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Erasca Inc. saw its stock slide sharply after the company revealed that a 66-year-old trial participant experienced severe lung inflammation about a month into treatment, withdrew from the study, and later died after discontinuing the experimental therapy. The disclosure accompanied early-stage trial data that the company described as generally wel…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration unveiled plans to monitor clinical trials in near real time, tracking aggregated safety and efficacy signals as studies progress. The initiative - tested initially in cancer drug trials run by AstraZeneca and Amgen - aims to shorten drug development timelines and improve U.S. competitiveness for clinical resear…
An investor in Blue Owl Capital Corporation has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan alleging that Blue Owl Credit Advisors LLC breached its fiduciary duties by overstating fund asset values to justify outsized advisory fees. The complaint centers on the adviser's dual role in valuing illiquid investments and charging fees tied t…
Airlines have continued to alter schedules and suspend services in response to ongoing disruptions tied to the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. Middle Eastern carriers have increased capacity in recent weeks, while carriers based outside the Gulf continue rerouting or suspending flights that pass through major regional hubs. The following report, organi…
OpenAI has made its newest AI models and the Codex coding agent available on Amazon's Bedrock service and is launching a developer service to build production-ready AI agents on Amazon Web Services. The arrangement follows a renegotiation with Microsoft that removed exclusive cloud sales terms and accompanies major commercial and compute commitment…
Volkswagen is engaged in detailed discussions with defense contractors about converting its Osnabrueck plant in northern Germany after the automaker ceases production of Volkswagen Group vehicles there from 2027. Chief Executive Oliver Blume said the German government has signaled a clear mandate to bolster national defense, and the company is eval…
Google informed the U.S. government on Feb. 11 that it would not continue in a $100 million Pentagon effort to develop voice-controlled autonomous drone swarm technology. The withdrawal followed the company’s proposal being accepted and, according to records, came after an internal ethics review. Alphabet’s Google officially attributed the exit to …
OpenAI and Amazon Web Services on Tuesday announced an expanded collaboration that integrates OpenAI’s models directly into AWS infrastructure. The deal introduces three offerings in limited preview - OpenAI models on AWS, Codex on AWS, and Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI - with GPT-5.5 available on Amazon Bedrock and Codex able to …
Longi Green Energy Technology Co. posted a steeper net loss for the first quarter, even as module prices climbed. The company cited industry overcapacity, weak product pricing, low utilization and higher raw material costs as continuing headwinds, while its annual net loss narrowed versus the prior year.
The European Commission plans to broaden the scope of the Digital Markets Act to address competitive issues in cloud computing and artificial intelligence. Regulators say the DMA has already improved data portability and device interoperability since it became applicable in May 2023, and now they will examine whether some AI offerings should be des…
Shares of major U.S. semiconductor equipment suppliers fell after reports that the U.S. Department of Commerce has instructed firms to halt specified shipments of tools and materials destined for China’s second-largest chipmaker, Hua Hong. The guidance reportedly arrived in letters sent last week to multiple companies, and analysts warned the restr…
OpenAI pushed back against a report that it missed internal targets for new users and revenue and that leadership was worried about financing future data-center contracts. The company cited product and enterprise strength on social media and told Bloomberg that its business is "firing on all cylinders," with enterprise and advertising businesses ex…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has launched a pilot program to evaluate the use of artificial intelligence and data science in regulatory decision-making for drug and biologic development, focusing on preclinical and early clinical stages. The agency will publish the notice in the Federal Register on April 29 and is accepting applications th…
Eneos Holdings is the lone remaining bidder for Chevron's Asian downstream holdings in a transaction valued at over $2 billion, with both companies pursuing an agreement potentially within the current quarter. The assets under consideration encompass refineries and service-station networks in Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines and Australia. Disc…
A comedic line by Jimmy Kimmel on ABC has led to demands from the White House that the network fire the host, drawing scrutiny from federal regulators and placing Walt Disney’s newly installed CEO Josh D'Amaro in a difficult position. The remark, delivered days before the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, prompted accusations of endor…
Oracle said Tuesday it remains enthusiastic about its partnership with OpenAI and is concentrating on providing cloud infrastructure capacity for the AI company. The statement came amid a downward move in shares of AI-related firms after a Wall Street Journal report that OpenAI fell short of key user and revenue targets, prompting investor concern …
A source says the Federal Communications Commission plans to initiate expedited reviews of eight ABC broadcast stations owned by The Walt Disney Company as early as Tuesday. The reviews could culminate in the FCC seeking to revoke the stations' licenses to operate on public airwaves. The action follows a White House call to fire late-night host Jim…
NVIDIA introduced Nemotron 3 Nano Omni on Tuesday, a unified multimodal model that merges vision and audio encoders inside a 30B-A3B hybrid mixture-of-experts architecture. The model accepts text, images, audio, video, documents, charts and graphical interfaces as inputs and produces text outputs, touting a 256K context window, Conv3D and EVS techn…
US wheat futures rose sharply on Thursday, led by a 3.51% gain in the May contract, after European grain trade data showed a substantial increase in EU barley exports alongside a year-on-year decline in EU maize imports. Analysts' cost estimates for crop production provided additional context for market pricing.
U.K. equities ended Tuesday with a small gain as the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 climbed 0.04% at the close in London. Strength in Tobacco, Oil & Gas Producers and Beverage names supported the lift, while housebuilders and mining firms weighed on the market. Volume of decliners outpaced advancers on the London Stock Exchange.
Spanish equities closed higher on Tuesday, with the IBEX 35 up 0.46% in Madrid. Gains were led by Financial Services & Real Estate, Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic and Telecoms & IT sectors. Banco de Sabadell, Bankinter and Caixabank were the session's top performers, while ArcelorMittal, Merlin Properties and ROVI posted the largest declines. Market…
Portugal's benchmark PSI index rose 0.95% at the close in Lisbon on Tuesday, driven by advances in the Financials, Consumer Goods and Technology sectors. Banco Comercial Portugues, Semapa and Galp Energia were among the session's strongest performers, while Ibersol, Teixeira Duarte and Jeronimo Martins were the main laggards. Broader market breadth…
Netherlands' AEX index ended Tuesday trading lower, pulled down by losses in technology, consumer goods and basic materials. The benchmark fell 0.78% as several large-cap semiconductor names posted notable declines while select consumer stocks finished higher. Commodity and currency moves were mixed, with crude and Brent oil higher and gold futures…
The Investing.com Italy 40 index finished higher, gaining 0.72% at the close in Milan as advances in Financials, Utilities and Oil & Gas supported the market. Bper Banca, UniCredit and Intesa Sanpaolo were the session's strongest performers, while DiaSorin, Fincantieri and Moncler registered the largest declines. Broader market breadth showed more …
Frankfurt equities ended lower on Tuesday as declines in Construction, Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare and Technology sectors pressured major indices. The DAX fell 0.18% at the close, while the MDAX and TecDAX posted larger losses of 0.94% and 1.41% respectively. Market breadth favored losers, and RWE reached a five-year high during the session. C…
