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Taiwan's Wistron, a supplier to Nvidia, launched a $700 million ‌manufacturing facility in Texas on Tuesday to ‌produce the U.S. chipmaker's latest AI systems, as Taiwanese electronics ​makers expand U.S. production to meet soaring demand for AI infrastructure. • The Fort Worth facility manufactures Nvidia's GB300 Grace Blackwell ‌Ultra Superchip. Nvidia ⁠CEO Jensen Huang has described the AI system built around the product as "the ⁠most powerful AI supercomputer in the world."

Investing.com -- oogle on Tuesday unveiled three new artificial intelligence models, including its most capable Flash model to date and a cybersecurity-focused system, as the tech giant steps up competition with OpenAI and Anthropic in the rapidly evolving AI market.

Samsung Electronics on Monday launched its first U.S. co-branded credit card with Barclays, deepening its push into the financial services space ‌in the country and signaling plans to broaden its offerings in the future. The Samsung Galaxy ‌Card, issued by Barclays and running on Visa's network, will allow users to apply, manage accounts, track spending and redeem ​rewards entirely through Samsung Wallet. The credit card launch also puts Samsung in direct competition with Apple Pay, which dominates payment services in the U.S. The launch comes as technology companies and banks race ‌to deepen ties between digital wallets ⁠and financial products, seeking to make smartphones the primary device for payments and money management, and both Samsung and Barclays want to capitalize on it.

(Bloomberg) -- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. launched a preview version of its flagship Qwen3.8 Max model, which it described as comparable to leading frontier AI models and second only to Anthropic PBC’s Fable 5.Most Read from BloombergUS Strikes Iran to ‘Punish’ It for Attack That Killed 2 TroopsFCC Near Rulings Against Disney Over ‘The View,’ TV LicensesThousands of Trucks Haul Iraq’s Oil Through Syria in Sign of Hormuz LegacyTaylor Farms Pulls Mexican Lettuce as Parasite Cases RiseTwo US Troops

Asian shares skidded Friday, with Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 down 5% as heavy selling of computer chipmakers and other AI-related shares dragged markets lower. Stocks related to artificial intelligence have been under pressure for weeks because of worries that their prices have shot too high and that voracious demand for computer memory and processors may not be sustainable if AI ends up not producing as much profit and productivity as promised. Oil prices surged as fighting in the Middle East intensified, while U.S. futures slipped.

Unveiling marks the company’s first global vehicle launch outside China as it steps up expansion in Europe and other overseas markets amid intensifying competition at home.

Uber stock was slightly higher after the company announced a deal for Delivery Hero, following weeks of negotiations.

Snowflake on Thursday unveiled a compensation package worth up to roughly $448 million for CEO ‌Sridhar Ramaswamy, hinging on the cloud-based data analytics ‌platform's market value almost doubling to $184 billion in seven years. Ramaswamy's award, ​totaling 1 million shares, is structured into five tranches, each with escalating stock price milestones, and is designed to retain him as CEO until September 15, 2030. Snowflake has been benefiting ‌from clients shifting ⁠their workloads to its cloud platform as they invest to develop AI tools.

The Financial Services Commission is seeking to stabilize a stock market that has seen wild swings as individual investors use debt to chase profits amid AI-related jitters.

China launched and partially recovered a rocket, a milestone for Beijing’s space program as it competes with the U.S. and Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

By Rishika Sadam July 9 (Reuters) - Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk launched its weekly basal insulin injection, Awiqli, in India on Thursday, aiming to compete with daily-dose options on the market. 

SpaceXAI on Wednesday launched the Grok 4.5 AI model, calling it the company's most intelligent offering to date designed ‌for coding and agentic tasks. Here are some details: • SpaceXAI said Grok 4.5 ‌was trained across tens of thousands of Nvidia GB300 graphics processing units, with a focus ​on meticulous data filtering, deduplication and quality scoring. "We've partnered with SpaceXAI to train Grok 4.5," popular AI coding agent Cursor said.

Investing.com -- Funds managed by Blue Owl Capital on Wednesday launched Kirkwood Infrastructure Group, a new fiber and communications infrastructure company, as rising investment in artificial intelligence and hyperscale data centers fuels demand for high-capacity digital networks across the United States.

It was only a matter of time. Eventually someone would want a piece of $488 billion-in-assets Invesco QQQ Trust ETF.

For the first time, investors outside the United States can use tokenized stocks as collateral to trade perpetual futures on U.S. equities, without a traditional brokerage account. Ondo Perps, a new decentralized perpetual futures platform built on technology developed by Ondo Finance, launched on ...

Investing.com -- Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) started an eight-part U.S. investment grade bond sale on Tuesday, aiming to raise at least $25 billion.

Monster Beverage (MNST) shares have spent the summer moving toward record highs, and Morgan Stanley just gave investors a fresh reason to keep watching. The bank reiterated its Overweight rating and $103 price target on the energy drink maker this week. Morgan Stanley is standing by a call it has ...

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.