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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attends the “Winning the AI Race” Summit in Washington D.C., U.S., July 23, 2025. Kent Nishimura | ReutersNvidia shares reached a fresh record on Tuesday, climbing almost 3% and lifting the chipmaker’s market cap past $4.5 trillion.The stock is now up about 39% for the year, and continues to attract investors as Nvidia steps up its pace of deal-making, cementing its position at the center of the artificial intelligence boom.OpenAI said last week that Nvidia would take an equity stake worth up to $100 billion in the AI startup, and would build hundreds of billions of…

DeMar DeRozan #10 of the Sacramento Kings is defended by Jose Alvarado #15 of the New Orleans Pelicans during the second half of a game at the Smoothie King Center on February 12, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana.Derick E. Hingle | Getty ImagesBasketball fans watching on Prime Video this season will be able to track their wagers through an expanded partnership between Amazon and Flutter-owned FanDuel, the exclusive odds provider of the NBA and WNBA on Prime.Bettors will be able to link their FanDuel accounts to their Prime Video profiles and see how their wagers are playing out in real…

Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, delivers an important speech at a reception to celebrate the 76th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 30, 2025. (Xinhua/Yan Yan)BEIJING, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) — President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called on the nation to keep on working hard and forge ahead with determination in advancing Chinese modernization.Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and…

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday suspended a Islamabad High Court (IHC) order that had barred IHC judge Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri from performing judicial work. The IHC subsequently issued a new cause list, restoring Jahangiri to single and division benches. A division bench led by IHC Chief Justice Sardar Muhammad Sarfraz Dogar on September 16 had stopped Justice Jahangiri from performing his duties as it began proceedings on a quo warranto petition accusing him of holding a dubious LLB degree. On September 19, five IHC judges, including Justice Jahangiri, went to the Supreme Court in person to file separate constitutional…

President Donald Trump on Tuesday will announce an agreement with Pfizer to voluntarily sell its medications for less, as his administration pushes to link U.S. drug prices to cheaper ones abroad.Trump will announce a drug pricing deal with Pfizer at 11 a.m. ET, a White House official told CNBC’s Eamon Javers. Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla will be in attendance, the official said.The agreement involves discounted prices in Medicaid and a three-year reprieve on planned pharmaceutical tariffs as long as the company is building manufacturing plants in the U.S., a source told CNBC’s Angelica Peebles.U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a…

The steel frame of data centers under construction during a tour of the OpenAI data center in Abilene, Texas, U.S., Sept. 23, 2025. Shelby Tauber | ReutersOpenAI, Meta and Alphabet are leading a data center boom in the U.S. as they try to keep pace with frenzied demand for artificial intelligence, and the computing resources required to build increasingly sophisticated models.As they prepare to collectively spend hundreds of billions of dollars in build-outs, there’s one glaring bottleneck: labor.In the manufacturing, construction and electrical trades, there’s a dearth of talent as skilled laborers age out of the workforce without being replaced…

ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) does not foresee any major setback to Pakistan’s economic growth or revenue collection this fiscal year due to the recent floods. Except for Punjab, provinces have also not reported significant economic losses, minimizing the chances of a downward revision in targets. According to government sources, Pakistani authorities have assessed flood-related losses in three rivers, but the evaluation of destroyed or damaged infrastructure in Punjab is still ongoing. Government sources said that an IMF delegation shared its views about the economic impacts of the floods during a kick-off meeting with Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb. The…

Michael Intrator, Chief Executive Officer of CoreWeave Inc., speaks during an interview with CNBC on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., Sept. 22, 2025. Jeenah Moon | ReutersShares of CoreWeave popped more than 13% on Tuesday after the company announced it has agreed to provide Meta with $14.2 billion of artificial intelligence cloud infrastructure.CoreWeave has been on a deal-making blitz as big tech companies and AI startups race to build out their computing infrastructure. Tuesday’s announcement comes just days after CoreWeave expanded its agreement with OpenAI by $6.5 billion, bringing the total…

DoorDash launches autonomous delivery robot called Dot.Courtesy: DoorDashYour DoorDash deliverer could soon look a little different.DoorDash on Tuesday announced a robot, known as Dot, that navigates busy streets, parking lots and sidewalks to bring customers their food.Dot marks DoorDash’s first official standalone push into autonomous vehicle technology. The company previously tested drone delivery and partnered with Sam Altman-backed startup Coco Robotics for sidewalk delivery.”The scale and complexity of the business demands something like autonomy, and there isn’t anything out there that fits our use case,” DoorDash co-founder Stanley Tang told CNBC.Tang, who leads the DoorDash Labs automation and robotics unit,…

The Supreme Court has nullified the interim order that barred Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri from carrying out judicial duties. A constitutional bench of the Supreme Court accepted Justice Jahangiri’s appeal, ruling that “a judge cannot be restrained from performing duties based on an interim order.” A constitutional bench (CB) of the Supreme Court (SC) headed by Justice Aminuddin Khan and comprising Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail, Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar, Justice Hassan Azhar Rizvi, and Justice Shahid Bilal Hassan oversaw the case. Attorney General Mansoor Usman Awan appeared before the court, stating, “A judge cannot be barred from judicial work through…