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Viavi Solutions said it will pursue a public offering of roughly $500 million of common stock, prompting a 5% decline in its shares in after-hours trading on Tuesday. The company said net proceeds are intended to pay down the $450 million principal on its Term Loan B, with any remaining funds earmarked for working capital or other corporate uses. U…
A U.S. district court judge in Tacoma, Washington, has ruled that a proposed class action accusing Skechers USA of sending unsolicited marketing emails with misleading subject lines may proceed. Plaintiffs say the messages created a false sense of urgency to buy by using phrasing such as "the clock is ticking" and "Today Only!" The decision rejecte…
NATO is not actively preparing an operation in the Strait of Hormuz, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander for Europe said, and any decision to act would require a political mandate from all 32 member states. Diplomats indicate some members oppose such a mission. The statement comes as Iran's blockade of the waterway has pushed up oil prices, increased s…
OpenAI introduced Guaranteed Capacity, a multi-year commitment program that lets customers secure long-term access to the company’s compute resources for AI workloads. The offering spans one- to three-year contracts with discounts tied to annual spending, dedicated capacity for production use, and flexibility to apply allocations across cloud provi…
Federal banking regulators have proposed changing the confidential CAMELS rating system used to evaluate banks, with the stated goal of centering supervisory assessments on financial risks and improving transparency and predictability in oversight. The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council advanced the plan, and Federal Reserve Vice Ch…
Google DeepMind has reached a licensing arrangement with Contextual AI that involves hiring over 20 researchers and a payment of about $100 million, according to people familiar with the matter. Contextual’s co-founder and CEO will be among those moving to DeepMind. The deal follows a series of similar licensing-and-talent agreements in the tech se…
Moody's raised FTAI Aviation Ltd.'s corporate family rating to Ba1 from Ba2 and upgraded related ratings for its subsidiary and preferred stock, citing improvements in leverage, profitable aerospace aftermarket and leasing operations, and disciplined execution of strategy. The outlook for both entities was revised to stable from positive. The firm …
S&P Global Ratings changed its outlook for The Hershey Co. to stable from negative while affirming the company’s 'A' long-term issuer rating and 'A-1' short-term and commercial paper ratings. The upgrade in outlook reflects sustained leverage at or below 2x after the LesserEvil acquisition, stronger free operating cash flow in 2025, and expectation…
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…
