Meta hires Microsoft exec, former Trump deputy as chief legal officer
Meta said Tuesday that it hired former Microsoft legal executive Curtis Joseph Mahoney to become its chief legal officer.
Amazon’s AI shopping tool sparks backlash from online retailers that didn’t want websites scraped
Some businesses have objected to their products being sold on Amazon through the “Shop Direct” feature without their permission.
Huang says Nvidia seeing ‘very high’ Chinese customer demand for H200 AI chips
“It appears that we’re going to be going back to China,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Tuesday at the CES conference in Las Vegas.
Elon Musk’s xAI raises $20 billion from investors including Nvidia, Cisco, Fidelity
Elon Musk’s AI said it raised $20 billion in new funding after CNBC reported in November that a financing round would value the company at about $230 billion.
The metals outlook for 2026 was already bright. Why Venezuela just added to conviction
Trump’s Venezuela attack has added to conviction in an asset class investors were already favoring coming into 2026: metals.
Private equity management fees hit new low in 2025
Managers have been offering discounts amid difficulty fundraising, and capital is increasingly going to bigger funds, dragging down the mean.
Ford reports best annual U.S. vehicle sales since 2019
Ford reported sales of 2.2 million vehicles in 2025, including a 2.7% uptick to more than 545,200 units during the fourth quarter.
Manhattan office leasing in the fourth quarter was the strongest in 6 years
For all of 2025, Manhattan office leasing volume was the highest since 2019 and just 2.4% below 2019’s pre-pandemic total.
Greenland PM brushes off U.S. takeover fears after Trump’s Venezuela intervention
Greenland Prime Minister Jens Frederik Nielsen has dismissed concerns of an imminent U.S. takeover attempt.
Elon Musk’s X faces probes in Europe, India, Malaysia after Grok generated explicit images of women and children
Regulators in Europe, India and Malaysia are scrutinizing X after exploitative images created with the Grok chatbot went viral on Elon Musk’s social network.
