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A driver told law-enforcement officials he was using Tesla’s Autopilot when his car slammed into a Houston-area home, killing a woman.

Volkswagen (ETR:VOW3) used its 66th annual general meeting to outline a difficult but active 2025 fiscal year, with executives pointing to product launches, electric-vehicle momentum and restructuring progress while warning that tariffs, competition and geopolitical pressures continue to weigh on pr

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) on Wednesday closed down -1.21%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) closed down -0.98%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) closed down -0.99%. June E-mini S&P futures (ESM26 ) fell -1.19%, and June E-mini Nasdaq futures...

The broad market exchange-traded fund SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) was up 0.04%, and the actively tr

Stocktwits data showed retail sentiment on SPY and QQQ has remained ‘bearish’ despite the recent rally.

The Dow index jumped to a new all-time intraday high on Monday, while the Nasdaq jumped to its best close since the end of March.

General Motors' (GM) energy storage business is underappreciated by investors, while its US tariff e

The S&P 500, Nasdaq, and Dow Jones Industrial Average indices are recovering after the days-long sell-off in tech stocks.

The U.S. launched fresh strikes on Iran on Wednesday, even as the war in the Middle East has stretched over 100 days now.

President Donald Trump threatened to strike Iran again after negotiations were taking “too long.”

Tesla stock was lower early Wednesday after a flare-up in tensions in the Middle East, leaving investors nervous. Shares of the electric-vehicle maker were down 1.5% at $390.91 in premarket trading, while and futures were down 0.8% and 0.7%, respectively. The move came after the U.S. military retaliated after Iran downed an Apache helicopter, threatening a fragile cease-fire.

The CEO will have almost complete control of his Texas-based space company, without colonizing Mars or building a single non-Earth data center.

Nasdaq, S&P 500 and Dow Jones indices all ended the week ending June 5, lower.

US equity indexes dropped this week as big tech tumbled after strong jobs data boosted the odds for

US stocks (^DJI, ^IXIC, ^GSPC) sink in Friday trading, the Nasdaq Composite leading losses and closing over 1,100 points lower (4.18%). The market is reacting to May's overwhelmingly positive labor data — 172,000 jobs added the US economy vs. estimates of 88,000 — raising investor concerns that the Federal Reserve may be inclined to hike interest rates. Yahoo Finance Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre breaks down the day's biggest market moves.

Investors are slamming the brakes on the AI rally, dragging down shares in Broadcom, AMD, and Nvidia.

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<body><p>STORY: :: Chris Kirkham, Automotive enterprise reporter</p><p>"The big promise Elon Musk has made about Full Self-Driving technology is that it will soon turn every Tesla on the road into a driverless vehicle. It’s a big reason why the company is valued at about $1.5 trillion —</p><p>// ZOOM</p><p>five times that of any other automaker."</p><p>// MUSK AT ROBOTAXI EVENT</p><p>"We found after talking to 10 former Tesla employees who helped train its self-driving software that Tesla’s technology is still far off from what Musk is promising.</p><p>"Seven of those employees said they wouldn’t trust the software to drive them anywhere. While at Tesla, the employees reviewed videos showing Teslas equipped with the Full Self-Driving software striking dogs, cats and wildlife like deer, as well as close calls with pedestrians including children. Some saw Teslas using the software fail to pull over for approaching emergency vehicles, fail to stop for school buses and drive into a construction zone, nearly striking workers. The vehicles using the technology often sped. One former employee said vehicles using a Full Self-Driving mode called “Mad Max” would go 20 to 30 miles per hour over the speed limit.</p><p>"Even though Tesla, according to the employees, knew about these deficiencies, Musk pushed forward with the launch of a robotaxi network in Austin, Texas last June. Our reporting shows that employees worked to train the software on specific streets and intersections so that the demonstration would go smoothly. They said this kind of training is impossible to do on a wide scale. Yet Musk has said Tesla’s technology “works anywhere,” and doesn’t require mapping or programming the software for it to operate in specific places.</p><p>"Another interesting thing we found is that Tesla is using some fuzzy math to claim that its Full Self-Driving technology is either 10 times safer or, more recently, seven times safer than the average human driver. We found after talking to 11 traffic safety experts that Tesla is comparing apples and oranges to do this math. It’s counting only the worst of its crashes, the ones where airbags go off, and comparing them to a set of federal data that includes more minor accidents. This distorts Tesla's safety record and makes its technology look better than it actually is.&nbsp;</p><p>"By contrast, Waymo, the U.S. leader in driverless taxis, takes a more rigorous approach. It publishes its safety stats in peer-reviewed journals and says it adjusts for the specific roads and conditions its vehicles actually operate in.&nbsp;</p><p>"We sent Tesla a detailed list of questions for this report, but got no response. In the past, Tesla has defended its Full-Self Driving technology, saying it could save lives and prevent injuries. The traffic-safety researchers who spoke to Reuters said they viewed Tesla’s claims about the safety of Full-Self Driving as marketing rather than a serious investigation into a critical safety issue."</p></body>

Government AI inventory showed Grok appearing in just three of four hundred vendor examples with ChatGPT, Gemini, and others outpacing.

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China, on Wednesday, confirmed a 200-aircraft order from Boeing Co (NYSE:BA) following President Donald Trump‘s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping last week. China Confirms Boeing Deal The country will purchase the aircraft, China’s Ministry of Commerce said in a statement, confirmed by Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua. The order is the first major order Boeing has secured from the world’s second-largest aviation market in over a decade. Read Also: Jim Cramer Says Beijing Can't Afford

Nissan is considering using the same strategy as Tesla now that Canada has drastically lowered tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles. Meanwhile, Chinese EV makers are already angling to break into the Canadian market.

By Stella Qiu SYDNEY, May 15 (Reuters) - Asian shares came under pressure on Friday as investor euphoria over tech stocks gave way to inflation fears that saw Treasury yields spike to one-year highs

<body><p>STORY: Tesla's robotaxi service is experiencing significant operational problems in Texas, raising questions about CEO Elon Musk’s ambitious vision for a near future full of driverless cars.</p><p>Reuters testing in Dallas, Houston and Austin found long wait times exceeding 30 minutes, limited availability and navigation problems.</p><p>In one case, a 20‑minute trip in Dallas stretched to nearly two hours.</p><p>The service remains confined to those three Texas cities despite Musk predicting last July that robotaxis would serve half the U.S. population by the end of 2025.&nbsp;</p><p>Much of Tesla’s $1.6 trillion valuation hinges on investor belief that the company will soon unleash a vast fleet of robotaxis.</p><p>But analysts say the expansion is moving slower than expected, with Musk now describing a more “cautious approach” to avoid injuries or fatalities.</p><p>In the meantime, experts have raised concerns about the technology's limits, including Peter Stone, a computer science professor at the University of Texas at Austin.</p><p>“People, at least so far, tend to be much better at unexpected situations and being able to reason about something that you've never seen before. But to be able to figure out on the fly what to do, especially if you're using a machine learning-based system, it relies critically on the training data that's been given. And if you come up with a completely, what's known as out of distribution, which is sort of a code word for just new or novel situation, then it's going to be much more difficult for a software-based system to react than people are.”&nbsp;</p><p>Police in Austin said Tesla's robotaxis tend to ignore posted speed limits, noting that vehicles in test rides last year drove 5 mph above the speed limit.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Since August, Tesla has reported 15 robotaxi crashes in Austin to federal regulators.</p><p>Most did not involve injuries, but one involved someone being&nbsp;sent to the hospital.</p><p>Tesla has requested that all information about the incidents be kept confidential, according to police.</p><p>Tesla did not respond to Reuters requests for comment.</p></body>

President Trump’s posture toward China has whipsawed markets for over a year, with prediction markets confirming tariffs escalated from 10% to 40% to 100% between February and June of last year. Any thaw in that relationship, whether through tariff relief, eased chip export rules, or restored market access, would flow straight into the income statements ... 5 Companies Are Betting on Trump’s China Pivot. Here’s Who’s Best Positioned.

US business leaders including Apple Inc.'s Tim Cook and Tesla Inc.'s Elon Musk on Trump's first overseas trip since waging war in the Middle East a 36-hour visit with Xi Jinping that's expected to encompass the war, tariffs and the self-ruled island of Taiwan. The list of attendees until Tuesday had not included Huang, whose company makes the chips at the heart of the AI boom and has been pushing for greater leeway in a market he's identified as a $50 billion opportunity. Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow joins Bloomberg Businessweek Daily to discuss.