Tesla is set to release its first-quarter earnings on Tuesday after the market closes – and the electric vehicle (EV) maker faces a reckoning from investors after a big sales miss. The company saw vehicle deliveries decline in the first quarter for the first time in nearly four years – falling well short of analysts' expectations amid a price war in China‚ where domestically made EVs like those from BYD have taken market share.  Tesla has responded with price cuts for its most...

Utah GOP Senate candidate Trent Staggs is attempting to rebrand his Covid record in order to win a crowded Republican primary. Staggs is branding himself as the MAGA candidate in the race — and that means portraying his Covid record as mayor of Riverton‚ Utah‚ as one of relentless defiance in the face of state and county mitigation measures. On his campaign website‚ Staggs claims he opposed mask mandates and took on government officials seeking to close cities and limit gatherings...

The U.S. is drafting sanctions that threaten to cut some Chinese banks off from the global financial system‚ arming Washington’s top envoy with diplomatic leverage that officials hope will stop Beijing’s commercial support of Russia’s military production‚ according to people familiar with the matter. But as Secretary of State Antony Blinken heads to Beijing on Tuesday‚ the question is whether even the threat of the U.S. using one of its most potent tools of financial coercion can...

Major artificial-intelligence companies including OpenAI‚ Meta Platforms and Google agreed on Tuesday to incorporate new safety measures to protect children from exploitation and plug several holes in their current defenses.  A host of new generative-AI powered tools have supercharged predators’ ability to create sexualized images of children and other exploitative material. The goal of the new alliance is to throttle the creation of such content before...

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