By Steve Holland and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden said on Friday that it was “dangerous” for people to question the integrity of the guilty verdict in Donald Trump’s hush money jury trial. In his first public comments since a New York jury on Thursday found Trump guilty on 34 counts over…
(Deletes extraneous words ‘has been’ in paragraph 8) MILWAUKEE (Reuters) – Ohio U.S. Senator J.D. Vance, Donald Trump’s new running mate, has embraced trade barriers, isolationism and social conservatism, issues that have proven popular with much of Trump’s mostly white, working-class base. Some of those same stances, however, risk turning off moderate voters and major…
By Scott DiSavino (Reuters) -Power use in Texas was on track to break the record for the month of May on Friday for a second time this week and could top that again over the Memorial Day weekend as homes and businesses crank up air conditioners to escape a heat wave. The Electric Reliability Council…
By Howard Schneider and Ann Saphir WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. is “no longer an overheated economy” with a job market that has “cooled considerably” from its pandemic-era extremes and in many ways is back where it was before the health crisis, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said in remarks to Congress that suggested the case for…
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Cisco on Tuesday launched a $1 billion fund to invest in artificial intelligence startups, joining a list of big technology companies rushing to take stakes in small AI firms. The company, through its investment arm, is investing in Cohere, Mistral AI and Scale AI, among others, and has already committed nearly $200…
By Aditya Soni (Reuters) – Microsoft investors will have one big question when the tech giant reports earnings on Tuesday: has growth in its Azure cloud-computing business picked up enough to justify the billions of dollars being spent on artificial intelligence infrastructure? Widely seen as the front-runner in the race to make money from AI,…
By Simon Lewis, Humeyra Pamuk and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday urged Egypt to do everything it can to make sure humanitarian aid is flowing into Gaza as food and medicine bound for the strip piles up on the Egyptian side. Blinken told a hearing in the House…
(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 Hyunjoo Jin SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Elon Musk is offering factory tours to 15 Tesla shareholders who vote on his $56 billion pay package at the upcoming meeting, the latest effort by the electric vehicle maker to rally votes for the compensation after a court struck it down. The upcoming vote is seen as…
(Reuters) – Walmart has ended its agreement with Capital One Financial, which was the exclusive issuer of Walmart consumer credit cards, the companies said on Friday. The world’s largest retailer had previously accused Capital One of being too slow to post many transactions to cardholders’ accounts, and failing to promptly replace many lost cards. The…
