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Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, speaks at the Google I/O developer conference. Andrej Sokolow | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesGoogle on Tuesday announced Veo 3, an AI video generator that can also create and incorporate audio. The artificial intelligence tool competes with OpenAI’s Sora video generator, but its ability to also incorporate audio into the video that it creates is a key distinction. The company said Veo 3 can incorporate audio that includes dialogue between characters as well as animal sounds.”Veo 3 excels from text and image prompting to real-world physics and accurate lip syncing,” Eli Collins, Google DeepMind product vice…

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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. Market moves: The S & P 500 ‘s six-session winning streak is in jeopardy as U.S. stocks dipped modestly on Tuesday. The slight decline follows a volatile session Monday in which the market overcame a decline of more than 1% in reaction to Moody’s downgrade of U.S. debt and finished the day higher. The S & P 500 has gained nearly 5.4% since its close on May 9. The rally got…

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Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem testifies during a House Committee on Homeland Security budgetary hearing in Washington, DC on May 14, 2025. Nathan Posner | Anadolu | Getty ImagesHomeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Tuesday that President Donald Trump has an absolute right to deport people without due process, after she incorrectly defined the meaning of the term habeas corpus.Noem was grilled on habeas corpus — the constitutional right of individuals to challenge their detention by the government in a court of law — during the Senate hearing.”Secretary Noem, what is habeas corpus?” asked Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H.”Well, habeas corpus is a constitutional right…

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Elon Musk interviews on CNBC from the Tesla Headquarters in Texas.CNBCTesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed that the company will have robotaxis on the streets of Austin, Texas by the end of June.In an interview with CNBC’s David Faber on Tuesday at the company’s headquarters in Austin, Musk said Tesla aims to bring its robotaxis to Los Angeles and San Francisco following the planned Austin debut.Musk said the robotaxi service will start with about 10 vehicles in Austin, and rapidly expand to thousands of vehicles should the launch go well with no incidents. Since 2016, Musk has been promising Tesla investors,…

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