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Model Y cars are pictured during the opening ceremony of the new Tesla Gigafactory for electric cars in Gruenheide, Germany, March 22, 2022. Patrick Pleul | Pool | Via ReutersTesla CEO Elon Musk said on Tuesday that his company’s robotaxi service is “tentatively” set to launch in Austin, Texas, on June 22. In a post on X, Musk indicated that he’s flying from Los Angeles to Austin for the kickoff, which he’d previously said would be sometime in June. When a commenter asked when public rides will start, Musk said the current plan is for June 22, and that the first…

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Jeffrey Gundlach speaking at the 2019 Sohn Conference in New York on May 6, 2019.Adam Jeffery | CNBCDoubleLine Capital CEO Jeffrey Gundlach said Tuesday that international stocks will continue to outshine U.S. equities on the back of what he believes to be the dollar’s secular downtrend.”I think the trade is to not own U.S. stocks, but to own stocks in the rest of the world. It’s certainly working,” Gundlach said in an investor webcast. “The dollar is now in what I think is the beginning of [a] secular decline.”Gundlach, whose firm managed about $95 billion at the end of 2024, said dollar-based investors…

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Defense tech startup Anduril Industries will go public, founder and CEO Palmer Luckey said Tuesday.”We are definitely going to be a publicly traded company,” he told CNBC’s “Closing Bell: Overtime.” “We are running this company to be the shape of a publicly traded company.”He added that there isn’t “really a path” for a company like Anduril to win significant trillion-dollar defense contracts without going public.Luckey did not detail an IPO timeline.Since its founding, Anduril has risen to become one of the most highly valued private U.S. technology companies and is an innovator in the defense tech space, chipping away at…

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Mark Zuckerberg arrives before the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States takes place inside the Capitol Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., Monday, Jan. 20, 2025.Kenny Holston | Via ReutersMark Zuckerberg is so frustrated with Meta’s standing in artificial intelligence that he’s willing to spend billions of dollars to convince Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang to join his company, people familiar with the matter told CNBC. Meta is finalizing a deal to invest $14 billion into Scale AI, according to a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be named…

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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks with the media as he departs to return to the U.S., while trade talks between the U.S. and China continue, in London, Britain, June 10, 2025. Toby Melville | ReutersThe U.S. and China have reached consensus on trade, representatives from both sides said following a second day of high-level talks in London, according to an NBC transcript.”We have reached a framework to implement the Geneva consensus and the call between the two presidents,” U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said.That echoed comments from the Chinese side, shared via a translator.Lutnick said he and U.S. Trade…

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CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Tuesday said he thinks it’s necessary to review stocks that have captured the attention of the younger investors, but aren’t always highlighted by Wall Street analysts.”I think relevance dictates that we cover the companies that are treated as irrelevant or even pariahs by the gray beards around here,” he said. “It isn’t true that no one cares. I fear everyone cares, except those of us on Wall Street. We have to do better about nuke, about quantum and crypto, because our younger viewers deserve better.”Cramer suggested that younger investors favor any stock that has to do…

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