Leon Neal/Getty Images News Chinese AI firm DeepSeek ( DEEPSEEK ) has not shown U.S. chipmakers its upcoming AI model for performance optimization, breaking away from standard industry practice ahead of a major model update, Reuters reported, citing people with knowledge of the matter. However, DeepSeek, which is expected
Leon Neal/Getty Images News Chinese AI firm DeepSeek ( DEEPSEEK ) has not shown U.S. chipmakers its upcoming AI model for performance optimization, breaking away from standard industry practice ahead of a major model update, Reuters reported, citing people with knowledge of the matter. However, DeepSeek, which is expected
Francesco Scatena/iStock via Getty Images Reviewing Sterling Infrastructure's Latest Earnings I first called Sterling Infrastructure, Inc. ( STRL ) stock a "Buy" when it was trading at $59-60 per share in mid-2023, and since then, it's up by over 670%. However, I downgraded the stock to "Hold" when
Francesco Scatena/iStock via Getty Images Reviewing Sterling Infrastructure's Latest Earnings I first called Sterling Infrastructure, Inc. ( STRL ) stock a "Buy" when it was trading at $59-60 per share in mid-2023, and since then, it's up by over 670%. However, I downgraded the stock to "Hold" when
The ongoing battle over who will own the iconic film studio is set to have a major impact on what we, the viewers, get to watch in the future It’s not unusual for a corporate merger to take months and months to actually finalize, but even by those standards, the bidding for ownership of Warner Bros Discovery has been drawn out. Netflix made a deal to buy the Warner Bros side of the company – its s...
The ongoing battle over who will own the iconic film studio is set to have a major impact on what we, the viewers, get to watch in the future It’s not unusual for a corporate merger to take months and months to actually finalize, but even by those standards, the bidding for ownership of Warner Bros Discovery has been drawn out. Netflix made a deal to buy the Warner Bros side of the company – its studio and streaming businesses – late last year, but Paramount Skydance has been undeterred, aggressively pursuing what it claims to be a better offer for the entire WBD operation. After several failed attempts at a hostile takeover, WBD is considering a final Paramount offer, to which Netflix will have the opportunity to counter. What we have is what learned cinema scholars might refer to as an Alien v Predator situation, in honor of Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox: whoever wins, we lose. That is to say that for cinema devotees, casual viewers and people working in the film industry, the ideal outcome would be for Warner Bros to continue as its own entity: an entertainment company making movies and TV series. But that’s clearly not going to happen – nor are any number of relatively superior options floated last year, like the idea of Apple, who worked with the studio on the global smash and Best Picture nominee F1, buying Warner instead. They’re still a massive corporation, but they’ve shown a willingness to spend on major (and theatrically released!) projects like Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon and Ridley Scott’s Napoleon, and have such a thriving business in other areas that they could afford to run Warner as a real studio, trying to continue the company’s recent hot streak. Continue reading...
Love Employee/iStock via Getty Images U.S. consumers perked up a bit in February, but the mood is hardly euphoric. The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index rose 2.2 points to 91.2, recouping only a slice of January’s slide. Households feel slightly less threatened by recession, yet
Love Employee/iStock via Getty Images U.S. consumers perked up a bit in February, but the mood is hardly euphoric. The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index rose 2.2 points to 91.2, recouping only a slice of January’s slide. Households feel slightly less threatened by recession, yet
Vipshop press release ( VIPS ): Q4 Non-GAAP EPADS of $0.81 beats by $0.03 . Revenue of $4.6B (flat Y/Y) misses by $220M . GMV [1] for the fourth quarter of 2025 increased by 0.6% year over year to RMB66.6 billion from RMB66.2 billion in
Vipshop press release ( VIPS ): Q4 Non-GAAP EPADS of $0.81 beats by $0.03 . Revenue of $4.6B (flat Y/Y) misses by $220M . GMV [1] for the fourth quarter of 2025 increased by 0.6% year over year to RMB66.6 billion from RMB66.2 billion in