Viktor Gyökeres has articulated the hurt and defiance inside the Arsenal dressing-room after Sunday’s 2-0 Carabao Cup final defeat by Manchester City and promised to use it as fuel in the club’s pursuit of other trophies. Arsenal picked a bad time to produce their worst performance of the season with everybody in the starting XI falling well below their best – apart from maybe William Saliba. No o...
Viktor Gyökeres has articulated the hurt and defiance inside the Arsenal dressing-room after Sunday’s 2-0 Carabao Cup final defeat by Manchester City and promised to use it as fuel in the club’s pursuit of other trophies. Arsenal picked a bad time to produce their worst performance of the season with everybody in the starting XI falling well below their best – apart from maybe William Saliba. No one will want to dwell on the period from the beginning of the second half to the moment when Nico O’Reilly scored his second goal in the 64th minute to put City in an unassailable position. It was one-way traffic, Arsenal pinned back, unable to get out. The recovery mission has begun with the hunt for positives, some at the club hoping that the international break can offer a well-timed change of environment and focus. For Gyökeres, there is the small matter of Thursday’s World Cup playoff with Sweden against Ukraine in Valencia. If his country wins, they will face Poland or Albania next Tuesday for a place at the finals. The Carabao Cup final was only Arsenal’s fourth defeat in 50 matches this season. They remain nine points clear of City at the top of the Premier League, albeit having played one game more than them, and are into the Champions League quarter-finals, where they will play Sporting. Their next game is the FA Cup quarter-final at Southampton on Saturday week. “Of course, we don’t feel great right now but it’s not like we have a game in three days,” Gyökeres said. “For sure, we will go again and be even more motivated for those games.” The showpiece at Wembley turned when the back-up Arsenal goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga – who Mikel Arteta started ahead of the first-choice David Raya – dropped a cross to allow O’Reilly to score his first, although City had long established a grip on possession. View image in fullscreen Kepa Arrizabalaga, Leandro Trossard and Gabriel Magalhães look dejected after the first Manchester City goal at Wembley. Photograph: Paul Marriot...
Fulton Bank N.A. grew its position in shares of Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL - Free Report) by 20.1% during the 4th quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund owned 44,372 shares of the enterprise software provider's stock after purchasing an additional 7,415 shares during the quarter. Fulton Bank N.A.'s holdings in Oracle were worth $8,...
Fulton Bank N.A. grew its position in shares of Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL - Free Report) by 20.1% during the 4th quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund owned 44,372 shares of the enterprise software provider's stock after purchasing an additional 7,415 shares during the quarter. Fulton Bank N.A.'s holdings in Oracle were worth $8,649,000 as of its most recent SEC filing. A number of other large investors also recently modified their holdings of ORCL. FSA Wealth Management LLC bought a new position in Oracle during the third quarter valued at approximately $28,000. Kilter Group LLC bought a new stake in shares of Oracle in the 2nd quarter worth approximately $30,000. Darwin Wealth Management LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Oracle by 130.0% in the 3rd quarter. Darwin Wealth Management LLC now owns 115 shares of the enterprise software provider's stock worth $32,000 after acquiring an additional 65 shares during the last quarter. Investors Research Corp boosted its stake in shares of Oracle by 465.5% in the 4th quarter. Investors Research Corp now owns 164 shares of the enterprise software provider's stock valued at $32,000 after purchasing an additional 135 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Mpwm Advisory Solutions LLC boosted its stake in shares of Oracle by 76.9% in the 3rd quarter. Mpwm Advisory Solutions LLC now owns 115 shares of the enterprise software provider's stock valued at $32,000 after purchasing an additional 50 shares in the last quarter. 42.44% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors. Get Oracle alerts: Sign Up Oracle News Summary Here are the key news stories impacting Oracle this week: Wall Street Analyst Weigh In Several research firms have weighed in on ORCL. JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised shares of Oracle from a "neutral" rating to an "overweight" rating and lowered their price target for the stock from $230.00 to $210.00 in a research note on We...
上周的一篇 Science 论文,正在动摇人们对人工智能未来最根深蒂固的想象。 几十年来,「技术奇点」的故事几乎已成定论:某一天,一个无所不能的 ASI 将凭空涌现,将人类甩在身后。 这个形象塑造了无数科幻小说,也隐约支撑着今天 AI 安全讨论的底层逻辑。 芝加哥大学、加州大学圣地亚哥分校和谷歌的研究者认为,这个故事从根子上就讲错了。 詹姆斯·埃文斯(James Evans)、本杰明·布拉顿(Be...
上周的一篇 Science 论文,正在动摇人们对人工智能未来最根深蒂固的想象。 几十年来,「技术奇点」的故事几乎已成定论:某一天,一个无所不能的 ASI 将凭空涌现,将人类甩在身后。 这个形象塑造了无数科幻小说,也隐约支撑着今天 AI 安全讨论的底层逻辑。 芝加哥大学、加州大学圣地亚哥分校和谷歌的研究者认为,这个故事从根子上就讲错了。 詹姆斯·埃文斯(James Evans)、本杰明·布拉顿(Benjamin Bratton)和谷歌研究员布莱斯·阿格拉-阿卡斯(Blaise Agüera Y Arcas)在《科学》期刊发表论文《Agentic AI and the next intelligence explosion》(《智能体 AI 与下一次智能爆炸》),提出了一个截然不同的判断:真正的智能爆炸已经在发生,只是它的形状和人们预想的完全不同——它是多元的、社会性的,而且与人类深度缠绕在一起。 模型内部,有「人」在争论 这篇论文的起点,是一项关于推理模型内部机制的发现,足以令 AI 圈感到意外。 过去一年,DeepSeek-R1、QwQ-32B 等推理模型的横空出世引发广泛关注。 它们在数学、代码、复杂逻辑等任务上的表现,显著超过了同等规模的常规指令微调模型。 通常的解释是:这些模型「想得更久了」——通过强化学习,在回答前生成更长的思维链,付出更多测试时推算时间(test-time compute)。 然而,谷歌、芝加哥大学和圣塔菲研究所的研究者发现,推理能力的提升并非源于计算量的单纯延伸,而是来自对多智能体交互的隐性模拟——他们将其称为「思想社会」(society of thought)。 模型内部会涌现出具有不同人格特质和领域专长的认知视角,这些视角之间进行辩论、质疑与调和。 研究团队分析了超过 8000 道推理题的模型输出,发现在最复杂的任务上,如研究生级别的科学推理(GPQA)和高难度数学题,DeepSeek-R1 的「对话特征」尤为明显; 而在相对简单的布尔表达式等程序性任务中,这类特征几乎消失。 他们甚至做了一个更直接的验证:在 DeepSeek-R1-Llama-8B 模型中,研究者找到了一个与「惊讶、顿悟或应答」相关的内部特征,人为提升该特征的激活强度后,模型在数学推算任务上的准确率从 27.1% 跃升至 54.8%。 一个化学题的案例,把这种现象描...
How good do you think your chances are of guessing the best-performing stock of the next 100 years? The winning stock might not exist yet: Today’s superstars like Nvidia Apple Microsoft and leading consumer brands like Nike McDonald’ and Walmart weren’t even a twinkle in their founders’ eyes in 1926. One dollar invested 100 years ago in cigarette maker Philip Morris (now Altria ) turned into $4.42...
How good do you think your chances are of guessing the best-performing stock of the next 100 years? The winning stock might not exist yet: Today’s superstars like Nvidia Apple Microsoft and leading consumer brands like Nike McDonald’ and Walmart weren’t even a twinkle in their founders’ eyes in 1926. One dollar invested 100 years ago in cigarette maker Philip Morris (now Altria ) turned into $4.42 million by the end of last year, including dividends and spinoffs.
Like a shy 13-year-old standing awkwardly to the side at a middle school dance, the Breakwave Tanker Shipping ETF (BWET +17.83%) doesn't always garner much attention. But still, it's crushing the market, surging a remarkable 243% year-to-date. Despite its performance this year, I have no interest in investing in this ETF. The entire purpose of investing is to prepare for the future. While I have a...
Like a shy 13-year-old standing awkwardly to the side at a middle school dance, the Breakwave Tanker Shipping ETF (BWET +17.83%) doesn't always garner much attention. But still, it's crushing the market, surging a remarkable 243% year-to-date. Despite its performance this year, I have no interest in investing in this ETF. The entire purpose of investing is to prepare for the future. While I have a brokerage account dedicated to shorter-term goals, my primary account is intended solely to fund retirement. However, investing in BWET is nothing like investing in the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO 1.47%). Expand NYSEMKT : BWET Amplify Commodity Trust - Breakwave Tanker Shipping ETF Today's Change ( 17.83 %) $ 14.24 Current Price $ 94.11 Key Data Points Day's Range $ 81.05 - $ 94.71 52wk Range $ 9.60 - $ 94.71 Volume 436 Spreading the risks VOO tracks the S&P 500 (^GSPC 1.51%), which allows me to invest in companies I know and use, like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet. Just as importantly, it allows me to invest in many companies, reducing the risk to my portfolio when one or more falter for a time. With BWET, I'd be investing primarily in tanker shipping rates, which are highly sensitive to world events. When those prices drop, so does my ETF's value. Unlike ETFs that track a broad stock market index -- such as the S&P 500, Nasdaq-100, or Dow Jones Industrial Average -- BWET tracks rising freight rates. About 90% of its portfolio consists of TD3C futures, which track the cost of transporting crude on large carriers from the Middle East to China. There's a clear reason why BWET's value has surged: The current danger of getting through the Strait of Hormuz. Carriers are either refusing to take the risk or charging much higher prices to transport crude, which is exactly what BWET tracks, and precisely why I'm not interested. In for the long haul It's likely that at some point, the Strait of Hormuz will open again for business as usual. At that point, am I supposed to sel...
Torsten Asmus/iStock via Getty Images The Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corp Bond Idx Fund ETF ( VCIT ) offers decently rated credit with intermediate duration. The current environment has parallels with that of the environment right after the breakout of the Ukraine war. But we think there are key differences. For one, we think the macro background means less pricing power. This may limit the actual...
Torsten Asmus/iStock via Getty Images The Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corp Bond Idx Fund ETF ( VCIT ) offers decently rated credit with intermediate duration. The current environment has parallels with that of the environment right after the breakout of the Ukraine war. But we think there are key differences. For one, we think the macro background means less pricing power. This may limit the actual transmission of the inflation to consumers, but it comes out of the corporate margin, which would disadvantage bets that are long credit spreads, like VCIT relative to a Treasury ETF. Moreover, there is still an inflationary vector, so VCIT is absolutely not well positioned with respect to less cutting in the immediate future of Fed rate decisions as well as the impact that wars and conflict have on more structural rate assumptions that hit exactly the VCIT horizon. A pass. VCIT Bets like VCIT are really just not that well positioned in the current environment. The portfolio is highly diversified at 2,289 bonds. The distribution is concentrated around A and BBB, which can help us benchmark the credit spreads. Credit Ratings ( vanguard.com ) The breakdown by sector is not very granular on the Vanguard site. Around 10% is utilities, a typical almost 40% is finance, and the rest is "industrial" but this category seems to include tech stocks and pharma as well. With the level of diversification and number of holdings, it's not useful to make too much of a comment on the sectoral exposures lacking the aggregation. At a 6-year average duration , they are affected both by the changing assumptions in near-term rates as well as in more structural rate assumptions. When you look at the US yield curve, you notice the even translation upwards both on the long and short sides of the yield curve . Yield curve ( worldgovernmentbonds.com ) Bear Considerations On one hand, the Fed has made it clear that it knows just as much as us about when the war will end, and with the threat of an ener...