Morgan Stanley investors should reject proposal to expand equity incentives, ISS says

By Niket Nishant and Tatiana Bautzer (Reuters) -Institutional Shareholder Services has urged investors to reject Morgan Stanley’s proposal to expand its equity incentive compensation plan, as the proxy adviser escalates its pushback against Wall Street. The investment bank had proposed adding 50 million common shares to its equity incentive plan and extending the program by…

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Facebook parent Meta Platforms launches standalone AI assistant app

(Reuters) -Facebook parent Meta Platforms on Tuesday launched a separate app for its Meta AI assistant, similar to those offered by Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Alphabet’s Google. The standalone app comes as Meta looks to boost the AI assistant’s usage, apart from being available within the company’s family of platforms – WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and Messenger….

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Meta cuts jobs at its Reality Labs division

(Reuters) -Facebook owner Meta Platforms is laying off an unspecified number of employees from its Reality Labs division amid ongoing restructuring efforts, the company said on Thursday. The job cuts affect teams within Oculus Studios, Meta’s in-house game development arm for Quest virtual reality headsets. Employees working on titles such as Supernatural, a VR fitness…

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Adidas posts forecast-beating quarterly profit on strong sneaker demand

(Reuters) -German sportswear and apparel maker Adidas on Wednesday reported first-quarter sales and profit above expectations, citing growth across all its markets and channels. First-quarter operating profit jumped 82% to 610 million euros ($692 million), the group said, resulting in a margin of 9.9%. Analysts, in a company-provided consensus, had expected a margin of 8.9%…

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TSMC shows off new tech for stitching together bigger, faster chips

By Stephen Nellis and Max A. Cherney SANT CLARA, California (Reuters) -Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co on Wednesday unveiled technology for making faster chips and putting them together in dinner-plate sized packages that will boost performance needed for artificial intelligence applications. It said its A14 manufacturing technology will arrive in 2028 and will be able to…

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Musk’s Neuralink could fetch $8.5 billion valuation, Bloomberg News reports

(Reuters) -Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink is planning to raise about $500 million at a pre-money valuation of $8.5 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people with knowledge of the matter. The company has started preliminary discussions with potential investors, but terms of the funding round are not yet finalized, according to the…

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