By Anton Bridge TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese technology investor Softbank Group believes it has an advantage over smaller rivals because it can leverage its entire $183.6 billion portfolio to help it build an ecosystem of firms that can employ artificial intelligence, a top executive said on Monday. “Because of the size of our platform, we’re…
By Patrick Wingrove (Reuters) – AbbVie’s top-selling arthritis drug Humira has held onto more than 80% of patients after facing nine lower-priced rivals in the U.S. in the last year, raising questions about whether the market for prescription biosimilars can survive in its current form, drug pricing experts and analysts say. Humira, which lists for…
By Luc Cohen and Susan Heavey NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump’s July 11 sentencing on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star may be delayed after prosecutors said on Tuesday they don’t object to giving the former U.S. president a chance to argue he should have been immune from prosecution. Trump’s lawyers…
By Johann M Cherian and Purvi Agarwal (Reuters) – Wall Street’s main indexes slipped on Friday as investors held back after a rally in the previous session that was sparked by an oversized interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve. The S&P 500 and the Dow hovered near their record highs and were on track…
(Reuters) – A group of current and former employees at artificial intelligence (AI) companies, including Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Alphabet’s Google DeepMind on Tuesday raised concerns about risks posed by the emerging technology. An open letter by a group of 11 current and former employees of OpenAI and one current and another former employee with Google…
SPS Commerce is starting to look like a great “buy the dip” growth stock.
(Reuters) – AutoZone beat estimates for third-quarter profit on Tuesday, driven by strong demand for automotive parts as more Americans held on to their ageing cars amid higher prices and wait times for newer models. Quarterly net sales at the auto parts supplier, which competes with Advance Auto Parts and O’Reilly Automotive, rose 3.5% to…
Hudson Technologies, Inc. ( NASDAQ:HDSN ) a leading provider of innovative and sustainable refrigerant products and services to the Heating,…
(Reuters) – A spike in power usage from artificial intelligence (AI) data centers could significantly boost natural gas demand in the second half of the decade, analysts at investment banker Tudor Pickering Holt & Co said in a report on Tuesday. As much as 8.5 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas could be…
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Walmart must face a lawsuit claiming it often charges higher prices at the register than it posts on store shelves, costing consumers hundreds of millions of dollars a year, a federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday. Reversing a lower court judge, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago…
