The U.S. Justice Department’s Antitrust Division said it has cleared Paramount Skydance Corp’s planned $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery , saying it was unlikely to harm competition or consumers.
Anthropic said on Friday it will “abruptly disable” its most advanced AI models for all users after the U.S. government ordered it to suspend access to the models for foreign nationals, citing national security concerns.
U.S. forces shot down multiple Iranian one-way attack drones heading toward the Strait of Hormuz, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday, in the latest military flare-up even as Washington and Tehran cite progress in peace talks.
The United States and Iran signaled on Friday that an agreement to end their war was close, with a senior U.S. administration official saying both sides had agreed on a text and that Washington expects to sign an initial deal in the coming days.
U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States has reached a deal to end the war with Iran, but the agreement has not been finalized and he has disputed accounts that it favors Tehran.
A collective sigh of relief swept across Wall Street after trading for SpaceX’s landmark Nasdaq launch went smoothly, setting a new template for the trading firms and exchanges that are bracing for the giant IPOs of OpenAI and Anthropic later this year.
MSCI’s global equities index rose on Friday with Wall Street ending modestly higher as shares of Elon Musk’s SpaceX soared in their market debut, while oil prices fell more than 3% on fresh hopes for a peace deal between Iran and the U.S.
Japanese investors were willing to subscribe to more than 1 trillion yen ($6.2 billion) of shares in SpaceX’s record-breaking IPO, two sources familiar with the offering said.