With everything from gas to groceries getting more expensive these days, your 2027 Social Security cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) probably can't come soon enough. We've still got more than six months until then, but that hasn't stopped people from trying to predict where the COLA will end up. A new Consumer Price Index (CPI) report, set for release on June 10, 2026, will shed some new light on i...
With everything from gas to groceries getting more expensive these days, your 2027 Social Security cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) probably can't come soon enough. We've still got more than six months until then, but that hasn't stopped people from trying to predict where the COLA will end up. A new Consumer Price Index (CPI) report, set for release on June 10, 2026, will shed some new light on inflation trends, and that'll give us a few more clues about what the 2027 COLA might be. Here's a closer look at what to watch for. Image source: Getty Images. Continue reading
Micron (NASDAQ: MU) stock posted a massive rally in May's trading. The company's share price surged 87.8% higher in a month that saw the S&P 500 gain 5.2% and the Nasdaq Composite jump 8.4%. Micron has been on a huge rally this year thanks to a favorable demand outlook for memory chips used in artificial intelligence and data center applications. Even with a pullback in June's trading, the company...
Micron (NASDAQ: MU) stock posted a massive rally in May's trading. The company's share price surged 87.8% higher in a month that saw the S&P 500 gain 5.2% and the Nasdaq Composite jump 8.4%. Micron has been on a huge rally this year thanks to a favorable demand outlook for memory chips used in artificial intelligence and data center applications. Even with a pullback in June's trading, the company's share price is up roughly 203% in 2026. Image source: Getty Images. Continue reading
Anyone who owns a stake in Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRKA) (NYSE: BRKB) may be more than a little frustrated that the company seemingly isn't doing anything with its idle cash. As of the latest look, it's got $397.4 billion on the sidelines, versus only $328 billion in stock holdings, at a time when the market is roaring. Like predecessor Warren Buffett, though, current Berkshire CEO Greg Abel und...
Anyone who owns a stake in Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRKA) (NYSE: BRKB) may be more than a little frustrated that the company seemingly isn't doing anything with its idle cash. As of the latest look, it's got $397.4 billion on the sidelines, versus only $328 billion in stock holdings, at a time when the market is roaring. Like predecessor Warren Buffett, though, current Berkshire CEO Greg Abel understands something many investors may not: This conglomerate's structure isn't what it seems on the surface. Its equity investments aren't necessarily the only growth engine. Image source: Getty Images. Continue reading
An 86‑year‑old woman died on Monday morning after falling from her flat while cleaning a window at a residential estate in Discovery Bay, an upscale seaside community in Hong Kong. Police said they received a report at around 10am from security staff at Greendale Court in Greenvale Village who discovered the woman lying unconscious outside the building. Paramedics arrived shortly after and pronoun...
An 86‑year‑old woman died on Monday morning after falling from her flat while cleaning a window at a residential estate in Discovery Bay, an upscale seaside community in Hong Kong. Police said they received a report at around 10am from security staff at Greendale Court in Greenvale Village who discovered the woman lying unconscious outside the building. Paramedics arrived shortly after and pronounced her dead at the scene. A police investigation suggested the woman might have lost her footing...
Nvidia Corp. and Hyundai Motor Group agreed to deepen their alliance to turn so-called physical AI and robotics into real industrial products. Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang and Hyundai Motor Executive Chair Chung Euisun outlined an expanded vision for their AI-powered partnership after talks in Seoul on Monday, spanning mobility, manufacturing and robotics. A key focus of the enhance...
Nvidia Corp. and Hyundai Motor Group agreed to deepen their alliance to turn so-called physical AI and robotics into real industrial products. Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang and Hyundai Motor Executive Chair Chung Euisun outlined an expanded vision for their AI-powered partnership after talks in Seoul on Monday, spanning mobility, manufacturing and robotics. A key focus of the enhanced roadmap is moving robotics from research labs to actual factory floors. By tapping Hyundai’s manufacturing ecosystem, the companies aim to create globally scalable platforms. Robotics has long been a core pillar of their collaboration, underscored by Hyundai’s Atlas humanoid robot, whose production-ready model has captured investor attention after its debut at the CES technology show in January. The two companies are getting “very very close” to industrializing robotics, Huang said, adding that they plan to bring AI to “all forms of mobility.” He emphasized Hyundai’s ability to spearhead this shift thanks to its vast manufacturing infrastructure. “Hyundai is incredible at manufacturing, incredible at mobility, incredible at heavy industries, manufacturing at extremely large scales,” Huang told reporters. “No one is in a better position to take advantage of that and to create that than Hyundai.” Another major topic of discussion was Hyundai’s 9 trillion won ($5.9 billion) initiative in the western port city of Saemangeum, which Huang dubbed as South Korea’s “AI Valley.” The project includes an AI data center, a robot manufacturing cluster and a hydrogen plant. Read: Hyundai Motor to Invest $6.3 Billion in AI, Robotics Center Chung noted that further investment will be channeled into the city, suggesting that the two firms can create a “perfect AI ecosystem” including a joint data hub if Nvidia officially joins the project. Huang, a self-proclaimed fan of Korean barbecue and fried chicken, likened the site to America’s Silicon Valley, joking that he would gladly accept the ...
He moved from Nigeria to middle England and was swept up into the rave scene – then battled through incarceration and near-death illness. After making 500 tracks while living on porridge and lettuce, he explains how he kept going Ibrahim Alfa Jr had been feeling unwell for a while – he’d been coughing up blood – but he says he only realised how ill he was when the facial recognition on his phone s...
He moved from Nigeria to middle England and was swept up into the rave scene – then battled through incarceration and near-death illness. After making 500 tracks while living on porridge and lettuce, he explains how he kept going Ibrahim Alfa Jr had been feeling unwell for a while – he’d been coughing up blood – but he says he only realised how ill he was when the facial recognition on his phone stopped working, because it could no longer recognise his face. When he went to visit his sister in 2022, she was so shocked by his appearance, she took him straight to A&E. He was suffering from anaphylaxis, a severe and potentially fatal allergic reaction: moreover, he had a pulmonary embolism that was causing his lung to fill up with blood. “I thought: oh my God, that’s literally what killed Andy Weatherall, ” he says today. Like Weatherall once was, Alfa Jr is a veteran star of British rave culture. “So, like, wow .” The embolism treated, he was sent home, but still wasn’t feeling right. The weekend after, a second pulmonary embolism was found on his other lung. The weekend after that, he had a heart attack. Then he had a second heart attack. Returning home, he discovered he’d become “allergic to everything. Even water was swelling my face,” he says. “You just don’t know what you can eat, so I just lived on porridge and lettuce leaves for three months, and didn’t see anybody. I just locked myself in a room, and a friend would bring me porridge and lettuce leaves. I only went out to go to the doctors. Any type of social life, of seeing other humans just disappeared. It was that visceral.” Continue reading...