The G7 summit opened in Évian les Bains, France, on Monday with the Iran peace deal immediately reshaping the agenda. French President Emmanuel Macron, chairing what will be his final G7 as head of state before elections later this year, said G7 leaders would use the summit to discuss the long-term reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, support for Lebanon, and the path toward a binding accord on Iran's nuclear and ballistic activities. Macron announced the agenda items in a vide

Figure, the humanoid robotics company, has secured two of the most significant commercial orders in the history of robotics: a 20,000 unit contract with Amazon and a 50,000 unit deal with Mercedes Benz that together represent a revenue pipeline exceeding 14 billion dollars through 2029. The company is already producing more than 1,200 robots per month and recently validated the capabilities of its Figure 03 prototype, which researchers say demonstrates dexterity and task comp

Stellar's XLM token surged more than 40% in a single session this week after the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the backbone of US securities settlement infrastructure, announced it has selected the Stellar network for a new tokenized securities platform rollout. The DTCC processes roughly $2 quadrillion in securities transactions annually, making it one of the most systemically important financial institutions in the world, and its endorsement of a public bl

Anthropic has confidentially filed paperwork for a public listing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, positioning itself to potentially beat longtime rival OpenAI to the public markets as early as this fall. The filing came weeks after Anthropic closed a $65 billion Series H funding round that valued the company at approximately $965 billion post money, surpassing OpenAI's most recent private valuation of $852 billion to make Anthropic, for the first time, the mos

Shares of Advanced Micro Devices jumped this week after Citigroup upgraded the stock to a "buy" rating, arguing that the market has not yet fully priced in the company's upside from the ongoing boom in AI chip demand. Citi analysts pointed to accelerating orders for AMD's data-center GPUs and growing interest from cloud providers looking to diversify their AI hardware supply chains beyond Nvidia, suggesting AMD's earnings trajectory over the next several quarters could surpri

Cryptocurrency markets rebounded sharply on Friday after President Trump suggested the war between the United States and Iran had effectively come to an end. Bitcoin opened the day at $63,553, up 3.4% from Thursday's level, while Ethereum opened at $1,671.71, a gain of roughly 3.2%. The moves extended into the trading session, with bitcoin climbing further to around $63,718 and ether holding near $1,671 by mid-morning, as traders rotated back into risk assets across the board

Interest rate futures markets are pointing toward a steady policy decision when the Federal Reserve concludes its next meeting on June 17, with pricing implying a 0 basis-point move is by far the most likely outcome. The effective federal funds rate currently sits at 3.62%, within the central bank's target range of 3.5% to 3.75%, a range that has been in place since the Fed's most recent adjustment. As of Friday's market close, futures curves showed investors expect the polic

NVIDIA is reportedly developing a new AI model for healthcare documentation in partnership with Abridge, a startup that has become one of the fastest-growing names in clinical AI by helping doctors automatically generate notes from patient conversations. The collaboration would combine Nvidia's AI infrastructure and model-development expertise with Abridge's clinical workflow integrations, which are already used by a number of major US health systems to reduce the administrat

Police in Newtownabbey, near Belfast, faced a second consecutive night of violent unrest this week after rioters set fire to wheelie bins and tore down garden fencing to use as makeshift shields against water cannons deployed by officers. The disturbances stem from anti-immigrant sentiment that flared following a stabbing incident in Belfast, with crowds targeting properties believed to house immigrant families. Police described the violence as some of the most serious public

A London-based human rights organization issued a report this week accusing the Israeli government of pursuing a deliberate strategy to annex the occupied West Bank, citing accelerated settlement construction, infrastructure projects, and administrative changes that the group says are designed to make a two-state solution functionally impossible. The report comes as life continues under occupation for Palestinian communities in the West Bank, including Bedouin hamlets near Kh

NVIDIA is pitching a new central processor called "Vera" to Chinese technology clients, according to a Reuters report, in a move that highlights the increasingly delicate balancing act chipmakers face between US export restrictions and the world's second-largest semiconductor market. Vera is designed as a CPU component that pairs with Nvidia's AI-focused GPUs, and reports suggest the chips could potentially reach Chinese customers as early as August, depending on how export l