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Security officers block entrance doors after pro-Palestinian protesters attempted to enter the Microsoft Build conference at the Seattle Convention Center Arch building in Seattle, Washington on May 19, 2025. Jason Redmond | Afp | Getty ImagesMicrosoft employees are concerned that the company has been blocking Outlook emails containing the words “Palestine,” “Gaza,” “genocide,” “apartheid” and “IOF off Azure,” even if they’re including those terms in an HR complaint, according to screenshots, recordings and documents viewed by CNBC.Employees said they started noticing the change Wednesday just before noon PST, batch-testing emails with the terms in question and emails without them. Only…

The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, July 19, 2024.Kevin Mohatt | ReutersThe Supreme Court on Thursday strongly suggested that Federal Reserve board members would have special protection against being fired by a president in a ruling that, for now, allows President Donald Trump to fire two members of other federal agencies’ boards.The Supreme Court in its ruling said, “We disagree” with arguments by Gwynne Wilcox of the National Labor Relations Board and Cathy Harris from Merit Systems Protection Board that their challenges to their terminations “necessarily implicate the constitutionality of for-cause removal protections for members of the Federal Reserve’s…

OpenAI is betting a new “era” of computing will justify the company’s decision to spend billions of dollars on bespoke hardware to go with it, Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar said. The artificial intelligence startup, best known for the ChatGPT chatbot, announced plans on Wednesday to buy iPhone designer Jony Ive’s devices startup io for about $6.4 billion. Ive’s company was founded roughly a year ago and doesn’t have a product on the market.Friar told CNBC on Thursday that any startup as young as io was “hard to value.” But she sees an eventual return on that investment.”You’re really betting…

Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesNick Pinto is a marketing director at his family’s law firm in New Jersey. He’s also a crypto trader who spent enough money on Donald Trump’s meme coin to win a spot at a private black-tie dinner with the president scheduled for Thursday night.”I was kind of early in bitcoin and ethereum, so I’ve always been trading crypto,” the 25-year-old Pinto said, adding that he finished number 72 on the leaderboard for the token contest. “Once I saw the announcement that Trump was releasing a coin, I immediately started to purchase it.”Pinto said in…

Tiffany Hagler-Geard | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesIntuit on Thursday reported quarterly results that beat analysts’ estimates and issued stronger-than -expected guidance for the full year. The stock rose about 4% in extended trading. Here’s how the company did compared to analysts’ estimates compiled by LSEG:Earnings per share: $11.65 adjusted vs. $10.91 expectedRevenue: $7.8 billion vs. $7.56 billion expectedRevenue in the fiscal third quarter increased 15% from $6.7 billion a year ago. Intuit is best known for its TurboTax and QuickBooks software. The latest quarter ended on April 30, two weeks after the deadline for filing tax returns in the U.S.For its full fiscal…

(The Center Square) – Congress has passed a measure to overturn California’s phased-in 2035 ban on the sale of new gas cars.The vote impacts 11 other states and the District of Columbia, which make up 40% of the nation’s car market and adopted California emissions standards. The measure, which was passed by the Senate Thursday after its previous approval by the House, now heads to President Donald Trump’s desk for his signature. But the Senate parliamentarian’s objection to Congress’s authority to overturn the EPA waiver approving the ban could set the stage for a possible legal battle between the federal government…

General Medicine founders TJ Parker, Ashwin Muralidharan and Elliot Cohen.General MedicineAfter selling online pharmacy PillPack to Amazon seven years ago, the founding team is launching a new company that aims to make the experience of getting medical care “as easy as shopping online.”PillPack founders TJ Parker and Elliot Cohen on Thursday launched a new venture called General Medicine. Parker and Cohen are joined by Ashwin Muralidharan, who most recently served as the technical adviser, or “shadow,” to Amazon’s top health executive Neil Lindsay.General Medicine is an online health-care marketplace, where users can get connected with a provider based on specific medical…

A general view of the Baker Library/Bloomberg Center on February 17, 2024, at Harvard Business School in Allston, MA.Erica Denhoff | Icon Sportswire | Icon Sportswire | Getty ImagesThe Trump administration on Thursday blocked the ability of Harvard University to enroll future international students and to retain its existing enrolled foreign students.Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ordered DHS staff to revoke Harvard’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification, which allows colleges to enroll foreign students.Noem, in a statement, said, “Let this serve as a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country.”DHS said that in addition…

(The Center Square) – The commonwealth’s healthcare agencies are taking advantage of May as Women’s Health month to survey women about their understanding of their health insurance coverage.The survey asks questions about their knowledge of what benefits are available to women at no cost under all insurance plans, whether they’ve accessed them, how they’ve learned about them, and what obstacles they’ve encountered.Services like pre- and postnatal maternal care, mental health screenings, contraception, cancer screenings and screenings and treatment for sexually transmitted infections are all part of routine care, most of which is covered without cost to the patient under the…

(The Center Square) – A Wisconsin bill would give a blanket exemption for all future data centers in the state that would allow the projects to be part of tax capture districts even if that means that more than the state-allowed 12% of property in a community is part of a tax increment financing district.The 12% rule is in place related to local property taxes because the exemptions mean that businesses in a TIF aren’t paying into the local property tax base yet are using local resources. Therefore, companies are able to retain the funds to spend on future improvements…