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Mercedes U.S. CEO sets ambitious sales goal despite ‘tougher’ market

TazaPulseApril 13, 2026

Mercedes-Benz USA CEO Adam Chamberlain said Tuesday that 2026 is shaping up to be more challenging than expected. “If you look at the market in the first couple of months of the year, the market environment is definitely a little tougher than we anticipated,” Chamberlain told CNBC at the company’s manufacturing plant in Vance,...

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LITE, NOW, SNDK & more

TazaPulseApril 13, 2026

Check out the companies making the biggest moves premarket: Lumentum Holdings , Coherent — Lumentum shares jumped 5% after its CEO told Bloomberg that the optical and photonic producer’s products are booked through 2027, amid the artificial intelligence buildout. Shares of Coherent, another photonics company, were up 4%. Both companies have investments from Nvidia ....

TSMC posts record revenue as AI chip demand stays strong

TazaPulseApril 13, 2026

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s logo is seen in the background beside a printed circuit board. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. on Friday posted another quarter of record revenue driven by demand for AI chips. For January to March, the world’s largest chipmaker reported revenue of 1.13 trillion New Taiwan...

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OpenAI announces first permanent London office

TazaPulseApril 13, 2026

OpenAI has announced it’s opening its first permanent London office with a capacity of over 500 team members, after the company halted a major AI infrastructure project in the U.K. The U.S.-based AI firm said it had signed the lease for an 88,500 square foot space on Monday. In February OpenAI announced it would make...

China producer prices turns positive as inflation gets boost from Iran oil shock

TazaPulseApril 13, 2026

HUAIAN, CHINA – MARCH 09: Vehicles queue at a petrol station on March 9, 2026 in Huaian, Jiangsu Province of China. Zhao Qirui | Visual China Group | Getty Images China’s factory-gate prices rose for the first time in more than three years while consumer inflation moderated in March, amid a surge in oil prices...

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Chrysler CEO touts minivan ‘resurgence’ but stays quiet on plans

TazaPulseApril 13, 2026

Chrysler and Dodge CEO Matt McAlear wants the world to know that the minivan is not dead. Far from it, he said, at the New York International Auto Show, where he showed off the latest version of the Pacifica Pinnacle, the highest-end trim of the brand’s sole product line. The Chrysler brand — once one...

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Europe cheers Orbán defeat – but Hungary’s future remains contested

TazaPulseApril 13, 2026

U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes Russian President Vladimir Putin to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on August 15, 2025 in Anchorage, Alaska. Contributor | Getty Images News | Getty Images The ousting of Hungary’s conservative nationalist leader Viktor Orbán is being hailed as a victory for liberal democracy and the European Union. The leaders of Poland, France...

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Baidu robotaxis caused crashes in Wuhan: reports

TazaPulseApril 13, 2026

A Baidu Inc. Apollo Go autonomous driving electric vehicle displayed at the International Automotive and Supply Chain Expo in Hong Kong, June 12, 2025. Chan Long Hei | Bloomberg | Getty Images Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxis reportedly stopped mid-traffic, trapping passengers and resulting in highway collisions on the streets of the Chinese city of Wuhan...

BlackRock rips page from hedge fund playbook, applies it to ETFs

TazaPulseApril 13, 2026

BlackRock is applying hedge fund strategies to its exchange-traded fund business. Jeffrey Rosenberg, the firm’s senior portfolio manager on the systematic fixed income team, has a leading role in the firm’s liquid alternatives ETFs — which use a long-short strategy in ETF wrappers. He contends the strategy provides valuable diversification amid the recent breakdown in...

How scared of AI should we be? New film from Oscar winner seeks answer

TazaPulseApril 13, 2026

When filmmaker Daniel Roher and his wife were expecting their first child, it brought to the surface many of the questions that new parents ask: How would life be different? What kind of world would their child be entering? And because Roher was hearing so much talk about artificial intelligence and its potential impact on...