Donald J. Trump
Food-as-medicine startups hope Kennedy, if confirmed as HHS secretary, will boost their businesses
Robert Kennedy Jr., U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services, arrives at the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., December 16, 2024. Benoit Tessier | Reuters As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faces two days of Senate confirmation hearings this week in his quest to […]
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Gov for U.S. government agencies
OpenAI on Tuesday announced its biggest product launch since its enterprise rollout. It’s called ChatGPT Gov and was built specifically for U.S. government use. The Microsoft-backed company bills the new platform as a step beyond ChatGPT Enterprise as far as security. It allows government agencies, as customers, to feed “non-public, sensitive information” into OpenAI’s models […]
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General Motors is set to report earnings before the bell. Here’s what Wall Street expects
The GM logo is seen on the facade of the General Motors headquarters in Detroit on March 16, 2021. Rebecca Cook | Reuters DETROIT — General Motors is set to report fourth-quarter earnings before the bell Tuesday. Here is what Wall Street is expecting, according to average estimates compiled by LSEG: Earnings per share: $1.89 […]
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Watch live: Trump addresses House Republican conference in Florida
[The stream is slated to start at 5 p.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] President Donald Trump is set to address House Republicans at the kickoff of their annual agenda-planning conference on Monday afternoon. The three-day event is being held at Trump National Doral, […]
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DOJ fires officials involved in Trump prosecutions by special counsel Jack Smith
James McHenry testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill July 31, 2018 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images The Department of Justice on Monday fired a number of officials involved in the now-terminated federal criminal prosecutions of President Donald Trump by former special counsel Jack […]
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Trump plans executive orders on military related to DEI, transgender troops and vaccines
U.S. President Donald Trump signs documents as he issues executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House on Inauguration Day in Washington, U.S., Jan. 20, 2025. Carlos Barria | Reuters President Donald Trump is expected Monday to sign multiple executive orders aimed at reversing Biden-era military policies on Covid-19 vaccination, transgender servicemembers, and […]
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How U.S. efforts to restrict China from Nvidia’s fastest chips may have backfired
DeepSeek’s rattling of the artificial intelligence market has been several years in the making, with analysts viewing the Chinese company’s shocking advance in the field as an unintended consequence of U.S. trade policy. Starting under the Biden administration in 2022, the U.S. has imposed export controls to keep China from accessing high-performance semiconductors, primarily from […]
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China’s DeepSeek AI dethrones ChatGPT on App Store: Here’s what you should know
On Monday, Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek took over rival OpenAI’s coveted spot as the most-downloaded free app in the U.S. on Apple‘s App Store, dethroning ChatGPT for DeepSeek’s AI Assistant. Global tech stocks sold-off and were on pace to wipe out billions in market cap. Tech leaders, analysts, investors and developers say that the […]
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Trump tariffs could raise prices on technology like laptops, smartphones and AI
Workers weld acid batteries at the Leoch International Technology Ltd. factory in Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico, on Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. Mauricio Palos | Bloomberg | Getty Images The world’s most valuable chipmaker and the world’s largest contract manufacturer for electronics announced in November that Foxconn was building a massive factory in Guadalajara, Mexico, to assemble […]
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Asia-Pacific markets mostly higher as investors parse China PMI and industrial profits data
Drone point view of the Shanghai skyline at sunrise. Aerialperspective Images | Moment | Getty Images Japan and Hong Kong markets traded mostly higher Monday, as investors assessed China’s manufacturing and industrial profit data. Japan’s Nikkei 225 slipped 0.14%, while the Topix added 0.68%. Shares of Japan’s chip-related companies dropped as Chinese AI startup DeepSeek’s […]
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