这一价格大幅高于美国市场上的任何其他智能手机。作为对比，三星自家的Galaxy Z Fold 7零售价为2,000美元；而苹果公司配备2TB存储空间的顶配版iPhone 17 Pro Max售价同样为2,000美元左右。 三星电子宣布，其Galaxy Z TriFold作为首款在美国上市的同类三折叠手机，售价定为2,899美元，并将于1月30日上市。 三星将仅通过其官方网站和三星体验店独家销售该设备。这意味着包括Verizon、T-Mobile和AT&T在内的移动运营商合作伙伴将不会直接提供这款手机。 Galaxy Z TriFold展开后可变身为一台10英寸的大型平板电脑。其最薄处仅为3.9毫米，官方宣称其使用寿命内可承受20万次折叠。根据三星的信息，美国版本将配备512GB的存储空间，且仅提供黑色版本。 该机型最初于2025年12月12日在韩国上市，当时的售价为359万韩元（约合当时的2,450美元）。

针对在台港人组织看被禁电影《自杀通告》疑似被跟踪偷拍，台湾大陆事务委员会回应称，相关机关已对此案有所掌握，将依法调查侦办。 综合台湾《自由时报》、《太报》等媒体报道，被香港通缉、目前在台的港人汤伟雄称，日前有港人团体在台湾包场看在香港被禁的电影《自杀通告》，但遭到车辆跟踪、现场也有人偷拍。 台陆委会表示，台湾是法治社会，政府保障民众的自由及人权，不会容许任何不法跟监及人身安全可能受到危害的情事。对这类案件，政府会高度关注，相关机关对本案已有所掌握，将依法调查侦办。 据报道，汤伟雄曾参与反修例运动，后移居台湾。去年在香港立法会选举期间，他通过社交媒体发布呼吁他人“不投票（或投白票）”的文章，被香港廉政公署认为属于违反《选举（舞弊及非法行为）条例》的行为，并发布通缉令。汤伟雄称，通缉令发布后数日，自己在台湾的拳馆就遭不明人士恶意泼红漆。 对此陆委会表示汤伟雄的泰拳工作室泼漆案，经警方追查，已锁定两名香港人士涉有重嫌，当天犯案后立刻从桃园机场出境返港。政府对这起跨境镇压案件完全掌握，全力侦办。并严正警告任何协力者，若配合中共对台渗透及威胁，政府一定依法严惩、绝不宽贷。

Last week, after torrential rain in Sydney, fresh poo balls washed up on the beach at Malabar, the closest beach to the problematic Malabar sewage treatment plant. Signs were erected on the beach warning people not to touch the “debris balls” or swim. But authorities didn’t let the wider community know. There were no other warnings issued by Sydney Water, the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) or the state government. Sydney Water has been slow to take responsibility for the poo balls that closed more than a dozen beaches from October 2024 to January 2025. Questions have also been raised about how willing the NSW EPA has been to share information publicly. In October 2024, when the balls initially washed on to Coogee beach, they were referred to as “mystery” tar balls. In mid-October, Guardian Australia reported the team of scientists analysing the debris was investigating whether the balls could be linked to sewage and whether they could have come from a nearby water treatment plant. Sydney Water pushed back hard. Its media team attempted to have any reference to the corporation removed from the story. Elsewhere, it continued to be widely reported that they were tar balls. Guardian Australia understands the EPA knew the pollutant material was consistent with human-generated waste as early as 25 October 2024. But the finding that they were mini fatbergs containing human faeces was announced late on Wednesday 6 November – right when US election results were dominating news headlines. At the time, the source of the balls was still said to be unknown. “NSW regulator chose to reveal content of Sydney’s mystery beach balls on day of US election,” Guardian Australia reported. Sign up: AU Breaking News email The EPA said: “Due to the complex makeup of both organic and inorganic materials, we are unable to definitively pinpoint a source.” A Sydney Water spokesperson said: “There have been no issues with the normal operations of the Bondi or Malabar wastewater treatment ...

(RTTNews) - Camden National Corp. (CAC) reported a profit for its fourth quarter that Increases, from last year The company's earnings totaled $22.55 million, or $1.33 per share. This compares with $14.66 million, or $1.00 per share, last year. Excluding items, Camden National Corp. reported adjusted earnings of $22.59 million or $1.33 per share for the period. The company's revenue for the period rose 52.3% to $53.91 million from $35.40 million last year. Camden National Corp. earnings at a glance (GAAP) : -Earnings: $22.55 Mln. vs. $14.66 Mln. last year. -EPS: $1.33 vs. $1.00 last year. -Revenue: $53.91 Mln vs. $35.40 Mln last year. The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.

Lyft Inc. is working on offering its rideshare service to teenagers, catching up to an in-demand category that larger rival Uber Technologies Inc. first launched about three years ago. Similar to Uber’s program for young riders, Lyft Teen will match passengers with drivers who have high ratings. PIN authentication will be turned on by default to confirm the user gets in the right car, according to the company. As another safety measure, riders will automatically be prompted to begin audio recording. Parents will get a link to track their teens’ trips in real time, receive updates at pickup and drop-off, and have the option of communicating directly with the driver if needed. Lyft Teen will match teens with drivers who meet the “highest standards” on the platform and offer “transparency for parents every step of the way,” Chief Executive Officer David Risher said in a statement in response to a Bloomberg News inquiry. The feature, which has not been previously reported, was included in the code behind the latest version of the company’s smartphone app, discovered by Bloomberg. Lyft has been making investments meant to expand its user base in the hopes that it can win over some customers from Uber. Last year, the two rivals raced to debut streamlined versions of their apps marketed toward elderly users. Since turning cash-flow positive in 2024, Lyft has also pushed into new markets, including Canada, Puerto Rico and Europe via its acquisition of the regional taxi app Freenow. With the teen rides program, Lyft is recognizing a common practice among parents, who sometimes order rideshare vehicles on their accounts to shuttle their kids to and from after-school events. The announcement marks a reversal for Lyft, which had previously barred minors from using its service unaccompanied. Uber in 2023 opened up its its rideshare and delivery platform to users in the US between the ages of 13 and 17. Uber’s product, which also lets parents track rides in real time, has since b...

Samsung Electronics Co. announced that its Galaxy Z TriFold, the first foldable phone of its kind to ship in the US, will sell for $2,899 and become available Jan. 30. The price is substantially higher than any other smartphone on the US market. Samsung’s own Galaxy Z Fold 7, which has one fold rather than two, retails for $2,000, as does a fully loaded iPhone 17 Pro Max from Apple Inc. with 2 terabytes of storage. Samsung will exclusively sell the TriFold through its website and Samsung Experience Stores, which means mobile carrier partners including Verizon Communications Inc. , T-Mobile US Inc . and AT&T Inc. won’t be offering the device directly. Read More: Samsung’s First Trifold Phone Is Expensive and Half-Baked The TriFold, which unfurls into a large 10-inch tablet, measures 3.9 millimeters at its thinnest point and is rated for 200,000 folds over its lifetime. The US model will come with 512 gigabytes of storage and can only be purchased in black, according to Samsung. It initially went on sale in South Korea on Dec. 12 for a price of 3.59 million won (about $2,450 at the time). Some early reviews have praised the device for its expansive inner screen, which makes movies and other video entertainment more immersive than on regular foldables with a squarer form factor such as the Fold 7 and Google’s Pixel 10 Pro Fold . But the TriFold’s hefty weight of 309 grams (0.68 pounds) and its thick dimensions when folded shut are significant downsides. Its software features also often come off as half-baked when you factor in the ultra-premium price. Destined to remain a niche luxury purchase, the Galaxy Z TriFold is above all else a showcase of Samsung’s industrial design prowess in the foldables segment rather than something the company expects will sell in significant volumes or drive serious revenue. Apple, for its part, will unveil its first folding iPhone later this year. Apple has been working to eliminate the inner screen’s visible crease, a longtime annoyance...

The Labour party’s civil war over the Gorton and Denton byelection has intensified after Andy Burnham accused Downing Street sources of lying about his decision to apply to stand in the Manchester seat. The Manchester mayor was reacting to suggestions by unnamed Keir Starmer allies that he had been told “in no uncertain terms” that any request to the NEC committee to put his name forward for the byelection would be refused. Responding to a post on X by ITV’s political editor, Robert Peston, which suggested sources close to the PM therefore saw Burnham’s move to stand as an explicit attempt to destabilise Starmer, Burnham wrote: “This is simply untrue.” Peston then sent a follow-up message saying a second source had backed up Burnham’s version of events, adding that Burnham was “seeking an urgent call with No 10 about the briefing”. About 50 Labour MPs signed a letter objecting to the decision to block Burnham from standing in the 26 February byelection, warning the prime minister that the move was a “real gift” to Reform UK. Starmer attempted to calm the waters on Monday, saying that while Burnham was “doing a great job”, he and his fellow officers on the NEC had decided to not allow Burnham to quit as mayor of Greater Manchester so as to avoid triggering a costly mayoral election. “Resources, whether that’s money or people, need to be focused on the elections that we must have, not elections that we don’t have to have,” he said. The housing secretary, Steve Reed, said on Tuesday that critics were “entitled to their view”, but NEC officers had voted “overwhelmingly” in favour of the move. Meanwhile, the battle for Gorton and Denton – a seat Labour won with a little over 50% of the vote in 2024 – has begun in earnest. Reform UK was mocked by rival MPs on Tuesday, after one of the party’s MPs, Lee Anderson, posted a picture on social media of himself and activists campaigning for the seat in the wrong constituency. Noting that Anderson was standing outside a hotel in ...

Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek on Tuesday unveiled an upgraded version of its optical character recognition (OCR) model, incorporating an Alibaba Cloud-developed open-source system to boost performance. The new model, DeepSeek-OCR 2, replaced a key component of its original architecture with Alibaba Cloud’s lightweight Qwen2-0.5b model, according to a research paper released by the company. The update, which comes just over three months after DeepSeek launched the first version of its OCR system, underscores the growing role of China’s open-source ecosystem in advancing domestic AI development. Advertisement Alibaba Cloud is the artificial intelligence and cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group Holding, which owns the Post. In the original model, DeepSeek relied on Contrastive Language Image Pre-training (CLIP), a neural network framework developed by Microsoft-backed OpenAI in 2021 that links images with text descriptions. I Advertisement In OCR applications, CLIP helps systems identify and interpret text embedded in images. DeepSeek said that replacing CLIP with Alibaba’s Qwen2-0.5b enabled its OCR model to process documents in a way that mimicked how humans read, following “flexible yet semantically coherent scanning patterns driven by inherent logical structures”, according to the research.

c0ba1t/iStock via Getty Images Overview YieldMax Ultra Option Income Strategy ETF ( ULTY ) remains extremely popular amongst income investors due to its high dividend yield and its diverse portfolio of holdings. When I previously covered ULTY, I issued a buy rating due to the strategy change and management's attempt at implementing a way to hedge against market declines. Since then, the fund's share price has declined by more than 33% and even when including all distributions paid, ULTY still sits at a total loss of ~11%. Since my last coverage, management has yet again implemented another strategy change that overhauls the fund's approach. On December 8th, 2025, ULTY now aims to get away from the specific focus on stocks that have a high implied volatility. Instead, ULTY now aims to take a more balanced approach that aligns with better price stability over a longer holding period. So any performance graphs that are dated before December 8th will not reflect the new strategy. Looking at the performance over the last year, we can see that ULTY's share price has eroded by 57.6%. Even when including all distributions paid out to shareholders, the total return sits at a loss of 2.8% over the same time frame. Data by YCharts Despite the shifts, ULTY continues to offer investors a massive starting dividend yield of ~70% and issues payouts on a weekly basis. Since new payouts are declared every week, the annualized yield will likely be different based on the time you read this article. There are some pros and cons of such a large yield, but I wanted to revisit ULTY to specifically focus on the strategy change and my estimated outlook for the fund. It is becoming harder to support the fund's poor performance and while there may still be some utility left, I believe it ultimately comes down to when an investor initiated their position. Investors that have maintained a position for a longer period of time are likely to be less affected by the continuous NAV erosion. Strategy ...

A team of researchers in China has claimed that a recent near-miss between a Chinese satellite and one of SpaceX’s Starlink devices was behind the US company’s decision to move more than 4,000 of its satellites into lower orbit. The two satellites passed within about 200 metres (656 feet) of each other on December 10, shortly after a launch from northwestern China, according to a social media post last month by Michael Nicolls, SpaceX’s vice-president of engineering. Three weeks later, in another social media post, Nicolls said the company planned to lower nearly half of its more than 9,000 operational internet satellites from an orbit of about 550km (340 miles) above the Earth to 480km to “increase space safety” Advertisement According to the researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Software, even though no collision occurred, “the close call was still unsettling and directly triggered Starlink’s decision for large-scale orbit lowering”. The researchers said the Chinese spacecraft involved was a high-resolution Earth imaging satellite that launched alongside eight other payloads on board a Kinetica-1 rocket on that day. Advertisement In an article published on Monday by commentary outlet Space and Network, the team said it used the institute’s mega-constellation research platform to identify the orbital device, built by Chang Guang Satellite Technology.

After a bruising 2025 that pushed him to the brink of bankruptcy, Arkansas soybean farmer Randall Shelby starts the new year worried that US farmers could once again be caught in the crossfire as tensions between Washington and Beijing threaten to escalate anew. This comes as US President Donald Trump addresses farmers on Tuesday in Iowa, the United States’ second-largest soybean producer, to try to convince them that he has their best interests at heart in advance of the November midterm elections. Iran , Shelby’s anxiety is driven by the “America first” leader’s indirect pressure on Chinese geopolitical interests through his chest-thumping over Venezuela Greenland and Canada. Advertisement “The farmer’s fear is already there. That’s a given,” Shelby, a Trump supporter, said, talking about the possibility of Beijing’s retaliation against the US for hurting its interests. Shelby remains sceptical that Trump’s foreign adventures will yield meaningful results; instead, he fears they will continue to erode the US share of the Chinese market, handing a permanent advantage to South American producers who are already saturating the globe with large harvests. 06:31 Soybeans: China’s new bargaining chip in trade war with US? Soybeans: China’s new bargaining chip in trade war with US? “Unless they’ve got enough leverage to where they can get China to be a little more agreeable. But I don’t see how, when you’ve got South America,” the 50-year-old said.

JD.com, Inc. (JD) has recently been on Zacks.com's list of the most searched stocks. Therefore, you might want to consider some of the key factors that could influence the stock's performance in the near future. Over the past month, shares of this company have returned +1.7%, compared to the Zacks S&P 500 composite's +0.4% change. During this period, the Zacks Internet - Commerce industry, which JD.com falls in, has gained 2.8%. The key question now is: What could be the stock's future direction? Although media reports or rumors about a significant change in a company's business prospects usually cause its stock to trend and lead to an immediate price change, there are always certain fundamental factors that ultimately drive the buy-and-hold decision. Revisions to Earnings Estimates Here at Zacks, we prioritize appraising the change in the projection of a company's future earnings over anything else. That's because we believe the present value of its future stream of earnings is what determines the fair value for its stock. We essentially look at how sell-side analysts covering the stock are revising their earnings estimates to reflect the impact of the latest business trends. And if earnings estimates go up for a company, the fair value for its stock goes up. A higher fair value than the current market price drives investors' interest in buying the stock, leading to its price moving higher. This is why empirical research shows a strong correlation between trends in earnings estimate revisions and near-term stock price movements. JD.com is expected to post earnings of $0.07 per share for the current quarter, representing a year-over-year change of -93.1%. Over the last 30 days, the Zacks Consensus Estimate has changed -50.6%. For the current fiscal year, the consensus earnings estimate of $2.5 points to a change of -41.3% from the prior year. Over the last 30 days, this estimate has changed -18.1%. For the next fiscal year, the consensus earnings estimate of $2.91 i...

In the last few years, Nvidia (NVDA) stock has been among the biggest value creators from the technology space. As investments related to artificial intelligence (AI) have swelled, value creation has been backed by significant upside in revenue, margins, and cash flows. Currently, Nvidia commands a market valuation of $4.6 trillion. Looking forward, there seems to be no dearth of catalysts. Goldman Sachs estimates that global AI-related infrastructure spending is likely to reach $3 trillion to $4 trillion by 2030. While trade frictions have been a concern, recent news also suggests that Chinese regulators have granted "in-principle approval” for Alibaba (BABA), Tencent (TCEHY), and ByteDance to prepare for Nvidia H200 orders. The report further suggests that Alibaba and ByteDance are looking to order over 200,000 units each. Earlier this month, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang indicated that “demand for the H200 chips was strong among Chinese customers.” Therefore, as the purchase orders start flowing, it’s likely to support overall growth. About Nvidia Stock Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Nvidia identifies itself as a global leader in accelerated computing. The company specializes in products and platforms for markets that include gaming, data center, automotive, and professional visualization. Nvidia has a critical role in the growth of AI with the company engineering the most advanced chips, systems, and software for AI factories. For Q3 fiscal 2026, Nvidia reported revenue of $57 billion, which was higher by 62% on a year-over-year (YOY) basis. For the same period, GAAP margin was robust at 73.4%. In the last six months, NVDA stock has trended higher by 7%. The uptrend has been relatively subdued and seems like an opportunity to accumulate. Sustained Growth Visibility For Nvidia, the growth momentum is not cyclical, but structural. To put things into perspective, Nvidia expects accelerated computing, powerful AI models, and agentic applications to drive demand...

Flora, a design tool used by designers at Alibaba, Brex, creative agency Pentagram, and entertainment company Lionsgate, has hit a new milestone. The startup has raised $42 million in Series A led by Redpoint Ventures, it announced on Tuesday. Generative AI models can be used in the design process via prompts and other multimodal inputs. Software companies like Adobe, Figma, and Canva have also added features to make AI more central to their products. Meanwhile, newer design startups believe that to accommodate AI and test the capabilities of different models, you need new workflows and a different interface. To address these evolving needs, Flora lets customers use image, text, or video to create media assets, including images and video. Users can also use prompts to create modifications to build new nodes with multiple iterations. These generated versions are mapped with each other on a canvas to give you a tractable flow of creation. Users can then branch out from any node to create a new version of the concept or creative they are trying to make. For instance, if someone wants to create a marketing video, they can provide reference images and text prompts to create a concept. They can then add different prompts to make different videos in contrasting styles to see which one is better. Flora’s CEO and founder, Weber Wong, was previously an investor at Menlo Ventures. After that, he joined New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, which fuses tech and art. Flora’s alpha version was launched in 2024 as part of the course. The company launched a more stable version of the tool last year. Flora CEO Weber Wong Image Credits: Flora Wong said that he realized that there was an opportunity to create a new interface to stitch different models together and create an entire workflow in one screen. Techcrunch event Disrupt 2026 Tickets: One-time offer Tickets are live! Save up to $680 while these rates last, and be among the first 500 registrants to get 5...

is a senior reviewer with over a decade of experience writing about consumer tech. She has a special interest in mobile photography and telecom. Previously, she worked at DPReview. Samsung’s much-anticipated Galaxy Z Trifold goes on sale on this Friday, January 26th, and the price is every bit as steep as we’d feared: $2,899, which gets you 512GB of storage and a phone that kind of wants to be a tablet all the time. The Trifold first premiered in Korea late last year, so the sky-high price isn’t totally unexpected. You can spend two thousand bucks on a slab-style iPhone after all; maybe $2,900 for three phones in one isn’t so outrageous. Samsung first teased the Trifold almost exactly a year ago, which is a pretty rapid journey from teaser to shipping product — especially considering that there’s really just one other company making a phone like this. And that trifold isn’t sold in the US, so you’re probably gonna spend more than $2,900 to get one imported. If you’re in the US and itching to get your hands on a trifolding phone, then you’ll want to have your credit card ready to go later this week.

cynoclub/iStock via Getty Images The Undercovered Dozen is a weekly Seeking Alpha editor-curated series highlighting 12 articles on lesser-covered stocks from the previous seven days. We hope this provides ideas and inspires discussion among the community. Today, we're looking at articles published between Jan. 16 and 22. Take a look at what these less-covered stocks might hold for you. And please join the conversation below to share what you think: Are any of these worth following up on? And are there other undercovered ideas that you like? A 15% Dividend Yield Trading For Pennies On The Dollar: Goldman Sachs BDC Samuel Smith | Buy Goldman Sachs BDC ( GSBD ) has sold off sharply recently and now trades at a whopping 27% discount to NAV, which is near multi-year valuation lows for the stock. As a result, the stock now yields about 15.5% based on its most recent quarterly payout, which includes a small supplemental dividend payout. But even excluding any supplemental dividends moving forward, its base dividend yield is around 13.8%. The steep discount to NAV and the bloated dividend yield seem to indicate that the market is pricing in poor underwriting performance moving forward, with a sharp decline in NAV per share and likely also another dividend cut. This article will take a closer look at the company to see if it is a buy on the recent sell-off. In particular, we'll look and see if the discount is too wide for a mostly first lien portfolio with modest non-accruals, or if expected earnings per compression and further realized losses in 2026 warrant steering clear for now in anticipation of a material additional dividend cut and further substantial NAV per share declines moving forward. Read more here. IYRI: Not A REIT Fan But Love Income? Consider Collecting An 11% Tax-Efficient Yield Instead Dividend Collection Agency | Buy For years we've heard about how REITs, like the Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund ETF Shares ( VNQ ) or The Real Estate Select Sector SPDR® Fu...

Daniel Grizelj/DigitalVision via Getty Images Sleeper stocks in the AI-adjacent space can remain that way for extended periods of time before finally catching a bid. Such has been the case for names like Cisco Systems, Inc. ( CSCO ) and Applied Materials, Inc. ( AMAT ), which are up by 20% and 69%, respectively, over the past 12 months. This is not to mention memory chip companies like Micron Technology, Inc. ( MU ) and Seagate Technology Holdings plc ( STX ), both of which are up by over 200% over the past year. At those valuations, the time for outsized gains may have already passed, as the market has already baked in lofty expectations for these companies. This brings me to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company ( HPE ), which I last covered back in May 2023, highlighting its transformation from a hardware player to an edge-to-cloud company with robust recurring revenues. With an attractive valuation at that time, HPE has produced a solid 59% total return since my last piece, which is still below the 67.5% rise in the S&P 500 ( SPY ) over the same timeframe. At the current price of $21.05, HPE remains attractively valued with a forward P/E of just 8.9x, as shown below. HPE Stock 1-Yr Trend (Seeking Alpha) In this article, I revisit HPE, including recent business results , and discuss why now remains an opportune time to pick up this bargain before the market potentially re-rates it upward, so let’s dig in! Why HPE? Hewlett Packard Enterprise is a leading enterprise technology company that’s helping organizations accelerate their digital transformations. It was split off from Hewlett Packard in 2015 and focuses on corporate IT infrastructure, hybrid cloud services, and AI-enabled systems. HPE’s customers include sovereign and global enterprise customers across industries. HPE has seen a material ramp in revenue over the past couple of years, with contributions from all three of its business segments: Networking, Server, and Hybrid Cloud (supported by its GreenLake pla...

Justin Paget/DigitalVision via Getty Images By Rich Hill, Global Head of Real Estate Research & Strategy In our 2026 Global CRE Outlook: A Cycle for Selectivity , we argued that the commercial real estate (CRE) cycle has moved into recovery by nearly all traditional measures. REIT valuations, often a bellwether for cyclical turning points, have risen broadly since their 2023 trough. Valuations across most major price indices are rising, and credit markets are functioning again, helping bolster transaction activity. At the same time, distress, a classic lagging indicator, continues to edge higher, reflecting the long tail of the downturn. However, there are two key caveats that differentiate this cycle from prior recoveries. A rising tide will no longer lift all boats. Returns are diverging sharply across sectors, regions, and fund strategies. This unevenness isn’t a flaw in the cycle—it is the cycle. Investors are no longer confronting a broad-based downturn; they are navigating widening dispersion. The cycle ahead will likely be alpha-driven, and real estate investors will increasingly need to take a page from equity markets, where asset and market selection drive performance. Income will be the dominant driver of returns over the next 12 to 18 months. Unlike the post-global financial crisis (GFC) period—when returns were amplified by accommodative policy and financial engineering—the next phase of performance will hinge on property fundamentals and effective asset management. Net operating income will likely drive both income returns and capital returns in a higher-for-longer rate backdrop where cap rate compression is limited. Structural themes will remain important, but clearing return hurdles requires sharper focus and execution. In Europe, this is playing out in single-sector funds , which continue to notably outperform their multi-sector counterparts. Additionally, return dispersion across European ODCE funds has widened over the past year: the median net ret...

Ypê was introduced to Rimini Agentic UX™ , an intelligent, AI-driven user engagement layer that streamlines ERP Processes for speed of execution and significant savings. Through in-depth discovery and persona-based workflow design, Ypê is automating processes across customer service, sales and other departments, from eight manual steps to just two. The results include dramatic improvement in speed, reduced risk and enhanced OTIF (on-time, in-full) performance. LAS VEGAS, January 27, 2026 --( BUSINESS WIRE )-- Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), the Software Support and Agentic AI ERP Company™, and the leading third-party support provider for Oracle, SAP and VMware software, today announced the expansion of its partnership with Ypê , the Brazilian consumer goods company whose products can be found in over 95% of Brazilian homes. This milestone marks a new phase in Ypê’s AI-first vision to build a frictionless company that delivers exceptional experiences for employees, customers and stakeholders. Story Continues "SAP thinks only about the SAP environment, but Rimini Street thinks about all the integrations," said Pereira. "With Rimini Street’s Agentic UX offering, I now have a major advantage and a smart path to achieving AI across the enterprise." A Model for the Future: Accelerating Agentic AI for Strategic Advantage "Ypê is a role model for how organizations can use Agentic AI ERP to achieve enterprise-wide value, quickly, safely and without disruption," said Vijay Kumar, EVP and chief innovation officer at Rimini Street. "Together, we are deploying intelligent workflows that accelerate decision making, reduce operational friction, and support Ypê’s long-term AI strategy." "At Ypê, we have several AI projects in works, but the Rimini Agentic UX™ project has outperformed them all in both speed and expectations. It only took one month from start to delivery, and helped us reduce our approval cycle by 60% and accelerate time-to-value. It’s a great win for our IT team...

As artificial intelligence reshapes software development, a small startup is betting that the industry's next big bottleneck won't be writing code — it will be trusting it. Theorem , a San Francisco-based company that emerged from Y Combinator's Spring 2025 batch, announced Tuesday it has raised $6 million in seed funding to build automated tools that verify the correctness of AI-generated software. Khosla Ventures led the round, with participation from Y Combinator , e14 , SAIF , Halcyon , and angel investors including Blake Borgesson, co-founder of Recursion Pharmaceuticals, and Arthur Breitman, co-founder of blockchain platform Tezos. The investment arrives at a pivotal moment. AI coding assistants from companies like GitHub , Amazon , and Google now generate billions of lines of code annually. Enterprise adoption is accelerating. But the ability to verify that AI-written software actually works as intended has not kept pace — creating what Theorem's founders describe as a widening "oversight gap" that threatens critical infrastructure from financial systems to power grids. "We're already there," said Jason Gross, Theorem's co-founder, when we asked whether AI-generated code is outpacing human review capacity. "If you asked me to review 60,000 lines of code, I wouldn't know how to do it." Why AI is writing code faster than humans can verify it Theorem's core technology combines formal verification — a mathematical technique that proves software behaves exactly as specified — with AI models trained to generate and check proofs automatically. The approach transforms a process that historically required years of PhD-level engineering into something the company claims can be completed in weeks or even days. Formal verification has existed for decades but remained confined to the most mission-critical applications: avionics systems, nuclear reactor controls, and cryptographic protocols. The technique's prohibitive cost — often requiring eight lines of mathematical pro...

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SANTA ROSA, Calif., Jan. 27, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Summit State Bank (the “Bank”) (Nasdaq: SSBI) today reported net income of $1,067,000, or $0.16 per diluted share for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2025, compared to net loss of $7,142,000, or $1.06 loss per diluted share for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2024. For the year ended December 31, 2025, the Bank reported net income of $6,796,000, or $1.01 per diluted share compared to a net loss of $4,193,000, or $0.62 loss per diluted share for the year ended December 31, 2024. “In 2025, our focus was on building a strong foundation for the future, and we made meaningful progress toward that goal,” said Brian Reed, President and CEO. “After reporting a net loss in 2024, we returned to profitability and made significant progress on our strategic priorities. Our core banking operations performed well, with improved net interest margin and disciplined expense management driving our results. While we continue to work through some credit challenges in our loan portfolio, the overall trajectory is positive. Our team remains focused on what we do best: serving the financial needs of local businesses and families. That focus is reflected in our earnings for the fourth quarter and for the year. We are encouraged by this progress and committed to building on this momentum in the year ahead. Fourth quarter 2025 Financial Highlights (at or for the three months ended December 31, 2025) Net income was $1,067,000, or $0.16 per diluted share, compared to a net loss of $7,142,000, or $1.06 loss per diluted share, in the fourth quarter of 2024 and net income of $818,000, or $0.12 per diluted share for the third quarter ended September 30, 2025. Net interest margin was 3.62% in the fourth quarter of 2025 compared to 2.88% in the fourth quarter of 2024 and 3.51% in the third quarter of 2025. Non-performing assets were $27,346,000 at December 31, 2025 compared to $32,191,000 at December 31, 2024 and $27,978,000 at Septemb...

A kids' guide to phone-free fun, from the author of 'The Anxious Generation' toggle caption Rocky Pond Books If you're the parent of a child or teenager, chances are you've heard of social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, or at the very least his wildly influential, bestselling 2024 book, The Anxious Generation. In sum, the book argues that the rise of smartphones and social media over the past decade and a half has "rewired" the brains of young people, leading to a mental health crisis. Haidt's arguments and approach have been challenged by critics, many of whom point out that causation is not correlation, that his work ignores the many other potential factors at play affecting mental health. Yet, The Anxious Generation has undeniably had a significant impact. Haidt is leading, in his own terms, a "movement," which we have already seen translate into legislation in many states around the U.S. limiting the use of phones in schools. Sponsor Message Rocky Pond Books Haidt's latest work, a collaboration with science journalist Catherine Price, as well as graphic novelist Cynthia Yuan Cheng, is a graphic novel aimed at children instead of adults. A brief prelude to the book lays out a not-so-subtle allegory: A bunch of "greedy" wizards have created stones that promise happiness in the form of "friendship, freedom, and fun." Eventually, the people who use the stones begin to feel as though they have lost all sense of happiness and fun. It's the "rebels," first a few, soon many, who eventually band together and find strength in numbers to free themselves from the glittering gemstones that once largely imprisoned them. If this sounds overly trite or simplistic, as a parent it's hard not to feel an essence of truth in the notion that certain forms of technology and their applications (iPhones, Chromebooks and tablets; video games, social media and YouTube) have transformed our children's and teenagers' lives and our experiences as parents, most often not for the better. As the ...

Flora, a design tool used by designers at Alibaba, Brex, creative agency Pentagram, and entertainment company Lionsgate, has hit a new milestone. The startup has raised $42 million in Series A led by Redpoint Ventures, it announced on Tuesday. Generative AI models can be used in the design process via prompts and other multimodal inputs. Software companies like Adobe, Figma, and Canva have also added features to make AI more central to their products. Meanwhile, newer design startups believe that to accommodate AI and test the capabilities of different models, you need new workflows and a different interface. To address these evolving needs, Flora lets customers use image, text, or video to create media assets, including images and video. Users can also use prompts to create modifications to build new nodes with multiple iterations. These generated versions are mapped with each other on a canvas to give you a tractable flow of creation. Users can then branch out from any node to create a new version of the concept or creative they are trying to make. For instance, if someone wants to create a marketing video, they can provide reference images and text prompts to create a concept. They can then add different prompts to make different videos in contrasting styles to see which one is better. Flora’s CEO and founder, Weber Wong, was previously an investor at Menlo Ventures. After that, he joined New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, which fuses tech and art. Flora’s alpha version was launched in 2024 as part of the course. The company launched a more stable version of the tool last year. Flora CEO Weber Wong Image Credits: Flora Wong said that he realized that there was an opportunity to create a new interface to stitch different models together and create an entire workflow in one screen. “Our realization [while building Flora] was that the generative computing paradigm needed a new creative interface. If you think about the personal computing p...

Orbit Analytics Data Pipelines accelerate ERP-to-Lakehouse integration with automated, governed, and ERP-aware data flows ALPHARETTA, Ga., Jan. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Orbit Analytics, a leading provider of AI-powered enterprise reporting and analytics solutions for Oracle applications, today announced a partnership with Databricks , the Data and AI company, to deliver faster, smarter, and more unified data intelligence to enterprise customers. The partnership combines the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform with Orbit Analytics' direct-connect integration capabilities for Oracle Fusion, E-Business Suite (EBS), and other ERP systems. Together, they will enable enterprises to harness governed and timely insights across financial, operational, and strategic data while dramatically reducing implementation time and cost. "Modern enterprises face a critical challenge: unlocking near-real-time insights from complex ERP environments," said Rupesh Sharma, CEO of Orbit Analytics. "By joining forces with Databricks, we're simplifying that process. Customers can now use a single, scalable platform to unify ERP reporting, advanced analytics, and AI-driven decision making—without the traditional data silos or latency that slow business responsiveness." As part of the partnership, Orbit Analytics is releasing Data Pipelines, a purpose-built, ERP-aware pipeline framework that lands curated ERP data into Delta Lake with end-to-end governance through Unity Catalog, Databricks' unified and open governance solution for data and AI. The solution enables teams to move from source systems to analytics-ready tables in hours or days rather than weeks or months—without stitching together multiple tools. Through the partnership, customers will gain native integration with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, allowing them to seamlessly ingest, transform, and analyze ERP data on Databricks using SQL, Python, and AI models. Organizations will also be able to leverage Lakeflow Spark De...

"The Washington, D.C. region continues to be a center for innovation, and this year’s finalists reflect that momentum," said Daphne Wotherspoon, president of WIT. "This awards program is a defining moment for WIT each year, and we are proud to recognize these remarkable women shaping the future of the technology field and inspiring those to follow in their footsteps." FALLS CHURCH, Va., January 27, 2026 --( BUSINESS WIRE )-- Women in Technology (WIT), the premier organization contributing to the success of professional women in the Washington, D.C. area technology community, today announced the finalists for the 27th Annual Leadership Awards. This awards program recognizes extraordinary women at every stage of their careers, from emerging talent to seasoned executives, along with the organizations and allies who support excellence, mentorship, and opportunity in the technology sector. Story Continues This year’s awards are anchored in the theme Mentor–Protégé, celebrating the power of mentorship and these leaders who have shared knowledge and opened doors for other women in technology. For more than two decades, WIT’s Mentor–Protégé program has served as a cornerstone of our mission, pairing mentors with professional women looking for insight, direction, and knowledge for career advancement and success. Since its launch, WIT has supported nearly 1,400 protégés through 54 Mentor–Protégé cohorts and is now accepting applications for program 55. WIT will announce the winners at the 27th Annual Leadership Awards Gala on May 6, 2026, at the Hyatt Regency in Reston, Virginia. For information about sponsorship packages and to purchase tables or individual tickets, please visit https://www.womenintechnology.org/leadership-awards. #WITLA2026 About Women in Technology Women in Technology (WIT) is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of advancing women in technology — from the classroom to the boardroom. With more than 1,000 members in the Washington, D.C. area, WIT ...