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Vast missed out on the first round of NASA awards for the next International Space Station, but that isn’t stopping the company from going all in on stage two.CEO Max Haot told CNBC’s Morgan Brennan this week that the company is betting on its “leapfrog strategy” and planning to build and launch a successful space station to prove its capabilities. “If we do all of that, or are on the way to do that, I think it will be impossible to ignore for NASA in terms of the hardware that we have,” he said. Vast, which was founded in 2023,…

The logos of Google Gemini, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Claude by Anthropic, Perplexity, and Bing apps are displayed on the screen of a smartphone in Reno, United States, on November 21, 2024.Jaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesThe artificial intelligence craze faces a significant gender gap, with more men showing enthusiasm about the technology, and women expressing greater skepticism. That’s according to CNBC’s 5th annual SurveyMonkey Women at Work survey.Some 69% of men polled say that AI is a “valuable assistant and collaborator,” while just 61% of women agreed with that statement. Half of women in the survey view AI with…

Tarar says 205 tanks, armoured vehicles and artillery guns have also been destroyed during the operation Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said on Friday that 527 Afghan Taliban operatives have been killed and more than 755 injured during the ongoing Operation Ghazab Lil Haq, launched in response to “unprovoked action” from across the Afghan border. ‘Operation Ghazab Lil Haq’ was launched late on Thursday after renewed clashes along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, when Afghan Taliban forces fired on multiple locations, prompting swift military retaliation. The neighbours have clashed along the frontier since last week, when Afghanistan launched a border offensive in response…

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks during a keynote address at AWS re:Invent 2024, a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services, at The Venetian Las Vegas on December 3, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.Noah Berger | Getty ImagesAmazon said Friday it will continue offering Anthropic’s artificial intelligence technology to its cloud customers, excluding work involving the Department of Defense.The announcement comes after the federal agency informed Anthropic on Thursday that it would label the company a “supply chain risk.” Anthropic responded by saying it has “no choice” but to challenge the designation in court. “AWS customers and partners can continue to…

FM Dar, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb announce policy changes in light of Mideast conflict The government on Friday sharply increased diesel and petrol prices by Rs55 per litre or 20% — marking the first increase in a series of similar surges in coming days due to the ongoing US-Israel and Iran war, which has disrupted supply chains and pushed crude oil prices to two years’ highest level. Regional tensions escalated sharply after air strikes by the United States and Israel last week killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, along with several senior officials. The strikes triggered retaliatory actions by…

Investors are concerned about the fates of multiple experimental drugs for hard-to-treat diseases following a string of recent rejections from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The FDA in the past year has denied or discouraged the applications of at least eight drugs, according to RTW Investments, including a gene therapy for Huntington’s disease from UniQure, a gene therapy for Hunter syndrome from Regenxbio and a drug for a blood condition from Disc Medicine. The agency initially refused to review Moderna’s flu shot before reversing course. In each case, the FDA took issue with the evidence the companies were using to support…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai gestures to the crowd during Google’s annual I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, on May 20, 2025.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesGoogle said it will continue offering Anthropic’s artificial intelligence technology for clients, excluding for defense work, a day after Microsoft issued a similar statement to customers. The announcements from two of the three leading cloud infrastructure vendors follow the Defense Department’s official designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk. “We understand that the Determination does not preclude us from working with Anthropic on non-defense related projects, and their products remain available through…

A difficult jobs report comes at a tough time for the White House. Gas prices are rising due to the war in Iran, while stock market turmoil is making savers and retirees antsy about the state of their 401(k)s.Data released Friday showing a loss of 92,000 jobs in February will put pressure on the Trump administration to reconsider military and homeland security policies that have complicated the nation’s economic outlook. But there may simply not be enough time to force through a substantial policy shift that could improve the economic outlook before the November midterms. The state of the economy is…

Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a “Morning Meeting” livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here’s a recap of Friday’s key moments. 1. Stocks fell Friday as the war in the Middle East escalated. The S & P 500 and Nasdaq were both off roughly 1% after President Donald Trump said Friday there would be no deal to end the U.S. war against Iran without an “unconditional surrender” by Iran. Despite continued uncertainty, Jim Cramer believes the “end-of-the-world view” has gone too far and sees buying opportunities in this “ugly market.” Jim called out Goldman Sachs ,…

Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, visits national political advisors from the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party, the Jiusan Society, the sector of medicine and health, and the sector of welfare and social security, who are attending the fourth session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), in Beijing, capital of China, March 6, 2026. Xi attended their joint group meeting, and heard their comments and suggestions. (Xinhua/Xie Huanchi)BEIJING, March 6 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi…