Author: Editor-In-Chief

Elon Musk’s rocket maker SpaceX will acquire his artificial intelligence startup xAI, valuing it at $1.25 trillion, CNBC’s David Faber confirmed Tuesday.The record deal is the largest merger in history, valuing SpaceX at $1 trillion and xAI at $250 billion, according to documents seen by CNBC. Mr. Musk, who is also the CEO, teslaannounced the deal in a blog post on Monday, saying it is building “the most ambitious vertically integrated innovation engine on Earth (and beyond) using AI, rockets, and the space-based Internet” and the X social media platform. He said the main reason for the merger was to…

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Tuesday, December 2, 2025, in Washington, DC, USA. Yuri Gripas Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, on Tuesday called on Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to testify in person before the Senate Intelligence Committee about her appearance in last week’s FBI raid on a Georgia election office.Intelligence Committee Chairman Warner said he was particularly concerned that Gabbard mediated a phone call between FBI agents and President Donald Trump after the search warrant was executed.”Let me be clear: It is inappropriate for a sitting…

Latest information on Spanish After a year of insults, threats, tariffs and sanctions, the leaders of the United States and Colombia will meet in Washington on Tuesday, apparently to resolve a bitter feud between the two countries. Colombian President Gustavo Petro accepted an invitation from President Donald Trump last month after a cordial phone conversation that dramatically reversed the war of words. The meeting comes at a critical time for Petro. An unprecedented US military operation in neighboring Venezuela aims to prove to Washington that it has effective control over drug trafficking after the US detained the country’s President Nicolás…

Williams has unveiled a reworked livery for the 2026 F1 season. Tuesday’s announcement came after the team was unable to get its cars ready for the first pre-season test event of 2026 in Barcelona last week. The FW48 itself will make its first public appearance and run at the first Bahrain test on February 11-13. The livery is primarily the team’s traditional blue (officially described as a “bright gloss blue”), but for 2026 there is a twist with the sidepods featuring bright blue and white as part of a new tie-up with Barclays.Williams said the color scheme reflected their “bold…

Escalating tensions between the United States and Iran have brought the two countries to the brink of a flashpoint. The unprecedented accumulation of US forces in the Middle East, combined with Washington’s reliance on gunboat diplomacy, clearly increases the risk of war, involving Iran and the region, with widespread regional and global losses.Following the recent crackdown on protests in Iran, US President Donald Trump has announced that the time has come to remove Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. His administration then deployed the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln and supporting fighter jets, as well as a variety of air defense assets…

Apple brings agent coding to Xcode. On Tuesday, the company announced the release of Xcode 26.3. This allows developers to use agent tools like Anthropic’s Claude Agent and OpenAI’s Codex directly in Apple’s official app development suite. The Xcode 26.3 release candidate is currently available to all Apple developers from the developer website and will be published to the App Store shortly. This latest update follows last year’s Xcode 26 release, which introduced support for ChatGPT and Claude within Apple’s integrated development environment (IDE) used by users building apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple’s other hardware platforms.…

Pandora bracelet from PANDORA concept store.Franziska Krug | German Select | Getty ImagesPandora, the world’s largest jeweler, fell about 7% after analysts warned that it would struggle amid volatility in silver prices and downgraded the company’s rating from “buy” to “hold.””The combination of increased consumer pressure and rising silver prices means the business is in trouble,” Jefferies analysts said in a note Tuesday. “The most pernicious issue will be a long-term reluctance to engage with the name given the volatility of silver prices. This means that even if silver prices fall and stock prices rise on mechanical profit momentum, investor…

Chen Xin | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesTeradyne Shares soared Tuesday after the company beat expectations for its fourth quarter thanks to strong demand for its artificial intelligence.The robotics company reported adjusted earnings per share of $1.80, beating the $1.37 expected by analysts surveyed by LSEG. Sales were $1.08 billion, exceeding expectations of $973 million. Teradyne’s fourth quarter revenue increased 44% year over year. In an earnings call with analysts, CEO Greg Smith said more than 60% of Teradyne’s revenue in the fourth quarter was driven by AI. He said the company expects that percentage to be more than…

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been talking about Russia’s battlefield death toll and asked the new defense minister to make it a priority. Ukrainian leaders say more than 35,000 Russian soldiers were killed or seriously injured in December alone, and the goal is to further increase that number to 50,000 per month. Mykhailo Federov told reporters at his first press conference as defense minister that the president’s mission was to “make Russia’s war costs unsustainable and thereby force peace.” The point that Russia is suffering huge losses is not new. A new report last week estimated that 1.2 million Russians have…

England swept the T20 series against Sri Lanka 3-0 after a brilliant fightback to snatch a 12-point victory in a low-scoring dead rubber at Palekele.The decision to bat first after Harry Brooke, who had batted first in the previous two wins, won the toss, initially appeared to backfire as England slumped at 60-6 on slow wicket at the Pallekele Cricket Stadium. Sam Curran top-scored with 58 off 48 deliveries, but opener Jos Buttler (25) and Liam Dawson (14) were the only other players to reach double figures, while career-best figures from Dushmantha Chameera (5-24) helped England to 128-9 from 20…