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Healthcare

Moderna Is Still Stuck in Post-COVID Limbo

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Moderna walked a tightrope trying to convince shareholders it can both develop a new portfolio of drugs and keep costs down in the process.

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Today’s Upside

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Markets

Bigger Is Still Better in the S&P 500

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The top 50 companies in the index have seen a collective 4.5% skid so far in April, while the bottom 50 have slipped 8.6%.

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Artificial Intelligence

Finding the Real in Artificial Intelligence

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Does the AI hype actually hold any substance? As long as you don’t get distracted by shiny things, these venture capitalists say.

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Real Estate

WeWork Scrambles To Stop Adam Neumann From Buying it Back

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To have any hope of emerging from Chapter 11 without selling, the company needs to raise somewhere in the ballpark of $400 million.

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Semiconductors

TSMC Had a Great Q1, But Chip Recovery Looks Sluggish

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Multiple chipmakers have suffered slowdowns across smartphones, personal computers, motor vehicles, and other consumer goods.

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Electric Vehicles

Tesla’s Stock Has Hit the Skids

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Shares are at a 15-month low amid a pile-up of bad news, as analysts call for a course correction, and production woes continue to mount.

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Patent Drop

Snap Patent Brings Emotion Detection to Workplace Surveillance

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AI that’s meant to detect emotion is highly controversial.

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Geopolitics

Superyacht Sales Fall Due to Lack of Russian Oligarch Customers

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Bottlenecked supply problems and a dearth of buyers resulted in 2023 sales falling 35% since 2021.

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Industrials

Boeing Battles Dual Congressional Hearings

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Experts testified in one hearing about whether the company had improved safety and compliance procedures since two major crashes.

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Patent Drop

Intel Filing Could Diversify Deepfake Detection Models

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he filing adds to several patents from tech companies that aim to tackle the deepfake problem amid the proliferation of generative AI.

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M&A

Dealmaking Is Coming Back — With or Without Fed Rate Cuts

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Dealmaking-related revenue at a handful of major investment banks collectively rose 27% year-over-year in the first quarter.

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Patent Drop

IBM Protects AI From Being Swayed by Bad Data

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Its latest patent puts a magnifying glass to large wells of public data, aiming to make foundational models more robust against attacks.

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Economics

US Growth to Lap G7 Peers, IMF Predicts

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The US economy will grow twice as fast as any of its major Western peers this year.

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Healthcare

UnitedHealth Cyberattack Punched a $872 Million Hole In its Finances

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The figure was enough to push the insurance giant to a loss in Q1, despite its revenue beating expectations.

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Real Estate

Big Tech Offloads Office Space, Putting Commercial Landlords in Flux

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Some of the more reliable office building tenants are reversing course by letting leases expire or subleasing space across major cities.

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Indicators

US Retail Sales Surge as Consumers Shrug Off Inflation, High Interest Rates

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Sales rose 0.7% month-over-month — about double what many economists had predicted. Year-over-year, that’s a 4% jump.

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Big Tech

The Metaverse: Coming to a School Near You

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The tech titan plans to expand its virtual-reality headset into schools to enable immersive experiences.

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Banking

Goldman Sachs Leans On ‘Core Strengths’ to Crush Q1 Earnings

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In the first three months of the year, the investment bank scored a 16% jump in revenue and $4.1 billion in net income, a 28% rise.

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Patent Drop

Adobe’s Latest Patent Aims to Keep AI From Making Mistakes

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“Real solutions to hallucination are going to be the next step change in AI.”

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Industrials

Bay Area Airports Battle Over What Gets to Be Called ‘San Francisco’

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Oakland’s move to change its airport name to include the San Francisco Bay has irritated its bigger-city neighbors.

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Patent Drop

Airbus Patent Diagnoses Plane Malfunctions Through Sound

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As Boeing faces heat, Airbus may be looking at ways to boost production to meet the surge in demand.

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