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Anthropic reran its "Project Fetch" robotics test and found its newer Claude models could outperform the previous generation.  In its latest write-up, Anthropic detailed three trials using Claude Opus 4.7 inside Claude Code, with a researcher mainly connecting a laptop to the robot, entering...

Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) are organizing separate banking teams to work on potential stock market debuts by OpenAI and Anthropic. The move aims to prevent sensitive information from crossing between two direct competitors. The two banks reportedly expect to be involved...

Moderna Inc.‘s (NASDAQ:MRNA) stock has staged a dramatic comeback this week, adding billions in market value and delivering a windfall for investors in a leveraged ETF tied to the biotech company as traders bet on a favorable regulatory outcome for its seasonal flu vaccine. Shares of Moderna...

OpenAI has hired former White House artificial intelligence adviser Dean Ball, adding a policy-focused hire in a new team buildout. Ball will join OpenAI on July 6 as a leader of a new unit called Strategic Futures, he announced in a blog post on Substack. Ball will report to Chief Strategy Officer...

Apple Inc’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) is warning that rising memory and storage chip costs could force future product price increases, underscoring a broader shift in the AI investment landscape: the next wave of winners may be memory suppliers, not just GPU makers. In an interview with The Wall Street...

For the past two years, the easiest way to play artificial intelligence was to buy the companies building the technology. NVIDIA Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA) became the face of the AI boom as hyperscalers raced to buy graphics processing units, build data centers and expand computing capacity. •...

The electric aviation industry has attracted billions of dollars from investors, but one Nvidia Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA)-backed executive believes most of today’s eVTOL companies won’t make it. In an exclusive email interview with Benzinga, Vishnu Ramakrishnan, senior vice president of...

The U.S. FDA on Thursday approved an expanded indication for Merck & Co Inc.’s (NYSE:MRK) Capvaxive, extending its use to children and adolescents ages 2–17 with chronic conditions who have completed a primary pneumococcal vaccine series. The decision makes Capvaxive the only pneumococcal...

The electric aviation industry has attracted billions of dollars from investors, but one Nvidia Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA)-backed executive believes most of today’s eVTOL companies won’t make it. In an exclusive email interview with Benzinga, Vishnu Ramakrishnan, senior vice president of...

The Middle East trade may be entering a new phase. Oil prices have retreated sharply this week as signs of progress in U.S.-Iran talks eased some fears of a broader regional disruption. The United States Oil Fund (NYSE:USO), one of the most widely followed proxies for crude oil prices, has fallen...

The ETF industry’s relentless fee war has delivered a major victory for investors. But it may also be driving one of the biggest waves of product innovation and speculation the market has ever seen. According to Bloomberg Intelligence data shared by ETF analyst Eric Balchunas, funds charging...

President Donald Trump gave Intel Corp. (NASDAQ:INTC) investors a new reason to celebrate Thursday after revealing what could be one of the most significant developments yet in the company’s remarkable turnaround story. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has agreed...

GIC Pte tapped investment banking firm Evercore Inc. to advise on a potential divestment of private credit fund assets. Singapore's sovereign wealth fund has been allocating to private credit for years and is now considering selling a portion of those positions as they mature, according to...

PayPal Holdings Inc. (NYSE:PYPL) is closing down PayPal Ventures, its decade-old corporate investing group. The unit's staffing has dwindled to just two people, down from more than 10 late last year. PayPal has also been weighing secondary-market sales of some venture stakes and brought in...

Artificial intelligence firms OpenAI and Anthropic have been hiring from Salesforce Inc. (NYSE:CRM) this year at a rapid clip, with LinkedIn profiles pointing to close to 100 moves since the start of 2026. Anthropic has hired 45 Salesforce employees over the last six months, and OpenAI has added 40...