Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Riley Griffin reports from inside a Los Angeles courtroom where Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in a case claiming his company’s social media networks did harm to a young girl’s mental health. Tech Across the Globe Macron attacks social media: French President Emmanuel...
Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Riley Griffin reports from inside a Los Angeles courtroom where Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in a case claiming his company’s social media networks did harm to a young girl’s mental health. Tech Across the Globe Macron attacks social media: French President Emmanuel Macron said social media platforms’ claims of free speech to defend their conduct is “pure bullshit.” Unfriendly summit: India’s all-star summit for AI idustry and government leaders was marred, a tiny bit, by Sam Altman and Dario Amodei very visibly giving each other the cold shoulder on stage next to PM Narendra Modi. Another $110 billion: Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s conglomerate will plow as much as 10 trillion rupees ($110 billion) over seven years into artificial intelligence-related infrastructure, joining the global rush into technology’s fastest-growing arena. Revalued French quantum tech startup Pasqal is in talks to raise €200 million ($237 million) in a round that would value it at more than $1 billion. The Paris-based firm, founded in 2022, provides hardware and software for the emerging technology. Investor interest in quantum computing has surged as the field moves from basic research toward commercial applications. On the witness stand On Wednesday, I woke up and went through my unofficial routine. Though it’s a habit I don’t like to admit, I started my day by opening Instagram and mindlessly scrolling until I willed myself to stop and press play on a podcast instead. That podcast opened with an ad for Instagram’s “Teen Accounts” feature, promising safeguards for kids and peace of mind for parents. The irony wasn’t lost on me: I was getting ready to head to Los Angeles Superior Court, where Mark Zuckerberg , chief executive officer of Instagram’s parent company, Meta, was set to testify in a landmark trial over whether social media is addictive and harmful t...
A bill banning the sale and use of plastic and metallic glitter has yet to go through in Brazil as the capital’s sandy shores bear cost of carnival’s shine Whether it is embellishing elaborate costumes, delicately applied as eye makeup, or smeared across bare skin, glitter is everywhere at Rio de Janeiro’s carnival in Brazil. The world’s largest party, which ended on Wednesday, leaves a trail of s...
A bill banning the sale and use of plastic and metallic glitter has yet to go through in Brazil as the capital’s sandy shores bear cost of carnival’s shine Whether it is embellishing elaborate costumes, delicately applied as eye makeup, or smeared across bare skin, glitter is everywhere at Rio de Janeiro’s carnival in Brazil. The world’s largest party, which ended on Wednesday, leaves a trail of sparkles in its wake. At one bloco last weekend, a huge sound truck and dancers in leopard print led thousands of revellers down the promenade at Flamengo beach. Among them was Bruno Fernandes, who had jazzed up an otherwise minimalist outfit of navy swimming briefs by smearing silver glitter over his body. Continue reading...
RHJ/iStock via Getty Images Global nuclear power is enjoying a renewed moment as governments and corporates search for reliable, low-carbon electricity to meet rising energy demand. The surge in power consumption driven by AI, data centers, and electrification is reshaping long-term energy planning and pushing nuclear back into the center of the investment debate. The International Atomic Energy A...
RHJ/iStock via Getty Images Global nuclear power is enjoying a renewed moment as governments and corporates search for reliable, low-carbon electricity to meet rising energy demand. The surge in power consumption driven by AI, data centers, and electrification is reshaping long-term energy planning and pushing nuclear back into the center of the investment debate. The International Atomic Energy Agency projects that global nuclear capacity could double by 2050, reaching between 561 gigawatts (low case) and 992 gigawatts (high case). Policy support is also strengthening. In May 2025, the US issued a series of executive orders aimed at quadrupling domestic nuclear capacity to 400 gigawatts by 2050, from roughly 100 gigawatts today. Other countries, including China, India, Russia, Turkey, and South Africa have also outlined expansion plans as they look to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and secure stable baseload generation. Corporate demand is adding momentum. Over 2023 and 2024, several hyperscalers including Meta Platforms ( META ), Amazon's AWS ( AMZN ), Alphabet ( GOOG ), Microsoft ( MSFT ), Oracle ( ORCL ), and Equinix ( EQIX ) have announced a wave of nuclear-related initiatives, including power purchase agreements and equity investments in nuclear start-ups, signaling that big tech is increasingly willing to back atomic energy as a long-term solution. This shift has brought uranium, the essential fuel for nuclear reactors, sharply back into focus. Prices have risen as demand tightens, and utilities move to lock in longer-term supply contracts at higher levels. Conditions are increasingly in place for a multi-year uranium upcycle, with benefits extending across miners, developers and the wider nuclear fuel chain. Visible Alpha consensus forecasts suggest the industry is moving from today’s tight, concentrated supply base toward a broader and more competitive landscape. Aggregate uranium revenue across 11 listed global producers covered by Visible Alpha is esti...
Listen on the go! A daily podcast of Wall Street Breakfast will be available by 8:00 a.m. on Seeking Alpha , iTunes , Spotify . Getty Images Good morning! Here's the latest in trending: Renewed strength: The Nasdaq rebounds amid a rally in technology shares , with this SA analyst flagging investor risk appetite . Secondhand M&A: eBay ( EBAY ) soars after blowout earnings and announcing it would bu...
Listen on the go! A daily podcast of Wall Street Breakfast will be available by 8:00 a.m. on Seeking Alpha , iTunes , Spotify . Getty Images Good morning! Here's the latest in trending: Renewed strength: The Nasdaq rebounds amid a rally in technology shares , with this SA analyst flagging investor risk appetite . Secondhand M&A: eBay ( EBAY ) soars after blowout earnings and announcing it would buy C2C fashion marketplace firm Depop from Etsy ( ETSY ). Growing split? Some Fed members appear open to a rate hike if inflation remains above target, according to the latest FOMC minutes . Countdown to conflict A massive American military buildup keeps growing in the Middle East amid unprecedented air power in the region that hasn't been seen since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Among them are F-16 fighters, F-22s and F-35s, along with refueling jets, and radar and intelligence-gathering planes. Supporting their presence are two aircraft carrier groups, as well as air defense systems and batteries that have been rushed over to assist in any coming campaigns. What's next? Diplomatic discussions with Iranian officials took place this week , but it's unlikely the Islamic Republic will agree to the list of red lines posed by President Trump. Zero nuclear enrichment, the transfer of nuclear stockpiles out of the country, and snap inspections are just several demands that will be difficult to square, as well as Tehran's ballistic missile program, violent suppression of its citizens, and ending support to regional terror proxies. At this point, it looks like an offensive is only a matter of time, and could even come within days. Current firepower in the region is thought to support a sustained attack against Iran, instead of the one-off "Midnight Hammer" strike conducted last June. Options this time around also likely include the elimination of Iranian military and political leaders, and possibly overthrowing the regime following its brutal crackdown last month that is thought to hav...
(Dead Oceans) Whether retreating from fame or heartbreak, the US musician writes gorgeous songs about the appeal of disconnection, flecked with horror and humour Last month, Mitski released Where’s My Phone?, the first single from her eighth album Nothing’s About to Happen to Me. Its raging alt-rock is a more robust take on the lo-fi fuzz of her third album Bury Me at Makeout Creek, while UK liste...
(Dead Oceans) Whether retreating from fame or heartbreak, the US musician writes gorgeous songs about the appeal of disconnection, flecked with horror and humour Last month, Mitski released Where’s My Phone?, the first single from her eighth album Nothing’s About to Happen to Me. Its raging alt-rock is a more robust take on the lo-fi fuzz of her third album Bury Me at Makeout Creek, while UK listeners might detect a certain Britpoppy swing about its rhythm, and it ends with a guitar solo so jarringly distorted it sounds as if something is wrong with the stream. It was accompanied by a video that featured the singer as a headscarf-sporting rural mother, trying to protect her family from the attentions of the outside world with increasing violence: a milkman gets attacked, her daughter’s potential suitor is beaten bloody. It’s both funny and unsettling; there are references to Rapunzel, Grey Gardens , Grant Wood’s American Gothic and Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle – a litany of the wilfully isolated. The visuals set the tone for the rest of Nothing’s About to Happen to Me, an album on which you’re never far from its author expressing a longing to disappear; to be, as she puts it on Instead of Here, “where nobody can reach”. On opener In a Lake, she extols moving to the city from a small town, not in search of bright lights and excitement, but obscurity, a means of obliterating your own history: “Some days you just go the long way to stay off memory lane.” On I’ll Change for You, she hymns bars – “such magic places” – precisely because of their anonymity: “You can be with other people without having anyone at all.” And on Rules, she’ll “get a new haircut … be somebody else”. All this is set to beautifully crafted music that splits the difference between alt-rock, country-infused acoustic lamentation and grander ambition: the brilliance of Rules lies in the disparity between the hopelessness of its lyric and the thickly orchestrated, perky, early 7...
Joe McCann of the Melksham News was tipped off by a contact about the image and raised issue at council meeting A local newspaper journalist has said he was left “shocked” after a picture of his face was printed out and attached to punchbag at a town hall. Joe McCann, who has worked for the Melksham News for 10 years, was tipped off by a contact that a print-out of his face had been attached to a ...
Joe McCann of the Melksham News was tipped off by a contact about the image and raised issue at council meeting A local newspaper journalist has said he was left “shocked” after a picture of his face was printed out and attached to punchbag at a town hall. Joe McCann, who has worked for the Melksham News for 10 years, was tipped off by a contact that a print-out of his face had been attached to a freestanding punchbag inside the building. Continue reading...
Schroptschop/iStock via Getty Images Talen Energy ( TLN ) is an independent power producer with a unique market position thanks to large long-term contracts (including major deals to supply energy to the data centers of big tech companies) and expanding power generation, which provides for fast growth of the business for several years to come. We definitely like the company but consider the curren...
Schroptschop/iStock via Getty Images Talen Energy ( TLN ) is an independent power producer with a unique market position thanks to large long-term contracts (including major deals to supply energy to the data centers of big tech companies) and expanding power generation, which provides for fast growth of the business for several years to come. We definitely like the company but consider the current valuation too hot. Talen Energy’s History and Business Talen Energy is an independent (unregulated) power producer (IPP) that owns generation assets and sells electricity/capacity on US wholesale markets (primarily PJM) and directly to organizations, but not to retail households. As of 3Q 2025, Talen's assets included 10.3 GW of installed capacity in the US (mostly gas-fired plants, but also some coal-fired ones), including ~2.2 GW of nuclear generation. Talen Energy 3Q 2025 Presentation Additionally, in the first quarter of 2026, Talen will add the Freedom and Guernsey baseload power plants with a combined capacity of ~2.8 GW. A deal is also currently pending approval to acquire three more plants (Darby, Waterford, and Lawrenceburg) totaling ~2.6 GW. Electricity generation volume could have reached about 37 GW in 2025 and ~55 GW in 2026. Talen Energy Investor Presentation Talen’s operational fleet is primarily located on the US East Coast, Midwest, and South. Almost all of the company’s assets serve the PJM market (Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland). Currently, PJM is America's largest operator of a competitive electricity market. The company sells electricity on the market through RTOs/ISOs (independent operators, primarily on the PJM market) and via bilateral power purchase agreements, or PPAs, that are signed directly with major clients such as Amazon. Talen Energy was established in 2015 as a result of a restructuring of energy assets: The more competitive generation assets were spun off from PPL Corporation and merged with a portfolio of private investors led by Rive...
As Trump slashes science funding, young researchers flee abroad. Without solid innovation, the US could cease to have the largest biomedical ecosystem in the world In April 2025, less than three months after Donald Trump returned to the White House, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) put out its latest public health alert on so-called “superbugs”, strains of bacteria resi...
As Trump slashes science funding, young researchers flee abroad. Without solid innovation, the US could cease to have the largest biomedical ecosystem in the world In April 2025, less than three months after Donald Trump returned to the White House, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) put out its latest public health alert on so-called “superbugs”, strains of bacteria resistant to antibiotics. These drug-resistant germs, the CDC warned , are responsible for more than 3m infections in the US each year, claiming the lives of up to 48,000 Americans. Continue reading...
Two law professors outline strategies for equality’s survival in a Trumpian post-DEI era in new book How Equality Wins The Trump administration’s “war on woke” seems to have claimed its biggest victim in DEI. Not so long ago, diversity, equity and inclusion was the favorite term of Fortune 500 CEOs and the political elite. More recently, it has been blamed for everything from the collapse of the F...
Two law professors outline strategies for equality’s survival in a Trumpian post-DEI era in new book How Equality Wins The Trump administration’s “war on woke” seems to have claimed its biggest victim in DEI. Not so long ago, diversity, equity and inclusion was the favorite term of Fortune 500 CEOs and the political elite. More recently, it has been blamed for everything from the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore and the deadly Los Angeles wildfires to the crash between a regional jet and a helicopter in Washington DC. “DEI means people DIE,” Elon Musk wrote last year. Continue reading...
InterCure reports preliminary estimated revenue of NIS 265 million for 2025 and positive Adjusted EBITDA, marking its twelfth consecutive half-year of positive Adjusted EBITDA.
InterCure reports preliminary estimated revenue of NIS 265 million for 2025 and positive Adjusted EBITDA, marking its twelfth consecutive half-year of positive Adjusted EBITDA.
On 19 February 2026 AS Tallink Grupp held an investor webinar where Paavo Nõgene, the Chairman of the Management Board, Harri Hanschmidt and Margus Schults, the Members of the Management Board introduced the results of the fourth quarter and full year 2025. AS Tallink Grupp would like to thank all the participants.
On 19 February 2026 AS Tallink Grupp held an investor webinar where Paavo Nõgene, the Chairman of the Management Board, Harri Hanschmidt and Margus Schults, the Members of the Management Board introduced the results of the fourth quarter and full year 2025. AS Tallink Grupp would like to thank all the participants.
Réalise une croissance de 5,6 % de son chiffre d’affaires au T4 et termine 2025 essentiellement sans dette Réalise une croissance de 5,6 % de son chiffre d’affaires au T4 et termine 2025 essentiellement sans dette
Réalise une croissance de 5,6 % de son chiffre d’affaires au T4 et termine 2025 essentiellement sans dette Réalise une croissance de 5,6 % de son chiffre d’affaires au T4 et termine 2025 essentiellement sans dette
LIVONIA, Mich., Feb. 19, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alta Equipment Group Inc. (NYSE: ALTG) (“Alta” or “the Company”), a leading provider of premium material handling, construction and environmental processing equipment and related services, today announced that it will report its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2025, after the U.S. markets close on Thursday,...
LIVONIA, Mich., Feb. 19, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alta Equipment Group Inc. (NYSE: ALTG) (“Alta” or “the Company”), a leading provider of premium material handling, construction and environmental processing equipment and related services, today announced that it will report its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2025, after the U.S. markets close on Thursday, February 26, 2026. In conjunction with this announcement, Alta management will host a conference call and webcast that afternoon at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time to discuss and answer questions about the Company’s financial results. Prior to the conference call and webcast, Alta will issue a press release and supplementary presentation slides reporting these results on the Investors portion of the Company’s website, https://investors.altaequipment.com .
TORONTO, Feb. 19, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sprott Inc. (NYSE/TSX: SII) (“Sprott” or the “Company”) today announced its financial results for the year ended December 31, 2025.
TORONTO, Feb. 19, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sprott Inc. (NYSE/TSX: SII) (“Sprott” or the “Company”) today announced its financial results for the year ended December 31, 2025.
MILWAUKEE, Feb. 19, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Brady Corporation (NYSE: BRC) (“Brady” or “Company”), a world leader in identification solutions, today reported its financial results for its fiscal 2026 second quarter ended January 31, 2026.
MILWAUKEE, Feb. 19, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Brady Corporation (NYSE: BRC) (“Brady” or “Company”), a world leader in identification solutions, today reported its financial results for its fiscal 2026 second quarter ended January 31, 2026.
ROUYN-NORANDA, Québec, 19 févr. 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mines Abcourt Inc. (“Abcourt” ou la “Société”) (Bourse de croissance TSX: ABI) (OTCQB : ABMBF) annonce ses résultats financiers pour le second trimestre terminé le 31 décembre 2025. Toutes les valeurs monétaires dans ce communiqué de presse sont exprimées en dollars canadiens. Les états financiers et le rapport de gestion sont disponibles su...
ROUYN-NORANDA, Québec, 19 févr. 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mines Abcourt Inc. (“Abcourt” ou la “Société”) (Bourse de croissance TSX: ABI) (OTCQB : ABMBF) annonce ses résultats financiers pour le second trimestre terminé le 31 décembre 2025. Toutes les valeurs monétaires dans ce communiqué de presse sont exprimées en dollars canadiens. Les états financiers et le rapport de gestion sont disponibles sur SEDAR+.
ROUYN-NORANDA, Quebec, Feb. 19, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Abcourt Mines Inc. (“Abcourt” or the “Corporation”) (TSX Venture: ABI) (OTCQB : ABMBF) announces its financial results for the second quarter ended December 31, 2025. All monetary values in this press release are expressed in Canadian dollars, unless otherwise indicated. Financial statements and management discussion and analysis are availa...
ROUYN-NORANDA, Quebec, Feb. 19, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Abcourt Mines Inc. (“Abcourt” or the “Corporation”) (TSX Venture: ABI) (OTCQB : ABMBF) announces its financial results for the second quarter ended December 31, 2025. All monetary values in this press release are expressed in Canadian dollars, unless otherwise indicated. Financial statements and management discussion and analysis are available on SEDAR+.