In his quest To turn a simple, efficient Twitter app into X, an everything app that doesn't do anything particularly well, Elon Musk launched audio and video calling on Learn how to limit who can contact you. In a post on Wednesday, X's official news account announced the new feature: “Voice and video calls are now available to everyone on X! Who do you call first?” X wrote. We looked at the official Help Center page for X and ran feature tests to analyze how the calling feature works and understand the risks associated with it. A person's IP address…
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A Tesla Cybertruck crashed into the sign marking the entrance to the legendary Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunday night, prompting Elon Musk to post about the incident on X, formerly Twitter.The massive stainless steel giant crashed into the sign around 11:45 p.m. Sunday after colliding with another vehicle, according to the Beverly Hills Police Department. Tesla founder Musk joked on his social networking siteMusk was responding to a widely reported claim that a valet at the Beverly Hills Hotel smashed the truck, which later turned out to be a prank by User X.The Beverly Hills Police Department had no information…
JetBlue Airlines And Spirit Airlines It said Monday they were finalizing their agreement to merge, weeks after losing a federal antitrust lawsuit that challenged the deal.The CEOs of the two companies pointed to regulatory obstacles in finalizing their merger agreement.A federal judge in January sided with the Justice Department and blocked JetBlue's attempt to acquire budget carrier Spirit. JetBlue's acquisition of Spirit “would harm cost-conscious travelers who rely on Spirit's low fares,” Judge William Young said in his ruling. The airlines have said they need to unite to better compete with the major airlines that control most of the U.S.…
A banner is pictured above a New York Community Bank branch in Yonkers, New York, on January 31, 2024.Mike Segar | ReutersRegional lender Community Bank of New York The company may have to pay more to hold deposits after one of the company's key ratings was downgraded for the second time in one month.Late Friday, Moody's Investors Service lowered the deposit rating of New York Commercial Bank's main banking branch by four notches, to Ba3 from Baa2, putting it three levels below investment grade. This came after Moody's downgraded it by two notches in early February.A rating downgrade could trigger…
If you're a California resident and haven't filed your 2023 federal tax return, you now have another, more user-friendly online option: the IRS's free Live File service.However, it is not for everyone. Instead, it mainly targets people with very simple annual tax returns, which the Treasury said amounts to about one in three taxpayers.The tax agency launched the live file service in January on a very limited basis to ensure its online systems are up to the task. That changed Monday, when the IRS announced that Direct File is available to all taxpayers in California, Arizona, Nevada and nine other…
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Super Micro Computer and Deckers Outdoor – Shares of the technology company and sneaker designer rose respectively 19% and 3% after the S&P Dow Jones Indices announced Friday that the two stocks will be added to the S&P 500 on March 18. Micro Computer and Deckers Outdoor will replace Zions Bancorpation and Whirlpool, which will move into the S&P MidCap 400. Macy's – Shares rose 14% after Arkhouse Management said it and Brigade Capital Management raised their bid for the department store. The companies are now offering to acquire Macy's shares…
Washington – Vice President Kamala Harris and other senior Biden administration officials held talks Monday with a member of Israel's wartime cabinet who came to Washington in defiance of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.White House officials said that Benny Gantz, Netanyahu's centrist political rival, requested the meeting, and the Democratic administration believes it is important to meet with the senior Israeli official despite Netanyahu's objections.President Biden, Harris and other senior administration officials have become increasingly vocal about their dissatisfaction with the rising death toll in Gaza and the suffering of innocent Palestinians as the war approaches its five-month mark.“We will…
AI startup Anthropic, backed by Google and hundreds of millions (and soon hundreds of millions) in venture capital, today announced the latest version of its GenAI technology, Claude. The company claims that OpenAI's chatbot is GPT-4 in terms of performance. Claude 3, as Anthropic's new GenAI is called, is a family of models – Claude 3 Haiku, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Opus, with Opus being the most powerful. They all show “increased capabilities” in analysis and prediction, Anthropion claims, as well as enhanced performance in select benchmarks versus models like ChatGPT, GPT-4 (but not GPT-4 Turbo), and Google's…
Ford on Monday reported a continued rise in monthly hybrid sales, the latest indication that its strategic shift away from loss-making electric vehicles and easing demand is paying off. Jim Cramer sees a window for investors to act. Ford shares traded up as much as 4% on Monday after a strong February sales report. The automaker posted a 31.5% increase in hybrid vehicles year-over-year. Electric car sales increased by 80%. But this is compared to the same period last year when production was uneven. Sales of its conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles also increased by 7.5%. Overall, Ford vehicle…
Open Editor's Digest for freeRula Khalaf, editor of the Financial Times, picks her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter.Supermarket Sainsbury's, private equity group Macquarie and the Bank of England are among the organizations affected by hundreds of “erroneous” applications on the UK companies register. The documents relate to 190 companies and were allegedly submitted to Companies House by the same person, according to information sent to its members by the bankers' UK Finance trade group and seen by the Financial Times. Nearly 800 applications filed last month appear to show that property owned by companies has been exempt from fees…