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Apple (NasdaqGS:AAPL) has formally launched its 'Ads on Maps' platform, entering the local digital advertising market alongside Google and Meta. The new product allows businesses to buy promoted placements inside Apple Maps to reach nearby users searching for places and services. Apple is also negotiating content deals with news publishers to use their material in training its AI models that power Siri while addressing copyright and payment terms. These steps mark a material shift in Apple's...

SK hynix (KOSE:A000660) and Sandisk have released a new High Bandwidth Flash technical specification through the Open Compute Project. The High Bandwidth Flash standard is designed for AI inference systems and targets high bandwidth and high capacity memory and storage use cases. The open specification gives system designers a common framework for integrating AI focused memory technologies across future infrastructure. The move is expected to broaden SK hynix's role within the AI ecosystem...

Alphabet's Google launched Gemini 3.7 Flash on Thursday, its latest AI model designed for software coding and automated business tasks, but offered ‌no details on when its flagship Pro model will be released. Investors have been ‌closely watching for Gemini 3.5 Pro, Google's premium model, as a test of whether its DeepMind AI unit can ​keep pace with rivals Anthropic and OpenAI. Google had said in July Gemini 3.5 Pro was being tested with partners and would be coming "soon".

Flock Safety plans to establish new guardrails for its technology following backlash over allegations that its automated license plate readers are being misused and enabling mass surveillance.

Bill Ackman unveiled six new holdings including Netflix, Visa and Mastercard, marking the billionaire investor's biggest portfolio overhaul in years. Ackman said on Thursday he acquired shares ‌starting in the second quarter that will be held in his investment funds including his newest offering ‌Pershing Square USA, which was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in April. Along with Netflix, which Ackman held briefly in 2022 before selling ​at a loss, his funds are also investing in eye care firm Alcon, exchange operator Intercontinental Exchange and financial data provider S&P Global.

Target (TGT) is back in focus for investors after fresh product news in its food aisles. The retailer just introduced its first Good & Gather cookbook and new branded frosting offerings in stores. See our latest analysis for Target. For context, Target's recent food and AI announcements come on top of strong price momentum, with a 30 day share price return of 14.27% and a year to date share price return of 53.22%, while the 5 year total shareholder return is still down 27.31%. If Target's...

Meta launches a $1B community fund to ease opposition to AI data centers as concerns over local impacts and benefits grow.

Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square made investments in six new public companies since the end of March: Visa Mastercard Netflix S&P Global Intercontinental Exchange Alcon The additions were disclosed in a letter to shareholders that accompanied Pershing Square’s quarterly earnings release, the firm’s first since it went public in April.

The companies are combining Sony's sensor designs with TSMC manufacturing to build next-generation smartphone components in Japan.

In other news, Diald raises additional seed capital, and SEI partnered with WTW Investments.

GM is exiting its Indiana battery JV with Samsung SDI as weaker EV demand prompts a pullback in battery investments.

The company received a delisting warning from Nasdaq in March when its shares had traded below the $1 threshold for 30 consecutive business days.

Google debuted its Pixel 11 line of smartphones on Wednesday.

The bank's Critical Infrastructure Finance Initiative targets digital, energy, and core infrastructure projects through July 4, 2027

Crypto.com has launched tokenized derivatives that track 1,500 U.S. stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). ...

The company expects a full launch before the end of the year.

Michael Saylor's new Bitcoin credit model shows the exact floor prices where Strategy's bonds and preferred shares break.

Firefly Aerospace CEO Jason Kim sees traction for its Alpha and larger Eclipse launch vehicles amid a surge in demand for satellite launches.

Bank of America is launching a $250 billion initiative to finance U.S. data centers, energy, semiconductors, transportation and other critical infrastructure

Comcast (NasdaqGS:CMCSA) unit Comcast Business and Colt Technology Services have launched a joint global innovation lab focused on automating enterprise connectivity. The lab aims to create API driven interoperability between the two companies' networks and service platforms to simplify cross border operations for multinational customers. This marks Comcast Business's first international collaboration to build programmatic, automated workflows for accessing connectivity services. The...

Musk also said AI revenue could surpass SpaceX’s core businesses by September.

Lake Victoria Gold Ltd. (TSXV:LVG) (OTCQB:LVGLF) (FSE:E1K) has released the maiden National Instrument 43-101 (NI 43-101) Mineral Resource Estimate for its wholly owned Tembo Gold Project in northwestern Tanzania, outlining an initial resource of nearly 580,000 ounces of gold across three deposits. Lake Victoria Gold Ltd. has outlined its first NI 43-101 compliant mineral resource […]

Sony Group has agreed to form a joint venture with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. to produce next-generation image sensors for smartphones.

Taiwan ‌chipmaker TSMC ​said on Tuesday it ‌will ⁠invest 282 billion ⁠yen ($1.77 billion) ​in ​a ​joint ‌venture with Sony Group to ‌develop ​and ​make ​next-generation ‌image sensors. ($1 = 159.3300 ​yen) (Reporting ​by ​Ben Blanchard; ‌Editing ​by Andrew ​Heavens)

The agreement adds Barrick’s Fourmile and Newmont’s Fiberline and Mike projects, forming a Nevada gold asset.

BlackRock (NYSE: $BLK), the world’s largest asset manager, has launched a new exchange-traded fund that provi...

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) released a new open-weight AI model called Muse Glimmer on August 10, a compact system built for agentic tasks that can run on a Mac or PC with a single graphics card. CEO Mark Zuckerberg used the launch to press Washington for lighter rules on open-source AI, arguing that Chinese developers have […]

Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ: $HOOD) is expanding its crypto business in the UK, allowing eligible customers to trade ...

Rocket Lab (NasdaqGS: RKLB) completed its 13th Electron launch for iQPS, further expanding the QPS-SAR Earth-imaging constellation. The mission cements Rocket Lab as the primary launch provider for iQPS, with more than eight QPS-SAR satellites now deployed via Electron. iQPS has committed to 10 additional exclusive Electron launches with Rocket Lab through the end of the decade, adding visibility to the company’s future launch pipeline. Rocket Lab is far from the only stock tied to the...

SAIC-GM will increase focus on the Buick and Cadillac brands and plan to launch at least 30 new energy vehicles in the China market by 2030.