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Tesla shares fell after the company’s first-quarter earnings report on Wednesday as the company expanded its capital spending by more than expected, but Wall Street has been fueled by speculation that the company will remain underbid for the foreseeable future. The conversation is about a possible merger with SpaceX, Elon Musk’s Great Leap Forward rocket company. SpaceX plans to go public later this year at a valuation close to $2 trillion. “The takeaway from this is that Mr. Musk is focused on a long list of projects that combine the TSLA project with the upcoming SpaceX IPO,” the Baird researchers…
A portrait of Jeffrey Epstein appears on a tablet screen next to a page on the U.S. Department of Justice website titled “Epstein Library, February 11, 2026.”Véronique Tournier | AFP | Getty ImagesThe Justice Department’s internal watchdog agency announced Thursday that it is investigating the agency’s compliance with laws requiring full disclosure of department files on notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.The audit by the Office of Inspector General comes after months of complaints that the Justice Department was failing to comply with the Epstein File Transparency Act by withholding many files it had on Epstein and his convicted accomplice Ghislaine…
AP — The European Union has approved a huge two-year loan package to meet Ukraine’s economic and military needs, Cyprus’ president announced on Thursday, as oil began flowing into key pipelines to Hungary and Slovakia, ending months of political deadlock. The EU also approved new sanctions against Russia over its war with Ukraine. The measure was prepared earlier this year and was due to be announced in February to mark the fourth anniversary of the conflict, but was opposed by Hungary and Slovakia. Hungary and Slovakia have been at loggerheads with Ukraine since oil shipments from Russia to the two…
When Stephen Bunting takes the stage in front of his home Liverpool crowd on Thursday night, all he can expect is love. What else? Perhaps not so much.Serial world champion Luke Littler has been booed in recent weeks following his falling out with Jan van Veen in Manchester. And the hostility on Merseyside may have already been on the agenda for Manchester United fans, who have not hesitated to point out Liverpool’s struggles this season on social media, regardless of the incident with the Dutchman. But Bunting acknowledges there is little that can be done to control the crowd’s reaction.…
NASA has announced that it will launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope into orbit in September 2026, eight months ahead of schedule. The new space telescope is expected to provide astronomers with 20,000 terabytes of data over its lifetime. Add to this the 57 gigabytes of breathtaking images downlinked daily from the James Webb Space Telescope, which began operations in 2021, and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in the mountains of Chile, which is expected to begin exploring later this year and collect 20 terabytes of data each night. For comparison, the Hubble Space Telescope, once the gold standard,…
Roche reported a decline in sales in the first three months of the year, with the strength of the Swiss franc and generic competition for some older drugs weighing on the company. First quarter sales were CHF 14.7 billion ($18.7 billion), down 5% year-on-year but up 6% on a constant currency basis. Roche said the appreciation of the Swiss franc against most currencies, particularly the US dollar, had a material impact on the results reported in Swiss francs compared to fixed exchange rates. The Swiss franc will depreciate by 12% against the US dollar in 2025, and has depreciated by…
A view of Microsoft offices in Shanghai, China, April 8, 2025.Ying Tan | Null Photo | Getty Imagesmicrosoft The company is offering voluntary buyouts to some of its U.S. employees as the technology industry faces major changes sparked by the artificial intelligence boom. This is a first for the 51-year-old software giant.About 7% of U.S. employees will be affected, said a person familiar with the plan, who asked not to be identified because the numbers have not been made public. The one-time retirement program, announced in Thursday’s memo, is available to U.S. workers below the senior director level who have…
President Donald Trump said he has ordered the US Navy to “shoot and kill” Iranian fishing boats laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, a move that could jeopardize the fragile ceasefire between the two countries.The US president also said on Thursday that the military would step up efforts to remove explosives from the strategic waterway.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of list”I have ordered the U.S. Navy to shoot every boat, even small boats, that is laying mines in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz (all of their naval vessels, 159 of them are on the bottom of…
Kevin Pietersen has reignited his long-standing feud with Sir Alastair Cook over his former England teammate’s criticism of Jacob Bethell in the Indian Premier League.Bethel are not used by Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Cook urged the youngster to return to Warwickshire and play county cricket rather than “sitting around in the IPL doing nothing”. Pietersen, who was kicked out of England’s set-up after the 2013-14 Ashes when Cook was captain, claimed the former left-handed opener’s lack of IPL experience made his decision meaningless. “Alastair Cook has no idea what it’s like to be in the IPL,” Pietersen wrote in X.”So…
The story of Delve, a startup facing compliance issues, has many twists and turns. TechCrunch has confirmed that Delve is the compliance company that provided security certification for Context AI. Context AI is an AI agent training startup that last week disclosed a security incident that led to a data breach at popular app and website hosting giant Vercel. Meanwhile, Lovable is no longer a Delve customer due to its own security incident. To recap, Delve came under fire last month after an anonymous whistleblower alleged that it falsified customer data and used rubber-stamped auditors in its compliance and certification…