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Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesElon Musk’s brain tech startup Neuralink has closed a $650 million funding round, the company announced on Monday.ARK Invest, Founders Fund, Sequoia Capital, Thrive Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners and other firms participated in the round, according to a release. Neuralink said the fresh capital will help the company bring its technology to more patients and develop new devices that “deepen the connection between biological and artificial intelligence.”Neuralink is building a brain-computer interface, or a BCI, which is a system that translates brain signals into commands for external technologies. The company’s first system, called Telepathy,…

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Annabelle Gordon/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe massive package of tax cuts House Republicans passed in May is expected to increase the U.S. debt by trillions of dollars — a sum that threatens to torpedo the legislation as the Senate starts to consider it this week.The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates the bill, as written, would add about $3.1 trillion to the national debt over a decade with interest, to a total $53 trillion. The Penn Wharton Budget Model estimates a higher tally: $3.8 trillion, including interest and economic effects.Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky was one of two Republicans to…

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Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. Markets: Stocks were mixed to start the week . The market on the first trading day in June stumbled around the open and traded lower in the absence of any real progress on trade talks between the U.S. and China, with both countries now accusing the other of violating their Geneva trade agreement announced on May 12. Industrials and other cyclicals also felt some pain in response to President Donald Trump…

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CNBC’s Jim Cramer says shares of off-price retailer TJX are a bargain after unfairly taking a beating over the past couple weeks. “The stock got hit off one of the best quarters, and that’s just not right,” Jim said Monday on “Squawk on the Street.” “What we’re looking for is trying to find which stocks are anomalies. This one is the anomaly.” TJX, the parent company of T.J. Maxx, Marshalls, and HomeGoods, beat expectations on both revenue and earnings in its first quarter of fiscal 2026. Management also reiterated its full-year guidance. Yet shares have dropped about 6% since the…

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