Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges

Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed that people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to a legal filing that was released on Friday. The social media giant was alleged to have initiated the study, dubbed Project Mercury, in late 2019 as a way to help it “explore the impact that … Read more

Eli Lilly hits $1 trillion market value, a first for a health-care company

Eli Lilly hits  trillion market value, a first for a health-care company

A sign with the company logo sits outside of the headquarters of Eli Lilly in Indianapolis, Indiana, on March 17, 2024. Scott Olson | Getty Images Eli Lilly reached a $1 trillion market capitalization on Friday, the first health-care company in the world to join the exclusive club dominated by tech firms.  Eli Lilly briefly hit … Read more

Nvidia shares rise on stronger-than-expected revenue, forecast

Nvidia shares rise on stronger-than-expected revenue, forecast

Jensen Huang, NVIDIA founder and CEO, has a Q&A session at a press conference during the APEC CEO summit on October 31, 2025 in Gyeongju, South Korea. Woohae Cho | Getty Images News | Getty Images Nvidia reported fiscal third-quarter earnings and revenue that topped Wall Street expectations on Wednesday and provided stronger-than-expected sales guidance for the … Read more

Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun is leaving to create his own startup

Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun is leaving to create his own startup

Yann LeCun, known as one of the godfathers of modern artificial intelligence and one of the first AI visionaries to join the company then known as Facebook, is leaving Meta. LuCun said in a LinkedIn post on Wednesday that he plans to create a startup that specializes in a kind of AI technology that researchers … Read more

Investors hope these three trades will weather a tech stock downturn

Investors hope these three trades will weather a tech stock downturn

As concerns over a U.S. tech bubble linger, investment strategists are mapping out various diversification plays on both sides of the Atlantic to shore up portfolios against a sharp market correction. Market pros told CNBC that European equities, government bonds and value stocks all offer advantages amid valuation concerns in the artificial intelligence space. Arnaud … Read more

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang surprised investors with a ‘half a trillion’ forecast. It’ll come up at earnings

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang surprised investors with a ‘half a trillion’ forecast. It’ll come up at earnings

Jensen Huang attends a reception for the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, at St James’ Palace in London, Brirain, Nov. 5, 2025. Yui Mok | Via Reuters Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revealed in October that his company has $500 billion in orders, in 2025 and 2026 combined, for its chips that are at the … Read more

S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures rise to start the week: Live updates

S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures rise to start the week: Live updates

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York on November 14, 2025. Charly Triballeau | Afp | Getty Images Stock futures were mixed on Monday following a choppy week in which valuation fears, a rotation within the market and a recalibration of Federal Reserve rate cut expectations pressured … Read more

Trump buys at least $82 million in bonds since late August, financial disclosures show

Trump buys at least  million in bonds since late August, financial disclosures show

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks about the U.S. government shutdown, during the swearing-in ceremony for Sergio Gor as U.S. Ambassador to India, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., Nov. 10, 2025. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump bought at least $82 million in corporate and municipal bonds from late August to … Read more

Week in review: Stocks swing wildly, Disney disappoints, and we make 6 trades

Week in review: Stocks swing wildly, Disney disappoints, and we make 6 trades

It was a volatile week for the stock market, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average hitting an all-time high before pulling back. Wall Street pulled money away from Big Tech and into more defensive sectors, such as health care and financials. The end of the longest-ever U.S. government shutdown and expectations for interest rate cuts … Read more

Bitcoin falls below $95,000 amid tech sell-off, bounces off lows on Friday

Bitcoin falls below ,000 amid tech sell-off, bounces off lows on Friday

Representation of Bitcoin cryptocurrency in this illustration taken Sept. 10, 2025. Dado Ruvic | Reuters Bitcoin dipped below $95,000 on Friday, pushing the world’s oldest cryptocurrency further into the red and continuing its four-day decline amid a broader artificial intelligence-linked stock pullback. The digital asset hit $94,491.22 early Friday, marking its lowest level since May … Read more