Новости за 17.05.2024

After unveiling its highly anticipated new chip, Blackwell, in March, Nvidia is set to report its first quarter earnings on Wednesday — and its share price could reach an all-time high.

The U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has said it will suspend an administrative case against SpaceX over the alleged illegal firing of engineers who criticized CEO Elon Musk.

It looks a bit like a boat, or a stout fedora. So what is this rusty brown gossamer of a space cloud?

A former diversity program manager at Facebook and Nike was sentenced to five years and three months in prison after pleading guilty to stealing over $5 million to finance her “luxury lifestyle,” the Department of Justice said earlier this week.

The OpenAI team responsible for artificial intelligence’s existential dangers is no more, after co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever — and his co-lead of the company’s “superalignment” team Jan Leike — resigned on Tuesday.

Boeing shareholders on Friday reelected outgoing CEO Dave Calhoun to the company’s board of directors, beating back an effort to oust him.

As the United States government cracks down on junk fees and predatory practices in the airline industry, Frontier Airlines has introduced a series of changes geared towards pricing transparency.

After months of organizing efforts, the United Auto Workers (UAW) union is just hours away from finding out if workers at Mercedes-Benz’s factory in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, will unionize.

Xpeng Motors, one of China’s largest electric vehicle companies, on Friday said the United States’ tariffs on EVs and solar cells will make climate goals more difficult to achieve.

Layoffs are coming for the fuselage supplier behind the Boeing 737 Max mess. KSN, the local affiliate for NBC in Wichita, Kansas, reports that Spirit Aerosystems will be laying off as many as 450 workers in the coming weeks, according to an internal memo seen by the outlet.

Discretionary consumer spending isn’t affecting all footwear companies equally. For Skechers, its wholesale partners seriously boosted sales for the California-based company last quarter.

GameStop stock plunged more than 26% after the company disclosed that it expects a large drop in sales for this year’s first quarter and will be selling off millions of shares — bringing what many hoped would be a major revival of the 2021 meme stock rally to a grinding halt.

Reuters reports that the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace locals that cover workers at Boeing and fuselage supplier Spirit AeroSystems will be holding trainings Friday to better equip their members on rules and regulations regarding whistleblowing.

Tesla might have had a little win Thursday when it emerged that the Cybertruck was officially the second-best-selling electric pickup truck in America, but it isn’t quite out of the woods just yet. After reporting a massive 25% drop in new car registrations in February, the declines are continuing for the electric…

The latest iPads are strange beasts. Beyond the cheaper base iPad, you have the iPad Air and the iPad Pro. They’re both at the top of their game. They’re more powerful than ever, and the more expensive version has processing capabilities nearly equivalent to that of a MacBook. And as tempting as they are, before you…

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Tesla’s push for growth in the world’s largest auto market is being led by CEO Elon Musk’s focus on artificial intelligence and self-driving vehicles.

Reddit and OpenAI have struck a licensing agreement to use content from the social media platform to train its products, including its chatbot ChatGPT.

OpenAI and Google kicked off the week by releasing competing multimodal artificial intelligence products. On Monday, OpenAI announced its flagship model ChatGPT-4o — a multimodal chatbot that can see, hear, and have real-time conversations. On its heels, Google unveiled a prototype of its AI assistant that it says…

Restaurant chain Chili’s was recently flooded with claims that it was closing all of its doors. It isn’t. But that doesn’t mean that Chili’s isn’t closing some locations. So far this year, the Brinker International-owned chain has closed three of its locations, one in Michigan, another in California, and a third in…

In the world of retail, McDonald’s $5 meal deal is finally happening, and it includes fries. Walmart had a week: corporate layoffs, remote worker requests, and strong earnings, which were boosted by high-income shoppers. Kraft Heinz is considering selling its iconic hot dog brand Oscar Mayer for up to $5 billion.

It may take a weight loss pill for Eli Lilly to finally meet demand for its popular anti-obesity medications, according to the pharma giant’s top leader on weight loss drugs. Denmark’s prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, called the Ozempic “fantastic” and said she was “huge fan” at a parliamentary debate. And Merck…

The Biden administration is going after airline credit cards for being an alleged slight-of-fiscal-hand. Lufthansa called Boeing “annoying” because it’s shipping out planes too slowly. And a certain former president’s very fancy plane experienced a minor collision.

It’s raining space junk. Just one month after NASA admitted that a piece of trash tossed from the International Space Station (ISS) crash-landed through a home in Florida, a massive piece of space debris ended up on a farm in Canada.

A bunch of billionaires are trying to build a city out in a rural area near San Francisco. The project, run by an entity called “California Forever” and dubbed the “East Solano Plan,” aims to construct a 20,000-home community in Solano County that would eventually be home to 50,000 people. CalMatters reports that…