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在美国总统特朗普突袭委内瑞拉之后，预测市场交易员大幅加注，押注未来可能出现更多国际动荡。 这些新兴平台上的交易员最近已投入资金，押注白宫下一步可能将注意力转向何处。随着华尔街和普通民众注意到特朗普政府正转向迅速而有力的国际军事行动，相关押注显著增加。 “投资者应重点关注的是，特朗普对使用军事力量正变得越来越自如且自信，”派杰（Piper Sandler）分析师安迪·拉佩里埃雷（Andy Laperriere）周一在致客户的信中写道。“他第二个任期的第一年以无限的精力和冒险精神为特征，这种风格现已延伸至军事行动领域。” 在Kalshi预测市场上，特朗普在2029年初之前“收回”巴拿马运河的概率已从上周晚些时候的不足30%跃升至35%以上。特朗普去年曾表示，他不排除动用武力以控制这条连接太平洋与大西洋的海上通道。 美国将“接管”格陵兰岛的可能性在周二中午升至38%，较上周中段上升了约8个百分点。上周末某一时刻，该概率一度飙升至46%以上。 另一个以投注金额衡量的更大规模市场——押注特朗普将“购买丹麦领土至少一部分”——其概率徘徊在25%左右，高于上周晚些时候不足20%的水平。 投注金额接近250万美元。 但特朗普在本周末《大西洋月刊》（TheAtlantic）发表的一篇采访中重申了其夺取这一欧洲属地的主张。“我们绝对需要格陵兰岛，”特朗普告诉该杂志。 欧亚集团（EurasiaGroup）欧洲董事总经理穆吉塔巴⋅拉赫曼（MujtabaRahman）表示，在特朗普最新言论之后，丹麦政府已进入“全面危机应对模式”。 责任编辑：张俊 SF065

美国总统唐纳德·特朗普政府与乌克兰的盟友在周二举行的所谓“自愿联盟”会议上，就向基辅提供其长期寻求的安全保障取得了进展。 代表美国出席巴黎会议的特使史蒂夫·威特科夫表示，各方取得了重大进展，“基本完成了安全议定书”。法国和英国分别承诺，如果达成和平协议，将向乌克兰派兵，作为所谓“保证部队”的一部分。 欧洲、加拿大及其他国家的领导人与包括威特科夫和特朗普的女婿贾里德·库什纳在内的美国官员举行了会议。他们讨论了结束长达4年的俄乌冲突的计划，以及在与俄罗斯达成和平协议后防止进一步袭击的措施。 法国总统马克龙在会后对记者表示：“‘自愿联盟’的声明首次体现了联盟35个国家、乌克兰以及美国在共同推动建立强有力安全保障的操作层面趋同。” 马克龙表示，讨论中的美国安全保障相当于乌克兰盟友长期寻求的“兜底安排”。 责任编辑：丁文武

Elon Musk ’s artificial intelligence startup xAI has completed a $20 billion funding round from investors including Nvidia Corp., Valor Equity Partners and the Qatar Investment Authority, the company said. The investment has been in the works for months, and Nvidia had planned to put in as much as $2 billion, Bloomberg previously reported. The company, which did not specify individual investment amounts or break out debt or equity portions of the round, said investors also include Stepstone Group, Fidelity Management & Research Co., MGX and Baron Capital Group. Musk’s xAI is planning for an expansion of its massive data center complex in Memphis , purchasing a third building in the area that will bring the company’s artificial intelligence computing capacity to almost 2 gigawatts, Musk has said. Read more: xAI to Raise $20 Billion After Nvidia and Others Boost Round

Microsoft stock was on track to break a three-day losing streak on Tuesday after shares fell below their key moving averages and all-time high of 555.45, according to MarketSurge chart analysis tools from Investor's Business Daily. In December, analyst Dan Ives at Wedbush said the software giant is poised for a strong 2026 and reiterated an outperform rating with a price target of 625. Ives said that Microsoft's growth outlook from its cloud business was being underestimated by Wall Street as the artificial intelligence infrastructure buildout continues along with monetization that will drive revenue and profits.

These tech companies offer solid return prospects over the next five years. Artificial intelligence (AI) demand remains red-hot heading into 2026. The global AI market is projected to reach over $1.7 trillion by 2032, growing at a 29% compound annual rate, according to Fortune Business Insights. Investors who patiently hold shares of industry-leading companies can profit handsomely from this opportunity. The recent sell-off in tech stocks is an excellent time to consider adding a few to your portfolio. Here are two AI stocks poised for a bull run. 1. Oracle Shares of Oracle (ORCL +0.61%) has pulled sharply back from recent highs, presenting a great buying opportunity. Oracle reported accelerating demand for cloud infrastructure services last year. The company has a massive backlog of contracted revenue to fulfill over the next few years, providing visibility to future growth. Hyperscalers have experienced robust demand for training AI models the past few years, but these models have relied heavily on public data from the internet. Oracle sees AI training on private data becoming a much larger opportunity over the long term, which could benefit its database services business. Revenue from autonomous database services surged 43% year over year in the recent quarter. Expand NYSE : ORCL Oracle Today's Change ( 0.61 %) $ 1.18 Current Price $ 193.77 Key Data Points Market Cap $553B Day's Range $ 190.72 - $ 194.85 52wk Range $ 118.86 - $ 345.72 Volume 468K Avg Vol 25M Gross Margin 65.40 % Dividend Yield 0.99 % Meta Platforms (META +0.30%) and Nvidia signed contracts with Oracle in the quarter, driving the company's remaining performance obligations up 433% year over year to $523 billion. These are not just commitments but, importantly, contracted revenue that Oracle expects to realize in the coming years. This points to accelerating revenue growth through the end of the decade. Advertisement To meet this demand, Oracle expanded its capacity of graphics processing units (GP...

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average and other stock indexes gained momentum Tuesday afternoon, building on solid gains in the previous session. Palantir Technologies advanced while makers of cooling equipment for data centers got the cold shoulder on the stock market today.

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The proverbial news cannon that is CES is firing new products on all barrels, but every now and then, there's a stray remark that makes our ears perk up. In a round-table interview Tom's Hardware attended at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, AMD's David McAfee was discussing the sorry state of the ongoing chip crisis, and he let out a hint that AMD could bring back older AM4 desktop chips, presumably 5000-series Ryzen processors and APUs based on the Zen 3 architecture. As even non-techies know by now, buying a brand new computer is a prohibitively expensive proposition, thanks mainly to the absurd prices of DDR5 memory. In addition, folks moving from machines that are just four years old will find themselves in the unenviable position of having to buy overpriced memory and a new motherboard on top of that, as the move to DDR5 also implies a socket change for both Intel and AMD chips. When questioned about the rock-and-hard-place situation these users are in, McAfee stated that AMD "[is] certainly looking at everything that [it] can do to bring more supply and kind of reintroduce products back into the [AM4] ecosystem to satisfy the demands of gamers that maybe want that significant upgrade in their AM4 platform without having to rebuild their entire system", further adding that he thinks this is "definitely something [AMD is] very actively working on." It should be noted that a remark by one person does not make for a company-wide mission statement, but at least at face value, this move would make full sense for both AMD and customers. Furthermore, the context for the aforementioned statement was that AMD's telemetry obtained through the Adrenalin software corroborated that a significant portion of users are still running 2000- and 3000-series chips. In addition to that, McAfee noted that many of its retail partners are seeing higher numbers of CPU-only purchases, indicating that shoppers are buying new-old chips to grant a tangible speed boost to their existing machines in t...

Sandisk, a maker of NAND flash memory, surged 25% while hard-drive makers Seagate and Western Digital jumped 14% and 17% respectively. Micron, which produces primarily DRAM memory chips, was up 8.7%. In a report Monday, market research firm Trendforce projected that contact prices for NAND flash memory will jump 30%-35% just in the first quarter of this year.

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In the fast-moving world of AI development, it is rare for a tool to be described as both "a meme" and AGI, artificial generalized intelligence, the "holy grail" of a model or system that can reliably outperform humans on economically valuable work. Yet, that is exactly where t he Ralph Wiggum plugin for Claude Code now sits. Named after the infamously high-pitched, hapless yet persistent character on "The Simpsons," this newish tool (released in summer 2025) — and the philosophy behind it — has set the developer community on X (formerly Twitter) into a tizzy of excitement over the last few weeks. For power users of Anthropic’s hit agentic, quasi-autonomous coding platform Claude Code , Wiggum represents a shift from "chatting" with AI to managing autonomous "night shifts." It is a crude but effective step toward agentic coding, transforming the AI from a pair programmer into a relentless worker that doesn’t stop until the job is done. Origin Story: A Tale of Two Ralphs To understand the "Ralph" tool is to understand a new approach toward improving autonomous AI coding performance — one that relies on brute force, failure, and repetition as much as it does on raw intelligence and reasoning. Because Ralph Wiggum is not merely a Simpsons character anymore; it is a methodology born on a goat farm and refined in a San Francisco research lab, a divergence best documented in the conversations between its creator and the broader developer community. The story begins in roughly May 2025 with Geoffrey Huntley , a longtime open source software developer who pivoted to raising goats in rural Australia. Huntley was frustrated by a fundamental limitation in the agentic coding workflow: the "human-in-the-loop" bottleneck. He realized that while models were capable, they were hamstrung by the user’s need to manually review and re-prompt every error. Huntley’s solution was elegantly brutish. He wrote a 5-line Bash script that he jokingly named after Ralph Wiggum, the dim-witted but...

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While CES 2026 is full of tech giants unveiling their latest innovations, the real excitement comes from discovering unexpected, quirky gadgets that make you ask, “Who thought of this?” We’re here to spotlight the wildest products we’ve found so far at CES 2026, from an AI-powered panda that responds to your touch, to Razer’s holographic anime assistant, and plenty more weirdness that makes you do a double-take. An AI anime companion that watches you from your desk Razer’s Project AVA, originally introduced last year as an esports AI coach, has evolved into something new: 5.5-inch animated holographic desk companion that can assist with gaming strategies, productivity, daily organization, and even personal advice. It’s both a gaming ally and an everyday assistant. Users can choose from different characters, such as the anime girl Kira or the muscular Zane. These digital avatars feature lifelike movements, eye-tracking, expressive faces, and lip-syncing for realistic interactions. What really stands out, though, is the constant monitoring — the device watches you and your screen using the built-in camera. It’s a bit unsettling, but since it’s still just a concept, there’s no guarantee it’ll ever become a real product. A cuddly AI baby panda robot for older adults AI Panda AnAn rests by the window on the desk Image Credits:Mind With Heart Robotics An’An, the latest AI pet from Mind with Heart Robotics, combines an adorable design with a meaningful mission: supporting elderly care. The panda bot has high-tech sensors all over its body, so it reacts naturally when you touch it. Its emotional AI remembers your voice, how you interact, and what you like, so the longer you spend time with An’An, the more personalized it gets. It provides around-the-clock emotional support to combat loneliness. Additionally, for older adults who might be struggling with memory, An’An helps keep them engaged, reminds them about daily tasks, and keeps caregivers in the loop about their well-b...

As Bitcoin miners increasingly pivot toward artificial intelligence and high-performance computing (HPC), many assume their biggest competition will come from cloud giants such as Amazon, Google or Microsoft. According to Frank Holmes, executive chairman of HIVE Digital Technologies, the reality is ...

At CES 2026, PepsiCo announced a multi-year collaboration with Siemens and NVIDIA to deploy physics-based digital twins and AI across its plants and supply chain, after early U.S. pilots showed faster design cycles and lower capital spending needs. This move positions PepsiCo as an early large-scale adopter of industrial metaverse tools in consumer packaged goods, using high-fidelity 3D simulations to test facility changes virtually and identify most operational issues before they occur on the factory floor. Next, we’ll examine how PepsiCo’s use of Siemens’ Digital Twin Composer and NVIDIA Omniverse could reshape its technology-driven investment narrative. The end of cancer? These 29 emerging AI stocks are developing tech that will allow early identification of life changing diseases like cancer and Alzheimer's. PepsiCo Investment Narrative Recap To own PepsiCo, you need to believe its global snacks and beverages franchises, supported by consistent dividends, can justify a premium valuation despite modest growth and high debt. The new Siemens and NVIDIA collaboration strengthens its cost and efficiency story, but the biggest near term swing factor still looks like execution on broader North America cost cuts, including SKU reductions, which carries some risk if it crimps future growth capacity. The digital twin announcement fits alongside PepsiCo’s earlier plan to increase automation and digital tools across its North America supply chain after discussions with Elliott Investment Management. Together, these efforts frame a clearer near term catalyst around productivity and core operating margin expansion, even as the company balances those initiatives against the risk of cutting too deeply into its product and manufacturing base. Yet investors should also be aware that productivity gains can come at a cost if PepsiCo trims capacity too aggressively... Read the full narrative on PepsiCo (it's free!) PepsiCo's narrative projects $101.5 billion revenue and $11.8 billio...

Newly-inaugurated New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani ’s housing agenda is facing its first test as the city balks at the bankruptcy sale of thousands of rent-stabilized apartments owned by Pinnacle Group, where residents have railed against living conditions. City authorities on Monday asked a bankruptcy judge to delay a Chapter 11 auction scheduled for Thursday, saying they need more time to both evaluate a proposed $451 million deal to Summit Properties USA and “explore any potential alternatives.” After the buildings were put into bankruptcy last year, Summit offered to buy dozens of buildings in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Bronx and Queens in the form of a stalking horse bid, meaning the transaction is subject to potentially better offers at auction. Advisers representing the bankrupt properties haven’t provided the city with information about Summit’s ability to consummate the proposed sale or whether it is willing and financially able to repair the buildings, New York City Corporate Counsel Muriel Goode-Trufant said in a court filing. The Pinnacle-owned buildings owe the city $12.7 million for unpaid debts and housing violations, the city said. “Completion of the bankruptcy auction process will bring financial stability along with the opportunity to stabilize services, outcomes which we would expect the City would not want to disrupt,” Pinnacle lawyer Ken Fisher said in an email. Summit didn’t immediately return a message Tuesday seeking comment. The challenge follows an assertion from Mamdani, just hours into his term as mayor, that the city would intervene in the bankruptcy to protect tenants. It foreshadows the 34-year-old’s ambitious plans after he campaigned with a relentless focus on affordability, particularly around housing, ahead of his ascent to chief overseer of the most populous city in the US. Residents have dealt with a lack of heating, roaches and “the kind of conditions that no New Yorker should have to live through,” Mamdani said at a press conferenc...

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Grok began 2026 as it began 2025: under fire for its AI-generated images. Elon Musk’s chatbot has spent the last week flooding X with nonconsensual, sexualized deepfakes of adults and minors. Circulating screenshots show Grok complying with requests to put real women in lingerie and make them spread their legs, and to put small children in bikinis. Reports of images that were later removed describe even more egregious contents. One X user confirmed in a conversation with The Verge that they came across multiple images of minors with what the prompter dubbed “donut glaze” on their faces, which appear to have since been removed. At one point, Grok was generating about one nonconsensual sexualized image per minute, according to one estimate. X’s terms of service prohibit “the sexualization or exploitation of children.” And on Saturday, the company stated the platform would “take action against illegal content on X, including Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM).” It appears to have taken down some of the worst offenses. But overall, it’s downplayed the incidents. Musk has said that “Anyone using Grok to make illegal content will suffer the same consequences as if they upload illegal content,” but he’s made it clear through public X posts that he doesn’t believe the general undressing prompts are a problem, and he’s responded to the broader topic with laughing and fire emojis on X. The company’s tepid response has alarmed experts who have spent years trying to address AI-powered sexual harassment and abuse. Multiple governments have said they’re scrutinizing X. But even amid an unprecedented push for online regulation, the path toward policing it or its chatbot’s creations isn’t clear. xAI, creator of Grok, did not respond to a request for comment. Neither did Apple or Google when asked if the reports viol...

Key Points Traditional IRAs and 401(k) eventually force savers to take required minimum distributions (RMDs). Those forced withdrawals can create a huge tax bill. You may be able to avoid unwanted taxes if you play your cards right. The $23,760 Social Security bonus most retirees completely overlook › When I first started working full-time and was able to make retirement plan contributions, I was admittedly torn between a traditional IRA and a Roth. (My employer didn't offer a 401(k) plan at first.) I liked the idea of saving money on my taxes in the near term, which a traditional IRA allows for. But I also liked the idea of tax-free withdrawals in retirement, which you get with a Roth IRA. 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 » These days, funding a traditional retirement plan makes sense for me from a tax perspective. But back when I was in a lower tax bracket, I wish I would've taken advantage of a Roth IRA. See, one thing I neglected to consider back then was that Roth retirement accounts don't just give you tax-free withdrawals in retirement. They also don't impose required minimum distributions, or RMDs. For many people, RMDs aren't a problem. If you're forced to withdraw, say, $12,000 a year from your traditional IRA or 401(k) but were already planning to withdraw $1,000 a month to cover living expenses, there's really no issue. RMDs become more of a sore spot when you don't need the money. The reason? Not only do they mean your money stops growing in a tax-advantaged manner, but they can also create a huge tax liability for you. Say you have enough income from Social Security and other sources that there's no need to touch your traditional IRA or 401(k) in retirement. If you're forced to take a $30,000 RMD, you're going to pay taxes on that sum. Thankfully, there are a couple of strategies you can employ to avoid an unwanted RMD ...

is a NYC-based AI reporter and is currently supported by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism. She covers AI companies, policies, and products. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Universal Music Group is partnering with Nvidia to bring a new AI model to one of the world’s largest music catalogs. Among other initiatives, Tuesday’s announcement touts the extension of Nvidia’s music AI model Music Flamingo, which is designed to mimic how humans understand music by recognizing nuanced elements like song structure, harmony, emotional arcs, and chord progressions. But UMG’s statement stresses that its collaboration with Nvidia pursues “responsible AI” meant to make it easier to discover, engage with, and create music. On that last point, the companies will promote their “shared objectives of advancing human music creation and rightsholder compensation.” The Music Flamingo model, which was published in November 2025 by Nvidia and researchers at University of Maryland, College Park, can process tracks up to 15 minutes long. Details are scarce about exactly how the model will be incorporated into UMG’s catalog, but artists will be able to use Music Flamingo to better analyze their own music, as well as describe and share the music “with unprecedented depth,” according to the statement. Fans, meanwhile, can find music in new ways beyond genre or playlist, such as with emotion or “cultural resonance.” The announcement is similarly vague about how the partnership will work when it comes to AI-driven music creation tools, but promises a “dedicated artist incubator” to help design and test out tools, “serving as a direct antidote to generic, ‘AI slop’ outputs, and placing artists at the center of responsible AI innovation.” What that means in practice remains to be seen. While not UMG’s first partnership with an AI company, Nvidia is perhaps its highest-profile collaboration within the sector. UMG is embracing “the opportunitie...

European and US allies of Ukraine on Tuesday agreed on “robust” security guarantees for Kyiv to come into force after an eventual ceasefire in Russia’s war against the pro-Western country that would see the United States lead a truce monitoring mechanism, French President Emmanuel Macron said. Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky signed a declaration of intent that foresees Britain, France and other European allies deploying troops on Ukrainian territory after a ceasefire. Macron said after the meeting in Paris that the moves represented “robust security guarantees for a solid and lasting peace”, hailing an “operational convergence” among allies including the United States. Advertisement The security guarantees are “the key to ensuring that a peace agreement can never mean a Ukrainian surrender and that a peace agreement can never mean a new threat to Ukraine” from Russia, Macron said. “It’s important that today the coalition has substantive documents. These are not just words. There is concrete content: a joint declaration by all the coalition countries and a trilateral declaration by France, Britain and Ukraine,” Zelensky said. (From left) Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, France’s President Emmanuel Macron and Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer sign the declaration on deploying a post-ceasefire force in Ukraine in Paris on Tuesday. Photo: dpa “It has been defined how those forces will be managed and at what levels command will be exercised,” Zelensky added.

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What Happened? Shares of semiconductor packaging and testing company Amkor Technology (NASDAQ:AMKR) jumped 5.2% in the afternoon session after investment firm Needham & Company significantly raised its price target on the stock, pointing to surging demand for artificial intelligence chips. The firm boosted its price target by over 35% to $50 from a previous $37, while it held its "Buy" recommendation. Analysts at Needham explained that Amkor was well-positioned to become a major player in advanced chip packaging, a critical step in making powerful AI processors. The boom in AI created huge demand for these specialized chips. According to Needham, the main producer, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., appeared willing to outsource its extra advanced packaging work to Amkor. This shift was seen as a major opportunity, with one analyst estimating it could lead to as much as $5 billion in new yearly sales for Amkor. Is now the time to buy Amkor? Access our full analysis report here. What Is The Market Telling Us Amkor’s shares are very volatile and have had 29 moves greater than 5% over the last year. In that context, today’s move indicates the market considers this news meaningful but not something that would fundamentally change its perception of the business. The previous big move we wrote about was 4 days ago when the stock gained 5.6% on the news that the stock rallied alongside its peers as the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index surged. The move came as the broader Philadelphia Semiconductor Index gained 2.93%, lifting many of its component stocks. Amkor was noted as one of the leading performers within the index. This broad-based positive sentiment in the semiconductor space was supported by a market report highlighting strong growth potential in the 'Flip Chip Packaging Services' market, where Amkor is a key player. Adding to the positive backdrop, data from the previous day indicated that short interest in the company had also declined. Amkor is up 18.7% sinc...