In a move that has electrified the final trading days of 2025, Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) has officially acquired the high-growth AI startup Manus AI for a reported sum between $2 billion and $3 billion. The deal, finalized late on December 29, marks a decisive pivot for the social media
The Federal Reserve released the minutes from its December 9–10, 2025, meeting today, December 30, providing a sobering look at the central bank’s internal struggle to navigate the final stages of its "soft landing" campaign. While the Fed concluded the year with a 25-basis-point interest rate cut—bringing
The euphoric "Santa Claus rally" that defined much of December 2025 has hit a wall of exhaustion as the trading year draws to a close. For three consecutive sessions, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite have drifted lower, retreating from record highs as a "holiday hangover" takes hold
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) on Tuesday closed down -0.14%, the Dow Jones Industrials Index ($DOWI ) (DIA ) closed down -0.20%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) closed down -0.25%. March E-mini S&P futures (ESH26 ) fell -0.14%, a...
Nio shares push higher as China announces $8.92 billion in consumer trade-in subsidies for next year. Options data suggests NIO stock will rally further in 2026.
Lucid consistently increased its deliveries over the past year and a half, and there should be room to run -- but here's why it still might fall short.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, few moments have carried as much weight as the release of Meta’s Llama 3.1 405B. Launched in July 2024, this frontier-level model represented a seismic shift in the industry, marking the first time an open-weight model achieved true parity with the most advanced proprietary systems like GPT-4o. [...]
In a landmark move to combat the escalating global skills crisis, technology titan IBM (NYSE: IBM) and educational powerhouse Pearson (LSE: PSON) have significantly expanded their strategic partnership, deploying a suite of advanced AI-powered learning tools designed to address a $1.1 trillion economic gap. This collaboration, which reached a critical milestone in late 2025, integrates [...]
The dollar index (DXY00 ) rose to a 1-week high on Tuesday and finished up by +0.18%. The dollar found support Tuesday from better-than-expected US economic news on home prices and the Dec MNI Chicago PMI. Also, higher T-note yields on Tuesday have...
In a landmark year for medical technology, 2025 has witnessed a seismic shift in how clinicians diagnose two of humanity’s most daunting health challenges: neurodegenerative disease and cancer. Through the deployment of massive "foundation models" and novel deep learning architectures, artificial intelligence has officially moved beyond experimental pilots into a realm of clinical utility where [...]
In a move that has sent shockwaves through Silicon Valley and global markets, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has finalized a staggering $20 billion strategic intellectual property (IP) deal with the AI chip sensation Groq. Beyond the massive capital outlay, the deal includes the high-profile hiring of Groq’s visionary founder, Jonathan Ross, and nearly 80% of the [...]
The California State University (CSU) system, the largest four-year public university system in the United States, has successfully completed its first full year of a landmark partnership with OpenAI. This initiative, which deployed the specialized "ChatGPT Edu" platform to nearly 500,000 students and over 63,000 faculty and staff across 23 campuses, represents the most significant [...]
Shiba Inu, one of the world’s most widely recognised meme cryptocurrencies, has unveiled a novel plan to compensate users affected by a recent $4 million exploit.
In a move designed to bring transparency to the increasingly opaque world of autonomous artificial intelligence, IBM (NYSE: IBM) has officially launched its Instana GenAI Observability solution. Announced at the IBM TechXchange conference in late 2025, the platform represents a significant leap forward in enterprise software, offering businesses the ability to monitor, troubleshoot, and govern [...]
In a year where the volume of AI-generated content has reached an unprecedented scale, researchers from the University of California, Riverside (UCR), and Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) have unveiled a breakthrough that could fundamentally alter the landscape of digital authenticity. The system, known as UNITE (Universal Network for Identifying Tampered and synthEtic videos), was officially presented [...]
