I don’t know a single journalist my age who hasn’t ricocheted around the rapidly shrinking media industry, through multiple buyouts, redundancies and pivots to video Many years ago I rage-quit from my editor job at a digital youth media publication. It was the beginning of the pandemic, my team had been slashed to an exhausted handful who cried every morning, and my freelance budget had been cut t...
I don’t know a single journalist my age who hasn’t ricocheted around the rapidly shrinking media industry, through multiple buyouts, redundancies and pivots to video Many years ago I rage-quit from my editor job at a digital youth media publication. It was the beginning of the pandemic, my team had been slashed to an exhausted handful who cried every morning, and my freelance budget had been cut to zero – all while I was still expected to reach traffic targets. A spree of insane business decisions were made that trickled down to me like sewage water at a music festival. So I quit. I was tired and being overly dramatic of course, but that doesn’t mean I wasn’t justified in being upset. Continue reading...
Aisera, an Automation Anywhere company, was named a Leader in the inaugural IDC MarketScape Worldwide Conversational AI Platforms for Back-Office Use Cases 2026 Vendor Assessment1
Aisera, an Automation Anywhere company, was named a Leader in the inaugural IDC MarketScape Worldwide Conversational AI Platforms for Back-Office Use Cases 2026 Vendor Assessment1
Just a few years ago, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) was a quiet punchline in Alphabet 's (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) portfolio: A cash-burning experiment that most investors overlooked while Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure dominated cloud computing budgets. Then artificial intelligence (AI) changed the narrative entirely. What was once an also-ran became one of Alphabet's fastest-gr...
Just a few years ago, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) was a quiet punchline in Alphabet 's (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) portfolio: A cash-burning experiment that most investors overlooked while Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure dominated cloud computing budgets. Then artificial intelligence (AI) changed the narrative entirely. What was once an also-ran became one of Alphabet's fastest-growing, most profitable divisions. At the end of the first quarter, GCP boasted a backlog of more than $460 billion . This is more than just a headline number. It is validation that large enterprises and leading AI developers are voting with their wallets -- signaling a shift in cloud market dynamics that makes Alphabet stock a standout long-term opportunity even after its recent run. Continue reading
IEA Revises 2026 Forecast: Global Oil Supply To Plunge Below Demand This Year Global oil demand is set to exceed supply in the current year amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, reversing previous projections of a surplus, OilPrice reports citing the latest IEA data. "With Hormuz tanker traffic still restricted, cumulative supply losses from Middle East Gulf producers already exceed 1 bil...
IEA Revises 2026 Forecast: Global Oil Supply To Plunge Below Demand This Year Global oil demand is set to exceed supply in the current year amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, reversing previous projections of a surplus, OilPrice reports citing the latest IEA data. "With Hormuz tanker traffic still restricted, cumulative supply losses from Middle East Gulf producers already exceed 1 billion barrels with more than 14 million (barrels per day) of oil now shut in, an unprecedented supply shock," said the agency, which advises industrialized countries. According to the May 2026 Oil Market Report by the International Energy Agency (IEA), global oil supply is projected to fall by 3.9 million bpd across 2026, with ~10.5 million bpd of Gulf oil production currently offline. Global oil stocks are depleting at a record pace as supply losses from disruptions to flows via the Strait of Hormuz keep mounting Producers & consumers are responding to the market signals, with Atlantic crude oil exports surging & refiners cutting runs: https://t.co/cOYraM4phx pic.twitter.com/QWJlPICebi — International Energy Agency (@IEA) May 13, 2026 Consumption is also under pressure due to the war as price spikes lead to demand destruction and slower economic growth: Global demand is also forecast to contract by 420,000 bpd compared to a previous forecast of an 80,000 bpd drop due to surging prices, slow economic growth and widespread flight cancellations, with oil demand still set to outpace supply by 1.78 million bpd in the current year. "Our latest supply and demand estimates imply that the market will remain severely undersupplied through the end of 3Q26, even assuming the conflict ends by early June," the Paris-based agency said, adding that the second-quarter deficit will be as stark as 6 million bpd. Global crude runs are expected to plunge by 1.6 million bpd to an average of 82.3 mb/d for the year as operators face infrastructure damage and severe feedstock shortages, with r...
One firm is doubling down on its bull case for the online marketplace. Citi analyst Ronald Josey raised his price target on eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) stock to $127 from $114, maintaining a Buy rating. The price target raise reflects what Citi describes as improving operational execution and continued momentum across the company’s targeted growth categories. For ... Citi Hikes eBay Price Target to $127: B...
One firm is doubling down on its bull case for the online marketplace. Citi analyst Ronald Josey raised his price target on eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) stock to $127 from $114, maintaining a Buy rating. The price target raise reflects what Citi describes as improving operational execution and continued momentum across the company’s targeted growth categories. For ... Citi Hikes eBay Price Target to $127: Better Execution Drives Q1 Beat
Case attracts widespread attention as example of China balancing enthusiastic adoption of AI with job security A court in China has ruled in favour of a worker whose company replaced him with artificial intelligence (AI), awarding him more than £28,000 in compensation. The worker, whose surname is Zhou, joined a tech company in the eastern city of Hangzhou in 2022 to work as a quality assurance su...
Case attracts widespread attention as example of China balancing enthusiastic adoption of AI with job security A court in China has ruled in favour of a worker whose company replaced him with artificial intelligence (AI), awarding him more than £28,000 in compensation. The worker, whose surname is Zhou, joined a tech company in the eastern city of Hangzhou in 2022 to work as a quality assurance supervisor overseeing large language models used in AI products. Continue reading...
Micron Technology is on pace to close above the $900 billion market value for the first time, according to Dow Jones Market Data. The semiconductor company, whose stock is up 4.8% today, is on pace to become the 11th largest U.S. company by market cap.
Micron Technology is on pace to close above the $900 billion market value for the first time, according to Dow Jones Market Data. The semiconductor company, whose stock is up 4.8% today, is on pace to become the 11th largest U.S. company by market cap.
Modernist poet whose work is considered hard to grasp but rewarding for the reader who persists The poetry of JH Prynne, who has died aged 89, has been called opaque, hermetic, impenetrable, forbidding even, and at times it was all of these. But it also sang. To read his Kitchen Poems (1968), The White Stones (1969) or The Oval Window (1983) is to encounter a writer for whom sound and sense were n...
Modernist poet whose work is considered hard to grasp but rewarding for the reader who persists The poetry of JH Prynne, who has died aged 89, has been called opaque, hermetic, impenetrable, forbidding even, and at times it was all of these. But it also sang. To read his Kitchen Poems (1968), The White Stones (1969) or The Oval Window (1983) is to encounter a writer for whom sound and sense were never separable. As Robert Potts wrote in the Guardian : “Prynne is hard-going, off-putting and much disliked by many more traditional writers; he is also, when one gets into him, so good that he changes the way you think and feel.” To a light led sole in pit of, this by slap-up barter of an arm rest cap, on stirrup trade in crawled to many bodies, uncounted. Talon up crude oil-for-food, incarnadine incarcerate, get foremost a track rocket, rapacious in heavy investment insert tool this way up. And so, then, the magnetic influence of Venus sweeps its shiver into the heart/brain or hypothalamus, we are still here, I look steadily at nothing. “The gradient of the decrease may be de- termined by the spread in intrinsic lumin- osities” – the ethereal language of love in brilliant suspense between us and the hesitant arc. Yet I need it too and keep one hand in my pocket & one in yours, waiting for the first snow of the year. Continue reading...
Amid the markets' twists and turns, BlackRock's Rick Rieder believes "dynamic patience" has become essential for navigating the turbulence. The 10-year Treasury yield hit a new high for the year after wholesale prices for April came in hotter than expected on Wednesday. The benchmark Treasury touched 4.49%, its highest level since July 17. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S & P 500 moved lower...
Amid the markets' twists and turns, BlackRock's Rick Rieder believes "dynamic patience" has become essential for navigating the turbulence. The 10-year Treasury yield hit a new high for the year after wholesale prices for April came in hotter than expected on Wednesday. The benchmark Treasury touched 4.49%, its highest level since July 17. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S & P 500 moved lower, while the Nasdaq Composite was boosted by gains in chip stocks. Rieder's theory of "dynamic patience," which he laid out in his second-quarter fixed income outlook Wednesday, centers on building income, being creative in deploying capital and opportunistic with duration. That will help investors ride out the ups and downs of the bond market, which will continue to be defined by tensions between macroeconomic issues and the most attractive yield opportunity in more than a decade, said Rieder, BlackRock's chief investment officer of global fixed income. "There's a short term nature to what we're doing and I think there's a longer term — meaning patience. Income works for you. Compounding works for you," he said in an interview with CNBC. "If you stay in it, return ends up being pretty good." But in the short term you have to manage risk. One way is to take advantage of the interest rate volatility, because Rieder doesn't think yields will ultimately move too high, he said. "We're trying to move our interest rate exposure around, per the regime we're operating in," said Rieder, who is also the portfolio manager of the iShares Flexible Income Active ETF (BINC), which marks its three-year anniversary this month. The fund has a 5.12% 30-day SEC yield and a 0.40% net expense ratio. BINC YTD mountain iShares Flexible Income Active ETF year to date "What's the market doing? The market is saying, in the short term, 'I'm willing to price these yields higher,'" he added. "If you think about Europe, growth is going to slow. They're going to get that rate down. Your total return perfor...
Fervo Energy (FRVO) is making its Nasdaq debut on May 13, following its IPO that raised $1.89 billion. The company aims to deliver carbon-free power by accessing geothermal energy, utilizing drilling techniques from the oil and gas industries. Fervo Energy co-founder and CEO Tim Latimer speaks with Julie Hyman about the provider's geothermal projects and partnership with Google (GOOG, (GOOGL).
Fervo Energy (FRVO) is making its Nasdaq debut on May 13, following its IPO that raised $1.89 billion. The company aims to deliver carbon-free power by accessing geothermal energy, utilizing drilling techniques from the oil and gas industries. Fervo Energy co-founder and CEO Tim Latimer speaks with Julie Hyman about the provider's geothermal projects and partnership with Google (GOOG, (GOOGL).
jetcityimage/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Eli Lilly ( LLY ) on Wednesday rolled out its Alzheimer’s therapy donanemab under the brand name Lormalzi in India, where the percentage of patients affected by the memory-robbing disease is fast rising. The U.S.-based drugmaker has rolled out the once-monthly intravenous therapy at ₹91,688 ($957) for a 350 mg vial after India’s Central Drugs Standard...
jetcityimage/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Eli Lilly ( LLY ) on Wednesday rolled out its Alzheimer’s therapy donanemab under the brand name Lormalzi in India, where the percentage of patients affected by the memory-robbing disease is fast rising. The U.S.-based drugmaker has rolled out the once-monthly intravenous therapy at ₹91,688 ($957) for a 350 mg vial after India’s Central Drugs Standard Control Organization approved it for patients with mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia due to Alzheimer's. According to Lilly ( LLY ), it is estimated that roughly 8.8M people in India have dementia, with Alzheimer's contributing to most of the cases. That number is projected to double by 2036 as the life expectancy of people in the world’s most populous nation rises. The amyloid-targeting antibody therapy is already available in countries such as the U.S. and U.K. as Kisunla, competing against Biogen ( BIIB ) and Eisai’s ( ESALF ) rival Alzheimer’s therapy, Leqembi (lecanemab). More on Eli Lilly Eli Lilly: 'Strong Buy' Raised Revenue Guidance By $2 Billion For 2026 And Label Expansions Eli Lilly: No Big Gap To Competition Eli Lilly and Company 2026 Q1 - Results - Earnings Call Presentation FDA asks for feedback on repurposing drugs for new indications Trump says unaware of a plan to fire FDA commissioner
Alibaba Group (NYSE:BABA) shares climbed nearly 7% in early Wednesday trading after the Chinese e-commerce and technology giant reported fourth-quarter fiscal 2026 results that showed accelerating momentum in cloud and artificial intelligence, even as heavy investment spending weighed on...
Alibaba Group (NYSE:BABA) shares climbed nearly 7% in early Wednesday trading after the Chinese e-commerce and technology giant reported fourth-quarter fiscal 2026 results that showed accelerating momentum in cloud and artificial intelligence, even as heavy investment spending weighed on...
AI data centers in space are looking like a thing after all. Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Alphabet’s Google and SpaceX were in talks to launch Google’s orbital data centers in space.
AI data centers in space are looking like a thing after all. Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Alphabet’s Google and SpaceX were in talks to launch Google’s orbital data centers in space.