United CEO Pitches Trump On American Tie-Up To Build Highly Competitive Global Carrier A Reuters report stated that United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby "pitched" a merger with American Airlines during a recent meeting with President Trump. Shares of both carriers rose in premarket trading in New York following the report. Two sources told the outlet that merger discussions took place during a February...
United CEO Pitches Trump On American Tie-Up To Build Highly Competitive Global Carrier A Reuters report stated that United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby "pitched" a merger with American Airlines during a recent meeting with President Trump. Shares of both carriers rose in premarket trading in New York following the report. Two sources told the outlet that merger discussions took place during a February 25 White House meeting with Trump about the future of Dulles Airport, just three days before the U.S.-Iran conflict sent jet fuel prices skyrocketing. Kirby said that a combined United-American airline would be better positioned to compete internationally. He said that the merger of the two carriers would strengthen U.S. competitiveness globally. It is unclear whether United made a formal approach to American or whether negotiations were underway, but one thing is certain: most domestic carriers, except Delta Air Lines , have been hit by soaring jet fuel costs. Wells Fargo analyst Christian Wetherbee noted, "This idea furthers our belief that the fuel shock presents an opportunity for United and Delta to emerge better positioned, potentially suggesting upside to out-year estimates." Wetherbee said a potential merger between United and American could be too large, as the combined carrier would control around 40% of domestic capacity without divestitures. As an alternative, Wetherbee suggested JetBlue could emerge as a smaller, more realistic target if American rejected United, giving United valuable assets in New York and Florida with less regulatory fallout. Reuters spoke with antitrust lawyer Seth Bloom, who said a United-American merger would be unlikely to clear regulatory hurdles. "The administration has said it really cares about the issues that affect the consumer's pocketbook, and this would give the airlines more pricing power," Bloom said. American traded up 9% in premarket, while United was up around 2%. The broader S&P 500 Passenger Airline Index is down 7.5% ye...
TEL AVIV, Israel, April 14, 2026--NeuReality, a pioneer in purpose-built AI inference infrastructure, today announced that Rotem Hershko, former General Manager at Amazon Global and Chief Product Officer at Maersk, has joined the company as a strategic advisor. He will support enterprise strategy, product positioning, and go-to-market alignment for NR-NEXUS, NeuReality’s inference operating system...
TEL AVIV, Israel, April 14, 2026--NeuReality, a pioneer in purpose-built AI inference infrastructure, today announced that Rotem Hershko, former General Manager at Amazon Global and Chief Product Officer at Maersk, has joined the company as a strategic advisor. He will support enterprise strategy, product positioning, and go-to-market alignment for NR-NEXUS, NeuReality’s inference operating system for production AI.
LAS VEGAS, April 14, 2026--Neato, a 2P eCommerce accelerator that partners with consumer brands as their exclusive online retailer, today announced it has raised $25 million in growth capital led by Advantage Capital, positioning the company to expand its online retail partnership model. The investment will support the launch of two new operations centers in Las Vegas and Chicago with integrated e...
LAS VEGAS, April 14, 2026--Neato, a 2P eCommerce accelerator that partners with consumer brands as their exclusive online retailer, today announced it has raised $25 million in growth capital led by Advantage Capital, positioning the company to expand its online retail partnership model. The investment will support the launch of two new operations centers in Las Vegas and Chicago with integrated eCommerce prep capabilities, expansion of their AI agent stack and accelerate Neato’s expansion beyon
Today at the TED conference in Vancouver, the nonprofit organizations ETS, Khan Academy and TED will announce a joint plan to launch the Khan TED Institute, a new higher education collaboration designed for an AI‑driven era. The Khan TED Institute aims to prepare learners for the next generation of jobs while cultivating the uniquely human skills required to thrive in work, life, and society amid ...
Today at the TED conference in Vancouver, the nonprofit organizations ETS, Khan Academy and TED will announce a joint plan to launch the Khan TED Institute, a new higher education collaboration designed for an AI‑driven era. The Khan TED Institute aims to prepare learners for the next generation of jobs while cultivating the uniquely human skills required to thrive in work, life, and society amid rapid technological change.
Emre Akkoyun/iStock via Getty Images After a brief pause in the market recovery on Friday, due to a discouraging Consumer Price Index report for March, the major market indexes resumed their melt up yesterday in a rally that looks to be long in the tooth. Over the past nine trading days, the S&P 500 has risen 8.5%, the Nasdaq Composite has rebounded 7.3%, and the Russell 2000 has surged 10.6%. I t...
Emre Akkoyun/iStock via Getty Images After a brief pause in the market recovery on Friday, due to a discouraging Consumer Price Index report for March, the major market indexes resumed their melt up yesterday in a rally that looks to be long in the tooth. Over the past nine trading days, the S&P 500 has risen 8.5%, the Nasdaq Composite has rebounded 7.3%, and the Russell 2000 has surged 10.6%. I think investors are as overly optimistic today as they were overly pessimistic just two weeks ago before the ceasefire announcement. As I asserted one week ago, I still think the correction lows are behind us, but we have a lot more work to do to reach new all-time highs. Finviz No one will disagree that the President has a proclivity for hyperbole. On Sunday, he claimed that 34 ships passed through the Strait of Hormuz, but maritime data indicate the number was closer to 14. Fewer than 10 ships were observed passing through the strait on Monday when the blockade took effect. Yesterday, the President also said that “we’ve been called by the other side,” and “they’d like to make a deal very badly, very badly.” It seems hard to believe that Iran would be desperately reaching out just a day after walking away from the negotiating table on Saturday. Regardless, these headlines, accurate or not, have been fueling investor enthusiasm. Brent crude futures chart (Bloomberg) My concern is that there seems to be a lot of mixed messages on both sides in this high stakes poker game to see who will fold first, but time is of the essence. Every day that elapses with elevated energy prices drives inflation higher for longer and depresses global growth. While the U.S. is buffered to a degree by being a net oil exporter, we rely on global growth to fuel our own. At this point, investors have already priced in the best of all possible scenarios, which ignores the fact that not a lot has changed since the ceasefire was announced. There are still very few ships passing through the strait, and e...
Stock futures extended gains Tuesday morning after US wholesale prices rose less than expected in March despite a rise in energy prices resulting from the Iran war. The S&P 500 Index futures rose 0.3% at 8:35 a.m. in New York after cooler-than-expected producer price data soothed inflation expectations. Contracts on the Nasdaq 100 were up 0.5%. Airlines were among the top-performing stocks premark...
Stock futures extended gains Tuesday morning after US wholesale prices rose less than expected in March despite a rise in energy prices resulting from the Iran war. The S&P 500 Index futures rose 0.3% at 8:35 a.m. in New York after cooler-than-expected producer price data soothed inflation expectations. Contracts on the Nasdaq 100 were up 0.5%. Airlines were among the top-performing stocks premarket with United Airlines Holdings Inc. gaining after pitching rival American Airlines Group Inc. on a potential combination . Producer prices rose 0.5% in March, below expectations of a 0.7% gain. The increases were also lower when food and energy costs are excluded. Read More: Prices Paid to US Producers Up Less Than Forecast Despite Energy “Stocks and sovereign bonds are richer across almost all major markets this morning as oil prices slip a touch while the dollar is broadly weaker,” said Derek Holt , vice-president and head of capital markets economics at Scotiabank. Markets were already pointing higher ahead of the PPI report, advancing from Monday, when the S&P 500 rallied back to its pre-war level . Stocks have risen even as the impasse at the Strait of Hormuz has caused oil prices to rise in recent weeks, Barclays equity derivatives strategists led by Stefano Pascale wrote in a Tuesday note. “This is a flimsy equilibrium as stagflationary pressure keeps on building,” he said. Crude oil prices slipped Tuesday on signs the US and Iran are considering more talks. West Texas Intermediate traded around $96 a barrel. “For the next 12 months, I still prefer to be in the US,” Alicia Levine , head of investment strategy and equities at BNY Wealth, said in a Bloomberg TV interview Tuesday morning. She likes industrial stocks and has not changed her allocations even as the war in Iran has upended markets since the end of February. “We came into this with a pretty strong economy, a good setup with fiscal support,” she said. Citigroup Inc. strategists including Beata Manthey have...
Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU) presents a compelling bull case at $420.52. Fundamentally, the argument for owning it has rarely been cleaner for a semiconductor name of this scale. With AI-driven memory demand accelerating and earnings growing at a pace that makes the current valuation look genuinely cheap, the stock deserves serious attention from investors who can ... Micron at $420: Buy, Sell or...
Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU) presents a compelling bull case at $420.52. Fundamentally, the argument for owning it has rarely been cleaner for a semiconductor name of this scale. With AI-driven memory demand accelerating and earnings growing at a pace that makes the current valuation look genuinely cheap, the stock deserves serious attention from investors who can ... Micron at $420: Buy, Sell or Hold?
U.S. chess champion Hikaru Nakamura is soaring above the S&P 500 thanks mainly to the presence of Intel Corporation in his TipRanks investment portfolio. Overall, Hikaru’s portfolio has a total return of 8.3% and is 4.7% above the S&P 500. It has an average annualized return of 1.6%, with 9 out of 18 transactions making a profit. The biggest contributor is Hikaru’s investment in Intel (INTC). He b...
U.S. chess champion Hikaru Nakamura is soaring above the S&P 500 thanks mainly to the presence of Intel Corporation in his TipRanks investment portfolio. Overall, Hikaru’s portfolio has a total return of 8.3% and is 4.7% above the S&P 500. It has an average annualized return of 1.6%, with 9 out of 18 transactions making a profit. The biggest contributor is Hikaru’s investment in Intel (INTC). He bought 250 shares on September 26, 2025 at a purchase price of $35.92. Its current share price is $62
前不久，Anthropic 停止允许订阅用户通过 OpenClaw 等第三方工具接入 Claude API。理由并不复杂，一个OpenClaw 代理运行一天，消耗的算力成本在1000美元到5000美元之间，而用户每月只付了200美元。 Claude Code 负责人 Boris Cherny在 声明里说，订阅服务“并非为这些第三方工具的使用模式而设计”。这句话没有错，但它遮住了一个更基础的问题：没...
前不久，Anthropic 停止允许订阅用户通过 OpenClaw 等第三方工具接入 Claude API。理由并不复杂，一个OpenClaw 代理运行一天，消耗的算力成本在1000美元到5000美元之间，而用户每月只付了200美元。 Claude Code 负责人 Boris Cherny在 声明里说，订阅服务“并非为这些第三方工具的使用模式而设计”。这句话没有错，但它遮住了一个更基础的问题：没有任何订阅服务能被设计成覆盖这种使用模式。Agent 场景下的 Token 消耗量没有上限，也没有历史数据可以参考，任何固定月费都是在对一个无法建模的变量做猜测。 3月底，中国国家数据局公布了另一组数字：中国日均 Token 调用量突破140万亿，两年增长超千倍。同期，字节的 Token 调用量跻身全球三甲，与 OpenAI、谷歌并列。无问芯穹CEO 夏立雪在一场行业论坛上描述这个增速时说，上一次看到类似的曲线，是3G时代手机流量从每月100MB开始普及的时候。当时没有人预料到，流量放开之后会跑出抖音、微信和外卖。 两件事放在一起，描述的是同一个现实： Token的消耗正在以罕见的速度增长，但支撑整个行业运转的定价逻辑，依然建立在两年前聊天机器人时代的假设之上，即用户的使用量是可以被历史数据预测的，轻度用户会自然地覆盖重度用户，整体成本可以被摊平。 智能体们打破了这个假设的每一个前提，市场变化的速度，超过了任何定价模型的响应能力。纵观过去两年 Token 市场的演化，每一个优势窗口的终结，都由同一个逻辑驱动，即当竞争者能够复制优势——规模可以被追赶，算法可以被开源，场景可以被大平台的分发能力碾压。 目前唯一难以被快速复制的，是将 Token 效率内化为产品架构、定价逻辑和工程文化的能力。而在这件事上真正做到体系化的，只有 Anthropic。 失去意义的平均价格 Token 之所以不同于电力、钢铁等传统生产要素，在于它具备独一无二的“可编程性”。没有任何一种传统生产要素，能仅凭“指令不同”就将自身价值改变十万倍。这种可编程性，是 Token 作为新型生产要素的本质特征，也是理解当前 AI 经济混乱的前提。 理解这一点，需要先建立量级感。36氪报道，OpenAI API 日均处理约21.6万亿 Token，谷歌Gemini 日均约43万亿，而中国的140万亿约为前两者之和的两...
(RTTNews) - Stocks are likely to move to the upside in early trading on Tuesday, adding to the strong gains posted in the previous session. The major index futures are currently pointing to a higher open for the markets, with the S&P 500 futures up by 0.3 percent.
(RTTNews) - Stocks are likely to move to the upside in early trading on Tuesday, adding to the strong gains posted in the previous session. The major index futures are currently pointing to a higher open for the markets, with the S&P 500 futures up by 0.3 percent.
BlackJack3D/iStock via Getty Images After peace talks between the U.S. and Iran broke down over the weekend, the U.S. administration announced that it would position its warships in the Strait of Hormuz and enforce its own naval blockade in the region. The subsequent arrival of warships in the Hormuz Strait and the implementation of the blockade by the U.S. Navy could have been easily perceived as...
BlackJack3D/iStock via Getty Images After peace talks between the U.S. and Iran broke down over the weekend, the U.S. administration announced that it would position its warships in the Strait of Hormuz and enforce its own naval blockade in the region. The subsequent arrival of warships in the Hormuz Strait and the implementation of the blockade by the U.S. Navy could have been easily perceived as a high-risk mission that threatened to further destabilize global energy markets and regional supply chains that were vital to global trade. In fact, energy markets also reacted to the news, with crude oil futures ( CL1:COM ) spiking on Monday morning. However, markets quickly warmed up to the idea of a blockade. Because the presence of U.S. forces in the sea could possibly help restore trade flow and allow markets to refocus on the one thing that matters the most—the big earnings bonanza that lies ahead in the next few weeks. U.S. markets continue to look strong heading into a critical earnings season, and I reaffirm my bullishness. The Blockade Put The Ball In Iran's Court At the start of this month, I explained that the U.S. administration was following a playbook similar to their global tariff policy last year. My comparative analysis of the U.S. administration's policy strategy in the trade disputes last year vs. this year’s geopolitical disputes led me to believe that markets were behaving in a similar way to 2025’s tantrums. The market's performance in April so far has echoed my previous analysis. As it now stands, the U.S. markets, led by the S&P 500 Index ( SP500 ), should be breaking even soon on a YTD basis after nearly slipping into correction territory two weeks ago. Exhibit A: S&P 500 leads a turnaround, almost breaking even for the year, after nearly slipping to correction territory. (data) With nearly everything supposedly going wrong for the U.S., the much-anticipated war-induced market correction should have arrived. Especially after negotiations broke do...
Amazon.com said on Tuesday it would buy satellite company Globalstar in an $11.57 billion deal, as it looks to take on bigger rival SpaceX's Starlink. Satellite internet is taking off as cheaper launches, better technology and rising demand for coverage in remote areas make space-based networks more viable. What began mainly as a way to connect rural households has now expanded into aviat...
Amazon.com said on Tuesday it would buy satellite company Globalstar in an $11.57 billion deal, as it looks to take on bigger rival SpaceX's Starlink. Satellite internet is taking off as cheaper launches, better technology and rising demand for coverage in remote areas make space-based networks more viable. What began mainly as a way to connect rural households has now expanded into aviation, shipping, defense, emergency messaging and direct-to-phone services.