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S&P Global Ratings downgraded Getty Images Inc.'s issuer rating to B from B+ and placed the credit on CreditWatch negative, citing strained cash generation and elevated leverage linked to merger-related and litigation costs. The agency also reduced the issue-level rating on Getty Images' senior secured debt to B+ from BB-. S&P said the company may …
Meta Platforms has proposed granting competing AI chatbots in Europe free access to WhatsApp via its business API for a limited volume of messages, with charges kicking in once recipients exceed a message cap. The move, submitted to EU antitrust regulators, follows earlier policy changes by Meta and has drawn criticism from smaller rivals and scrut…
Volvo Cars said it will integrate Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence into its vehicles beginning with the EX60, enabling real-time interpretation of the car’s surroundings through camera feeds with driver permission. The companies plan to demonstrate the Gemini vehicle camera integration at Google I/O on May 19-20 and will also add Google Maps…
Warby Parker announced its inaugural Intelligent Eyewear frame, a rounded, ultra-lightweight design that integrates Google AI and Samsung mobile technology. The product reveal coincided with increased intraday trading activity and a share price decline after an early rally reversed course. The company plans a fall launch with multiple optical and s…
Trading on Tuesday produced a range of price moves across the market. Major semiconductor names including Micron Technology and Intel were among the gainers, while Internet and cybersecurity names such as Amazon and Palo Alto Networks slipped. The session featured sizable intraday moves across mega-, large-, mid- and small-cap groups.
Market participants face a packed economic calendar on Wednesday, May 20, 2026, led by publication of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting minutes at 1:00 PM ET and the Energy Information Administration's weekly crude oil inventories report at 9:30 AM ET. A slate of related energy data and mortgage-market indicators will also be released earli…
Eight leading U.S. communications companies have formed a nonprofit information-sharing center to improve sector-wide cybersecurity. The Communications Cybersecurity Information Sharing and Analysis Center, or C2 ISAC, will provide a forum for technical teams and chief information security officers to share threat intelligence and coordinate defens…
Netflix confirmed licensing agreements at Licensing Expo in Las Vegas: Moose Toys will be the master toy partner for the animated film Charlie vs. the Chocolate Factory and preschool series Young MacDonald, while the Ferrero Group will produce a line of Wonka-branded food products arriving this fall in the United States and select European countrie…
Nike said it will roll out an AI-driven shopping capability in early June that lets U.S. consumers find and complete purchases of Nike products directly inside Google’s Gemini app and AI Mode in Search, using Google Wallet payment and shipping data while Nike retains the consumer relationship. The launch coincides with the summer football tournamen…
OpenAI said it will add Google DeepMind's SynthID invisible watermarking to images created with its models and roll out a public verification tool that checks for both SynthID watermarks and C2PA metadata. The company has already been applying Content Credentials to several image models and says it will expand verification across platforms and cont…
Canva announced an integration with Google Gemini that embeds Canva functionality inside the Gemini chat interface. Once users connect their accounts and invoke @Canva, they can generate new designs, search and summarize existing files, edit text and images across slides, resize assets for multiple platforms, and use brand assets from Canva Brand K…
At its annual developer conference in Mountain View, Google announced voice-command capabilities for YouTube and Google Docs and outlined broader efforts to weave artificial intelligence into its products. CEO Sundar Pichai framed the moment as one of 'hyper progress' driven by rapid technological advances and said AI is affecting every part of the…
Options market pricing implies Nvidia could see a roughly 6.5% stock move the day after its first-quarter earnings, representing about a $355 billion change in market capitalization. That implied move tops the swing priced in before the February report but remains under the company’s historical earnings-period average, while implied volatility sits…
Senior officials representing U.S. natural gas suppliers are requesting that enforcement of the European Union's methane import regulations be pushed back to January 2028 and that the bloc provide specific clarifications to the new law. The uncertainty around the timing and application of the rules is already complicating long-term contract negotia…
Options positions imply Nvidia could see roughly a 6.5% move in either direction the day after its first-quarter earnings, equivalent to about a $350-$355 billion shift in market value. Traders show growing appetite for upside exposure in the chipmaker, even as hedging and profit-taking increase across semiconductor stocks and related ETFs.
Andrej Karpathy, an AI researcher who helped found OpenAI and later led Tesla's Autopilot vision team, is joining Anthropic this week to work on pretraining for its Claude models. Anthropic said Karpathy will build a team focused on applying Claude to speed pretraining research, joining a wave of high-profile hires as the company expands compute pa…
Wolfe Research warns that accelerating U.S. Treasury yields, rather than a decline in equity markets, are most likely to prompt the White House to intervene to end the Iran conflict. Analyst Chris Senyek says recent inflation prints and a renewed move higher in yields have refocused markets on the Federal Reserve's limited ability to revert to an e…
An annual Verizon analysis of more than 31,000 security incidents found that vulnerabilities detected or exploited with AI now exceed breaches initiated by stolen credentials. The report warns generative AI is being used across attack lifecycles to speed exploitation, automating techniques defenders already recognize while raising the prospect that…
Alphabet is expected to use its annual I/O conference to roll out multiple artificial intelligence enhancements for consumers and software developers, reinforcing a strategy that ties advanced models to personalized user data across Google products. The event comes after a major Gemini upgrade last winter and amid heavy investments in AI infrastruc…
Chewy Inc. shares tumbled to a new 52-week low, falling roughly 7.8% in mid-day trade as CEO Sumit Singh spoke at the J.P. Morgan Technology, Media & Communications Conference. Investors, already uneasy after an earnings miss, a California antitrust probe and recent insider sales, showed little confidence following the fireside chat. The company’s …
A 13F filing from Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness fund discloses put option positions on a range of leading semiconductor and AI-related stocks, intensifying investor unease in a market already strained by rising Treasury yields and rapid, concentrated gains among chip names. The filing reflects holdings as of the end of Q1, and sever…
Pinterest shares dropped sharply in mid-day trading after the company reported a return to a GAAP net loss for Q1 2026 and faced renewed legal scrutiny tied to its disclosures. Despite accelerating revenue and user growth, investor concern over profitability and an approaching deadline in a securities class action, together with a risk-off move in …
A joint investigation by European broadcasters has prompted renewed scrutiny of Nestle and Danone over the pace of their responses to contamination reports involving an ingredient used in infant formula. The toxin cereulide, found in an input from China’s CABIO Biotech, led to recalls by multiple makers. Nestle says it followed internal procedures …
French, Belgian and Swiss public media reported that Nestle and Danone are being questioned over how quickly they moved to withdraw infant formula products after a toxin was found in a supplier ingredient. The toxin, cereulide, was detected in an ingredient supplied by CABIO Biotech and used by multiple manufacturers. The reports say Nestle did not…
U.K. equities closed marginally lower on Tuesday, with the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 down 0.06%. Gains in a few individual stocks were offset by losses in Automobiles & Parts, Mining and Industrial Metals & Mining sectors. Market breadth was narrowly negative, and commodity and currency moves included lower gold and oil futures and a firmer …
