hapabapa/iStock Editorial via Getty Images KeyCorp ( KEY ) is set to acquire the UK-based Clearwater Corporate Finance, marking the diversified bank's entry into the Western European market. The acquisition is expected to expand KeyCorp's ability to provide financial advisory services to institutional clients. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to cl...
hapabapa/iStock Editorial via Getty Images KeyCorp ( KEY ) is set to acquire the UK-based Clearwater Corporate Finance, marking the diversified bank's entry into the Western European market. The acquisition is expected to expand KeyCorp's ability to provide financial advisory services to institutional clients. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2026. More on KeyCorp Keycorp Offers Four Preferreds: Fixed-Rate Issues Rated As Buys KeyCorp: Likely Fairly Valued KeyCorp's On The Watchlist For An Upgrade Scotiabank expects ~$56M contribution from KeyCorp's Q1 earnings KeyCorp signals at least $1.3B of 2026 buybacks while targeting ~3.05% net interest margin exit
Someone just posted a beach vacation, someone else closed on a house, and suddenly everyone's doing mental math. Quietly, quickly, and maybe a little unfairly. The question sneaks in anyway: am I ahead, behind, or just pretending not to care?...
Someone just posted a beach vacation, someone else closed on a house, and suddenly everyone's doing mental math. Quietly, quickly, and maybe a little unfairly. The question sneaks in anyway: am I ahead, behind, or just pretending not to care?...
A blue cheese rind can be a bit funky even for cheese aficionados, but its intensity works wonders in a clever salad dressing On a single crumb of cheese rind there are more than 10 billion microbes : that’s more microbial cells than there are people on Earth. Cheese rind is an intensified expression of the cheese, with a powerful flavour and highly concentrated community of good bacteria, yeast a...
A blue cheese rind can be a bit funky even for cheese aficionados, but its intensity works wonders in a clever salad dressing On a single crumb of cheese rind there are more than 10 billion microbes : that’s more microbial cells than there are people on Earth. Cheese rind is an intensified expression of the cheese, with a powerful flavour and highly concentrated community of good bacteria, yeast and mould. But it is misunderstood and underrated, and often removed and discarded. Though it can be intense, it’s almost always edible, unless it’s grown new mould or contains synthetic plastic, wax or cloth, which should be removed. Like an apple or slice of bread, the skin, crust or rind add texture, flavour and nutrients to the eating experience. Sometimes, even I can’t stomach a really strong rind though, and another approach is necessary – like my blue cheese rind vinaigrette, where that pungent rind comes into its own, flavouring the dressing beautifully without overpowering it. Continue reading...
The reckless Iran war shows up for most Americans as a number at a gas pump, not as images or moral reckoning The airport in Las Vegas last Friday afternoon was what you might expect for a WrestleMania weekend. Packed terminal. Delays stacking up. Nobody going anywhere. Then we heard why. Air Force One was on the ground. Everything stopped. No one was taking off until the president finished doing ...
The reckless Iran war shows up for most Americans as a number at a gas pump, not as images or moral reckoning The airport in Las Vegas last Friday afternoon was what you might expect for a WrestleMania weekend. Packed terminal. Delays stacking up. Nobody going anywhere. Then we heard why. Air Force One was on the ground. Everything stopped. No one was taking off until the president finished doing his business . Continue reading...
Three sportswomen undergo the various ordeals of competition in a spare, sometimes harrowing drama suffused with a chilly vérité detachedness Here is a fascinatingly experimental debut feature from Italian film-maker Giulio Bertelli, son of fashion designer Miuccia Prada; a machine-tooled movie, intensely designed and controlled. It’s a kind of Martian’s-eye-view documentary about something that d...
Three sportswomen undergo the various ordeals of competition in a spare, sometimes harrowing drama suffused with a chilly vérité detachedness Here is a fascinatingly experimental debut feature from Italian film-maker Giulio Bertelli, son of fashion designer Miuccia Prada; a machine-tooled movie, intensely designed and controlled. It’s a kind of Martian’s-eye-view documentary about something that doesn’t actually exist; it is ice-cold and detached, almost without dialogue in the conventionally dramatic sense, other than the subdued exchanges which we, as audience, overhear rather than listen to. It accumulates its own kind of desolate force. Bertelli’s film intuits the military roots of three Olympic sports: judo, fencing and shooting. These originally were considered the accomplishments of a soldier in a preindustrial age and shows how the lineaments and forms of violence still exist in these activities. (In fact the film is inspired by the grisly accidental death of the Soviet fencer Vladimir Smirnov in 1982 .) Continue reading...
Hong Kong’s technology cooperation with Shenzhen received a boost on Wednesday as Lenovo Group, the world’s biggest personal computer maker, set up an innovation lab at the city’s new Hetao tech hub and pledged to help firms adopt artificial intelligence and expand globally. Lenovo is the first multinational tech firm to publicly announce its presence on the Hong Kong side of the Hetao zone – the ...
Hong Kong’s technology cooperation with Shenzhen received a boost on Wednesday as Lenovo Group, the world’s biggest personal computer maker, set up an innovation lab at the city’s new Hetao tech hub and pledged to help firms adopt artificial intelligence and expand globally. Lenovo is the first multinational tech firm to publicly announce its presence on the Hong Kong side of the Hetao zone – the Hong Kong-Shenzhen Innovation and Technology Park (HSITP) – which covers 87 hectares in the city’s...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google unveiled a slew of tools to build AI agents aimed at helping companies automate tasks in the tech giant’s latest attempt to take on OpenAI and Anthropic PBC in the burgeoning market. At an annual conference in Las Vegas, Google’s cloud computing unit on Wednesday showcased a set of tools that can create AI agents and track their work within companies, including a dedicated i...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google unveiled a slew of tools to build AI agents aimed at helping companies automate tasks in the tech giant’s latest attempt to take on OpenAI and Anthropic PBC in the burgeoning market. At an annual conference in Las Vegas, Google’s cloud computing unit on Wednesday showcased a set of tools that can create AI agents and track their work within companies, including a dedicated inbox for the virtual bots to post information and progress reports. Google also introduced updates across its Workspace productivity suite and offered up a vision in which AI agents dramatically overhaul the day to day routines of the average worker. The company’s researchers invented much of the technology that touched off the current AI boom, but now Google is in a tight race with leading AI agent makers to win business from corporate customers clamoring for the technology to boost productivity. With the company pouring as much as $185 billion into capital expenditure this year alone, investors are hoping that it can drum up enough new business to justify the steep investment in AI. The search giant is hoping that its combination of chips, AI models and developer tools will give it an edge. It’s poised to announce a new generation of custom-designed chips, including one dedicated to inference, or running AI models after they’ve been trained. With this push, Google will further challenge market leader Nvidia Corp. in a fast-growing category for semiconductors that’s fueled by surging adoption of AI software. Read More: Google Eyes New Chips to Speed Up AI Results, Challenging Nvidia “This isn't about offering individual services that can be cobbled together; it is about providing a comprehensive backbone for innovation,” Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said in a blog post. A particular focus for Google is AI coding, a market where company leaders are growing increasingly worried that they have fallen behind . Many engineers in Silicon Valley toggle between Anthropic’s Claud...
It’s not unheard of for tech companies to reverse a big marketing decision, but few have done so as quickly as Dell Technologies Inc. In early 2025, the company announced it would move away from its long-running XPS laptop branding in favor of simpler naming schemes like “Pro” and “Max” intended to appeal to a broader market of consumers accustomed to Apple Inc. ’s naming strategy. By the followin...
It’s not unheard of for tech companies to reverse a big marketing decision, but few have done so as quickly as Dell Technologies Inc. In early 2025, the company announced it would move away from its long-running XPS laptop branding in favor of simpler naming schemes like “Pro” and “Max” intended to appeal to a broader market of consumers accustomed to Apple Inc. ’s naming strategy. By the following January, Dell realized it had made a mistake and quickly pivoted back. As Chief Operating Officer Jeff Clarke said at the time, the PC business had “gotten a bit off course.” The new XPS 16, with its brand again proudly etched into the laptop casing, is part of Dell’s first wave of revamped premium notebooks designed to show fans that it’s back on track. (There’s also a $1,600 14-inch model.) And the name isn’t the only course correction. Read More: Dell Brings Back XPS Laptops As Top Executive Says PC Unit Got ‘Off Course’ Dell has also done away with the unpopular touch-sensitive row of function controls and brought back conventional buttons. And it has made the trackpad easier to use by marking the left and right sides with raised glass; in recent Dell laptops, the trackpad and palm rests were one continuous surface, leaving users to guess where they should place their fingers to control the computer. I’ve been testing a high-end $2,350 configuration of the XPS 16 with a multilayered “tandem” OLED display and Intel’s power-efficient Panther Lake silicon. I’m impressed by the refined style, thin chassis and lightweight design. A less expensive model with an LCD display starts at $1,750 and comes with battery life advantages, but I think most people will prefer the punchier OLED. If you’re in the market for a high-end Windows laptop, this one is a great choice, especially as competitors like Microsoft Corp. have been forced to raise prices on machines that are less powerful. Here’s what you need to know: Beautiful OLED display: The XPS 16’s dual-layered tandem OLED touch...
Exclusive: McSweeney summoned by foreign affairs select committee in rare step, as Mandelson vetting row continues UK politics live – latest updates Morgan McSweeney, the prime minister’s former chief of staff, has been summoned before the foreign affairs select committee as the Peter Mandelson vetting row continued to undermine Keir Starmer’s premiership. As MPs attempt to unravel the facts, McSw...
Exclusive: McSweeney summoned by foreign affairs select committee in rare step, as Mandelson vetting row continues UK politics live – latest updates Morgan McSweeney, the prime minister’s former chief of staff, has been summoned before the foreign affairs select committee as the Peter Mandelson vetting row continued to undermine Keir Starmer’s premiership. As MPs attempt to unravel the facts, McSweeney is to appear next Tuesday to respond to allegations that Downing Street put huge pressure on the civil service to approve his appointment as the UK’s ambassador to Washington. Continue reading...
In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Google CEO Sundar Pichai gestures during a meeting with France's President Emmanuel Macron on the sidelines of the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on Feb. 19, 2026. Ludovic Marin | Afp | Getty Images After years of producing chips that can both train artificial intelligence models and handle inference work, Google is separating th...
In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Google CEO Sundar Pichai gestures during a meeting with France's President Emmanuel Macron on the sidelines of the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on Feb. 19, 2026. Ludovic Marin | Afp | Getty Images After years of producing chips that can both train artificial intelligence models and handle inference work, Google is separating those tasks into distinct processors, its latest effort to take on Nvidia in AI hardware. Google said Wednesday that it's making the change for the eighth generation of its tensor processing unit, or TPU. Both chips will become available later this year. "With the rise of AI agents, we determined the community would benefit from chips individually specialized to the needs of training and serving," Amin Vahdat, a Google senior vice president and chief technologist for AI and infrastructure, said in a blog post. In March, Nvidia talked up forthcoming silicon that can enable models to rapidly respond to users' questions, thanks to technology obtained in its $20 billion deal with chip startup Groq. Google is a large Nvidia customer, but offers TPUs as an alternative for companies that use its cloud services. Most of the world's top technology companies are pursuing custom semiconductor development for artificial intelligence to maximize efficiency and so they can build for specialized use cases. Apple has included neural engine AI components in its in-house iPhone chips for years. Microsoft announced a second-generation AI chip in January. Last week, Meta said it's working with Broadcom to develop multiple versions of AI processors. Google was early to the trend. In 2015, the company started using processors it had designed for running AI models, and began renting them to cloud clients in 2018. Amazon Web Services announced the Inferentia chip for handling AI requests in 2018 , and unveiled the Trainium processor for training AI models in 2020. DA Davidson analysts estimated in S...
Duolingo is opening up its advanced language learning content offering to free users, allowing them to acquire skills that were previously reserved to paid subscribers.
Duolingo is opening up its advanced language learning content offering to free users, allowing them to acquire skills that were previously reserved to paid subscribers.
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab has signed a multi-billion-dollar deal with Google Cloud for AI infrastructure powered by Nvidia's latest GB300 chips, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab has signed a multi-billion-dollar deal with Google Cloud for AI infrastructure powered by Nvidia's latest GB300 chips, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.
In 2019, a 36-year-old Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), newly elected to Congress, was photographed for the inaugural Time 100 Next List, wearing a dashing eye patch and looking upwards with hope. A Harvard-educated Navy SEAL who'd lost his legs while fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, Crenshaw was in rarefied company, listed among the magazine's candidates for tomorrow's leaders: musicians like Billie...
In 2019, a 36-year-old Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), newly elected to Congress, was photographed for the inaugural Time 100 Next List, wearing a dashing eye patch and looking upwards with hope. A Harvard-educated Navy SEAL who'd lost his legs while fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, Crenshaw was in rarefied company, listed among the magazine's candidates for tomorrow's leaders: musicians like Billie Eilish and Bad Bunny; athletes like Coco Gauff and Alysa Liu; business leaders like Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong; fellow political stars like Pete Buttigieg. Crenshaw was, Time declared, "what the Republican Party might look like after Donald Tru … Read the full story at The Verge.
LOS ANGELES, April 22, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Preferred Bank (NASDAQ: PFBC) , one of the larger independent California banks, today reported results for the quarter ended March 31, 2026. Preferred Bank (“the Bank”) reported net income of $31.1 million or $2.53 per diluted share for the first quarter of 2026. This represents a decrease in net income of $3.7 million from the prior quarter and an i...
LOS ANGELES, April 22, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Preferred Bank (NASDAQ: PFBC) , one of the larger independent California banks, today reported results for the quarter ended March 31, 2026. Preferred Bank (“the Bank”) reported net income of $31.1 million or $2.53 per diluted share for the first quarter of 2026. This represents a decrease in net income of $3.7 million from the prior quarter and an increase of $1.1 million over the same quarter last year. The increase compared to last year was primarily due to an increase in net interest income of $2.7 million. The decrease in net income from the prior quarter was due to a decrease in net interest income of $4.7 million coupled with a decrease in noninterest income of $3.8 million. The primary reason for the decrease in net interest income was due to the reversal of interest on loans which were placed on nonaccrual status during the quarter. This was previously detailed in a press release on February 23, 2026. The decrease in noninterest income was due to a $3.6 million gain on sale of OREO recorded in the fourth quarter of 2025 which did not recur.