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By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) – A well-timed trade in GameStop’s options reaped a handsome profit on Friday after an account associated with “Roaring Kitty,” a stock influencer and longtime champion for the video game retailer, published a cryptic post on social media platform X. The post from “Roaring Kitty,” whose real name is Keith Gill, showed an image from the 1999 film “Toy Story 2” altered to show a dog’s face placed … Read more…

(Reuters) – Democrat Kamala Harris’ campaign for U.S. president raised more than $300 million in the month of August, more than twice as much as her Republican opponent Donald Trump raised during the same period, NBC News reported on Thursday, citing two unnamed sources. Trump’s campaign said on Wednesday that his campaign and party raised $130 million in August and ended the month with $295 cash on hand. (Reporting by Rami Ayyub; editing by Costas … Read more…

By Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nippon Steel’s proposed $14.9 billion takeover of U.S. Steel would create national security risks because it could hurt the supply of steel needed for critical transportation, infrastructure, construction and agriculture projects, the U.S. said in a letter sent to the companies and seen by Reuters. Decisions by Nippon could “lead to a reduction in domestic steel production capacity,” the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) said in … Read more…

By Kenrick Cai, Krystal Hu and Anna Tong SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK – Safe Superintelligence (SSI), newly co-founded by OpenAI’s former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised $1 billion in cash to help develop safe artificial intelligence systems that far surpass human capabilities, company executives told Reuters. SSI, which currently has 10 employees, plans to use the funds to acquire computing power and hire top talent. It will focus on building a small highly trusted team … Read more…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign raised $130 million in August, ending that month with $295 million cash on hand, the campaign said in a statement on Wednesday. The fundraising was slightly lower in August when compared to July. The Trump campaign raised $138.7 million in July and had a cash on hand total of $327 million at the end of July. (Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Katharine … Read more…