WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden vowed to stay in the presidential race on Monday, saying he is confident the average voter still wants him on the Democratic ticket. “I am not going anywhere,” Biden told MSNBC after calling into the network’s Morning Joe program. He urged anyone who wants him to step aside…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. regulators will not immediately allow Boeing to increase 737 MAX production as it addresses ongoing safety issues, the agency’s administrator said on Thursday, after a three-hour meeting with company officials, including outgoing CEO Dave Calhoun. The Federal Aviation Administration’s enhanced oversight of Boeing will continue in coming months,…
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,…
(Reuters) -Intel is in advanced talks for a deal with Apollo Global Management in which the equity firm would provide more than $11 billion to build a facility in Ireland, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. The move comes as Intel looks to expand its presence across the United States with a planned $100-billion…
By Jamie McGeever (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in Asian markets. Inflation data from the world’s three largest economies – China, the United States and euro zone – sets the tone for world markets this week, and Asia gets the ball rolling on Monday following the April figures out of Beijing at…
By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks are at fresh records, bitcoin is soaring and investors are spurning insurance against portfolio declines as evidence that the economy is headed for a so-called soft landing whets market participants’ appetite for risk. Call it the Goldilocks trade – a bet that the Federal Reserve…
SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Amazon’s cloud computing arm, Amazon Web Services (AWS), will invest 10.1 billion reais ($1.8 billion) in Brazil through 2034 to expand its data center operations in the country, it said on Wednesday. The resources will be used to “expand, build, connect, operate and maintain data centers in Brazil,” the firm said in…
By Nora Eckert and Nathan Gomes (Reuters) -Ford Motor reported a dip in second-quarter adjusted profit on Wednesday as the automaker continues to battle costly quality issues and an EV business that is weighing on its bottom line, sending shares tumbling 12% in after-hours trading. The Detroit automaker earned an adjusted profit of 47 cents…
PARIS (Reuters) – Google Cloud will use Mistral AI’s Codestral artificial intelligence model for Google’s Vertex AI service, Google Cloud said on Wednesday. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT: The partnership highlights the rapid growth and popularity of Mistral AI, which many analysts view as the European alternative to the Microsoft-backed OpenAI. Google, meanwhile, is building its own…
By Nora Eckert DETROIT (Reuters) – Ford Motor is trying to get more of its managers to buy electric vehicles, according to an internal email the automaker sent last week that was reviewed by Reuters. The Dearborn, Michigan-based company changed a leasing program it offers to eligible current and former managers, now requiring them to…
