Nvidia dethroned Apple as the world’s most valuable company on Friday, after a record rise in shares powered by voracious demand for its new supercomputer AI chips. Nvidia’s stock market value briefly reached $3.53 trillion, while Apple’s was $3.52 trillion, according to data from LSEG. In June, Nvidia briefly became the world’s most valuable company, … Read more
Google faces an investigation by the Missouri Attorney General’s office for allegedly “manipulating search results” and showing anti-conservative bias ahead of the 2024 election. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey said he will issue the subpoena to “get to the bottom of what appears to be election interference by Google,” a spokesman for the Republican told … Read more
Costco’s rollout of membership card scanners at the front of its US stores is still in its infancy, but the move is already paying off big for the wholesale club. Morgan Stanley analysts wrote in a note this week that Costco’s warehouses are seeing similarly low double-digit increases in membership counts after implementing the scanners, … Read more
Former vice presidential candidate Nicole Shanahan allegedly offered a reporter for The Washington Post $500,000 in exchange for the names of sources who leaked information about her, according to the paper. Shanahan, a 39-year-old San Francisco Bay Area native and environmental attorney, was tipped off in June that The Washington Post was working on a … Read more
Tesla’s third-quarter net income rose 17.3% from a year earlier, as quarterly sales of its electric vehicles rose for the first time this year. The Austin, Texas, company said Wednesday it made $2.17 billion from July to September, up from the $1.85 billion profit it posted in the same period in 2023. The gain came … Read more
Meta has suspended several accounts that monitored the private jet flights of celebrities and tech moguls, including Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian and Elon Musk among others. Jack Sweeney, the Florida-based college student who was fired from X by Musk for managing an account that tracked flights on the billionaire’s private jet, announced that … Read more
The biggest room in the world is room for improvement, right? And as biohacking techniques like cold showers and intermittent fasting go mainstream, New York City’s most dedicated health seekers are venturing into more extreme territory. HigherDose co-founder Lauren Berlingeri (left), seen here with Lydia Moynihan, breaks down some of the more extreme trends in … Read more
There’s a new look and new life for one of Realty Check’s favorite private gathering spots. Club 101 at HJ Kalikow’s 101 Park Ave. it’s warmer and livelier than it was in the years Peter Kalikow owned the New York Post, when he threw memorable holiday parties that included, if memory serves, his surprise entrance … Read more
Billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX has sued a California commission in federal court, accusing panel members of political bias in blocking the space venture company from increasing the number of rockets it launches from an air base in the state. SpaceX sued the California Coastal Commission on Tuesday in Los Angeles, seeking an injunction that would … Read more
A Dutch chipmaking giant sparked chaos after it accidentally released a disappointing financial outlook a day earlier than planned – knocking billions off the market value of the entire semiconductor sector. Shares in ASML — which makes equipment used to make chips, including processors used to power artificial intelligence — fell nearly 6% on Wednesday. … Read more