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 [...]
As we close out 2025, the narrative of the artificial intelligence industry has undergone a radical transformation. For years, the "bigger is better" philosophy dominated, with tech giants racing to build trillion-parameter models that required the power of small cities to operate. However, the defining trend of 2025 has been the "Inference Inflection Point"—the moment [...]
February WTI crude oil (CLG26 ) on Tuesday closed down -0.13 (-0.22%), and February RBOB gasoline (RBG26 ) closed up +0.0053 (+0.31%). Crude oil and gasoline prices settled mixed on Tuesday. Crude prices gave up an early advance and turned lower Tue...
As the 2025 holiday season draws to a close, the digital landscape has shifted from a world of "search-and-click" to one of "intent-and-delegate." Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) has fundamentally transformed the shopping experience with the wide-scale deployment of its AI shopping agents, marking a pivotal moment in the evolution of what industry experts are now [...]
February Nymex natural gas (NGG26 ) on Tuesday closed down -0.014 (-0.35%), Feb nat-gas on Tuesday gave up an early advance and settled lower after forecasts for warmer US weather signaled reduced heating demand for nat-gas and sparked long liquidati...
In a move that fundamentally reshapes the enterprise artificial intelligence landscape, International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) has announced its definitive agreement to acquire Confluent, Inc. (NASDAQ: CFLT) for approximately $11 billion. The deal, valued at $31.00 per share in cash, marks IBM’s largest strategic investment since its landmark acquisition of Red Hat and signals [...]
As 2025 draws to a close, the meteoric rise of generative artificial intelligence has collided head-on with a force even more powerful than Silicon Valley’s capital: local American communities. Across the United States, from the historic battlefields of Virginia to the parched deserts of Arizona, a massive wave of public pushback is threatening to derail [...]
In a landmark development for the integration of artificial intelligence into the public sector, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has officially confirmed that its entire suite of generative AI services now meets the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High security standards. This certification, finalized in early December 2025, marks the culmination of a multi-year effort [...]
As 2025 draws to a close, the global landscape of artificial intelligence has been fundamentally reshaped by the European Union’s landmark AI Act. This year marked the transition from theoretical regulation to rigorous enforcement, establishing the world’s first comprehensive legal framework for AI. With the current date of December 30, 2025, the industry is now [...]
The digital gateway to human knowledge is undergoing its most radical transformation since the invention of the commercial web. For over two decades, the "search engine" was defined by a simple, transactional relationship: a user entered a keyword, and a provider like Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) returned a list of ten blue links. Today, that model [...]
In a move that signals the end of the "Copilot" era and the dawn of autonomous digital labor, International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) and Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced a massive expansion of their strategic partnership during the AWS re:Invent 2025 conference earlier this month. The collaboration is specifically designed to help enterprises break [...]
As 2025 draws to a close, OpenAI has officially reignited its search for a "Head of Preparedness," a role that has become one of the most scrutinized and high-pressure positions in the technology sector. Offering a base salary of $555,000 plus significant equity, the position is designed to serve as the ultimate gatekeeper against catastrophic [...]
As the calendar turns to the final days of 2025, the promise of a truly "universal AI assistant" has shifted from the realm of science fiction into the palm of our hands. At the center of this transformation is Project Astra, a sweeping research initiative from Google DeepMind that has fundamentally changed how we interact [...]
The leading most diversified U.S. stock market index is the S&P 500. While the index has rallied by nearly 16% in 2025 to a record high, the top stock index may be inexpensive relative to another asset with a long history as the world’s leading curre...
The year 2025 will be remembered in the annals of technology as the moment the "brute force" era of artificial intelligence met its match. In January, a relatively obscure Chinese startup named DeepSeek released R1, a reasoning model that sent shockwaves through Silicon Valley and global financial markets. By achieving performance parity with OpenAI’s most [...]
The minutes continued to point to considerable differences among policymakers over whether inflation or unemployment posed the greater peril to the U.S. economy.
As 2025 draws to a close, the landscape of artificial intelligence has shifted from the digital screens of chatbots to the physical reality of autonomous humanoids. The final quarter of the year has been defined by a strategic "great decoupling," most notably led by Figure AI, which has moved away from its foundational partnership with [...]
