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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at an internal event on artificial intelligence technology on April 30, 2024 in Jakarta, Indonesia.Dimas Ardian | Bloomberg | Getty Imagesmicrosoft The company had all the ingredients to win at Vibe Coding thanks to the near-ubiquity of GitHub, which it acquired for $7.5 billion in 2018. But repeated outages, executive changes, and the surge in popularity of new tools like Cursor and Anthropic’s Claude Code have undermined GitHub’s early dominance in generative artificial intelligence, creating new challenges for Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella as he seeks to straighten out his company’s AI story. GitHub’s reliability challenges…

President Donald Trump will on Friday appoint Kevin Warsh to head the Federal Reserve, putting him in charge of a central bank that must navigate a turbulent economy and a president who has very specific expectations on interest rates.Mr. Warsh, 56, will become the 11th Federal Reserve chairman in the modern banking era, replacing Jerome Powell, who served for eight years. Powell, a key target of Trump’s ire for refusing to cut interest rates as quickly or significantly as the president had hoped, will remain on the Fed’s board. This was the first move by a Fed chair in about…

US President Donald Trump announced that the US would send an additional 5,000 troops to Poland, a surprise move that heightened uncertainty about the US military posture in Europe.Trump directly linked the decision to his relationship with Poland’s right-wing President Karol Nawrocki in a post on his platform Truth Social on Thursday.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of list”Given the successful election of Karol Nawrocki, the current president of Poland, whom I was proud to support, and my relationship with him, I am pleased to announce that the United States will send an additional 5,000 troops to Poland,” Trump said.But…

Consumer sentiment fell to a new record low in May as the war between the U.S. and Iran and soaring oil prices heightened concerns about rising prices, University of Michigan Consumer Research said Friday.The consumer sentiment index fell to 44.8 from the preliminary figure of 48.2. It is also well below the 49.8 level at the end of April. “Consumer sentiment has declined for the third consecutive month as gas prices continue to rise due to supply disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz,” Consumer Research Director Joan Hsu said in a statement. “Sentiment is now just below the previous historic…

The Club’s Top 10 Things to Watch Friday, May 22 — Today’s newsletter was written by Jeff Marks, the Club’s Director of Portfolio Analysis. 1. Stocks are poised to extend yesterday’s gains. While oil prices have risen slightly due to uncertainty over the Iran war peace deal, bond yields have not followed the same pattern and have fallen. Stocks have struggled to rise recently in the face of rising yields. 2. Big profit driver: Workday rose more than 7% after the enterprise software vendor reported higher sales and bottom line results and raised its full-year profit margin outlook. Co-founder Aneel…

This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox.Happy Friday. Looking for a book for the long weekend? JP Morgan I have some ideas.Stock futures rose before the bell. All three major indexes recorded wins yesterday and are on a positive trajectory this week.Here are five important things investors need to know to start their trading day.1. Transactions, Demand, and DelaysGoogle Gemini, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Claude by Anthropic, Perplexity, and Bing app logos appear on a smartphone screen on November 21, 2024 in Reno, USA.Jack Silva | Null Photo | Getty ImagesCNBC confirmed yesterday.…

summary An Australian police officer has died after falling while hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu in Peru. Matthew Payton fell 400 to 500 meters on a difficult section of the popular trek. This 42-mile trail passes through steep terrain and reaches an elevation of approximately 13,800 feet. AI-generated summaries were reviewed by CNN editors. An Australian tourist has died after falling into a ravine while hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu in Peru. Matthew Payton’s body was discovered Thursday night local time, his employer, Victoria Police, told CNN in a statement. CNN affiliate Australia’s 9News reported that…

A new sports competition featuring Olympic medalists will be held in Las Vegas on Sunday. The twist? Athletes may take performance-enhancing drugs.The Enhanced Games, dubbed the “Steroid Olympics,” will feature 42 athletes competing in swimming, track and field, and weightlifting.Although the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the International Olympic Committee have been highly critical of the announced 2023 Games, some see an opportunity. Donald Trump Jr.’s investment firm 1789 Capital will join Peter Thiel on the tournament management company’s cap table and lead the 2025 Series B.trading as enhanced groupwhose stock price rose about 35% in the last week ahead…

On January 21, 2026, US President Donald Trump holds a bilateral meeting with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. Jonathan Ernst | ReutersHours after US President Donald Trump promised to send thousands of new troops to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) eastern flank, Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Friday that NATO would spend hundreds of billions of dollars on defense over the next few years. “The money is really coming in,” Rutte told reporters Friday ahead of a NATO meeting in Helsingborg, Sweden, as the allies were “committing more and more.”Last…

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Dragon spacecraft will launch from Cape Canaveral Space on February 13, 2026, on NASA’s SpaceX Crew 12 mission to the International Space Station, carrying NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrei Fezyaev. Force Station, Florida.Aubrey Gemignani | NASA | Getty ImagesStrategists said a flurry of initial public offerings (IPOs) by mega-corporations could top the market this year, drawing parallels to the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s.SpaceX’s long-awaited IPO, confirmed in a regulatory filing Thursday and expected on June 12, could be the largest initial…