Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Tesla — Shares fell 5.6% after an internal memo said the electric vehicle maker is planning to lay off more than 10% of its global workforce . “As we prepare the company for our next phase of growth, it is extremely important to look at every aspect of the company for cost reductions and increasing productivity,” CEO Elon Musk said in the memo. Tesla had almost 141,000 employees as of December 2023. Goldman Sachs — Shares climbed 2.9% after the investment bank beat Wall Street’s first-quarter earnings expectations , reporting a 28% jump in profit to $4.13 billion from the year-earlier period due to a rebound in capital market activities. Goldman posted earnings of $11.58 per share on revenue of $14.21 billion for the period, while analysts surveyed by LSEG had called for earnings of $8.56 per share on revenue of $12.92 billion. Logitech — Shares dropped 6.4% after Morgan Stanley downgraded the computer peripherals stock to underweight, saying the market is “mis-pricing” the company’s “future growth algorithm.” Analyst Erik Woodring forecast only 3% annual revenue growth through fiscal 2027, which is below consensus. Salesforce — The customer relations management software stock shed 7.3%, becoming the biggest loser in the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average, after The Wall Street Journal reported the company is in advanced talks to acquire data-management software provider Informatica . Masimo — Shares added 0.1% after getting an upgrade to buy from hold at Stifel. The firm sees a return to high-single-digit growth and a steady margin expansion trajectory for the health technology company. Reddit — Shares dropped 5.4% after Wall Street firms initiated coverage of the stock following its public debut last month. Morgan Stanley initiated coverage of the social media platform at equal weight, saying shares are already trading at fair value. JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs each gave Reddit a neutral rating. Others were more bullish on the stock. Deutsche Bank called Reddit a buy, while Raymond James said the social media stock is a strong buy. Medical Properties Trust — Shares jumped 18.8% after the real estate investment trust said it would sell majority interests in five Utah hospitals to a new joint venture for a total of $886 million. Trump Media & Technology Group — Shares of Trump Media plunged 18.4% after the company filed to issue up to 21.5 million shares. Since the company, which created the Truth Social app, began trading on March 26, its share price has fallen more than 62%, from an opening price of close to $71 to around $27 on Monday. Coupang — The South Korea-based e-commerce company climbed 1.9% following an upgrade to buy from neutral at Citi. The bank thinks there is still room for Coupang’s margins to expand as the firm raises its subscription fees, anticipating little customer pushback due to its strong delivery service. Snap One , Resideo Technologies — Snap One shares jumped 29.5% after the provider of smart living products said it will be acquired by Resideo Technologies , a home automation company, in a deal worth roughly $1.4 billion, or $10.75 per share in cash. Resideo fell 3.5%. Charles Schwab — The online brokerage and money manager added 1.7% after posting mixed first-quarter results. Schwab reported earnings of 74 cents, matching an LSEG estimate, while revenue came in at $4.74 billion, slightly higher than analysts’ consensus forecast of $4.71 billion. — CNBC’s Yun Li, Lisa Kailai Han, Sarah Min and Michelle Fox contributed reporting.
A student is playing chess with an intelligent robot in Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province, China on May 13, 2025.
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BEIJING — China’s latest education policies for the year restrict the extent to which children can use generative artificial intelligence in the classroom, according to a local government report on Thursday.
The guidelines cited in the report, which weren’t publicly available, covered AI education and generative AI use in primary and secondary schools during 2025.
China’s Ministry of Education did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Primary school students are prohibited from using unrestricted generative AI tools on their own, although an instructor may use the tech to assist with teaching, according to the local government report.
It added that middle schoolers can explore how generative AI reasons and analyzes information, while high schoolers are allowed to use the tech more broadly.
The report said the policies banned students from directly copying AI-generated content into homework and called on schools to establish a list of approved generative AI tools that can be used on school grounds.
But the national state media report did not discuss specific limits on AI use, and instead focused on how the policies aimed to promote “scientific” and “standardized” promotion of AI education suited to various stages of education, according to a CNBC translation.
Use of generative AI in China has increased significantly after DeepSeek, a homegrown rival to OpenAI, in late January released a chatbot app. Tencent, ByteDance and other companies have released similar chatbots that have surged in popularity in China.
Steve Cohen said Wednesday he sees the possibility that stocks could retest their lows from April following the market’s dramatic comeback. “I don’t expect, you know, a significant decline. I think this is possible we can go back toward the lows which is 10%, 15% [from here] so it’s not a calamity,” the founder of Point72 said at the Sohn Investment Conference in New York. “What Trump did recently actually raises the floor and eliminates perhaps the dire scenario.” Cohen’s comments came after the U.S. and China suspended reciprocal tariffs pending a 90-day negotiating period, which sparked a sharp rally in stocks. The S & P 500 has jumped 4% this week, fully recovering from the April sell-off and turning green on the year. Stocks started to mount their comeback from their tariffs lows last month as Trump paused the most severe tariffs on most countries. .SPX YTD mountain S & P 500 The billionaire investor, also owner of the New York Mets of Major League Baseball, said the market feels “toppy” right now. He believes there is still a modest risk the U.S. could tip into a recession even though tariffs on China have been slashed. “We’re not a recession yet…. We think it would probably be like a 45% chance of recession,” Cohen said. “So that’s not insignificant, even if it’s not the definition of recession, it’s definitely slow growth. And so I think it’s almost unavoidable when you add up the tariffs, you add up the 10% rate, sectorial tariffs, and whatever happens with China.”
“I didn’t really start getting old, for some strange reason, until I was about 90,” he told the Journal in a phone interview. “But when you start getting old, it does become—it’s irreversible.”
The Oracle of Omaha, who turns 95 in August, revealed to the paper that he started to lose his balance occasionally, while experiencing issues remembering someone’s name sometimes. His vision also turned less clear when reading newspapers.
It marked an end of an era at Berkshire, which was a failing New England textile mill six decades ago and was transformed into a one-of-a-kind conglomerate with businesses ranging from Geico insurance to BNSF Railway. Buffett is handing over his reins on a high note as Berkshire shares are near a record high, giving the conglomerate a market cap of nearly $1.2 trillion.
Berkshire’s board voted unanimously to make Greg Abel, now vice chairman of noninsurance operations, president and CEO on Jan. 1, 2026, and for Buffett to remain as chairman.
Still, Buffett said he remains mentally sharp to make investment decisions when opportunities arise. The value investing icon is known to take advantage of market turmoil and depressed prices to make big purchases.
“I don’t have any trouble making decisions about something that I was making decisions on 20 years ago or 40 years ago or 60 years,” he told the Journal. “I will be useful here if there’s a panic in the market because I don’t get fearful when things go down in price or everybody else gets scared….And that really isn’t a function of age.”