(RTTNews) - Workday, Inc. (WDAY) will host a conference call at 4:30 PM ET on May 21, 2026, to discuss Q1 27 earnings results. To access the live webcast, log on to https://investor.workday.com/news-and-events/investor-relations-events/default.aspx The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.
(RTTNews) - Workday, Inc. (WDAY) will host a conference call at 4:30 PM ET on May 21, 2026, to discuss Q1 27 earnings results. To access the live webcast, log on to https://investor.workday.com/news-and-events/investor-relations-events/default.aspx The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.
(RTTNews) - Take-Two Interactive Software Inc (TTWO) will host a conference call at 4:30 PM ET on May 21, 2026, to discuss Q4 26 earnings results. To access the live webcast, log on to https://events.q4inc.com/attendee/689334386 To listen to the call, dial (800) 715-9871 or (646) 307-1963, Conference ID 9711440. The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and d...
(RTTNews) - Take-Two Interactive Software Inc (TTWO) will host a conference call at 4:30 PM ET on May 21, 2026, to discuss Q4 26 earnings results. To access the live webcast, log on to https://events.q4inc.com/attendee/689334386 To listen to the call, dial (800) 715-9871 or (646) 307-1963, Conference ID 9711440. The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.
Should you choose the legendary stability of Coca-Cola (KO 0.60%) or the explosive growth potential of Celsius (CELH +2.58%) for your portfolio? This comparison examines which beverage giant is better positioned for 2026. Coca-Cola dominates the global market through a massive distribution network and iconic brands, appealing to conservative income seekers. Celsius focuses on functional energy dri...
Should you choose the legendary stability of Coca-Cola (KO 0.60%) or the explosive growth potential of Celsius (CELH +2.58%) for your portfolio? This comparison examines which beverage giant is better positioned for 2026. Coca-Cola dominates the global market through a massive distribution network and iconic brands, appealing to conservative income seekers. Celsius focuses on functional energy drinks and younger demographics, prioritizing rapid market share expansion. While they operate in the same aisles, their financial profiles and growth trajectories suggest very different roles for an investor's long-term strategy. Image source: Getty Images. The case for Coca-Cola Coca-Cola sells a portfolio of over 200 brands, including soft drinks, waters, coffees, and teas, to consumers in more than 200 countries. The business operates through several segments, including North America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific, relying on a complex network of bottling partners to reach local markets. For the year ended Dec. 31, 2025, one specific bottler accounted for roughly 10% of total operating revenues. Customer concentration like this adds a layer of risk to the business, as the company depends on these partners for volume and execution. In FY 2025, revenue reached nearly $47.9 billion, showing a steady rise from approximately $47.1 billion the prior year. Net income for the period was close to $13.1 billion, resulting in a net margin of roughly 27.3%. This level of profitability is a hallmark of major players among beverage stocks worldwide. The growth reflects the company's ability to pass on price increases even as global volume trends fluctuate. As of its December 2025 balance sheet, Coca-Cola reported a debt-to-equity ratio of nearly 1.4x, which measures total debt against the value of shareholder equity. This indicates that the company uses a moderate amount of borrowed capital to finance its global operations. The current ratio stands at approximately 1.5x, which measures the com...
Key Points IBM and the Commerce Department announced Anderon, a quantum computing foundry. IBM and the government will each contribute $1 billion to the effort. The Commerce Department's funding of several other quantum companies signals quantum technology may be ready for prime time. 10 stocks we like better than International Business Machines › Shares of International Business Machines (NYSE: I...
Key Points IBM and the Commerce Department announced Anderon, a quantum computing foundry. IBM and the government will each contribute $1 billion to the effort. The Commerce Department's funding of several other quantum companies signals quantum technology may be ready for prime time. 10 stocks we like better than International Business Machines › Shares of International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) rallied 11.3% on Thursday, as of 2:35 p.m. EDT. IBM, as a large-cap stock, doesn't tend to move this much without quarterly earnings. But today, "Big Blue" was at the center of big quantum computing news, which also included the very newsworthy Trump administration. Will AI create the world's first trillionaire? Our team just released a report on the one little-known company, called an "Indispensable Monopoly" providing the critical technology Nvidia and Intel both need. Continue » IBM unveils Anderon, the country's first quantum foundry Today, the U.S. Commerce Department announced its intention to fund roughly a dozen U.S. quantum computing companies to accelerate the development of the technology. Among the awardees was IBM, which announced Anderon, what it calls, "America's first pure-play quantum foundry." According to the news release, IBM and the Commerce Department have signed a letter of intent to build Anderon in Albany, N.Y., to which IBM will contribute $1 billion, with an additional $1 billion coming from the Commerce Department via the 2022 CHIPS Act funding. While IBM has its own proprietary quantum computing technology under its corporate umbrella and is thus a competitor in some ways to the other "pure-play" quantum computing stocks being funded today, it appears that IBM will also aim to be the foundry for these competitors, producing their quantum chips in addition to IBM's own. In the announcement, IBM said it would use its 300mm wafer process, along with other advanced manufacturing technologies it has cultivated over many years. CEO Arvind Krishna ...
Elon Musk ’s reshaping of SpaceX , xAI and X into a tightly-bound conglomerate has already yielded a significant financial windfall: nearly $1 billion in annual interest savings. Regulatory documents filed Wednesday ahead of SpaceX’s historic initial public offering reveal that the company secured a $20 billion bridge loan from banks — and that it was the funding source used to take out $17.5 bill...
Elon Musk ’s reshaping of SpaceX , xAI and X into a tightly-bound conglomerate has already yielded a significant financial windfall: nearly $1 billion in annual interest savings. Regulatory documents filed Wednesday ahead of SpaceX’s historic initial public offering reveal that the company secured a $20 billion bridge loan from banks — and that it was the funding source used to take out $17.5 billion of high-interest junk debt for Musk’s social media and AI companies. The bridge loan came at an effective interest rate of 4.58% as of March 31, the documents show, vastly lower than the junk bonds and leveraged loans for X and xAI, which had rates as high as 12.5%. All told, the maneuver cut combined annual interest costs roughly in half to around $900 million, according to Bloomberg calculations. Representatives for SpaceX didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. Musk has utilized debt markets extensively to buy or grow his businesses, securing billions in bank commitments and structuring complex financings . But it hasn’t all been smooth sailing. His 2022 buyout of Twitter loaded the company with roughly $12.5 billion of borrowings , creating a notorious hung debt quagmire for Wall Street banks who were initially unable to sell it to investors. They ultimately succeeded in doing so last year. Then Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI acquired X in March of 2025, and in June of that year borrowed an additional $5 billion. When SpaceX subsequently purchased xAI in February, Morgan Stanley — which handled both companies’ debt raises — told existing lenders that the debt pile was set to be paid back in full , without saying how. As it transpired, SpaceX used this $20 billion facility from a group of banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. , Bank of America Corp. , Citigroup Inc. , JPMorgan Chase & Co. , and Morgan Stanley . It couldn’t have come at a better time: X had been paying tens of millions each month to service its debt, while xAI had been burni...
With Tesla's (TSLA) core auto business continuing to post underwhelming results and its nascent robotaxi initiative having trouble getting off the ground, TSLA stock, with its forward price-to-earnings ratio of 335.83 times, appears to be dramatically overvalued. Consequently, investors should avoid buying Tesla's shares. Meanwhile, Congress is considering imposing an annual fee of $130 on electri...
With Tesla's (TSLA) core auto business continuing to post underwhelming results and its nascent robotaxi initiative having trouble getting off the ground, TSLA stock, with its forward price-to-earnings ratio of 335.83 times, appears to be dramatically overvalued. Consequently, investors should avoid buying Tesla's shares. Meanwhile, Congress is considering imposing an annual fee of $130 on electric vehicles. While this fee, if implemented, is unlikely to deter the vast majority of consumers interested in Tesla's EVs from buying them, it could slightly reduce the demand for the firm's automobiles, adding another negative catalyst for TSLA stock. About TSLA Stock The largest seller of EVs in the U.S. by a wide margin, Tesla has not performed well for its investors so far in 2026, as its shares had fallen 6.27% so far this year. Tesla has an extremely high market capitalization of $1.57 trillion. The Auto Business and the Robotaxi Initiative Continue To Be Unimpressive Tesla delivered 358,023 EVs in the first quarter, well below the 408,386 vehicles that it produced. Further, analysts, on average, were expecting the company to deliver 370,000 EVs. And the automaker handed over 14% fewer EVs than in the previous quarter, although its deliveries did increase 6% versus Q1 of 2025. Still, the Q1 total was not superb overall. Turning to robotaxis, Reuters recently reported that the service has been plagued by “long wait times, canceled rides, limited availability and problems with drop-offs .” Additionally, Elektrek, a news website focusing on EVs, has asserted that the robotaxis have a relatively high accident rate. Finally, while Tesla CEO Elon Musk predicted in the summer of 2025 that the service would be available to 150 million Americans, it hasn't expanded beyond Texas yet. The $130 Surcharge Could Be a Mild, Negative Catalyst for Tesla A bipartisan proposal in the House of Representatives would impose an annual fee of $130 on all EVs. Beginning in 2029, the surcharge...
Scottish singer-songwriter Jacob Alon was the big winner at the 2026 Ivor Novello awards, which acknowledge the best in British and Irish songwriting and screen composition. Alon, 25, has captivated audiences with their swooping voice and imaginative alt-folk arrangements, showcased on debut album In Limerence which was released in May 2025. They won the Ivor Novello award for rising star – the se...
Scottish singer-songwriter Jacob Alon was the big winner at the 2026 Ivor Novello awards, which acknowledge the best in British and Irish songwriting and screen composition. Alon, 25, has captivated audiences with their swooping voice and imaginative alt-folk arrangements, showcased on debut album In Limerence which was released in May 2025. They won the Ivor Novello award for rising star – the second such win for Alon this year, having won the equivalent prize at the 2026 Brit awards in February, called the critics’ choice award. Alon also won the Ivor Novello category of best song musically and lyrically, for Don’t Fall Asleep, a delicate, poignant ballad inspired by the death of their cousin in an accidental drowning before Alon was born. The song imagines their cousin waking underwater after death and being guided by an angel, allowing him to watch his unborn son enter the world. “This song, to me, floats across the stormy surface of the sea of dreams, gasping against its choppy tide, resisting the soft pull below into an endless deep,” Alon has said. Judges hailed it as “profoundly emotionally honest”. The two wins cap a successful debut album release from Alon, with In Limerence also nominated for the 2025 Mercury prize. Alon lost out there to Sam Fender, who was also a winner at the Ivor Novellos this year, being named songwriter of the year in recognition of the social realist anthems he wrote for his album People Watching. Catalan musician Rosalía, who spliced opera, pop and avant garde electronics on her bold album Lux, won international songwriter of the year. Charismatic Irish singer-songwriter CMAT won best album for Euro-Country, which examines her own existential and romantic crises alongside those facing a recession-hit Ireland. Kae Tempest won best contemporary song for I Stand on the Line, co-written by Fraser T Smith, which reflects on Tempest’s fraught experiences as a trans man, including his anxieties over the policing of public toilets: “I’m l...
Imagine if One Day was set in Long Eaton. Now, take its sweeping, time-spanning love story, but make it platonic, and about two theatre-obsessed best mates. That’s the foundation for Jane Upton’s luminous, heart-exploding play, which catches Jess and Billy in a series of snapshots across their friendship. Beginning in the early 90s, during their school days, and then moving through their 20s, 30s ...
Imagine if One Day was set in Long Eaton. Now, take its sweeping, time-spanning love story, but make it platonic, and about two theatre-obsessed best mates. That’s the foundation for Jane Upton’s luminous, heart-exploding play, which catches Jess and Billy in a series of snapshots across their friendship. Beginning in the early 90s, during their school days, and then moving through their 20s, 30s and into their mid-40s, the play threads together teenage crushes, career decisions, breakups, marriages, births and children. Jess (Katie Redford) is an oversharer while Billy (Benedict Salter) has secrets. Their early years together pass through play rehearsals, parties, personal revelations and betrayals, but even in their lowest moments, the two are always pulled back to each other’s side. As their lives move in different directions, with Billy heading to London for drama school and later building a career as a high-flying agent, and Jess staying at home in a “suburban bubble” before eventually tiptoeing her way back into the creative scene as a playwright, they turn their noses up at the other’s choices. Still, in times of turmoil, they can’t help but pick up the phone or race across the country just to be there for their old friend. Their dialogue accurately captures people who know each other’s lives inside out. When their conversation tips into cruelty, I am a mess. Directed by Hannah Stone, the production shows friendship as something defining. Redford and Salter make their characters people we want to stay with across the decades. In fact, time here slips through our fingers. One moment they’re 15 in 1995, and Jess is getting advice from More! magazine; the next it is 2022, and a 42-year-old Billy is considering surrogacy for his next child. Abby Clarke’s design evokes nostalgia, with the back wall composed of white, Polaroid-inspired squares that shift from photographic outlines to mirrors. The setup screams: how does it all go so fast? With so much life to fit i...
Arsenal fan Daniel Bull was in Mayfair nightclub Tape ‘I was thinking what the hell is going on?’ says 22-year-old Daniel Bull has waited his whole life to see Arsenal win the Premier League and it is fair to say that the 22-year-old from north London will never forget the celebrations on Tuesday night. Having found himself sharing a bottle of champagne with Ian Wright as thousands of supporters g...
Arsenal fan Daniel Bull was in Mayfair nightclub Tape ‘I was thinking what the hell is going on?’ says 22-year-old Daniel Bull has waited his whole life to see Arsenal win the Premier League and it is fair to say that the 22-year-old from north London will never forget the celebrations on Tuesday night. Having found himself sharing a bottle of champagne with Ian Wright as thousands of supporters gathered outside the Emirates Stadium, the devoted Gunners supporter and two close friends took a gamble as the party was petering out. “I had just heard a whisper,” Bull says. That whisper was that Arsenal’s players were gathering at the exclusive Tape nightclub in Mayfair after they had watched from the training ground as Bournemouth drew with Manchester City to crown the club champions for the first time since 2004. An Instagram video later posted by Noni Madueke’s mother showed the England forward returning home to much acclaim before immediately announcing, “I’m going out.” Continue reading...
AI agents forget. Every time a coding assistant loses track of a debugging thread, or a data analysis agent re-ingests the same context it already processed, the team pays in latency, token costs, and brittle workflows. The fix most teams reach for — expanding the context window or adding more RAG — is increasingly expensive and still doesn't reliably work. To address this, researchers from Mind L...
AI agents forget. Every time a coding assistant loses track of a debugging thread, or a data analysis agent re-ingests the same context it already processed, the team pays in latency, token costs, and brittle workflows. The fix most teams reach for — expanding the context window or adding more RAG — is increasingly expensive and still doesn't reliably work. To address this, researchers from Mind Lab and several universities proposed delta-mem , an efficient technique that compresses the model’s historical information into a dynamically updated matrix without changing the model itself. The resulting module adds just 0.12% of the backbone model's parameters — compared to 76.40% for one leading alternative — while outperforming it on memory-heavy benchmarks. Delta-mem allows models to continuously accumulate and reuse historical data, reducing the reliance on massive context windows or complex external retrieval modules for behavioral continuity. The long memory challenge The conventional solution is to simply dump all the information into the model’s context window. But as Jingdi Lei, co-author of the paper, told VentureBeat, current systems treat memory merely as a context-management problem. “Either we keep expanding the context window, or we retrieve more documents through RAG,” Lei explained. “These approaches are useful and will remain important, but they become increasingly expensive and brittle when agents need to operate over long-running, multi-step interactions, and they don't really [work] like human memory since they are more like looking up documents.” In enterprise settings, the bottleneck is not just whether the model can access history, but whether it can reuse that history efficiently, continuously, and with low latency. Standard attention mechanisms incur a quadratic computational cost as the sequence length increases. Furthermore, expanding the context window does not guarantee the model will actually recall the information effectively. Models often...
Since its 2017 launch, the NYC Ferry has been scrutinized over its finances. But lately, the city-run fleet says it’s seeing record ridership, social media buzz and its lowest subsidy-per-rider yet. (Source: Bloomberg)
Since its 2017 launch, the NYC Ferry has been scrutinized over its finances. But lately, the city-run fleet says it’s seeing record ridership, social media buzz and its lowest subsidy-per-rider yet. (Source: Bloomberg)
J Studios/DigitalVision via Getty Images I previously rated Amazon.com, Inc. ( AMZN ), ( AMZN:CA ) as a Buy in March 2026, thanks to the improved margin of safety/upside potential from the prior correction and the oversold technical indicators. In this article, I shall discuss why AMZN remains a Great Buy here, thanks to their profitably growing, diversified businesses and the still compelling val...
J Studios/DigitalVision via Getty Images I previously rated Amazon.com, Inc. ( AMZN ), ( AMZN:CA ) as a Buy in March 2026, thanks to the improved margin of safety/upside potential from the prior correction and the oversold technical indicators. In this article, I shall discuss why AMZN remains a Great Buy here, thanks to their profitably growing, diversified businesses and the still compelling valuations. AMZN Is A Tech Behemoth AMZN 1Y Stock Price ( TradingView ) Since my last Buy rating, AMZN has already delivered an outsized rally by +30.1% compared to the wider market at +15.4%, with a similar breakout also observed in its hyperscaler peers in varying degrees. 1. AI Beneficiary Much of their tailwinds are attributed to the frenzied adoption of agentic AI offerings, with it consequently triggering the higher compute demand and the hyperscalers' AI beneficiary status at a time of multi-year cloud super cycle. Particularly, AMZN has benefitted from the opening up of Microsoft's ( MSFT ) and OpenAI's ( OPENAI ) previously exclusive partnership in April 2026, allowing the latter to offer their LLM offerings to other hyperscalers, AMZN and Alphabet ( GOOG ) included. While these remain the early days, it appears that "demand since OpenAI launched on Amazon's cloud has been staggering," with it likely to be beneficial to AMZN's AWS growth prospects. The same has been observed in OpenAI's AWS commitment of $138B over the next eight years, chips included, along with Anthropic's commitment at $100B over the next ten years. As a result, it is unsurprising that AMZN has delivered: the AWS revenue growth to $37.58B in FQ1'26 (+28.4% YoY), the AWS operating income expansion to $14.16B (+22.7% YoY), and the growing remaining performance obligation of $364B ( +92.5% YoY ) at a longer contract term of 5.5 years (+34.1% YoY). At a time when AI tokens are increasingly expensive , more customers are also turning to custom AI chip offerings, attributed to the latter's typically lowe...
It's one of the biggest financial worries plaguing workers and retirees today: What happens to Social Security benefits once their trust funds are depleted? While projections now indicate that this could happen as soon as 2032, the government still has no plan to avoid benefit cuts of roughly 28%. This isn't because people are out of ideas. It's because the ideas we have are likely to be very unpo...
It's one of the biggest financial worries plaguing workers and retirees today: What happens to Social Security benefits once their trust funds are depleted? While projections now indicate that this could happen as soon as 2032, the government still has no plan to avoid benefit cuts of roughly 28%. This isn't because people are out of ideas. It's because the ideas we have are likely to be very unpopular. Many involve raising taxes, either on beneficiaries and workers, and that could have far-reaching implications for everyone. How much would payroll taxes need to increase to avoid Social Security benefit cuts? Social Security payroll taxes provided nearly $1.3 trillion in revenue to the program in 2024 -- by far the program's largest source of income. This 12.4% tax is currently split equally between employees and employers, though self-employed individuals pay the full 12.4% themselves. Increasing this tax is one possible way to avoid or minimize future Social Security benefit cuts, but it would make life more difficult for millions of American workers, especially those already struggling to make ends meet. Higher Social Security taxes would reduce take-home pay without providing any immediate benefit, making it even more difficult for workers to save for retirement on their own. The Social Security Trustees Report, released in June 2025, estimated that to avoid benefit cuts entirely, the payroll tax rate would need to increase by 4.27 percentage points to 16.67%. Employees would only shoulder about half this increase themselves -- about 2.14 percentage points. But that's still enough to make a noticeable difference to workers. If you earn $60,000 per year, under current law, 6.2% of that -- $3,720 -- comes out of your paycheck and goes straight to the government for Social Security payroll taxes before the money ever makes it to your bank account. That number would jump to about $5,000 per year if the proposed Social Security payroll tax increase were enacted. It's...
Democrats Move To Block Trump's $1.776 Billion 'Anti-Weaponization' Fund Via American Greatness, Congressional Democrats are moving to shut down President Donald Trump’s proposed $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund, escalating a political fight over compensation for Americans who say they were targeted by politically motivated prosecutions and federal lawfare. Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democra...
Democrats Move To Block Trump's $1.776 Billion 'Anti-Weaponization' Fund Via American Greatness, Congressional Democrats are moving to shut down President Donald Trump’s proposed $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund, escalating a political fight over compensation for Americans who say they were targeted by politically motivated prosecutions and federal lawfare. Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, is introducing legislation aimed at preventing any federal money from being used to create or distribute payments through the fund. According to a copy of the bill shared with Axios, the legislation states that “no Federal funds may be used to create or make payments” tied to the Trump administration’s Anti-Weaponization Fund. The fund emerged from a settlement between Trump and the Internal Revenue Service after the president sued the agency over the leaking of his confidential tax returns during his first term. Under the settlement framework, individuals claiming they were victims of politically motivated prosecutions or government abuse would be able to seek compensation. Potential applicants could include January 6 defendants and others who were unfairly targeted by federal authorities. Raskin is reportedly considering using a discharge petition to force a House vote if Republican leadership blocks the measure from reaching the floor. At the same time, some establishment Republicans are also voicing opposition to the fund. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick told reporters Wednesday that he would “try to kill” the program. “We’re going to write a letter to the [attorney general] to start, but we’re considering a legislative option,” Fitzpatrick said. Supporters of the fund argue it represents a long-overdue effort to compensate Americans harmed by politically driven prosecutions and abuses of government power. Critics, meanwhile, claim the program would improperly use taxpayer money to compensate individuals tied to controversial investigations, i...