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5 things to know before the stock market opens Tuesday

TazaPulseJuly 15, 2026

1. Hindsight 2020 The crude oil tanker Anwaar Trablus unloads U.S. crude oil at Pachi Port near Athens, Greece, on June 28, 2026. Nicolas Koutsokostas | Nurphoto | Getty Images President Donald Trump said yesterday that the U.S. will reinstate its blockade of Iranian ports and impose a 20% toll on cargo passing through the...

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Cyber stocks rally on AI spending change comments from IBM’s Krishna

TazaPulseJuly 15, 2026

Okta and Crowtstrike. Jonathan Raa | Nikolas Kokovlis | Nurphoto | Getty Images Cybersecurity stocks jumped on Tuesday after IBM CEO Arvind Krishna flagged cyber fears as a top priority for customers in the company’s preliminary second-quarter results. During the period, Krishna said customers shifted spending to servers and memory and that “rapidly-evolving, industry-wide cybersecurity...

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New York becomes first U.S. state to impose AI data center ban

TazaPulseJuly 15, 2026

US President Joe Biden (2L), with US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and New York Governor Kathy Hochul, looks at a 3D rendering of a future Micron factory presenting by CEO of Micron Technology Sanjay Mehrotra (L) during a tour of the Micron Pavilion at the SRC Arena and Events Center of Onondaga Community College...

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Apple in talks with startup that shrinks AI models to run on an iPhone

TazaPulseJuly 14, 2026

An advertisement for the new iPhone Air is displayed as customers enter the Apple store for the release of new iPhone 17 models in New York on Sept. 19, 2025. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images Apple is in talks with a small Silicon Valley company that says it can shrink powerful artificial intelligence...

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Jim Cramer says don’t bite on Apple sell call; buy his new chip favorite

TazaPulseJuly 14, 2026

Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a “Morning Meeting” livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here’s a recap of Tuesday’s key moments. 1. Stocks rose Tuesday after a cooler-than-expected June consumer inflation report eased concerns that the Federal Reserve would need to raise interest rates this month. While the inflation data boosted...

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Soaring AI spend will hit company earnings

TazaPulseJuly 14, 2026

Tech investor Chamath Palihapitiya on Tuesday said artificial intelligence usage could negatively impact some companies’ earnings, in part because C-suite executives will have to contend with spending that they “didn’t know existed inside of their organization.” “CEOs and the CFOs, in my opinion, probably have no idea how much tokenmaxxing is going on inside of...

Google DeepMind chief calls for U.S. to lead AI standards body

TazaPulseJuly 14, 2026

The chief of Google’s AI division has called for the U.S. to spearhead a standards body that will oversee new AI models and assess national security risks including cybersecurity and biological threats. Google DeepMind boss Demis Hassabis, a Nobel laureate, said in an article posted on X on Tuesday that “urgent action” was needed to...

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SpaceX alumni who founded TerraFirma land $115M funding round

TazaPulseJuly 14, 2026

TerraFirma’s semi-autonomous construction equipment Courtesy: TerraFirma As SpaceX‘s Elon Musk sells investors on a space economy with life beyond Earth, a two-year-old construction startup founded by two of the company’s former engineers is positioning itself for the future of interplanetary infrastructure. TerraFirma on Tuesday said it raised $115 million in a funding round with investments...

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TikTok policy chief defends safety measures amid social media ban push

TazaPulseJuly 14, 2026

TikTok’s policy chief defended the platform’s safety measures as the European Union pushes ahead with restricting children’s access to social media amid intensifying scrutiny of tech giants. Ali Law, TikTok’s director of public policy and government affairs in Northern Europe, told CNBC’s Karen Tso and Steve Sedgewick that the social media giant was built in...

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UMC starts mass production in Singapore; Citi sees improving outlook

TazaPulseJuly 14, 2026

Commercial buildings illuminated at dusk in Singapore, on Monday, Feb. 2, 2026. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Taiwan’s second-largest contract chipmaker, United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), announced Tuesday its first mass-produced silicon photonics wafers manufactured within its Singapore facility. UMC is aiming to address the growing demand for high-speed...