Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
The EU Commission opens an antitrust investigation into smartphone glass maker Corning over allegedly abusing its market dominance to squeeze out rivals — – EU fears deals with smartphone firms are anti-competitive — Corning pressed to remedy EU concerns with concessions
Sources: the US has recently renewed calls for Italy to repeal its domestic web tax, which applies to Meta, Google, and Amazon and raises under €500M per year (Giuseppe Fonte/Reuters)
Giuseppe Fonte / Reuters:
Sources: the US has recently renewed calls for Italy to repeal its domestic web tax, which applies to Meta, Google, and Amazon and raises under €500M per year — The United States has recently renewed calls for Italy to repeal its domestic web tax, people familiar with the matter told Reuters …
PlayStation 5 Pro review: high fidelity and frame rate, and smaller, lighter, and quieter than the original PS5, but $699 is pricey and disk drive costs extra (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
PlayStation 5 Pro review: high fidelity and frame rate, and smaller, lighter, and quieter than the original PS5, but $699 is pricey and disk drive costs extra — Sony’s $700 PlayStation is here for people who don’t want to muck around. … You don’t need me to tell you the new PS5 Pro …
Elon Musk’s gamble on Donald Trump pays off, as Trump wins the race; Trump gave Musk a lengthy shout out in his victory speech, calling him “a super-genius” (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
Elon Musk’s gamble on Donald Trump pays off, as Trump wins the race; Trump gave Musk a lengthy shout out in his victory speech, calling him “a super-genius” — “A star is born: Elon,” said Donald Trump in a lengthy shout out to his biggest donor while claiming victory in the US presidential race on Wednesday morning.
Trump Media & Technology Group’s stock jumps 30%+ in pre-market trading, hitting a $7B+ market cap, as Trump beats Kamala Harris; TSLA rises 15%+ pre-market (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Trump Media & Technology Group’s stock jumps 30%+ in pre-market trading, hitting a $7B+ market cap, as Trump beats Kamala Harris; TSLA rises 15%+ pre-market — – Shares surged in premarket trade before quickly paring — Markets have swung in anticipation of a likely Trump win
Nvidia closed up 2.9% at $139.93, hitting a $3.43T market cap and surpassing Apple at $3.38T and Microsoft at $3.06T; NVDA is up 850% since the end of 2022 (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)
Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg:
Nvidia closed up 2.9% at $139.93, hitting a $3.43T market cap and surpassing Apple at $3.38T and Microsoft at $3.06T; NVDA is up 850% since the end of 2022 — Elon Musk Is Now X’s Biggest Promoter of Anti-Immigrant Conspiracies … Hello World … Quicktake
Wise reports H1 2025 revenue up 19% YoY to £591.9M, profit up 55% YoY to £217.3M, and active consumer and business clients up 25% YoY to 11.4M (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
Ryan Browne / CNBC:
Wise reports H1 2025 revenue up 19% YoY to £591.9M, profit up 55% YoY to £217.3M, and active consumer and business clients up 25% YoY to 11.4M — Wise posted a 55% jump in profit in the first half of its 2025 fiscal year Wednesday, citing customer growth and expanding market share.
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company CEO Sultan al-Jaber says AI gives oil firms incentive to invest in renewables, as ADNOC unveils plans for integrating AI agents (Malcolm Moore/Financial Times)
Malcolm Moore / Financial Times:
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company CEO Sultan al-Jaber says AI gives oil firms incentive to invest in renewables, as ADNOC unveils plans for integrating AI agents — Energy, tech and finance executives in discussion over how to fuel artificial intelligence — The rapid rise of artificial …
As Trump nears a US election win, Polymarket, Kalshi, PredictIt, and other predict betting markets, which heavily favored Trump, are seemingly vindicated (Marc Hochstein/CoinDesk)
Marc Hochstein / CoinDesk:
As Trump nears a US election win, Polymarket, Kalshi, PredictIt, and other predict betting markets, which heavily favored Trump, are seemingly vindicated — Tuesday night’s election returns were a shocker if you only watched CNN. But not if you’d looked at the betting all along.
Workers at AI companies seek specific whistleblower protections, arguing that AI advancements pose threats that they can’t legally expose under current US laws (Kaustuv Basu/Bloomberg Law)
Kaustuv Basu / Bloomberg Law:
Workers at AI companies seek specific whistleblower protections, arguing that AI advancements pose threats that they can’t legally expose under current US laws — Search by Topic — Whistleblowing By Employee Artificial Intelligence Tax Evasion Medicaid Fraud — Search by Company