Meta Releases Much-Anticipated Open-Source AI Model, Llama 2
AI developers can use the model for commercial purposes.
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Morgan Stanley Profit Falls as Investment Banking Slowdown Persists
Still, results topped expectations, causing shares to climb sharply.
Bank of America Profit Climbs, While PNC Is Pressured
BofA’s trading and investment banking operations pick up during the quarter.
Salesforce Hires Lawyer Who Defended it From Activist Investors
Sabastian Niles, a former partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, has a track record of defending companies from activist pressure.
Norway Temporarily Bans Personalized Ads from Facebook, Instagram
Three-month ban will begin in August.
Microsoft Faces EU Probe for Bundling Teams With Office
Microsoft has avoided regulatory friction in Europe for a decade, but that may change soon.
SpaceX Forecasts Doubling of Revenue to $8 Billion
The company was valued in a secondary share sale at about $150 billion this month.
Temu Sues Fast-Fashion Rival Shein Over U.S. Antitrust Law
The lawsuit is the latest development in the retailers’ battle for dominance in the lucrative U.S. market.
Oddity Tech Raises Price Range for IPO
The makeup and skincare company aims to ride the current wave of investor enthusiasm for other consumer and beauty stocks.
Tesla Builds First Cybertruck After Years of Delays
The Cybertruck is Tesla’s first new passenger vehicle in more than three years.
Twitter Still Cash Flow Negative, Musk Says
Elon Musk tweeted that Twitter's ad revenue has dropped by around 50 percent.
Coinbase to Halt Some Staking Services in California, 3 Other States
The decision comes after 10 states took actions against Coinbase, alleging that the staking products violated securities laws.
Binance Fires More Than 1,000 Employees
The crypto exchange is continuing to lay off employees and could lose up to one-third of its staff, which totaled 8,000 employees before the layoffs.
Goldman’s PE Arm Taking Educational Gaming Company Kahoot Private
Deal values the Norwegian company at $1.7 billion.
CAA in Talks to Sell Majority Stake
French billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault could buy stake that would value firm upward of $7 billion.
Jasper, Mutiny AI Startups Cut Workers As Chatbot Rivalry Grows
The layoffs follow a proliferation of AI-powered software, including from OpenAI, which also licenses the underlying technology.
Appeals Court Denies FTC Emergency Motion to Block Microsoft-Activision Deal
If Microsoft can't close its acquisition of Activision by the July 18 deadline, both parties are free to walk away from the deal.
Tucker Carlson Is Reportedly Raising Money for New Media Company
Carlson aims to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for his new venture, which would distribute videos on Twitter while also seeking to drive subscriptions.
Amazon Lays Off Around 80 Pharmacy Employees
The layoffs are the first known cuts since Amazon finished eliminating 27,000 jobs through two major rounds of layoffs that ended in the spring.
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