As U.S. states start to react to growing constituent concerns around the risks associated with artificial intelligence use, Tennessee Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn said moving forward with a federal preemption standard is “imperative.” Earlier this week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a series of bills focused on those concerns — while also vetoing some strict…
Arm Holdings CEO Rene Haas told CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Wednesday that moving some AI functions away from the could help reduce energy usage. Over time, he suggested, a large number of multi-gigawatt data centers won’t be sustainable. “You look to yourself, well, what are the kind of things that need to happen? I think…
Marc Benioff, chief executive officer of Salesforce Inc., speaks during the 2025 Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, California, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images Salesforce shares rose as much as 5% in extended trading on Wednesday after the software vendor issued new financial targets for the next few…
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Wednesday that the company is “not the elected moral police of the world” after receiving backlash…
US President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on Oct. 15, 2025. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he may go to the Supreme Court to hear oral arguments in the major tariffs case that could…
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks before signing executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on Sept. 19, 2025, including one measure introducing the new $100,000 H-1B visa fee. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images Nearly a month after the Trump administration’s surprise $100,000 payment for new H-1B visa…
The US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Oct. 13, 2025. Anna Rose Layden | Bloomberg | Getty Images A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration, for now, from firing federal workers during the ongoing government shutdown. The order came five days after the administration issued reduction-in-force notifications to more than 4,000…
The Good Brigade | Digitalvision | Getty Images In recent weeks, some federal student loan borrowers have received welcome news: The U.S. Department of Education will soon cancel their remaining debt. “You are now eligible to have some or all of your federal student loan(s) discharged because you have reached the necessary number of payments…
A transport truck exits the Bunge facility, which is part of the company’s agricultural and food processing operations, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Jan. 27, 2025. Carlos Osorio | Reuters Bunge Global jumped more than 11% on Wednesday on the back of the Trump administration’s threat to cut off U.S. purchases of Chinese cooking oil. Bunge…
Nuclear stocks rallied Wednesday after the U.S. Army launched a program to deploy small reactors. Shares of NuScale, a small reactor developer, soared 17%. Oklo and Nano Nuclear were up nearly 7% and 4%, resepectively. The uranium company Centrus was up 13%. The U.S. Army on Tuesday launched a program to build micro nuclear reactors…
