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CNBC Daily Open: Markets appear to have gotten over the July jobs report — unlike Trump
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters ahed of boarding Marine One to depart for New Jersey, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 1, 2025. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ July’s jobs report revised previous months’ figures down so dramatically that U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday […]
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Intel’s credit rating downgraded by Fitch on demand challenges
The Intel logo is displayed on a sign in front of Intel headquarters on July 16, 2025 in Santa Clara, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Fitch downgrading U.S. chipmaker Intel’s credit rating by one notch Monday, according to a note by the ratings agency, which assigned a negative outlook to Intel’s rating. Fitch downgraded Intel to BBB from BBB-plus, placing it just two notches shy […]
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Hims & Hers stock falls 10% on revenue miss
The Hers app arranged on a smartphone in New York, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of Hims & Hers Health fell 9% in extended trading on Monday after the telehealth company reported second-quarter results that missed Wall Street’s expectations for revenue. Here’s how the company did […]
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Palantir tops $1 billion in revenue for the first time, boosts guidance
Palantir topped Wall Street’s estimates Monday, surpassing $1 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time, and hiking its full-year guidance. Shares rallied more than 5%. Here’s how the company did versus LSEG estimates: Earnings per share: 16 cents adj. vs. 14 cents expected Revenue: $1.00 billion vs. $940 million expected The artificial intelligence software […]
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Figma’s stock sinks more than 20% after last week’s IPO pop
Dylan Field, co-founder and CEO of Figma, appears on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York on July 31, 2025. Figma shares surged as much as 229% after the design software maker and some of its shareholders raised $1.2 billion in an IPO, with the trading valuing the company far above […]
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Amazon cuts some Wondery podcast jobs as part of reorganization of audio business
The logo for Wondery is displayed on a smartphone in an arranged photograph taken in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon is terminating some positions in its Wondery podcast division and the head of the group is leaving as part of […]
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT to hit 700 million weekly users, up 4x from last year
Jaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty Images OpenAI is set to hit 700 million weekly active users for ChatGPT this week, up from 500 million in March, marking a more than fourfold year-over-year surge in growth, the company said Monday. The figure spans all ChatGPT artificial intelligence products — free, Plus Pro, Enterprise, Team, and […]
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Tesla awards Musk $29 billion in shares with prior pay package in limbo
Tesla CEO Elon Musk was awarded an interim pay package of 96 million shares of the company over the weekend. The shares would be worth about $29 billion. Tesla stock climbed about 2% Monday. The company said in a filing Sunday that the pay package would vest in two years as long as Musk continued […]
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Legal AI startup Harvey hits $100 million in annual recurring revenue
Harvey co-founders Winston Weinberg and Gabe Pereyra Courtesy of Harvey Artificial intelligence startup Harvey on Monday announced it has reached $100 million in annual recurring revenue, or ARR, just three years after its launch. Harvey runs an AI-powered legal platform for lawyers at law firms and large corporations. Its technology can help with legal research, […]
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Tesla approves share award worth $29 billion to CEO Elon Musk
Tesla has granted CEO Elon Musk 96 million shares worth about $29 billion, a move aimed at keeping the billionaire entrepreneur at the helm as he fights a court ruling that voided his original pay deal for being unfair to shareholders. In 2024, a Delaware court voided Musk’s 2018 compensation package, valued at over $50 […]
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