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July 2 (Reuters) - Tesla on Thursday launched a six-seater long wheelbase version of its best-selling Model Y SUV in the U.S., aiming to boost sales of its electric vehicles after the removal of a key

The new entity is part of the companies’ strategic alliance that has been in the works since 2024, which aims to support the certification and commercial production of Joby’s eVTOL aircraft.

Joby Aviation is teaming up with Toyota to create air taxis.

Coca-Cola (KO) has a secret weapon in the soda wars, and it’s not simply another bottle on the grocery-store shelf. A big part of that is its Freestyle machine, which gives customers something PepsiCo has never been really able to match at the same scale. Now Coca-Cola is using that advantage again ...

JOBY stock rallies as Toyota announces a new strategic partnership with the eVTOL firm. Wall Street continues to see significant further upside in JOBY shares from current levels.

For years, holding stablecoins in a crypto wallet meant your money sat idle, earning nothing, disconnected from everyday spending. MetaMask is trying to change that. MetaMask, the self-custodial crypto wallet used by millions, launched Money Account on June 30, a new feature that combines earning, ...

Verizon announces an international joint venture with BT Group. Here’s what the agreement means for VZ shares in the second half of 2026.

Toyota will hold a 51% stake in the new entity, which will have exclusive rights to produce Joby's S4 series aircraft

Companies establish venture to produce electric aircraftJoby Aviation, Inc. (NYSE:JOBY) shares rose 7% on Tuesday after the company announced a manufacturing joint venture with Toyota Motor Corporation to build Joby’s S4 Series electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.

Google-backed Apptronik unveiled a new robot training facility on Tuesday, betting ‌that large-scale real-world data collection will accelerate the ‌commercialization of humanoid robots. The Austin-based startup said the facility, developed with ​Google DeepMind, is designed to move robots from pilot projects to production deployments. • The nearly 90,000-square-foot facility, Robot Park, in Austin houses fleets of humanoid robots performing logistics, ‌manufacturing and retail ⁠tasks to generate training data for AI models.

Investing.com -- Anthropic said on Monday its Claude family of artificial intelligence models is now available in Microsoft Foundry on Azure, running on NVIDIA’s GB300 Blackwell Ultra GPU systems, marking the AI startup’s first deployment on NVIDIA hardware.

Comcast's NBCUniversal said on Monday that its ‌streaming service Peacock's Premium Plus ‌tier is now available for subscription through ​YouTube Primetime Channels, expanding access to its content library. Here are some details: • The move allows subscribers to ‌view a ⁠wide range of Peacock offerings directly within the YouTube ⁠platform, including live sports, popular NBC and Bravo series, original programming ​and Universal ​films. It ​follows a broader ‌agreement between NBCUniversal and Google that was announced in late 2025.

The 50/50 deal creates a new entity with $4 billion in combined revenue serving 3,000 customers across 180 countries.

Polymarket surpasses $1 billion in annual revenue shortly after U.S. exchange launch. DraftKings reveals predictions exchange.

Investing.com -- SpaceX plans to start building an eight-mile natural gas pipeline next month to supply its Texas launch facilities, according to county filings. The pipeline, named Starpipe, will support launches of the company's Starship rocket.

Comcast, which owns Xfinity, is now offering a convenient new service for internet customers as it struggles to prevent them from switching to its rivals. In 2025, Comcast lost more than 700,000 internet customers after it faced criticism for raising prices on its Xfinity services and removing its ...

IBM soared in pre-market trading after announcing a non-chip computing breakthrough.

IBM on Thursday unveiled what it said was the world's first technology capable of producing chips smaller than ‌one nanometer, as tech companies race to build semiconductors that can handle increasingly ‌demanding AI workloads. The new chip technology, which bolsters IBM's ‌position to compete with contract ⁠chipmakers TSMC and Intel, has a transistor architecture of 0.7 nanometers, or 7 angstroms. Last week, Intel said the new generation of its 18A manufacturing ⁠process, which makes 1.8 nanometer chips, moved into risk production, the testing phase before commercial manufacturing.

Investing.com - Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM) unveiled its Dragonfly C1000 data center CPU and secured Meta Platforms as its first major customer on Wednesday, announcing a strategic multi-generation supply agreement at its Investor Day 2026 in New York City. Despite the milestone announcements, Qualcomm shares are trading at $193.61, down 5.15% on the session, as investors weigh the near-term cost of a separate ~$4 billion acquisition against data center revenue that won’t arrive until th

Elon Musk's SpaceX has launched a five-tranche notes offering aimed at raising at ‌least $25 billion, a source familiar with the ‌matter said on Tuesday, as the newly public company seeks funding ​for its capital-intensive AI expansion. SpaceX's AI ambitions carry a hefty price tag, requiring tens of billions of dollars in investment in data centers, computing hardware and power ‌infrastructure. The offering consists of ⁠5-year, 7-year, 10-year, 20-year, 30-year tenor senior unsecured notes, according to a document seen ⁠by Reuters.

Anthropic on Tuesday launched an artificial intelligence agent inside Salesforce's Slack app that can work alongside employees ‌in group chats, deepening its push into the enterprise market that ‌has emerged as a key battleground for AI startups. Called Claude Tag, the tool lets users summon ​the company's AI agent into a Slack thread by typing "@Claude," where it can read conversations, break down tasks and proactively flag relevant updates across an organization without being asked. The agent, which will retain context over time, is available in beta ‌for Claude Enterprise and Claude ⁠Team customers, with plans to expand to other platforms, Anthropic said.

Investing.com -- Meta Platforms announced Tuesday a new line of AI smart glasses in partnership with EssilorLuxottica, marking the company's first entry into lower-priced models under its own brand.

Investing.com -- Webull is launching a private markets solution that will give eligible accredited investors access to late-stage private companies through special purpose vehicles on its platform, Investing.com has learned.

SpaceX ‌said ‌on Monday ​it launched an offering of ‌senior ⁠unsecured notes ⁠and disclosed ​that ​it ​held ‌approximately $100.8 billion in cash and cash ‌equivalents ​as ​of ​June ‌19.

BEIJING, June 22 (Reuters) - China's low Earth orbit satellite company SpaceSail, widely seen as a challenger to Elon Musk's Starlink, has launched a new round of fundraising, state media Securities

China's low Earth orbit satellite company SpaceSail, widely seen ‌as a challenger to Elon Musk's ‌Starlink, has launched a new round of fundraising, state ​media Securities Times reported on Monday. • The new investment from the financing round will represent a combined equity stake ‌of no more ⁠than 20%, the report said. • The Shanghai government-backed company aims to deploy as many as 15,000 low ‌Earth orbit satellites by 2030 ​and has secured overseas ​contracts in ​regions like Brazil to compete directly ‌with Starlink.

(Bloomberg) -- The Bank of England will stress test private markets against a doomsday scenario featuring 7% interest rates, a 35% collapse in UK share prices, a 400 basis-point increase in leveraged loan spreads and a wide range of artificial intelligence disruptions, the central bank announced on Friday.Most Read from BloombergRead the 14-Point Draft Memorandum Between the US and IranModi Warns of ‘Shortage of Trust’ Ahead of Trump MeetingTrump Blows Through His Iran Red Lines in Justifying Pe

Coinbase Global said Tuesday that it is launching a slew of products, including perpetual futures contracts linked to equity indexes, in a bid to become a one-stop exchange for Americans’ trading needs. The largest U.S. crypto exchange said it is launching perpetual futures tied to indexes tracking four themes: artificial intelligence, China, defense and the top 100 Nasdaq-listed companies. Perpetual futures are a type of popular crypto derivative that never expires and trades 24/7.

For decades, Walmart has built its reputation on helping shoppers stretch every dollar. Its price points, brand range, and product assortment have all reflected that budget-friendly strategy. More recently, however, the chain’s been experimenting with a shift toward premiumization. From adding ...

Investing.com -- Webull has launched a Model Context Protocol server that will allow investors to interact with its trading infrastructure through natural language AI commands, Investing.com has learned.