic a supply-chain risk.
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Cboe Is Slashing 20% of Its Staff in Bid to Focus on Core Businesses
The derivatives exchange will also tighten its work-from-home policies and offer voluntary-retirement packages to older employees.
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May 03, 2026 23:00 ET (03:00 GMT)
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