Новости за 30.04.2024

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FDA) announced on Tuesday that it is disputing over 300 patent listings across 20 different brand name drugs in an effort to promote competition and lower drug prices. Novo Nordisk’s popular diabetes drug Ozempic is among the drugs with patents that are being challenged.

It was a rough day for the Dow and other indexes as hotter-than-expected labor data increased speculation that the Federal Reserve would not be cutting interest rates anytime soon. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting began today, and the interest rate decision will be made Wednesday afternoon.

Warner Bros Discovery shares hit a 52-week low on Tuesday after a Wall Street Journal report suggested the media giant might lose out on a bid to continue airing National Basketball Association games. Swooping in for the steal would be NBC, whose parent company Comcast might pony up as much as $2.5 billion a year to…

Changpeng Zhao (also known as CZ) — the founder and former CEO of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange — has been sentenced to four months in jail for enabling money laundering on the platform.

Cannabis stocks are smoking hot on reports that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will attempt to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug.

Dave & Buster’s plans to add a feature to its app that will allow customers to place bets amongst themselves on competitive games, according to an announcement from the entertainment chain on Tuesday. It’s just the latest sign that tech-based gambling is becoming normalized in the U.S. at an unprecedented rate,…

Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome are already being drowned in new AI features, so we suppose it was inevitable that Apple would also try to shove some AI activities into its default browser. With Apple reportedly jumping on the AI hype train for iOS 18 (though getting on at the caboose end rather than the passenger…

MicroStrategy reported a net loss of $53.1 million, or 3.09 a share, in its first-quarter earnings report but plans to buy more Bitcoin later in the year. Following the news, the stock of the business analytics software company plunged over 16% in the afternoon.

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A mysterious new AI chatbot called “gpt2-chatbot” is turning heads this week after it became available on a major large language model benchmarking site, LMSYS Org. No one knows where it came from, but many consider it to have roughly the same capabilities as OpenAI’s GPT-4. This puts gpt2-chatbot in a rare class of…

Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun has already announced plans to step down at the end of the year. As a part of that plan, he had intended to stick around for a little bit after his tenure as a member of the company’s board of directors. But proxy advisor Glass Lewis doesn’t think he should stick around at all.

Chatter is picking back up this week about whether the generative artificial intelligence hype is doomed to die.

Wage growth in the c-suites of corporate America is slowing down, but it’s still much faster than that of the typical U.S. worker.

Eli Lilly stock jumped 5% during Tuesday morning trading to about $773 a share after the pharma giant reported better-than-expected sales of its weight loss drug Zepbound in the first quarter of 2024.

Cheap gas is becoming politically expensive for President Joe Biden during a challenging election year. Pressure is building on Biden to ramp up sanctions enforcement against Russia, Iran, and Venezuela, Bloomberg reports — three major oil producers whose supplies have tamped down rising crude prices despite OPEC…

Coca-Cola’s consumers are making it pop. The beverage company reported better-than-expected first-quarter earnings on Tuesday, thanks in part to an increase in its prices. Shares of Coca-Cola were down slightly in mid-day hours, trading at about $62.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average and other U.S. stock indexes fell Tuesday morning after strong labor data increased speculation that the Federal Reserve won’t cut interest rates anytime soon.

Chinese smartphone-maker Huawei reported a rise in profit for the fourth consecutive quarter, outpacing its rival Apple, and showing its resilience against U.S. sanctions.

Last week, Russia unsurprisingly vetoed a draft resolution to prevent the placement of nuclear weapons in orbit. Russia’s rejection of the United Nations resolution is not a clear indication that it possesses orbital arsenal that could destroy satellite constellations, but it shows the country is not wavering under…

AI has been a big boon for the electronics giant Samsung this year — something the company expects to continue throughout 2024. In a new earnings release, the South Korean company’s chip division saw its operating profit more than tripleto 1.9 trillion won ($1.4 billion) during the first quarter from last year.

Apple is spiriting away dozens of Google’s artificial intelligence experts to a secretive Swiss laboratory, according to a new report.

We hope you like TVs because that’s what April had to deliver in 2024. Samsung showed off its latest Neo QLED 4K TV, while Sony refreshed its entire QLED-based Bravia lineup.

Flying is one of those strange times where you just have to go with the flow and do as everyone else does. So you put your liquids in a small separate bag, make an impromptu whiskey purchase at 5 a.m. and always board your plane on the left hand side. Hang on, you’re right, you do always board your flight on the…

After years of Tesla Elon Musk bashing California, it seems that residents have had enough — and they’re ditching Tesla.

A former employee of the National Security Agency was sentenced to 262 months, just shy of 22 years, in prison on Monday for trying to send classified information to someone he thought was a Russian spy, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). As it turns out, the Russian spy was…