Author: Daniel snow

In a Wednesday interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz indicated the cybersecurity outfit is confident in its finances as it faces a government inquiry about information related to a massive outage last year, along with deals and other matters.'”Someone asks a question, we’re going to cooperate. It’s an inquiry, and we’ll give them the answers they need and, and we’ll go from there,” Kurtz said. “We stand by the accounting of those transactions.” Last July, CrowdStrike suffered a major IT outage that disrupted businesses around the world, including airlines, hospitals and financial services firms. CrowdStrike attributed the issues…

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The App Store logo is seen next to the Epic Games Store logo on two screens. Epic, maker of the popular game “Fortnite,” wants to sell digital items in its apps without giving a cut of the purchase price to Apple.Fabian Summer | picture alliance | Getty ImagesApple was dealt a blow in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday, as a panel of judges denied the company’s emergency application to halt changes to its App Store that resulted from the company’s legal battle with Epic Games.Apple “bears the burden of showing that the circumstances justify…

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Debris is spilled onto the street after what the Mayor described as a bomb exploded near a reproductive health facility in Palm Springs, California, on May 17, 2025, in a still image from video.Abc Affiliate Kabc | Via ReutersTwo men suspected in last month’s bombing of a Palm Springs, California fertility clinic used a generative artificial intelligence chat program to help plan the attack, federal authorities said Wednesday.Records from an AI chat application show Guy Edward Bartkus, the primary suspect in the bombing, “researched how to make powerful explosions using ammonium nitrate and fuel,” authorities said.Officials didn’t name the AI…

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CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Wednesday said graphics chips from artificial intelligence powerhouse Nvidia could give the U.S. leverage in the ongoing trade war with China.”If Trump’s wants to win this game, he may have to show his trump card, Nvidia. As I see it, the others just don’t make for a good hand,” he said. “You have to play with the cards you’ve been dealt, and for decades, our government did everything it could to encourage outsourcing to China. They left us with a pretty lousy darn hand, both Republicans and Democrats.”Trade tensions between the U.S. and China have been high…

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Inspiration4 mission commander Jared Isaacman, founder and chief executive officer of Shift4 Payments, stands for a portrait in front of the recovered first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket at Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) on February 2, 2021 in Hawthorne, California. Patrick T. Fallon | Afp | Getty ImagesDays after his nomination for NASA was pulled by President Donald Trump, Jared Isaacman told investors in his payments company Shift4 that his “brief stint in politics was a thrilling experience.”Isaacman said in the letter that he was resigning as CEO of Shift4, which he founded in 1999 at age 16, and…

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Circle Internet Group, the issuer of one of the world’s biggest stablecoins, priced its initial public offering at $31 per share late Wednesday, above the expected range of $27-28 and giving the company a total market value of $6.8 billion.New York-based Circle, its founder and some original shareholders will raise $1.05 billion in the offering of 34 million shares. In a measure of enormous demand for the crypto company, Circle increased the number of shares sold in the IPO from 32 million after the market closed Wednesday. Originally, Circle had sought to raise just $624 million by selling 24 million…

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Circle Internet Group, the issuer of one of the world’s biggest stablecoins, priced its initial public offering at $31 per share late Wednesday, above the expected range of $27-28 and giving the company a total market value of $6.8 billion.New York-based Circle, its founder and some original shareholders will raise $1.05 billion in the offering of 34 million shares. In a measure of enormous demand for the crypto company, Circle increased the number of shares sold in the IPO from 32 million after the market closed Wednesday. Originally, Circle had sought to raise just $624 million by selling 24 million…

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