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Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's and SpaceX's Elon Musk say they want an AI slowdown. Will they? The Fed looms as well.

The much-anticipated launch led to a share price plunge.
Federal investigators have opened an investigation into whether Tesla's (TSLA) new Cybercabs comply with federal safety standards, just as the company begins testing its service in Austin, Texas. Market Domination host Josh Lipton is joined by Tom Narayan, RBC Capital Markets lead equity analyst for global autos, to discuss if the investigation jeopardizes the rollout and how Tesla is also trying to avoid an "Apple Maps moment."
The commercial launch immediately became a test of whether Tesla's control-free vehicle satisfies existing safety standards.

Federal regulators opened an audit query Thursday into whether Tesla properly self-certified the Cybercab as compliant with federal safety standards
All three major US stock indexes were down on Friday after a strong August jobs report increased exp

On this episode of Stock Movers: - Lululemon (LULU) shares are diving as its China business is showing signs of strain, with revenue in mainland China falling 2% in the second quarter after adjusting for currency fluctuations. - Tesla (TSLA) shares are lower on news it formally rolled out the Cybercab for robotaxi service, a long-anticipated step in Elon Musk's effort to push the company away from its roots as an auto manufacturer. The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened a probe into the process and technical data on which Tesla relied when it self-certified the vehicles as compliant with federal safety standards. - Robinhood (HOOD) is down as AMC Entertainment boss Adam Aron criticized Robinhood Markets Inc. after the platform launched a tokenized version of the theater chain's shares.

Tesla launched the Cybercab without asking a single regulator for permission, and now the federal government wants to know how that was even possible. The answer sits inside a legal gray zone that could decide the future of every driverless car on American roads.

The investigation was launched just a few hours after Tesla put the first production Cybercabs on the road in Austin.
Tesla (TSLA) Cybercab is under investigation by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administratio

Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) and Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR) fell Wednesday even as a benign July inflation report lifted the broader tech market and sent the odds of a September Federal Reserve rate hike to 33%. Headline CPI rose 0.1% in...
Tesla extended its recovery as investors looked beyond a federal investigation involving Model 3 and Model Y suspension failures.

<body><p>STORY: Wall Street stocks plummeted on Thursday, with the Dow dropping about 1%, the S&P 500 shedding 1.2% and the Nasdaq tumbling more than 2%.</p><p>The latest earnings results from large tech companies such as Alphabet and Tesla revived concerns about heavy AI spending, says Keith Buchanan, senior portfolio manager for Globalt Investments.</p><p>"We're at a point now where the hype has to kind of meet some level of realistic expectation, quantifiable expectation. And the markets are starting to digest just what this means to cash flow in some of the largest companies in the world going forward. And a lot of spending is eating into cash flow in a way that's making investors lose a bit of comfort and question a lot of valuations that have grown over the past couple of years. And that's what's really at the root of what's really hampering some of the market returns today and giving back some of the gains that we've gotten for the market over the past couple of weeks."</p><p>Shares of Alphabet sank 7% after the tech giant reported higher spending plans while it also burned cash.</p><p>And shares of Tesla tumbled 14.5% after Elon Musk's EV maker reported negative free cash flow in the second quarter for the first time in more than two years.</p><p>But shares of Intel rose 10% in extended trading after the company forecast quarterly profit and revenue above Wall Street estimates as an AI data center buildout increases demand for its central processing units, or CPUs.</p><p>Meanwhile, Brent crude oil futures settled above $100 a barrel for the first time since May, and U.S. oil futures settled above $92.</p><p>The surge in oil prices prompted worries about inflation ahead of next week's Federal Reserve policy meeting.</p></body>
Tesla’s (TSLA) latest federal safety probe isn't a routine crash investigation. It’s a test of one of the greatest assumptions still baked into Tesla’s stock: that the company can turn driver-assistance software into a business considerably more valuable than regular car sales. For years, Tesla has ...

Tesla (TSLA) is facing a federal investigation into a fatal car crash in Texas, in which the driver claimed that Tesla's full self-driving (FSD) was engaged. Yahoo Finance Senior Autos Reporter Pras Subramanian chats with Yahoo Finance's Julie Hyman about what we know so far.
Tesla Faces New Self-Driving Questions After Fatal Crash, Stock Slides
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

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.
Residential solar companies face bankruptcies, soft first-quarter sales, and shrinking demand after federal tax credit changes.


