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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has warned autonomous vehicle developers that they must urgently address a "clear pattern" of their cars interfering with first responders. The agency called the issue a "functional insufficiency" and a danger to the public.
Brazil's Bovespa index ended Wednesday's trading session down 0.79%, primarily driven by losses in the real estate, industrial, and consumption sectors.
U.S. stock markets delivered a mixed performance at the close of trading on Wednesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling over 1% while the tech-focused Nasdaq Composite ended in positive territory. The divergence was driven by gains in technology and energy sectors, which were offset by losses in financial and consumer goods stocks.
Canadian stocks ended Wednesday's trading session lower, with the S&P/TSX Composite index falling by 0.95%. The decline was primarily driven by losses in the Materials, Financials, and Real Estate sectors.
Shares of Sonos Inc. fell on Wednesday following a report that the company has laid off several long-tenured executives in its design and product management departments. The company's CEO framed the move as a way to make the company more competitive and agile.
Shares of MDA Space Ltd. fell after the company announced a $712 million stock offering to help finance its planned acquisition of a majority stake in French satellite services firm Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS).
OpenAI has withdrawn its endorsement of the SWE-Bench Pro benchmark for evaluating AI coding capabilities, citing an internal audit that found design flaws in approximately 30% of its tasks. The company warns these issues can distort the true performance of AI models.
SpaceXAI has launched its new Grok 4.5 artificial intelligence model, which is designed for coding and agentic tasks and is priced to compete with offerings from Anthropic and OpenAI.
AZZ Inc. and Ampco-Pittsburgh Corp. saw significant gains in late trading following positive financial updates, while Levi Strauss & Co. declined despite a solid earnings report due to its full-year profit forecast.
