Новости за 01.05.2024

The Dow Jones Industrial Average and other U.S. stock indexes spiked Wednesday afternoon — not because the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged, but because there won’t be any more rate hikes. The market started celebrating after the Fed Chair Jerome Powell said “it is unlikely the next policy move will be a…

Tesla’s sudden move to lay off most of its Supercharger division shocked the electric vehicle industry, halted construction plans, and left pretty much anyone paying attention baffled.

One of Boeing’s big problems at the moment is that it can’t build planes as quickly as it and its customers would like. But a key supplier is teasing that it has figured out a way to help Boeing become more productive.

There’s been a flurry of successful tech IPOs at the start of the year: Reddit, AI startup Astera Labs, consumer rewards app Ibotta, Microsoft-backed Rubrik. But the biggest IPO on the books for 2024 so far is not in Silicon Valley — in fact it’s not even on dry land.

The California Forever project is one step closer to becoming a reality. This week, the ambitious project’s backers announced that they had received enough local support to trigger a ballot initiative. Local voters will now decide the fate of the project during the November election.

As travelers plan their long-awaited summer trips, Airbnb is hoping they’ll consider embarking on one of its new ‘Icons’ experiences for a completely unique vacation.

Google laid off at least 200 staffers on its “Core” team in California, CNBC reported Wednesday. Some of those jobs are relocating to its offices in India and Mexico, the outlet said.

Early crypto investor Roger Ver, a.k.a. ‘Bitcoin Jesus,’ has been charged with a tax fraud, with the Department of Justice saying he evaded nearly $50 million in taxes.

Peloton is going on the road. Well, at it least some of its equipment is.

The Rabbit R1 doesn’t have a lot of capabilities that your phone already has. It doesn’t send emails for you. It can’t set calendar reminders or alarms. It can’t connect to any apps outside a select four that includes Spotify, Uber, DoorDash, and Midjourney. All those features may be coming in the future, but if…

Unlike other parts of the tech industry, the artificial intelligence sector is struggling to find the right recruits, and now a major tech company is asking the U.S. government to update its immigration policies to not lose out on AI talent.

The skyrocketing popularity of the diabetes drug Ozempic has put a heavy burden on public spending in Denmark, the home country of the drug’s producer Novo Nordisk.

If you’re looking to pick up a used electric car bargain, then your luck may be in as Hertz is about to offload thousands of electric vehicles from its fleet. The rental giant will sell an additional 10,000 EVs that it initially promised as a result of “substantial depreciation” seen by its EVs.

Anthropic takes the fight to OpenAI on Wednesday with a new iOS app for its powerful Claude AI. The app will put Claude into more hands and try to take some space in the AI marketplace that ChatGPT already dominates.

A new report from the House Oversight Committee’s Democrats and the Senate’s Committee on the Budget says that major American oil companies have been lying for decades about their role in climate change.

The stock market opened flat on Wednesday morning as investors focused on the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision, which is due in the afternoon. The central bank is expected to hold interest rates steady between 5.25% and 5.50%.

If Boeing doesn’t get its act together in the next decade or so, Airbus won’t be the only plane-making competitor it will have to worry about. The Wall Street Journal reports that Brazilian manufacturer Embraer is mulling the development of a plane that could compete with Boeing’s 737 Max models.

Despite recording weaker sales in the United States last month, Hyundai Motor North America and Kia America saw interest in their electric offerings grow.

Boeing just can’t catch a break. From failing safety checks to losing panels and other parts, to the mysterious death of a whistleblower, this is a dark time for the aerospace giant. The cruel hand of fate however has just dealt the company a card that it likely won’t be able to explain away.

Tesla announced Tuesday that it will lay off everyone who works on both the new vehicle and Supercharger teams. At this point, no one has any idea what CEO Elon Musk was thinking or what’s going to happen going forward. Including other automakers that recently switched to NACS. Maybe Musk is just looking to get out of…

As tech companies race to build the world’s leading generative artificial intelligence technologies, they’re choosing from a very small talent pool. The pickings are so slim that staffers at ChatGPT-maker OpenAI have a median salary of nearly $1 million.

Johnson & Johnson announced Wednesday that it plans to pay nearly $6.5 billion over 25 years to settle all pending and future U.S. lawsuits alleging that its baby powder and other talc-based products caused ovarian cancer.

Cash-strapped consumers are not splurging on pizza and chicken, and that’s hurting sales at restaurant company Yum Brands.

An experimental satellite that launched in 1974 disappeared from ground-based sensors in the 1990s, only to be found again this week. Some defunct satellites or debris can often go missing for years, presenting hazards within an increasingly crowded Earth orbit. But, how exactly do objects disappear in space?

Joseph Otting, the newly-minted CEO of New York Community Bank, painted a pretty hopeful picture for the lender’s future — even after posting millions in first-quarter losses. Investors seemed to like it.