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Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft was dismissed by a jury, removing a significant legal overhang. The verdict leaves Microsoft, NasdaqGS:MSFT, free of financial or reputational penalties linked to the case. The decision clears a path for OpenAI to pursue an IPO, with Microsoft remaining its largest outside backer. For Microsoft shareholders, the jury decision comes with the stock last closing at $423.54 and up 2.6% over the past week. The company has also delivered gains of...

Some courtroom wins look better on the scoreboard than on the balance sheet. Wall Street has watched two of them play out in the last quarter-century, from the antitrust case that hobbled Microsoft in 2001 to the one that hung over Google for most of the 2020s, and in both cases the supposed loser ...

Anthropic said on Monday it is revising its earlier position to allow users of its Mythos cybersecurity model ‌to share information about cyber threats with others who may be exposed ‌to similar vulnerabilities. Mythos, announced on April 7, is being deployed as part of Anthropic's "Project Glasswing," a controlled ​initiative under which select organizations, including major tech firms such as Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia and Apple, are permitted to use the unreleased Claude Mythos Preview model for defensive cybersecurity purposes. Mythos' capabilities to code at a high level have given it a potentially ‌unprecedented ability to identify cybersecurity ⁠vulnerabilities and devise ways to exploit them, according to experts.

The jury found Musk brought his lawsuit after the statute of limitations expired, clearing the way for an OpenAI IPO.

Elon Musk failed to convince a jury on Monday that OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman broke their agreement to maintain the maker of ChatGPT as a nonprofit to benefit humanity. The jury decided Musk waited too long to sue. Musk had sought about $150 billion in damages from OpenAI and Microsoft, ‌a major investor, to be paid to OpenAI's nonprofit.

Investing.com -- A U.S. jury on Monday found OpenAI not liable in a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk, who claimed the artificial intelligence company had abandoned its original mission to benefit humanity.

A federal jury ruled Monday that Elon Musk waited too long to sue OpenAI and its co-founders, delivering a decisive victory to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and ending one of Silicon Valley's most closely watched courtroom battles.The jury in Oakland federal court found that Musk's claims against Altman, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, The OpenAI Foundation and Microsoft were barred by relevant statutes of limitations, rejecting the billionaire's core arguments.

A California jury, on Monday found OpenAI cofounders CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman not liable of unjustly enriching themselves by turning the once nonprofit company into a for-profit business.

A California jury, on Monday found OpenAI cofounders CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman not liable of unjustly enriching themselves by turning the once nonprofit company into a for-profit business.

The legal battle between Elon Musk and OpenAI has ended in a win for the company he co-founded, following a jury decision.

Elon Musk's claim that he was mistreated by his OpenAI cofounders failed after nine California jurors decided in a unanimous verdict that his lawsuits had been filed too late.

NextEra Energy has agreed to acquire Dominion Energy in a $66.8 billion all-stock deal, creating the world's largest regulated electric utility with over $400 billion in enterprise value.

Investors watch whether AI chip demand can still outpace forecasts

President Trump’s trading activity surged in the first quarter, totaling more than 3,700 transactions, according to recent financial disclosures. The disclosures, published by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics late last week, include millions of dollars in transactions relating to companies such as Nvidia, Alphabet and Amazon.

US stocks have been predicted to start Monday trading in the red, as they ended last week, with investors continuing to worry about rising bond yields, stubborn inflation and the economic fallout from higher oil prices. Dow Jones futures were down around 262 points or 0.4%, while S&P 500...

The Kiplinger Letter’s argument is uncomfortable for anyone overweight artificial intelligence: almost none of the GDP growth Washington has been celebrating actually came from AI. The mechanics are counterintuitive. When hyperscalers buy NVIDIA chips manufactured by TSMC in Taiwan and servers assembled overseas, that spending lands in the import column, which subtracts from GDP. The ... The Kiplinger Letter Says Almost None of the GDP Growth Washington Is Celebrating Actually Came From AI and f

Commonwealth Bank of Australia on Monday appointed Mary-Anne Williams as ‌its chief AI scientist in what the ‌bank said would be the first such role at ​an Australian lender. Williams would join from the University of New South Wales, where she serves as the deputy director of the varsity's AI ‌Institute, among ⁠other roles. CBA did not say when Williams would join.

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The pieces are coming together for AWS’s AI strategy, thanks to $200 billion in spending, custom chips and savvy deals.

Investing.com -- Artificial intelligence is beginning to account for a significantly larger share of corporate workforce reductions, according to a UBS Global Research report issued on May 13, 2026.

AI companies are boosting the U.S. economy, but it doesn’t tell the full story about inflation, wages, and the labor market.

There's a lot of enthusiasm about this Nvidia competitor. What exactly is drawing investors?

Billionaire investor Bill Ackman said on ‌Saturday that the sale ‌of Google parent Alphabet's shares was ​not a bet against the company. Ackman on Friday said his firm Pershing Square had built ‌a new ⁠position in tech giant Microsoft after its stock ⁠price dropped recently, and sold his long-owned investment in ​Alphabet to ​help ​pay for it.

Two of Wall Street's most closely watched billionaire stock pickers, both once voluble activist investors, took ‌opposite tacks this year when Bill Ackman bet on Microsoft and exited ‌Google parent Alphabet and Daniel Loeb did the opposite. Ackman said on X his firm Pershing Square ​began building a new position in software giant Microsoft in February after shares dropped, saying investors weren't giving it enough credit for its Microsoft 365 office suite and artificial intelligence investments.

Hedge fund Tiger Global Management ‌said it initiated ‌new positions in an ​array of stocks including Intel and Robinhood Markets ‌during the ⁠first quarter of 2026, according ⁠to its most recent 13-F ​filing ​with ​the U.S. ‌Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday. The hedge fund also said it liquidated ‌stakes in ​companies such ​as ​Circle Internet ‌Group and Workday, ​while ​reducing its holdings of Microsoft ​and ‌Apollo Global Management. (Suzanne ​McGee in Providence, ​Rhode Island)

US benchmark equity indexes were lower intraday as Treasury yields jumped amid inflation concerns, w

Shares of Microsoft rose more than 3% Friday, bucking the trend on a down day for tech stocks. The move followed the announcement from investor Bill Ackman that his Pershing Square has taken a new stake in the software giant in a bet Microsoft's investments in AI aren't reflected in its stock price. Microsoft shares are down 12% this year and have lost about a quarter of their value since they peaked last fall.

Microsoft (MSFT) stock is back in the spotlight after UK regulators launched a broad antitrust probe into its business software ecosystem and the company reworked its multibillion dollar AI partnership with OpenAI. See our latest analysis for Microsoft. Despite bouncing 1.04% in the last session to about US$409.43, Microsoft’s 7 day share price return is down 2.70% and its year to date share price return has fallen 13.43%, even as the company reshapes its OpenAI deal and faces fresh UK...

Markets don’t move in a straight line — and neither do the people running the country. Q1 2026 was a quarter defined by tariff headlines, rate uncertainty, and a broad S&P 500 pullback that rattled retail and institutional investors alike. Most people were paralyzed. Some panicked. And at least one person — or rather, one ... President Trump’s Stock Broker Was the Busiest Person in America in Q1