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(Reuters) — Unity Software shares sank 15% in premarket trading on Tuesday after the videogame software provider's 2024 forecasts came in below Wall Street estimates, a sign that its turnaround was taking longer than expected.

Bank of Montreal missed analysts’ estimates as it grappled with weak capital-markets revenue and reported an increase in loan-loss provisions.

Stocks on Wall Street closed higher on Friday to notch another winning week as the S&P 500 climbed above the 5,100-point level for the first time in history amid an ongoing rally in mega-cap tech shares.

Reddit has struck a deal with Google

When some people's cellphone service went down for a while because of an AT&T network outage, among the alternatives suggested were using landlines

Los Angeles Lakers will be hosting San Antonio Spurs at Crypto.com Arena on Friday. Bother sides have lost their previous matches. Spurs lost to Sacramento Kings and La Lakers were defeated by Golden State Warriors. NBA game between La Lakers and San Antonio Spurs will tip off at 10.30 pm (ET). The game will live streamed on fuboTV.

Reddit is a social media and news aggregation platform that has some 71 million active daily users who discuss niche subjects in niche groups. On Thursday, the San Francisco-headquartered company signed a $60 million-a-year deal — in Google VP, engineering, Rajan Patel's words, 'a new Cloud partnership' — that will allow Google to mine the social media site's vast content to train its generative AI models. It had taken eight months for Reddit to sign up a big AI company, after CEO Steve Huffman announced in June 2023 that AI companies consuming Reddit's data to train their LLMs would have to pay up. It appeared as an attempt to bolster the company's revenues and attain profitability before an IPO. 'We'll continue to be profit-driven until profits arrive,' Huffman had said then. The same month, Reddit also announced that all developers like Apollo, Sync, Pushshift and RiF would have to begin paying for using the Reddit API. Many developers were outraged, because Reddit had become a significant social media site by allowing its API to be used for free by developers to build their bots and services. Many dropped out, claiming the new fee-paying model wasn't sustainable, despite the fact that they were making money from subscribers and ads, which they were not sharing with Reddit.

artificial intelligence (AI) models and enhancing services such as Google Search, as per an AP report. As part of the agreement, Reddit gains access to Google AI models to enhance its internal site search and other features, it added. Reddit did not respond to queries.

United Airlines is gearing up to resume flights to Israel early next month

Two tech CEOs scrambling to produce more of the sophisticated chips needed for artificial intelligence have met for a brainstorming session while the market’s early leader reported another quarter of eye-popping growth

(Reuters) -Reddit disclosed $90.8 million in losses and revenue growth of roughly 21% in 2023 on Thursday, as the social media company made public its IPO filing ahead of a planned stock market debut in March.

(Reuters) -A cellular outage early on Thursday hit thousands of AT&T (NYSE:T) users in the United States, disrupting calls and text messages as well as emergency services in major cities including San Francisco.

President Vladimir Putin a “crazy SOB" and took aim at former President Donald Trump's comments comparing himself to the Russian opposition leader who died last week in an Arctic prison. Biden was talking about climate change when he said, “We have a crazy SOB like Putin and others, and we always have to worry about nuclear conflict, but the existential threat to humanity is climate." Speaking to donors at a private San Francisco home Wednesday as part of a three-day California swing to raise money for his 2024 reelection campaign, Biden also said he was astounded by recent comments made by his likely Republican challenger.

The former wealth head of First Republic Bank, one of the casualties of last year’s regional banking crisis, has entered into a partnership with Boston-based private equity firm Summit Partners as he seeks to launch a new RIA.

Former U.S. Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia discusses the tentative deals in the actors and UAW strikes and the impact of the union vote on ‘Cavuto: Coast to Coast.’

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United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Boston was diverted to Denver on Monday after the plane’s wing started coming apart mid-flight — and a passenger managed to capture footage of the unnerving issue.Kevin Clarke pulled out his phone to record video of damage to the plane’s structure, which appeared to show the wing slat missing large chunks and beginning to separate from the rest of the wing.“Just about to land in Denver with a broken wing on the plane,” Clarke can be heard saying in the video.Clarke told WCVB that as the wheels lifted off in San Francisco, he felt an “incredibly strong vibration” and started to become worried about the plane’s shaking.“All of a sudden I hear this loud vibration and noise that I’ve never heard from a plane before and it stopped within seconds and I’m like, well that’s good it stopped,” Clarke told ABC.He told the outlet that the plane’s pilot soon entered the cabin and checked out the wing from a window, before retreating back into the cockpit.“Minutes later, he comes on the PA system and announces that we’ve sustained some damage to the slat underneath the wing,” said Clarke.Another passenger shared a photo of the damaged wing on Reddit mid-flight.“Sitting right on the wing and the noise after reaching altitude was much louder than normal. I opened the window to see the wing looking like this,” user octopus_hug wrote.

(Reuters) -Social media platform Reddit plans to sell a chunk of its IPO shares to its platform's users, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

United Airlines says a flight heading from San Francisco to Boston had to be diverted after the plane suffered damage to one of its wings

Zomato performed better than US-based food delivery platform DoorDash. According to brokerage firm Elara Securities, DoorDash reported 27% year-on-year (YoY) revenue growth to $2.3bn in Q4CY23 whereas Zomato food delivery adjusted revenue grew 29.4% YoY to ₹20.3 billion in Q4CY23, higher than Dash Dash also reported lower gross order value (GOV) YoY growth at 22% vs Zomato’s 27%. Dash's GOV and revenue growth is attributed to a 23% YoY increase in total orders, growing the number of users grew to 37 million, higher average order frequency, and better advertisement revenue.

Investing.com -- U.S. stock futures inch lower on Tuesday, pointing to a negative opening for markets as investors return to their desks following the Presidents' Day holiday. Corporate earnings are set to be in the spotlight, with results due out from big-box retailers Walmart (NYSE:WMT) and Home Depot (NYSE:HD). Elsewhere, Capital One and Discover Financial agree to a merger worth more than $35 billion that would create a U.S. credit card titan.