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[ad_1] 2025-07-15T14:52:36Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Apple is investing $500 million in MP Materials, a US producer of rare earth magnets. News of the deal sent MP Materials’ stock price soaring more than 25% Tuesday. The move also sends a message to President Donald Trump, who has pressured Apple to build in the US. American manufacturing is…

[ad_1] With earnings season ramping up, several stocks that have a history of surpassing Wall Street expectations present opportunities for investors, according to Evercore ISI. Thirty-five companies in the S & P 500 – and in the Dow Jones Industrial Average – are set to report their latest quarterly results this week, among them big banks like Goldman Sachs and pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson . “2Q earnings season will be good,” analysts led by Julian Emanuel, Evercore ISI chief equity and quantitative strategist , said in a report published Sunday. The investment bank expects total second-quarter earnings growth of…

[ad_1] CNN  —  Fall in line, or keep fighting for answers? That’s the rift in right-wing media now. Fox News has taken President Trump’s plea for his allies to stop talking about Jeffrey Epstein almost literally. But many other conservative media influencers and outlets are still heavily scrutinizing the Trump administration’s decision not to release further information related to the late convicted sex offender. “The Jeffrey Epstein story isn’t going anywhere,” Megyn Kelly told listeners on Tuesday, agreeing with her Monday guest Ben Shapiro’s view that attorney general Pam Bondi should hold a press conference on the matter. Even Charlie…

[ad_1] Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the UK financial regulation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.The chancellor has announced plans to reform the ringfencing rules that force UK banks to separate their retail and investment banking activities, as part of a raft of measures to soften regulations and drum up more investment in financial markets.Rachel Reeves said the changes to the heavily criticised ringfencing rules would help to free up capital for banks as part of the government’s drive to boost growth by putting “the UK ahead in the race for financial businesses”.The chancellor announced…

[ad_1] Otis Worldwide may be poised to rally after a tariff-induced pullback in April and May, according to JPMorgan. The Wall Street investment bank upgraded shares of the elevator and escalator manufacturer to overweight from neutral and raised its yearend price target 8%, to $109 from $101. That implies about 9% upside from Monday’s close. While Otis shares have outperformed the S & P 500 this year, rising 8% year to date, they came under pressure in recent months after the Trump administration announced sweeping reciprocal tariffs in early April. The stock slumped 7% in April and was down another…

[ad_1] CNN  —  What happens when irresponsible media personalities hype a conspiracy theory, only to see it unravel before their eyes? We’re finding out right now. Myriad right-wing media figures have, for years, suggested that the government is hiding secrets relating to Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted pedophile who died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges. Many versions of the conspiracy theory have asserted that the government is covering up a list of powerful men who also committed heinous crimes. This theory has often been shorthanded as an Epstein “client list,” even though the best-sourced reporter…

[ad_1] Open source database management system Postgres is nearly 40 years old, but has recently started seeing explosive demand due to being very well-suited for AI applications. Despite this rise in popularity, search and analytics functionality remain limited. ParadeDB is changing that. ParadeDB is an open source Postgres extension that facilitates full-text search and analytics directly in Postgres without users needing to transfer data to a separate source. The platform integrates with other data infrastructure tools, including Google Cloud SQL, Azure Postgres, and Amazon RDS, among others. Philippe Noël, the co-founder and CEO of ParadeDB, told TechCrunch that he and…

[ad_1] When xAI launched Grok 4 last week, the company claimed the large language model outperformed several competitors on different benchmarks. But the Grok account on X that runs off the model immediately showed there were some major issues: it started saying its surname was “Hitler”, tweeted antisemitic messages, and seemed to reference Elon Musk’s posts when asked about controversial topics, siding with the xAI owner’s views as a result. xAI soon afterwards apologized for Grok’s behavior. On Tuesday, the company said it has now addressed both issues. We spotted a couple of issues with Grok 4 recently that we…

[ad_1] Updated 2025-07-15T13:12:01Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. I’ve toured eight Gilded Age mansions in Newport, Rhode Island, and the Hudson Valley, New York. The mansions feature incredible displays of wealth such as walls covered in gold and silver. The homes also feature priceless art collections with ancient Greek urns and Venetian paintings. The opulent mansions of the…

[ad_1] California-based startup Felt has secured $15 million for its platform that lets customers build custom geospatial maps with generative AI.The startup, launched in 2021, has designed a software tool that turns users’ location data points into a map visualization tailored to their business or individual needs, such as monitoring assets for maintenance or project planning.”Cities and businesses rely on maps to run their business,” Felt cofounder and CEO, Sam Hashemi, told Business Insider. Traditionally, businesses have used geographic information systems, which combine maps and data points — like how many cars use a certain road — to help them…