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Moderna to slash 10% of workforce as biotech cuts costs, Covid shot sales slow
The Moderna Inc. headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on March 26, 2024. Adam Glanzman | Bloomberg | Getty Images Moderna on Thursday said it plans to slash roughly 10% of its global workforce by the end of the year, as Covid shot sales continue to dwindle and the company grapples with uncertainty in the vaccine market. […]
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Oil giant Shell posts profit beat, keeps share buyback pace steady at $3.5 billion
The brand logo of the mineral oil and natural gas company Shell plc can be seen at a filling station of the company in Nuremberg (Bavaria) on July 25, 2025. Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Britain’s Shell on Thursday reported better-than-expected second-quarter profit and maintained the pace of its shareholder returns, despite […]
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Microsoft and Amazon are hurting cloud competition, UK regulator finds
Attendees walk through an exposition hall at AWS re:Invent, a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services, in Las Vegas on Dec. 3, 2024. Noah Berger | Getty Images LONDON — Britain’s competition regulator on Thursday declared that Microsoft and Amazon are hurting competition in the cloud computing industry and called for a further probe under […]
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Shares of world’s largest brewer AB InBev tumble 9% on declining volumes
Budweiser beer cans displayed for sale in a supermarket. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Shares of AB InBev plunged as much as 11% Thursday after the world’s largest brewer posted a worse-than-feared decline in second-quarter volumes, even as revenues and profits surged ahead. The Budweiser maker said volumes declined 1.9% year-on-year over the […]
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Rolls-Royce shares soar 9% on bumper profit and sales
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Painters, nursing assistants, and more: Microsoft’s top 10 most AI-safe careers
Blue-collar jobs are least likely to be impacted by AI, Microsoft research finds. Reza Estakhrian | The Image Bank | Getty Images Blue-collar jobs have a new sheen to them as desk workers become increasingly vulnerable to being replaced by artificial intelligence. Microsoft examined the link between how much certain workers rely on AI tools […]
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CNBC Daily Open: Is India the first to face Trump’s ‘secondary’ tariff on Russia?
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi (L) attends a meeting with US President Donald Trump during the G20 Osaka Summit in Osaka on June 28, 2019. Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images In the frenzied run-up to Friday, Aug. 1 — the day when U.S. President Donald Trump’s new tariffs come into effect (no more […]
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OpenAI spearheads one of Europe’s biggest data centers with 100,000 Nvidia chips
Jaque Silva| Nurphoto | Getty Images OpenAI on Thursday said it is launching a Stargate-branded AI data center in Norway, marking its first foray into Europe with such a project. British firm Nscale will design and build the site as part of a 50-50 joint venture with Norwegian energy infrastructure firm Aker. OpenAI will be […]
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The EU-U.S. trade deal dented euro strength. Strategists say that may not last
The euro has tumbled more than 2% against the U.S. dollar since the European Union struck a framework trade deal with the White House over the weekend, raising questions over whether its massive rally this year against the greenback has run its course. However, market watchers told CNBC that while the euro may have further […]
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Hanwha Ocean shares surge over 16% after U.S.-Korea trade deal
Adie Bush | Connect Images | Getty Images Shares of Hanwha Ocean surged as much as 16.06% on Thursday to their highest levels since July 2015, following U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement of a blanket 15% tariff on Seoul’s exports to the U.S. According to Reuters, Kim Dong-kwan, the vice chairman of the Hanwha Group, […]
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