In recent years, it seems like Berkshire Hathaway 's (NYSE: BRKA) (NYSE: BRKB) former CEO, Warren Buffett, has been trying to warn investors about the market's high valuation. Buffett and his team have been hoarding cash and have been net sellers of stocks in recent years. Since being chosen as Buffett's successor, Abel has continued the trend, once again piling into cash and being a net seller of...
In recent years, it seems like Berkshire Hathaway 's (NYSE: BRKA) (NYSE: BRKB) former CEO, Warren Buffett, has been trying to warn investors about the market's high valuation. Buffett and his team have been hoarding cash and have been net sellers of stocks in recent years. Since being chosen as Buffett's successor, Abel has continued the trend, once again piling into cash and being a net seller of stocks in the first quarter of 2026. Since the start of 2023, Buffett and Abel have sent Wall Street a $636 billion warning. However, there is a silver lining. Image source: The Motley Fool. Continue reading
An unknown group of hackers is breaking into systems previously breached by the cybercrime group TeamPCP. Once inside, the hackers immediately kick out TeamPCP and remove its hacking tools from the victims’ systems.
An unknown group of hackers is breaking into systems previously breached by the cybercrime group TeamPCP. Once inside, the hackers immediately kick out TeamPCP and remove its hacking tools from the victims’ systems.
Luis Alvarez/DigitalVision via Getty Images We have written two long-term bullish opinion pieces on Solid Power, Inc. ( SLDP ). You can review those pieces here (discussing how much needs to go right ) and here (about placing your
Luis Alvarez/DigitalVision via Getty Images We have written two long-term bullish opinion pieces on Solid Power, Inc. ( SLDP ). You can review those pieces here (discussing how much needs to go right ) and here (about placing your
mtcurado/iStock via Getty Images Crypto is like ESG for libertarians, and its impact on the financial industry will be nothing, according to Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Neel Kashkari. Kashkari was speaking at a fireside chat before the 2026 InvestUP CEO Summit. " It
mtcurado/iStock via Getty Images Crypto is like ESG for libertarians, and its impact on the financial industry will be nothing, according to Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Neel Kashkari. Kashkari was speaking at a fireside chat before the 2026 InvestUP CEO Summit. " It
In this article EQIX DLR SMH Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on May 7, 2026. NYSE For an $18 billion market-cap company, data-center owner Iren trades like one of the AI giants. The company had two of the top 20 biggest options trades in the market on Thursday and a total $173 million of premium traded hands, with 73% of that in calls. By...
In this article EQIX DLR SMH Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on May 7, 2026. NYSE For an $18 billion market-cap company, data-center owner Iren trades like one of the AI giants. The company had two of the top 20 biggest options trades in the market on Thursday and a total $173 million of premium traded hands, with 73% of that in calls. By comparison, less than a million dollars of options traded in total between data-center real-estate stocks Equinix and Digital Realty Trust , whose combined market cap is almost ten times Iren's. As of noon Chicago time, the trading in Iren also surpassed the dollar amount traded in VanEck Semiconductor ETF . The two biggest trades of the day were part of a $36 million long strangle trade that bets on a big move in either direction. The trader bought 12,500 65-strike calls and an equal amount of 60-strike puts both expiring Sept. 18 of this year, a trade that only pays off if the stock crashes below $45 or rallies above $79, which would be an all-time high. Stock Chart Icon Stock chart icon IREN, 1 year The stock's been a retail trading favorite the past year, adding 770% as the company squared its focus onto AI customers from crypto and bitcoin mining. Implied volatility going into earnings tonight points to a 14% swing, but traders do have a habit of overpaying for options around earnings. The average implied earnings move was 12% the past year, but the median actual move was 6%, according to data compiled by Cboe. Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.
Key PointsPrescott Group purchased 109,948 shares of PennyMac Financial Services in the first quarter; the estimated trade size was $11.82 million (based on quarterly average prices).
Key PointsPrescott Group purchased 109,948 shares of PennyMac Financial Services in the first quarter; the estimated trade size was $11.82 million (based on quarterly average prices).
Backiris A French-operated container vessel has resurfaced in the Arabian Sea after previously transmitting its position in the Persian Gulf, suggesting it completed a rare and risky passage through the Strait of Hormuz, Bloomberg News reported Thursday. The CMA CGM Saigon, a
Backiris A French-operated container vessel has resurfaced in the Arabian Sea after previously transmitting its position in the Persian Gulf, suggesting it completed a rare and risky passage through the Strait of Hormuz, Bloomberg News reported Thursday. The CMA CGM Saigon, a
Shares of Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) shot up 13.3% this week, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence . The semiconductor maker that plays Robin to Nvidia 's Batman is heading back to all-time highs after reporting strong revenue from its data center segment in the first quarter. Here's why the artificial intelligence ( AI ) beneficiary was up again this week, and whether n...
Shares of Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) shot up 13.3% this week, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence . The semiconductor maker that plays Robin to Nvidia 's Batman is heading back to all-time highs after reporting strong revenue from its data center segment in the first quarter. Here's why the artificial intelligence ( AI ) beneficiary was up again this week, and whether now is the time to pile into the stock. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) sells computer chips to data centers and personal computing devices. It has been a massive winner in the AI revolution, which continued in the first quarter. Overall revenue grew 38% to $10.25 billion, while data center sales rose 57% to $5.8 billion, driving the majority of the company's growth. Continue reading
JHVEPhoto Broadcom ( AVGO ) shares sank more than 4% on Thursday after The Information reported that its chip deal with OpenAI ( OPENAI ) has run into financing issues. The two companies announced a deal in October 2025 that would see the two collaborate
JHVEPhoto Broadcom ( AVGO ) shares sank more than 4% on Thursday after The Information reported that its chip deal with OpenAI ( OPENAI ) has run into financing issues. The two companies announced a deal in October 2025 that would see the two collaborate
Jeff Swensen/Getty Images News Alcoa ( AA ) shares wobble between small gains and losses in Thursday's trading as Wells Fargo upgraded to Overweight from Equal Weight with a $70 price target, up from $67, saying disruptions from the Iran war have exacerbated already tight market conditions for aluminum, and
Jeff Swensen/Getty Images News Alcoa ( AA ) shares wobble between small gains and losses in Thursday's trading as Wells Fargo upgraded to Overweight from Equal Weight with a $70 price target, up from $67, saying disruptions from the Iran war have exacerbated already tight market conditions for aluminum, and
DeepL is entering a leaner chapter as artificial intelligence starts to reshape the translation software market from the inside. Chief Executive Officer Jarek Kutylowski attributed the move to what he described as a massive structural shift from artificial intelligence. Kutylowski said adapting the company to work more effectively with AI means fewer layers, faster decisions and far less time spen...
DeepL is entering a leaner chapter as artificial intelligence starts to reshape the translation software market from the inside. Chief Executive Officer Jarek Kutylowski attributed the move to what he described as a massive structural shift from artificial intelligence. Kutylowski said adapting the company to work more effectively with AI means fewer layers, faster decisions and far less time spent on the back and forth that can slow large teams down.
Even as leading AI providers like OpenAI and Anthropic battle over the compute to train and release ever larger, more powerful models, other labs are going in a different direction — pursuing the development of smaller, more efficient models and often open sourcing them. The latest worth paying attention to comes from the lesser-known Palo Alto startup Zyphra , which this week released its new rea...
Even as leading AI providers like OpenAI and Anthropic battle over the compute to train and release ever larger, more powerful models, other labs are going in a different direction — pursuing the development of smaller, more efficient models and often open sourcing them. The latest worth paying attention to comes from the lesser-known Palo Alto startup Zyphra , which this week released its new reasoning, mixture-of-experts (MoE) language model, ZAYA1-8B , with just over 8 billion parameters and only 760 million active — far fewer than the trillions estimated for the likes of the big labs. Yet, ZAYA1-8B retains competitive performance on third-party benchmarks against GPT-5-High and DeepSeek-V3.2. It can be downloaded from Hugging Face now free of charge under a permissive, standard, enterprise-friendly Apache 2.0 license — and enterprises and indie developers can begin using and customizing it immediately to suit their needs. Individual users can also test it themselves here free at Zyphra Cloud , the startup's inference solution. But the real headline is what ZAYA1-8B was trained on: a full stack of AMD Instinct MI300 graphics processing units (GPUs) , the rival to Nvidia GPUs released by AMD nearly three years ago, and which shows that this platform is capable of producing useful models and is a viable alternative to the preferential position Nvidia has maintained in recent years among AI model developers. How ZAYA1-8B was trained The "intelligence density" touted by Zyphra is the result of what they describe as a "full-stack innovation" approach, spanning architecture, pretraining, and reinforcement learning (RL). ZAYA1-8B is built on Zyphra’s proprietary MoE++ architecture , described in a technical report released by the lab . This architecture introduces three fundamental changes to the standard Transformer architecture that gave rise to large language models (LLMs) and the entire generative AI era: Compressed Convolutional Attention (CCA): Unlike standard att...
Earnings Call Insights: Albemarle (ALB) Q1 2026 Management view "I'm pleased to report that Albemarle's performance is off to a strong start for 2026." (Chairman, President & CEO Jerry Masters) "As Neal will share shortly, we are raising our 2026 outlook
Earnings Call Insights: Albemarle (ALB) Q1 2026 Management view "I'm pleased to report that Albemarle's performance is off to a strong start for 2026." (Chairman, President & CEO Jerry Masters) "As Neal will share shortly, we are raising our 2026 outlook
Earnings Call Insights: Viatris (VTRS) Q1 2026 Management View "We're pleased to report another strong quarter. We're off to an exceptional start to the year," said CEO Scott Smith, adding that Viatris’ long-term plan is "driven by 3 strategic imperatives: driving our base business, fueling our innovative
Earnings Call Insights: Viatris (VTRS) Q1 2026 Management View "We're pleased to report another strong quarter. We're off to an exceptional start to the year," said CEO Scott Smith, adding that Viatris’ long-term plan is "driven by 3 strategic imperatives: driving our base business, fueling our innovative
Earnings Call Insights: Loar Holdings (LOAR) Q1 2026 Management view President, CEO & Executive Co-Chairman Dirkson Charles said Q1 2026 delivered “all quarterly records for sales, adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA margins,” adding that “our cash conversion coverage to net income was 230%” and that customer demand supported “a
Earnings Call Insights: Loar Holdings (LOAR) Q1 2026 Management view President, CEO & Executive Co-Chairman Dirkson Charles said Q1 2026 delivered “all quarterly records for sales, adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA margins,” adding that “our cash conversion coverage to net income was 230%” and that customer demand supported “a
Earnings Call Insights: Stabilis Solutions (SLNG) Q1 2026 Management View “Our first quarter results reflect the expected transition following the completion of 2 large multiyear contracts at the end of 2025… [that] created a near-term revenue and earnings headwind,” said (Interim President, CEO & Executive Chairman J. Crenshaw), while
Earnings Call Insights: Stabilis Solutions (SLNG) Q1 2026 Management View “Our first quarter results reflect the expected transition following the completion of 2 large multiyear contracts at the end of 2025… [that] created a near-term revenue and earnings headwind,” said (Interim President, CEO & Executive Chairman J. Crenshaw), while