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Check out the companies making the biggest moves before the bell: Confluent – ​​The Wall Street Journal published a report Sunday that said IBM is in advanced talks to close an $11 billion deal to acquire data infrastructure company Confluent, pushing the latter’s stock price up 27%. Broadcom — The chipmaker rose more than 2% after The Information reported that Microsoft is in talks to move its custom chip business from Marvell Technology to Broadcom. Marvell stock fell 6%. Lumentum Holdings — Shares of the optical and photonics products maker rose 4% after announcing the extension of a strategic agreement…

Waymo driverless taxi parking lot in Lower Manhattan, New York City, USA, November 26, 2025. Brendan McDiarmid | ReutersWaymo, a robotaxi unit owned by alphabetThe company has logged more than 450,000 paid rides per week, according to a letter from investor Tiger Global seen by CNBC.This is nearly double the milestone Waymo reached in April, when it reported 250,000 paid robotaxis rides per week in the US. “Waymo is the clear leader in autonomous driving, recently completing more than 450,000 trips per week with a product that is 10 times safer than human drivers,” Tiger Global wrote in a letter…

Corn and soybean farmer Don Swanson prepares to harvest corn with other Iowa farmers as they grapple with weather and ongoing tariffs from the U.S.-China trade war that continue to impact farm operations in Eldon, Iowa, Oct. 4, 2019.Kia Johnson | ReutersPresident Donald Trump announced Monday that his administration will provide $12 billion in aid to farmers struggling with the trade war between the United States and its major economic partners.President Trump said at a White House roundtable that the money would come from U.S. tariff revenue.Most of that money, up to $11 billion, will go to the U.S. Department…

A powerful 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck off Japan’s northeastern coast on Monday, prompting evacuation advisories and tsunami warnings for parts of the coastline. A tsunami has occurred in some areas of Japan, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) reported in an update early Tuesday morning local time. A 2.3-foot (0.7 meter) tsunami was observed at Kuji Port in Iwate Prefecture. The Japan Meteorological Agency earlier announced that a tsunami height of 16 inches (40 centimeters) was recorded in Aomori and Hokkaido. A few hours later, the Japan Meteorological Agency downgraded the warning to a tsunami advisory. The quake struck at 11:15…

England have just three days of practice before their must-win third Ashes Test against Australia in Adelaide next week.England’s hopes of a successful Ashes away from home since 2010/11 are in serious jeopardy after heavy defeats in the first two Tests. The tourists were beaten in two days in Perth and lost by eight wickets in the day-night Test in Brisbane. Ben Stokes’ preparations for his team came under intense scrutiny as he only played a two-day match against the England Lions before the first Test and left out his entire starting XI for a pink-ball match against the Prime…

OpenAI and Instacart launch the grocery shopping experience within ChatGPT, allowing customers to brainstorm meal ideas, create grocery lists, and checkout without leaving the chat interface. This builds on the existing partnership between OpenAI and Instacart. Over two years ago, Instacart released an in-app AI search tool powered by ChatGPT. This allows shoppers to ask questions about what to make for dinner or how to accommodate dietary restrictions. The relationship between OpenAI and Instacart appears to have deepened after former Instacart CEO Fiji Simo, who was already on OpenAI’s board, joined the company as CEO of applications in May. Agenttic…

New York Wall Street sign with American flag and Christmas tree lights in the background.Mwaleshu | iStock | Getty ImagesRising stock markets, a resurgence in merger activity and inheritance flows have created 287 new billionaires this year, bringing the number of billionaires worldwide to more than 2,900, according to a new report.Billionaire wealth rose 13% to a record $15.8 trillion at the end of the third quarter, according to the UBS Billionaire Ambitions Report 2025. According to the report, of the world’s 2,919 billionaires, 2,059 were self-made and 860 inherited their wealth.This year marks the second-highest number of new billionaires…

Several of Cupertino’s biggest names are looking for jobs ahead of the holiday season.In the past 7 days, we have seen an unusual increase in sales for: appleThe top tier of companies range from heads of artificial intelligence to top lawyers.CEO Tim Cook now has two fewer direct reports than he did before Thanksgiving.The executives who designed the Apple Vision Pro software also bounced back. meta Do the same with Menlo Park’s AI glasses.As if last week’s departure wasn’t enough, there was another potential departure over the weekend. According to Bloomberg, Johnny Srouzi, the company’s senior vice president of hardware…

People gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court on June 29, 2024 in Washington, U.S. Kevin MohatreuterConservative U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday upheld the legality of President Donald Trump’s firing of the Federal Trade Commission commissioners, signaling they intend to endanger 90 years of legal precedent while extending the president’s powers in a historic manner.The justices heard about 2 1/2 hours of arguments in the Justice Department’s appeal of a lower court ruling that found the Republican president overstepped his authority when he moved to fire Democratic FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter in March, before the end of her term. The…

President Trump has vowed to unleash the competitive power of AI, but eliminating state surveillance has infuriated Republican lawmakers.Published December 8, 2025December 8, 2025Click here to share on social mediaShare 2shareUS President Donald Trump said he would sign an executive order creating “one rulebook” for the development of artificial intelligence (AI).Monday’s announcement through President Trump’s Truth Social account represents the US president’s latest effort to remove barriers to AI, raising concerns related to oversight of the transformative technology, which has become a priority for his administration.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of listPresident Trump said his so-called “one-rule executive order”…