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CNN By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Cupertino, California (CNN) — Apple just kicked off a brand new era for the company with the introduction of its first generative AI features for the iPhone. At its annual Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, the company unveiled the first batch of tools powered by “Apple Intelligence,” from personalized

CNN By Wayne Chang, Will Ripley and John Mees, CNN Taipei, Taiwan (CNN) — When Nvidia surpassed Apple this week to become America’s second most valuable company, its CEO Jensen Huang was being feted like a rockstar in his birthplace Taiwan. Wearing his signature black leather jacket, Huang spoke Sunday at a packed stadium in

CNN By Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Thursday moved to liquidate his personal assets, agreeing to demands from the families of Sandy Hook victims whom he owes more than $1.5 billion in damages over his lies about the 2012 school massacre. The seismic move paves the way for a

CNN By Hanna Ziady, CNN London (CNN) — The European Central Bank cut interest rates Thursday, moving before the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of England to lower borrowing costs as inflation recedes following years of rate hikes. The first ECB rate cut in nearly five years takes the benchmark rate in the 20

CNN By Anna Cooban, CNN London (CNN) — The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies — a group of leading oil producers known as OPEC+ — agreed Sunday to extend production cuts announced last year into 2025. The group said in a statement it would extend a cut of 1.65 million barrels per

CNN By Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s media allies are demanding retribution in the wake of his conviction. Following weeks of attacks targeting the historic hush money case against the former president, prominent right-wing media figures immediately flooded the public discourse Thursday with extreme and disturbing rhetoric after Trump was found guilty on 34 felony

CNN By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN (CNN) — In the early morning of May 14, Vicki Hill was startled awake by the sound of explosions outside her home in Bethesda, Maryland. The loud bangs, she learned later, had come from the airbags of the family’s SUV, a 2015 Nissan Murano that was parked in the driveway.

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CNN By Curt Devine, Allison Gordon and Kyung Lah, CNN (CNN) — When SWAT officers swarmed a house in a sleepy San Jose, California neighborhood last month, they found what could best be described as a make-shift hardware store inside: Shelves lined with boxes of brand-new tools, bathroom fixtures and spools of industrial wiring. It

CNN By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk says artificial intelligence will take all our jobs and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. “Probably none of us will have a job,” Musk said about AI at a tech conference on Thursday. While speaking remotely via webcam at VivaTech 2024 in Paris, Musk described

CNN By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — The House Committee on Education and the Workforce’s hearing on campus antisemitism Thursday came with no shortage of fiery exchanges between lawmakers and the heads of Northwestern University, Rutgers University and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). But unlike two prior hearings, Thursday’s was the

CNN By Brian Fung, Hannah Rabinowitz and Sabrina Souza, CNN Washington (CNN) — In a groundbreaking antitrust lawsuit that threatens to upend the way concertgoers pay for tickets, the US government and dozens of states sued Live Nation on Thursday, alleging that for years the parent company of Ticketmaster abused its industry dominance to harm

CNN By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — Last summer, Red Lobster made $20 endless shrimp a permanent menu item. Endless shrimp was a successful annual limited-time offer for Red Lobster for 20 years. But Red Lobster’s latest major shareholder, Thai Union, a Bangkok-based canned seafood company, saw the promotion as a way to

CNN By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A series of solar flares and coronal mass ejections from the sun have the potential to create dazzling auroras that may be seen as far south as Alabama and Northern California but also disrupt communications on Earth tonight and over the weekend, according to the National Oceanic and

CNN By Parija Kavilanz, CNN New York (CNN) — Retailers are feeling jittery. Consumers aren’t shopping like they used to. In a game of chicken between stores and shoppers, it’s the stores that appear to be yielding first, by dropping prices on thousands of products. The markdowns come as inflation has pushed prices higher for

CNN By Nicole Goodkind, CNN New York (CNN) — US stocks soared Friday after new data showed that US job growth slowed considerably last month. After surging by more than 500 points after the opening bell, the blue-chip Dow closed 450 points higher, or 1.2%; the S&P 500 rose 1.3% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq gained

CNN By Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — From New York to Los Angeles, college campus protests against the war in Gaza turned violent Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning as police sought to clear campuses of protesters in many locations, leading to mass arrests. Protesters opposed to Israel’s actions in the war in

CNN By Alicia Wallace, Katherine Dillinger, Kevin Liptak, Jeff Zeleny and Kayla Tausche, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration moved Tuesday to reclassify marijuana as a lower-risk substance, a person familiar with the plans told CNN, a historic move that acknowledges the medical benefits of the long-criminalized drug and carries broad implications for cannabis-related research