OpenAI CEO Sam Altman visits “Making Money With Charles Payne” at Fox Business Network Studios in New York on Dec. 4, 2024.Mike Coppola | Getty ImagesOpenAI is taking its ChatGPT chatbot to the next level, adding a feature to automate tasks like planning vacations, filling out forms, making restaurant reservations and ordering groceries.The tool, announced on Thursday, is called Operator. OpenAI describes it as “an agent that can go to the web to perform tasks for you” and added that it’s trained to interact with “the buttons, menus, and text fields that people use daily” on the web.It can also…
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The NBA trade deadline is two weeks away, and the rumor mill is starting to heat up.A lot could happen between now and Feb. 6, and many of the names below may sound familiar if you’ve been following the news cycle for the past few weeks. But a few new names may surprise you.Let’s take a look at some of the players available on the market. (Statistics are as of Wednesday afternoon.)Position Center Forward Forward/Center Guard WingLoadingTry changing or resetting your filters to see more.Butler is the big fish on the market this spring. The Miami Heat suspended Butler seven…
President Donald Trump lobbed his first volley at the Federal Reserve, saying Thursday that he will apply pressure to bring down interest rates.Speaking to an assembly of global leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the new president in a wide-ranging policy speech did not mention the Fed by name but made clear he would seek lower rates.”I’ll demand that interest rates drop immediately,” Trump said. “And likewise, they should be dropping all over the world. Interest rates should follow us all over.”The comments represented an initial strike at Fed officials, with whom he had a highly contentious…
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Alcoa — Alcoa’s shares fell about 4% after CEO William Oplinger said on Wednesday that U.S. tariffs on Canadian imports would increase the cost of aluminum by $1.5 billion to $2 billion a year, and that increasing the cost of trade with Canada and Mexico would hurt the domestic supply chain and automotive market. Alcoa is the largest U.S. aluminum producer. American Airlines — Shares dropped 8% after the airline offered a disappointing first-quarter outlook . The company said it expects an adjusted loss of 20 cents to 40 cents per share. Analysts polled…
We’re going to examine our holdings in Vistra (VST) , a leading U.S. power producer based in Texas with a diverse portfolio of energy production including natural gas, nuclear, coal, solar, and battery storage. I would like to focus on Vistra’s nuclear production capacity as it pertains to the recently announced Stargate initiative , as well as the technical position of the stock to determine if inclusion in your portfolio is justified. (Note the stock was getting a lift on Thursday following comments by President Donald Trump at the World Economic Forum on speeding production of power plants for AI.)…
U.S. President Donald Trump makes a virtual address to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump said Thursday he will approve the construction of power plants for artificial intelligence through an emergency declaration.”We’re going to build electric generating facilities. I’m going to get the approval under emergency declaration. I can get the approvals done myself without having to go through years of waiting,” Trump said in a virtual address to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.”They can fuel it with anything they want, and they may have…
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said his administration’s efforts to secure a Russia-Ukraine peace deal were “hopefully underway,” and that he wanted to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin soon.In a highly anticipated address via videolink to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump said: “I really would like to be able to meet with President Putin soon to get that war ended, and that’s not from the standpoint of economy or anything else. It’s from the standpoint of millions of lives are being wasted.”In December, Trump said that Putin had expressed an interest in meeting him.Without providing…
Jake Paul fighting Mike Tyson, the NFL on Christmas Day and a Super Bowl-level Beyoncé performance turned out to be great for Netflix’s business.The streaming juggernaut reported record new subscriber sign-ups in the last quarter of 2024 — nearly 19 million — bringing the total number of subscribers above 300 million. (As of Wednesday morning, Netflix stock is surging.)The company was quick to point to the success of its late-year sports programming, including the Paul-Tyson boxing match and its NFL double-header on Christmas, which included a Beyoncé-fronted halftime show that Netflix also packaged on its own, ultimately drawing more viewers…
Rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo have surrounded the eastern city of Goma, in one of the sharpest escalations in years of a conflict that has pitted the Central African country against its neighbor Rwanda.On Thursday, fighting raged between rebels from the Rwanda-backed M23 group and Congolese forces in the town of Saké, the last major army position before Goma, a provincial capital with more than 2 million people. On Tuesday, M23 captured Minova, a key town along one of Goma’s main supply routes.Goma’s fall would be a major milestone for M23. The group captured the city and held…
A sign is posted in front of Electronic Arts (EA) headquarters on March 30, 2023 in Redwood City, California. Video game maker Electronic Arts announced plans to cut 6 percent of its nearly 13,000 person workforce.Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesShares of Electronic Arts headed for their steepest drop since 1999 after the video game publisher cut its full-year bookings guidance, due mostly to challenges with its soccer franchise. The stock plummeted 19% to $115.86 as of mid-day on Thursday. That would be its worst day on the market since the dot-com bubble and the stock’s third-biggest drop since EA’s public…
