Image source: The Motley Fool. Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026 at 4:30 p.m. ET Call participants Chairman and Chief Executive Officer — Robert Goldstein President and Chief Operating Officer — Patrick Dumont Chief Operating Officer, Macao — Kwan Chum Takeaways Marina Bay Sands EBITDA -- $806 million, representing the highest quarterly EBITDA in the history of casino hotels, with a reported margin of 50.3...
Image source: The Motley Fool. Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026 at 4:30 p.m. ET Call participants Chairman and Chief Executive Officer — Robert Goldstein President and Chief Operating Officer — Patrick Dumont Chief Operating Officer, Macao — Kwan Chum Takeaways Marina Bay Sands EBITDA -- $806 million, representing the highest quarterly EBITDA in the history of casino hotels, with a reported margin of 50.3%. -- $806 million, representing the highest quarterly EBITDA in the history of casino hotels, with a reported margin of 50.3%. Total 2025 Marina Bay Sands EBITDA -- $2.9 billion, as stated by management. -- $2.9 billion, as stated by management. Macao EBITDA -- $608 million, with management expressing disappointment in the result. -- $608 million, with management expressing disappointment in the result. Macao portfolio EBITDA margin -- 28.9% adjusted for hold, down 390 basis points compared to the fourth quarter of 2024. -- 28.9% adjusted for hold, down 390 basis points compared to the fourth quarter of 2024. Venetian Macao margin -- 32.3% during the quarter. -- 32.3% during the quarter. Londoner Macao margin -- 28.8% for the period. -- 28.8% for the period. Marina Bay Sands hold impact -- EBITDA was $45 million higher than would be expected at normalized hold for the quarter. -- EBITDA was $45 million higher than would be expected at normalized hold for the quarter. Macao hold impact -- EBITDA would have been $26 million lower if hold matched expectations in the rolling segment. -- EBITDA would have been $26 million lower if hold matched expectations in the rolling segment. Marina Bay Sands mass gaming and [spot win] -- $951 million, which is up 27% compared to the same period last year and 118% higher than Q4 2019. -- $951 million, which is up 27% compared to the same period last year and 118% higher than Q4 2019. Macao mass market revenue share -- Exceeded 25% for the quarter, up from 23.6% in the first quarter of 2025. -- Exceeded 25% for the quarter, up from 23.6% in ...
Couple killed near Kyiv and apartment block hit while US says territorial issue of Donetsk ‘very difficult’ to resolve. What we know on day 1,436 Russia has hit cities across Ukraine with drones and a missile, killing a couple near the capital of Kyiv one day after five people died in an attack on a passenger train . The attack came ahead of a fresh round of peace talks due at the weekend. Officia...
Couple killed near Kyiv and apartment block hit while US says territorial issue of Donetsk ‘very difficult’ to resolve. What we know on day 1,436 Russia has hit cities across Ukraine with drones and a missile, killing a couple near the capital of Kyiv one day after five people died in an attack on a passenger train . The attack came ahead of a fresh round of peace talks due at the weekend. Officials said four people, including two children, sought medical attention after the strikes overnight to Wednesday. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned the attack on the apartment block, as well as another strike with short-range rockets on what he described as a residential area without military targets in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia. “We will respond fairly to Russia for this and other similar attacks,” he wrote on social media. Russian strikes on other locations across the country included the southern port city of Odesa as well as the central city of Kryvyi Rih. The territorial issue of Donetsk is “very difficult” to resolve, the US secretary of state has said, saying there is active work under way to reconcile the issue at US-mediated talks to end Russia’s war in Ukraine. “It’s still a bridge we have to cross,” Marco Rubio said on Wednesday. “It’s still a gap, but at least we’ve been able to narrow down the issue set to one central one, and it will probably be a very difficult one,” he told a US Senate foreign relations committee hearing, referring to the eastern Ukrainian region where Moscow wants Kyiv to surrender land. Rubio said the US may the join the new Russia-Ukraine talks this week but that said US participation would be more junior than last week when Donald Trump envoys Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner joined negotiations in Abu Dhabi that were Ukrainian and Russian officials’ first face-to-face talks on Trump’s plan to end the war. Life will be particularly tough for Ukrainians over the next three weeks due to plunging temperatures and inten...
Maksim Safaniuk/iStock via Getty Images The Trump administration is stepping back from plans to guarantee a minimum price for U.S. critical minerals projects, Reuters reported late Wednesday, sending shares of rare earth companies sharply lower after-hours. USA Rare Earth ( USAR ) -10.5%, United States Antimony ( UAMY ) -9.5%, Critical Metals ( CRML ) -8.8%, Ramaco Resources ( METC ) -8.5%, NioCor...
Maksim Safaniuk/iStock via Getty Images The Trump administration is stepping back from plans to guarantee a minimum price for U.S. critical minerals projects, Reuters reported late Wednesday, sending shares of rare earth companies sharply lower after-hours. USA Rare Earth ( USAR ) -10.5%, United States Antimony ( UAMY ) -9.5%, Critical Metals ( CRML ) -8.8%, Ramaco Resources ( METC ) -8.5%, NioCorp Developments ( NB ) -6.3%, MP Materials ( MP ) -5.8%, TMC the metals company ( TMC ) -4.7%, Lithium Americas ( LAC ) -4.1%, Perpetua Resources ( PPTA ) -3.7%, Nouveau Monde Graphite ( NMG ) -3%, Trilogy Metals ( TMQ ) -2.7%, Westwater Resources ( WWR ) -2.5%, Albemarle ( ALB ) -2.3%, Sigma Lithium ( SGML ) -2%, Standard Lithium ( SLI ) -1.1%. The shift, which comes as a U.S. Senate committee is reviewing a price floor extended last year to MP Materials ( MP ), would mark a reversal from commitments made to industry by U.S. officials; the shift would guide future deals and would not affect MP's price floor, according to the report . U.S. mining and processing companies have pushed for price floors and other government backstops to help them compete with China, whose state-backed producers can cut prices to punish rivals, undercut projects, and deter private investment. ETFs: ( REMX ), ( XME ), ( LIT ), ( BATT ) More on rare earth and strategic metals The Mining And Metals Supercycle- Driven By AI And The Deterioration Of Fiat Currency Values LIT: Despite The Rise, Lithium Is Still Not My Preferred Commodity For 2026 REMX: Big Policy Tailwinds, Bigger Volatility
人工智能专家李飞飞创立的 World Labs 近期推出了核心产品 World API,标志着人工智能从生成视频内容向构建可交互三维空间的重大跨越。该平台利用多模态输入技术,能将文字或图像转化为具备物理规则与几何结构的数字世界,供机器人训练、游戏开发及虚拟现实使用。与传统的视频生成模型不同,这一工具旨在赋予机器空间智能,使其能够理解并进入一个可以自由移动和探索的真实环境。 真正的“世界模型”是什么...
人工智能专家李飞飞创立的 World Labs 近期推出了核心产品 World API,标志着人工智能从生成视频内容向构建可交互三维空间的重大跨越。该平台利用多模态输入技术,能将文字或图像转化为具备物理规则与几何结构的数字世界,供机器人训练、游戏开发及虚拟现实使用。与传统的视频生成模型不同,这一工具旨在赋予机器空间智能,使其能够理解并进入一个可以自由移动和探索的真实环境。 真正的“世界模型”是什么?李飞飞说:不只是看,还要能走进去。 2026 年 1 月 21 日,她创立的 World Labs 上线了开放平台 World API。输入一张图、一段文字或一个视频,它就能生成一个 3D 世界。AI 可以在里面移动和探索,你也可以把它导出到游戏引擎或机器人仿真系统。 但在李飞飞眼中,World API 不只是一个生成工具。 1 月 28 日,在播客《Rethink Reality》上,李飞飞说: “世界可以是抽象的,也可以是物理的。它可以大到宇宙,也可以小到一粒沙子。我们不只是在做一个模型,而是在重新定义,什么才算一个世界。” 就在几天前,彭博社曝出这家公司正与投资人谈判新一轮融资,估值或达50亿美元,是首轮融资时的五倍。 第一节|世界不是图像,是可交互空间 要理解 World API 为什么重要,先看它和现在主流的 AI 工具有什么不同。 Sora、即梦等生成的是视频流,本质是固定角度的连续画面。你看到一段影像,但无法走进去,无法绕到背后。这是给人看的内容。 World Labs 生成的是空间结构,是完整的几何模型加上物理关系。你可以走进去,可以绕到后面,可以导出到游戏引擎或机器人仿真系统。这是给机器用的环境。 这个区别为什么重要? 视频模型解决“看什么”,世界模型解决“能做什么”。游戏需要可探索的关卡、机器人需要可训练的仿真环境、VR 需要可沉浸的空间,这些都不是一段视频能解决的。 而要做到这些,AI 必须理解物体能做什么。 一张椅子不只是椅子,是可以坐的东西;一扇门不只是形状,是可以推开的入口。AI 如果不理解这些,就无法真正进入世界,更无法在里面行动。 所以,世界可以大到宇宙,也可以小到一粒沙子。关键不在尺度,在于它是否具备完整的空间关系、物理规则和可交互性。 AI的输出,正在从内容变成环境。 第二节|World API 的核心能力 这个环境是怎么造出来的? 1...
Intel has a lot of proving to do after issuing disappointing guidance. Intel (INTC +11.06%) stock recently got hit with a major pullback. The company posted its fourth-quarter results on Jan. 22 and delivered sales and earnings that came in ahead of the market's expectations. The semiconductor player posted non-GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) adjusted earnings of $0.15 per share on...
Intel has a lot of proving to do after issuing disappointing guidance. Intel (INTC +11.06%) stock recently got hit with a major pullback. The company posted its fourth-quarter results on Jan. 22 and delivered sales and earnings that came in ahead of the market's expectations. The semiconductor player posted non-GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) adjusted earnings of $0.15 per share on sales of $13.7 billion, beating the average analyst forecast for per-share earnings of $0.08 on sales of $13.4 billion. On the other hand, the company's forward guidance came in below Wall Street's expectations. The company guided for first-quarter sales to come in between $11.7 billion and $12.7 billion, with the midpoint of that guidance range falling short of the average analyst estimate's call for sales of $12.51 billion. Meanwhile, management's forecast for a break-even quarter missed Wall Street's target for adjusted earnings per share of $0.05. Despite the big pullback, Intel stock is still up 111% over the last year. What comes next for the semiconductor company, and what do investors need to be watching out for? AI sales and the foundry business take center stage Intel's data center and artificial intelligence (AI) segment grew sales 8.9% year over year to hit $4.7 billion in the fourth quarter. The performance came in significantly better than the $4.43 billion in sales called for by the average analyst estimate, and the company said that sales would have been even higher were it not for supply issues. The company is shifting production at its fabs to meet demand for its new server chips, but the transition is taking some time -- and this dynamic partially explains the underwhelming Q1 guidance. Management expects factory output along those lines to improve in each subsequent quarter this year. Intel has started shipping chips manufactured on its 18A process and says development for its next-gen 14A process remains on track. On the other hand, the foundry busines...
NASA Set to Launch 1st Manned Moon Rocket In 50 Years: What To Know Authored by T.J. Muscaro via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), For the first time in more than 50 years, N ASA has mounted a rocket on the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in preparation for a manned flight around the moon. Artemis II sits in the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Jan. 1...
NASA Set to Launch 1st Manned Moon Rocket In 50 Years: What To Know Authored by T.J. Muscaro via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), For the first time in more than 50 years, N ASA has mounted a rocket on the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in preparation for a manned flight around the moon. Artemis II sits in the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Jan. 16, 2026. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images, The super heavy lift rocket is called the Space Launch System. Fueled by more than 700,000 gallons of liquid oxygen and hydrogen and two solid rocket boosters reminiscent of the space shuttle era, the orange and white behemoth could, as soon as Feb. 6, carry the Artemis II crew— NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen —on their 10-day voyage around the moon and farther from Earth than any astronauts have gone before. Hundreds of men and women who had a hand in assembling the rocket braved the winter cold on Jan. 17 to watch the ship roll out of the vehicle assembly building and move to the launch complex. The Artemis II crew, mission leaders, and NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman were also on hand to commemorate the milestone. But there is still a lot to be done before liftoff, and the exact launch date is still to be determined. Here is what to know about the Artemis II mission, as well as what preparations and parameters still stand in the way of launch. What Is Artemis II? Artemis II is the second mission of NASA’s Artemis campaign. Named after the ancient Greek goddess of the moon and Apollo’s twin sister, the program’s purpose is not only to return manned missions to the moon, but also to establish a sustainable, permanent human presence on the lunar surface and in lunar orbit before 2030. Lead flight director Jeff Radigan emphasized that the mission is first and foremost a test flight. Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen will be the first to fly aboard the Sp...
The number of picks that you know are Buffett-approved is only going to shrink from here. Act now while you can. He has stepped down from his role as chief executive -- and chief stock-picker -- of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A 0.49%) (BRK.B 0.18%) at the end of last year. Nevertheless, the tickers currently in the conglomerate's portfolio are still Warren Buffett's picks. If you believe in his approa...
The number of picks that you know are Buffett-approved is only going to shrink from here. Act now while you can. He has stepped down from his role as chief executive -- and chief stock-picker -- of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A 0.49%) (BRK.B 0.18%) at the end of last year. Nevertheless, the tickers currently in the conglomerate's portfolio are still Warren Buffett's picks. If you believe in his approach, it's not too late to add some names to your portfolio that he likes as well. Here are three of the best ones to consider right now, if you have a few thousand bucks you're ready to put to work in the market. Amazon Technology stocks usually weren't Buffett's cup of tea. He has said they're just too difficult to understand. It's not difficult to see why he made an exception with Amazon (AMZN 0.68%) though. Berkshire's position in the e-commerce powerhouse is relatively small at 10 million shares, collectively worth about $2.4 billion (about 0.1% of Amazon, and less than 1% of Berkshire's entire stock portfolio), but Buffett and his lieutenants are plugged into one of the world's most proven consumer ecosystems. Consumer Intelligence Research Partners reports there are now more than 200 million Amazon Prime members in the U.S. alone, accounting for a majority of what's estimated to be over 300 million regular worldwide customers. The company sold $530 billion worth of goods and services to these consumers in 2024 alone, up 10% from the prior year's tally, and is likely to match this growth rate for the entirety of 2025 when those full-year numbers are released. Clearly, the company is doing something right. Expand NASDAQ : AMZN Amazon Today's Change ( -0.68 %) $ -1.67 Current Price $ 243.01 Key Data Points Market Cap $2.6T Day's Range $ 241.53 - $ 247.78 52wk Range $ 161.38 - $ 258.60 Volume 41M Avg Vol 45M Gross Margin 50.05 % E-commerce accounts for the majority of Amazon's revenue, but cloud computing provides about 60% of its bottom line. And that segment's revenue is...
Key Points Intel's Q4 report arrived with sales and earnings beats, but guidance for this year's first quarter fell short of expectations. Intel's next quarterly report and round of forward guidance could provide some crucial insights into the outlook for its chip foundry tech. 10 stocks we like better than Intel › Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) stock recently got hit with a major pullback. The company post...
Key Points Intel's Q4 report arrived with sales and earnings beats, but guidance for this year's first quarter fell short of expectations. Intel's next quarterly report and round of forward guidance could provide some crucial insights into the outlook for its chip foundry tech. 10 stocks we like better than Intel › Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) stock recently got hit with a major pullback. The company posted its fourth-quarter results on Jan. 22 and delivered sales and earnings that came in ahead of the market's expectations. The semiconductor player posted non-GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) adjusted earnings of $0.15 per share on sales of $13.7 billion, beating the average analyst forecast for per-share earnings of $0.08 on sales of $13.4 billion. On the other hand, the company's forward guidance came in below Wall Street's expectations. The company guided for first-quarter sales to come in between $11.7 billion and $12.7 billion, with the midpoint of that guidance range falling short of the average analyst estimate's call for sales of $12.51 billion. Meanwhile, management's forecast for a break-even quarter missed Wall Street's target for adjusted earnings per share of $0.05. Where to invest $1,000 right now? Our analyst team just revealed what they believe are the 10 best stocks to buy right now, when you join Stock Advisor. See the stocks » Despite the big pullback, Intel stock is still up 111% over the last year. What comes next for the semiconductor company, and what do investors need to be watching out for? AI sales and the foundry business take center stage Intel's data center and artificial intelligence (AI) segment grew sales 8.9% year over year to hit $4.7 billion in the fourth quarter. The performance came in significantly better than the $4.43 billion in sales called for by the average analyst estimate, and the company said that sales would have been even higher were it not for supply issues. The company is shifting production at its fabs to mee...
Tesla on Wednesday highlighted progress toward launching production of its long-delayed Tesla Semi truck as a key operational priority, as the company’s profit plummeted 46% to $3.8 billion in 2025, marking a second consecutive year of declining profitability. Austin, Texas-based Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) released its fourth-quarter earnings and held a conference call with analysts after the market clo...
Tesla on Wednesday highlighted progress toward launching production of its long-delayed Tesla Semi truck as a key operational priority, as the company’s profit plummeted 46% to $3.8 billion in 2025, marking a second consecutive year of declining profitability. Austin, Texas-based Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) released its fourth-quarter earnings and held a conference call with analysts after the market closed on Wednesday. Tesla officials told investors that preparations are underway to begin Semi manufacturing in early 2026 as part of a broader push into commercial and industrial markets. “At the moment, we’re expecting [Tesla] CAPEX to be in excess of $20 billion. We’ll be paying for six factories, namely the refinery, lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries factories, Cybercab, Semi, a new megafactory, the Optimus factory.On top of it, we’ll also be spending money for building our AI compute infrastructure and we’ll continue investing in our existing factories to build more capacity,” Tesla CFO Vaibhav Taneja said. In its fourth-quarter shareholder update, Tesla said tooling for the Tesla Semi is in place at its Nevada operations and that North American factories are being readied for production ramps of both the Semi and its autonomous Cybercab platform beginning in the first half of 2026. Tesla pitched the Semi as a truck that would have a range of up to 500 miles fully charged, with a load capacity of 81,000 pounds. The Semi was originally priced in 2017 at $150,000 for a 300-mile range version and $180,000 for the 500-mile version. Tesla eventually unveiled the Semi in December 2022 but has delayed mass production of the electric tractor several times over the past three years. About 200 Semi trucks have been delivered to clients such as PepsiCo. The Semi update came as Tesla reported fourth-quarter results showing continued investment in heavy-duty vehicle and battery infrastructure, even as overall vehicle deliveries declined year over year. According to Tesla’s four...