China’s premier has vowed the country will consolidate its advantages in traditional industries like rare earths while also striving to accelerate innovation in frontier technologies such as artificial intelligence, as Beijing prepares to unveil its latest five-year plan. Premier Li Qiang made the call during a visit earlier this week to Ganzhou in the central Chinese province of Jiangxi – one of the world’s largest production bases for heavy rare earth elements, a strategic resource essential...

Being codependent is often seen as a bad thing. But a new book makes the case for ‘healthy dependency’ Many of us desire deeper relationships. What we don’t always agree on is how close is too close. Dating advice often casts intimacy as a tightrope – pull back too much, or push for more. Either move is read as a red flag. Between discussions of incompatible attachment styles , the importance of boundaries and the dangers of love-bombing , it’s easy to get the impression there’s a correct level of closeness to aim for. In truth, intimacy isn’t one-size-fits-all and comfort levels vary – not just between individuals, but across their relationships. Continue reading...

Gustavo Gatica lost his sight in 2019’s nationwide unrest but as the country prepares to swear in a far-right president the man who fired the rubber bullets has walked free On the evening of 8 November 2019, Chile’s capital was gripped by protests amid a wave of nationwide unrest. While thousands demonstrated peacefully in Santiago’s Plaza Italia, violence broke out down a side street on the fringes of the square, where riot police with rifles battled protesters. Among them was Gustavo Gatica, a 21-year-old psychology student at the University of Chile, who threw a stone towards the police and stooped to pick up another. The last thing he saw was a line of advancing officers in the shadow of a tower block . Continue reading...

Bored with my DIY hopelessness, I’ve decided it’s time I learned some basics I bought a drill. It is yellow. It is my first drill. I bought it because I’m 59 next month and thought it was about time. It’s nearly a half a century since I joined the rest of the world in giving up on myself when it came to practical skills. My brother, who is younger, was good at that stuff, which I wasn’t. He was also very good at Lego, which I wasn’t. What I was good at was unclear. Reading, possibly. Anyway, he was the practical one and I wasn’t and that was the end of it. And, in the way of these things, this truth got truer as time went on. And I’ve got sick of it, not in the sense of feeling emasculated or anything, just bored by my hopelessness, bored of bothering and/or paying people to do things. I don’t want to do anything particularly advanced. I just want to be able to drill a hole. Continue reading...

To understand the change in Washington Post’s fortunes, it is worth comparing its demise to the New York Times’s trajectory Not so long ago – it’s been less than a decade – the New York Times and the Washington Post were almost neck and neck in the race for readers, reputation and scoops. The Times was always bigger, but the two were somewhat comparable. These days, that’s far from reality. The Post has been declining in influence, newsroom staff and financial health – losing at least $100m a year – while the Times is on an astonishing upward trajectory, with operating profit approaching $200m annually. Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture Continue reading...

Hull Truck In a stark modern staging, Mark Babych frames the tragedy as a story of ordinary lives spiralling into catastrophe For a play that ends so bloodily, Macbeth starts like an improvisation. It is a tragedy of opportunism, of a moment of hubris that spins out of control. For a while, it could go either way. That comes across in this staging, directed by Mark Babych in a three-way co-production with Bolton Octagon and Derby theatre . Macbeth strides on, fresh from the battlefield, a modern-day soldier with camouflage colours and an automatic weapon. Played by Oliver Alvin-Wilson, he is as tough as his country needs him to be: serious-minded and professional, but not self-seeking. At Hull Truck until 28 February. On tour until 18 April Continue reading...

During a meeting at the White House last month, Trump administration officials urged an Australian mining executive to sell his firm’s interest in a major African lithium project to a US company — an unusual session that offers a rare, behind-the-scenes glimpse into the administration’s deal-brokering as it pursues an ambitious and controversial policy on critical minerals. People familiar with the Jan. 21 meeting described it as an effort by the White House and US State Department to persuade Perth-based AVZ Minerals Ltd. to sell its claim to the Manono lithium deposit in the Democratic Republic of Congo to a US firm. The people asked not to be named to discuss sensitive matters. “The White House encouraged AVZ to do a commercially responsible deal with an American company — but did not nominate a specific company,” Nigel Ferguson, AVZ’s managing director, said in a statement responding to questions from Bloomberg News. “They are not putting pressure on AVZ to do a deal with a specific company, but with any vetted, genuinely American company.” The only US firm that’s known to have an interest in taking over AVZ’s claim to the Manono lithium project is KoBold Metals, a Berkeley, California-based, AI-driven exploration startup whose backers include billionaires Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Marc Andreessen. KoBold, which has the support of the Congolese government, has offered to acquire AVZ’s interest at a price that AVZ executives consider far less than reasonable, according to people familiar with the offer. KoBold declined to comment. The firm’s interest in Manono was first reported by Bloomberg last March. The US State Department also declined to comment. In response to questions about the Jan. 21 meeting, a US official said the administration is working in collaboration with Congolese officials “to identify opportunities for US investment throughout the DRC including the critical minerals sector.” Descriptions of the White House meeting provided to Bloomberg News ...

Hong Kong’s offshore yuan bond market is set for another strong year – as the yuan climbed to its strongest level in nearly three years – prompting bankers to forecast more deals in 2026. The city’s dim sum bond market, yuan-denominated notes issued outside mainland China, had evolved from a niche funding channel into a more mainstream financing option, as technology firms and global companies accessed a deeper pool of renminbi liquidity amid a firmer currency, bankers said. They added that the...

深圳市工业和信息化局近日印发《深圳市“人工智能+”先进制造业行动计划（2026—2027年）》，其中提出，人工智能赋能机器人方面，支持世界模型、视觉-触觉-语言-动作（VTLA）等多模态交互技术研发，构建具备交互、预测与决策功能的具身智能基座大模型及其训练、推理技术体系，培育长序列推理与自主学习能力，支撑跨场景任务高效处理。强化场景资源统筹，支持建设具身智能技术试验场，开放工业制造领域焊接、装配、喷涂、搬运等细分场景并实现落地应用，提升危险、恶劣环境下智能作业水平，推动机器人进工厂、进车间、进仓库、进港口、进园区。

Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Relativity Space, during the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. Krisztian Bocsi | Bloomberg | Getty Images A version of this article appeared in CNBC's Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox. Tech billionaire Eric Schmidt's family office took the top spot in CNBC's inaugural Inside Wealth Family Office 15 list, which ranks the most active U.S. family offices for dealmaking in 2025. Schmidt's family office, Hillspire, made 15 investments in 2025, most of them in artificial intelligence, according to exclusive data provided by private wealth intelligence platform Fintrx. The investments include a Paris-based AI voice startup, a fusion company and a software platform for luxury travel and experiences. Other family offices that made the cut include Jeff Bezos' Bezos Expeditions, Peter Thiel's Thiel Capital, Barry Sternlicht's Jaws Estates Capital and Builders Vision, the family office and social-impact platform founded by Walmart heir Lukas Walton. The 15 family offices made over 120 investments combined last year, in sectors ranging from robotics and software to biotech, food and beverage, sports and blockchain. The list, which ranks large, single-family offices by the number of publicly disclosed direct investments, offers a rare window into the deal activities of America's richest billionaires and families. Family offices, the private investment firms of the ultra-wealthy, are exploding in size in number, expected to grow from 8,000 last year to more than 10,700 by 2030, according to Deloitte. With over $3 trillion in assets, family offices are becoming a powerful force in mergers and acquisitions, startup funding and capital raises for private companies. They're also increasingly coveted by Wall Street, with private banks, asset managers, private equity firms and...

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Feb. 12, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- LXP Industrial Trust (“LXP”) (NYSE: LXP), a real estate investment trust focused on Class A warehouse and distribution real estate investments, today announced results for the quarter ended December 31, 2025.

peterschreiber.media/iStock via Getty Images Smaller med-tech can be a value trap until and unless it distinguishes itself on growth; as a former sell-side med-tech analyst, I can tell you that there are many institutions that won’t even consider a smaller med-tech if it’s not growing at a double-digit rate (often 20%+). That’s an ongoing problem for Enovis ( ENOV ), as the market just doesn’t seem to care about this company so long as revenue growth remains stuck in the mid-single-digits and free cash flow generation is marginal at best. Enovis shares have continued to lose ground, falling another 30% since my last update against a roughly 6% fall in the broader medical device space and single-digit to mid-teens declines for larger ortho rivals like Smith & Nephew ( SNN ), Stryker ( SYK ), and Zimmer Biomet ( ZBH ). Management guidance for potentially low double-digit growth in the Recon business in 2026 is positive, but overall mid-single-digit growth guidance isn’t moving the needle on estimates or sentiment. Enovis looks cheap by virtually every metric I use, but that has been the case for some time now, and a lack of differentiated growth remains a major headwind for the shares. Q4 Should Be Largely De-Risked Now Between guidance given with third quarter earnings and updated guidance at a major sell-side conference in January, I would say the fourth quarter results (due to be reported on Feb. 26) are largely de-risked, and if there are any major negative surprises, the market reaction will be brutal. Management has been clear about fewer selling days in the quarter, and the latest revision to guidance (to $2.245 billion from $2.26 billion at the midpoint) pretty much dials in Q4 revenue to $567 million to $577 million, though the Street seems to be holding on to a little optimism for a beat, as the average estimate currently sits at $582 million. With pharmacy strikes likely creating a little noise in OUS results, I wouldn’t think this would be the quarter for ...

Minneapolis was not the war zone I expected to find. Depending on who you are and where you live, things can seem, for a few fleeting moments, almost normal, like a few blocks or neighborhoods over people aren't being tear gassed or rounded up by ICE or, in two tragic cases, being gunned down by federal agents. Even now some people walk their dogs, run errands and buy groceries, meet friends for dinner and drinks. Daily life has become sinister in its banality, because Minneapolis remains a city under siege. ICE and CBP agents roam the streets, though their tactics have shifted as of late: No longer acting like an occupying army, the Departm … Read the full story at The Verge.

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Retiring abroad is exciting and can save you quite a bit of money if you move somewhere with a lower cost of living. But it also creates unique challenges. You have to get used to a new set of laws, a new lifestyle, and a more complicated tax situation. You might also wonder if the move will affect your ability to receive Social Security benefits. The truth is, it probably won't, but it depends on where you plan to retire. Image source: Getty Images. Continue reading

深圳市工业和信息化局近日印发《深圳市“人工智能+”先进制造业行动计划（2026—2027年）》，其中提出，推动人工智能技术应用于半导体产业链的关键环节，利用AI优化芯片设计、软件代码等领域和环节的效率。以AI芯片为突破口做强半导体产业，面向AI手机、AI眼镜、智能机器人等各类AI终端需求，研发高性能、高能效专用SoC主控芯片，支持存算一体、存内计算等新型架构处理器。面向新能源汽车万亿级市场，支持14nm及以下车规级高阶智驾AI芯片、智能座舱SoC芯片、域控制器MCU、中央域控SoC/MPU芯片的国产替代。(人民财讯)

Manchester United v Brighton tie had highest figures Data shows value to broadcasters of later kick-offs The FA Cup third round generated higher viewing figures for the main rights holder, TNT Sports, than any of their Premier League games this season in an indication of the competition’s enduring appeal before the fourth round, which begins on Friday. Data obtained by the Guardian reveals that Brighton’s third-round win over Manchester United last month attracted an average audience of 876,000, with a total reach of 2.1 million, based on viewers watching for a minimum of three minutes. Continue reading...

春节将至，今年游戏圈的年味却有些不一样了。 往年这时候，各个厂商往往都在争相放“大招”：一堆新游戏扎堆上线，你来我往，热闹得像除夕夜的鞭炮。 但今年，这种鞭炮声似乎稀疏了不少——你很难看到那种万众期待的“重磅炸弹”级新作了。 巨头们都默契地调转了船头。腾讯、网易、米哈游……大多厂商都不再在春节拼命用新品往外“捞新人”，而是转头对自家老玩家们给出了满满福利：线上福利拉到满，线下活动玩出花，核心目标就一个——让“家人们”这个春节，在咱这玩得开心、待得舒坦。 一场没有硝烟的“存量保卫战”，悄然成了今年春节档的主旋律。 新游降温：春节档难见“重磅炸弹” 2026 年春节档，游戏行业呈现出明显的新特征。与过去几年游戏扎堆上线的热闹景象相比，今年由一线大厂主导的、预期较高的全新游戏上线数量明显减少。 同时你也可以观察到，在春节前后的核心时段，国内市场计划上线的新游数量并不多。具备一定知名度的作品如《沙石镇时光》、《小小梦魇》、《潜水员戴夫》（国服）等产品，其优势也主要建立在PC版本已成功的基础上。 今年真正的、从零开始的“重磅炸弹”级新作在春节档呈现缺席状态。同时腾讯、网易、米哈游等头部企业，其春节营销重心均未放在全新游戏的规模化推广上，相关新品多处于测试或预热阶段，并未开启全面的公测或上线攻势。 当前市场环境下，一个新用户获取成本相比几年前已是翻了不止一倍，春节档虽然流量大，但竞争也异常激烈，在用户总量见顶、获取新用户成本高昂的当下，押注一款全新游戏在竞争白热化的春节档“突围”，其风险与投入产出比都让其看起来愈发不划算，算来算去，还不如把精力和资源，花在已经陪伴许久的老朋友身上。 于是如何让老玩家在春节假期玩得更开心、停留更久，便成为了今年各家游戏春节运营的关键。 首先是今年春节期间，各大热门游戏不再避讳“撞档期”，多家游戏都专注于自家用户，集中推出了一系列重磅春节活动，试图以高性价比回馈吸引玩家并增强玩家粘性，提高玩家满意度。 《英雄联盟手游》抢先开启了艾欧尼亚庆典，推出了多项新春福利。根据官网消息，2026年灵运卡仅需99点券，即可省下超过5000点券。 《王者荣耀》小马商店升级，联动皮肤免费换，666限时点券登陆就送，参与活动更可保底上千点券，还有各种免费皮肤上新，传说、史诗皮肤打折等等一系列活动。 《和平精英》也公布了新春福利，玩家体验新版本、积攒代币，即可兑换马年主...

协创数据公告，公司及/或子公司根据经营发展需要，拟向多家供应商采购服务器，并签署相关采购合同，采购合同总金额预计不超过110亿元。公司及/或子公司购买服务器主要用于为客户提供云算力服务。

翰博高新公告，参股公司合肥芯东进新材料科技有限公司拟收购Dongjin Semichem Co., Ltd.及全资子公司Dongjin Global Holdings Limited共同投资设立的特殊目的公司70%的股权。东进以境内9家目标公司100%股权以及韩国东进在中国拥有的100%所有权的24项专利之100%所有权或50%所有权出资设立标的公司。芯东进收购标的公司70%股权的目标股权转让价款为1.42亿美元。

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晶瑞电材公告，公司计划在四川彭山经济开发区投资建设西部地区集成电路制造产业链配套关键材料综合基地，预计总投资6亿元，其中固定资产投资3.5亿元。项目计划于2026年6月底前动工，动工后18个月内建成并竣工投产。项目建成达产后，预计年产值将达到6亿元/年，上缴税收约3000万元/年。项目主要包含年产20万吨超高纯电子级及工业高纯配套硫酸项目、年产22万吨蒸汽项目、年产3万吨超纯电子级双氧水等集成电路核心电子材料项目，以及集成电路产业配套废酸再生循环利用项目。

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In an interview with Sky News, Britain’s seventh-richest man, Jim Ratcliffe, who moved to tax-free Monaco in 2020, took aim at people receiving state support and immigrants. 'You can’t afford … you can’t have an economy with 9 million people on benefits and huge levels of immigrants coming in,' he said. 'The UK is being colonised by immigrants, really, isn’t it? 'I mean, the population of the UK was 58 million in 2020, now it’s 70 million. That’s 12 million people.' Figures from the Office for National Statistics indicate Ratcliffe’s claim is incorrect. The ONS estimated that the population of the UK was 67 million in 2020 and was last anywhere close to 58 million in 2000 Starmer tells Jim Ratcliffe to apologise for saying UK ‘colonised’ by immigrants Jim Ratcliffe accused of hypocrisy after saying UK ‘colonised’ by immigrants Continue reading...

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记者今天从国家电网了解到，我国首个交直流混联跨江工程——江苏扬州至镇江正负200千伏直流输电二期工程正式投产。工程途经江苏淮安、扬州、镇江三市七县，输电距离228公里，输电容量达到120万千瓦。在不新增跨越长江输电通道的情况下，原有跨江输电能力将提升3倍。工程投运后，每年可向长三角用电负荷中心输送电量超60亿千瓦时，相当于满足约200万户家庭一年的用电需求。其中，新能源电量占比超三成，预计每年可减排二氧化碳约160万吨。“十五五”期间，国家电网将安排固定资产投资4万亿元，以特高压工程、清洁能源送出、省间灵活互济等为重点，全面加强电网建设和升级改造。（央视新闻）