Stock market today: Indexes fall as Nvidia faces China probe, investors brace for inflation
Michael Nagle/Xinhua via Getty Images US stocks retreated from record highs on Monday as investors assessed a potential risk in the technology sector and prepared for new inflation data. Tech stocks led Monday’s session lower, with Nvidia shares one of the biggest losers. The chipmaker’s stock fell about 3% after China launched a probe into…
TikTok owner ByteDance is now China’s biggest buyer of Nvidia chips as it seeks to lead AI race, report says
TikTok owner ByteDance is now the biggest buyer of Nvidia AI chips in China. ByteDance is the biggest buyer of Nvidia’s AI chips inside China as the TikTok owner seeks to establish itself in the artificial intelligence sector, the Financial Times reported. A US export ban introduced in 2022 restricts China from acquiring Nvidia’s more…
Satellite images show Russia’s warships missing from its base in Syria after the Assad regime fell
On December 9, they’re gone again. Russia’s warships are missing from its base in Syria a day after rebel forces ousted the country’s longtime dictator, Bashar Assad, new satellite imagery obtained by B-17 shows. In images captured by Planet Labs PBC earlier this month, several warships can be seen docked at the Russian naval facility…
What we know about ‘Reacher’ season 3, the action drama based on Lee Child’s Jack Reacher books
Alan Ritchson as Jack Reacher in “Reacher” season three. Based on Lee Child’s “Jack Reacher” books, Prime Video’s “Reacher” series shows no signs of slowing down. Season two wrapped up in January with an action-packed finale, and season three will be out this February. The show follows Alan Ritchson as Jack Reacher, a former military…
Here’s a timeline of the Sabrina Carpenter-Barry Keoghan drama as the actor asks fans to stop harassing his young son
Barry Keoghan and Sabrina Carpenter attended the 2024 Met Gala in May. Sabrina Carpenter and Barry Keoghan have reportedly split up — and fans are speculating about why things appear to have gone sour. The couple never confirmed they were dating, but made multiple high-profile appearances together, including a party after the Grammy awards in…
My son changed his college major from law to philosophy. Other parents warned me it was a huge mistake, but I support him.
The author (far left) with his twin sons, who are heading to college. My twin 18-year-old sons have just graduated from high school, and we’ve spent months navigating the college application process. We live in Australia, and majors are chosen as part of the application process here, so there is a lot of pressure to…
I’m the Danish scientist who pioneered injectable drugs like Ozempic. Here are my 3 tips for inventing blockbuster products.
Inventor and scientist Lotte Bjerre Knudsen has spent her entire career at Novo Nordisk. “I started here fresh out of university,” she told B-17 from the company’s glass-walled headquarters outside Copenhagen. She’s sitting just across the road from where her career began in the late 1980s, developing color-safe laundry detergent. It would have been impossible…
Luigi Mangione named as person of interest in shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. He was arrested on PA gun charges.
Surveillance images show the suspected shooter in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Police in Pennsylvania on Monday arrested the “person of interest” in the Midtown Manhattan shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. New York Police Department officials said at a press conference that 26-year-old Luigi Mangione was arrested 280 miles away in…
I lived in Florida for a decade. The downsides just kept adding up, and now I’m back in the Midwest.
I see why many people love living in Jacksonville but found it wasn’t the best fit for me. We first fell in love with Florida after visiting it on a family vacation in 1997. After many more pleasant family vacations to the state, we left our hometown in Missouri and moved to Florida in early…
