'The blockade has been a tremendous success': Trump weighs in on Iran
MSNBC· 2026-04-21 13:49
Uncertainty surrounding a second round of potential talks between Iran a the United States this morning as the end of a two-week ceasefire looms. Vice President J .D. Vance is expected to take part in the talks being held again in Pakistan.A foreign diplomat inside Tehran close to those talks tells MSNOW an Iranian delegation led by the country's parliamentary speaker and foreign minister will travel to Islamabad today for those negotiations, but only if Vance is present. This morning, President Trump weigh ...
Amazon to invest up to another $25 billion in Anthropic as part of AI infrastructure deal
CNBC Television· 2026-04-21 13:45
Amazon plans to invest up to $25 billion in AI company Anthropic. This is a new partnership. It will expand Anthropic's use of Amazon's custom semiconductors and add more computing capacity for the fast growing AI company.Amazon will be putting up $5 billion upfront and then says it will tack on up to an additional $20 billion in the future. That will be tied, they say, to commercial milestones. Company doesn't say exactly what those are or any sort of time frame.As part of this, Anthropic will now commit t ...
Expect more hardware innovation from incoming Apple CEO John Ternus, says D.A. Davidson's Luria
CNBC Television· 2026-04-21 13:40
Yeah, stock just hesitating here down less than 1%. Uh, Gan, stay with us. Let's bring in Gil Lauria.He's analyst at DA Davidson. Gil, what's your first impression of of how an investor should think about this transition. >> Overall, I would say this is good news.To Jean's point, Tim Cook wouldn't be retiring at a time of crisis. He has an opportunity to walk away at a time with record iPhone sales uh and significant growth, a good upgrade year, and and a nice road map ahead. Uh the second big takeaway is t ...
Adm. McRaven on Iran: Are we in a better strategic position now than we were prior to February 28?
MSNBC· 2026-04-21 13:39
Let's bring in retired four-star and U .S Navy Admiral William H. McRave he spent nearly four decades as a Navy SEAL commanded at every level and oversaw the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. He's also a best-selling author with a new book out today titled, Duty, Honor, Country and Life, a Tribute to the American Spirit.There's a, are we going to be okay sense to this book that we appreciate very much, and we'll talk about it in just a moment. But first, what is your takeaway about these peace talks that ar ...
President Trump: Surprised by stock market comeback amid Iran war, thought Dow would be down 20%
CNBC Television· 2026-04-21 13:37
I said to my people, they're all gathered. All these wonderful guys, Scott Besson, to the whole the whole group, Howard, they're all doing a good job. I said, "Fellas, I got a little bad news for you. I'm going to put a little wrinkle in your numbers. Why, sir? We're going down to a place called Iran and we're going to make sure that they never have a nuclear weapon because they'll use it to blow up because they're religious fanatics and they will use that weapon to blow up the world, but they'll start with ...
President Trump: 'I will remember' companies that don't seek tariff refund
CNBC Television· 2026-04-21 13:37
You know, we had a little setback with the Supreme Court. They said, "I can charge tariffs, but I have to do it a different way." And because of what they did, we have to pay back $160 billion. All they had to do is add one sentence. Just one sentence.And that's you don't have to pay anything taken in thus far back. But because they didn't add, and by the way, it was a close call, too. There were justices that were powerful that I was right on the tariffs.But because we lost by just a two votes, you know, j ...
Deep Dive into ChartDataPointMatch: A New Metric for Evaluating Parsing Accuracy on Charts
LlamaIndex· 2026-04-21 13:32
Most document parsers see a chart and just skip it or they describe it in words. But agents don't need a description. They need numeric data.I'm Preston from Llama Index. In Parsebench, the first document OCR benchmark for AI agents, we introduced chart data point match, a new metric to evaluate performance on chart parsing. Previous benchmarks like chart QA evaluate chart understanding through question answering.What's the highest bar. How many values are below 50%. But that's not what agents need.An agent ...
King Charles honors Queen Elizabeth II on what would've been her 100th birthday
NBC News· 2026-04-21 13:24
This morning, King Charles delivering a personal message honoring his late mother, Britain's longest reigning monarch. >> She remained constant, steadfast, and wholly devoted to the people she served. >> She lived through decades of turbulence and moments of peace.The young princess committing to service from a young age. As the king and his wife get ready for their state visit to the United States, he also hinted the late queen would have been concerned by events in today's world. >> Much about the times w ...
What You're Missing about the World War
Principles by Ray Dalio· 2026-04-21 13:14
While a lot of attention is being given to the war with Iran and it certainly warrants a lot of attention, I think that there's a um missing of the interconnectivity. There are a lot of wars that are going on, shooting wars, new with nuclear powers, uh Russia and that in Europe and then there are wars taking place with China in trade wars and so on. And they've all happened before in this uh pattern and they're all related to each other.There's an interconnectivity that is happening and there are sides, wor ...
US Retail Sales Soar in March Led by Spending on Gas
Bloomberg Television· 2026-04-21 13:08
Retail sales data just around the corner. The open market shaping up as follows. 210 1030 bond yields looked like this time by a single basis point and tens of two or three on twos with your data.Let's cross over to Bloomberg's and the current high. And good morning, John. Just waiting for the retail sales numbers here, and the headline number is up 1.7% to 1.4%.That, of course, likely reflects a big increase in gas prices. If you look at the sales, expects autos rising 1.9% to 1.4% and the control group is ...