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Amazon-owned Zoox has voluntarily recalled software in 105 robotaxis after one of its vehicles failed to detect heavy smoke and drove into an active fire scene in Las Vegas on June 20, drawing renewed federal scrutiny of the autonomous vehicle industry.
A higher capital expenditure forecast from TSMC sent chip stocks broadly lower Thursday, with the VanEck Semiconductor ETF falling nearly 7% for the week and Nasdaq-100 futures dropping as much as 2% in premarket trading Friday.
A global semiconductor sell-off drove Nasdaq 100 futures down 1.9% on Friday, as investors questioned the sustainability of AI infrastructure spending and U.S.-Iran hostilities renewed pressure on energy markets.
Netflix posted second-quarter revenue of $12.56 billion and earnings of 80 cents per share, roughly in line with estimates, but a soft third-quarter forecast and a pullback on viewership reporting sent shares down more than 8% after hours.
A new malware framework called OkoBot deploys more than 20 payloads to steal cryptocurrency wallet seed phrases, browser credentials, and other sensitive data, with Kaspersky linking the campaign to a Russian-speaking threat actor active since at least March 2025.
Leaked documents reviewed by The Insider, Der Spiegel, and Le Monde reveal that China and Russia have been coordinating at a previously undisclosed military forum on strategies to counter SpaceX's Starlink satellite network, which now comprises more than 10,000 satellites.
A higher capital expenditure forecast from TSMC sent chip stocks broadly lower Thursday, with the VanEck Semiconductor ETF falling nearly 7% for the week and Nasdaq-100 futures dropping as much as 2% in premarket trading Friday.
A global semiconductor sell-off drove Nasdaq 100 futures down 1.9% on Friday, as investors questioned the sustainability of AI infrastructure spending and U.S.-Iran hostilities renewed pressure on energy markets.
Netflix posted second-quarter revenue of $12.56 billion and earnings of 80 cents per share, roughly in line with estimates, but a soft third-quarter forecast and a pullback on viewership reporting sent shares down more than 8% after hours.
Patreon has stopped relying on robots.txt requests and begun actively blocking AI training bots through a partnership with Cloudflare, after finding that scrapers were ignoring the platform's instructions entirely.
Amazon-owned Zoox has voluntarily recalled software in 105 robotaxis after one of its vehicles failed to detect heavy smoke and drove into an active fire scene in Las Vegas on June 20, drawing renewed federal scrutiny of the autonomous vehicle industry.
Anthropic is scheduling meetings with investors ahead of a potential IPO this year, with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan Chase involved in planning. The Claude maker, last valued at $965 billion, confidentially filed its prospectus with regulators last month.
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