pablorebo1984/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Introduction BP ( BP ) has appreciated nearly 25% (pre-earnings drop) since I last reviewed it back over a year ago , and I believe that my thesis needs a refresh, especially considering the large drop-off. 2025 has been a transformative period for BP as it went through a strategic pivot that prioritized value over volume and high-margin hydrocarbon production over aggressive and non-core expansion. I’ll dive into why I believe that the company has turned a page and could be a buy. Current Dynamics BP released a fairly good earnings report , with Q4 non-GAAP EPADs of 60 cents, which is in line with the consensus. Revenue increased 3.6% Y/Y to deliver a massive $5.05B beat on total sales of $47.38B. Brent crude averaged $63.73 per barrel in Q4, but the company demonstrated remarkable operational resilience and financial discipline. For FY25, BP reported a total underlying replacement cost profit of $7.5B, and though this is a slight decline compared to 2024, this was mainly linked to the 20% decline in crude prices. The result was achieved amidst record-high upstream plant reliability and refining availability, which reached around 97%. The enterprise’s cash generation remains its most compelling attribute for investors. Operating cash flow has reached $24.5B, which supported a $13.6B organic capital expenditure program while allowing for strong debt reduction and resilient shareholder distributions. The reported IFRS loss of $3.4B in Q4 , driven mainly by the $4B in post-tax impairments, should be viewed as a strategic revaluation of transition-related assets rather than a reflection of core business health. The impairments were highly tied to the gas and low-carbon energy segments, including biogas operations and offshore wind projects. By recognizing these non-cash charges now, the company has effectively de-risked its balance sheet and cleared the path for future earnings growth unencumbered by the high-carry costs ...

As a teenager I wondered what I would have in common with this Nordic island. Then my teacher gave me a book of poetry Lying in my bed, I listened to what sounded like a woman screaming outside in the dark. I picked up my pen. A month of living in this Icelandic village and I was still unaccustomed to the impenetrable January gloom and the ferocity of the wind; its propensity to sound sentient. I had started to feel like the island was trying to tell me something, had a story it wanted me to write. Sauðárkrókur, a fishing town in the northern fjord of Skagafjörður, was all mountain, sea and valley. There were no trees to slow the Arctic winds, and I had already been blown sideways into a snowbank while walking home from Fjölbrautaskóli Norðurlands vestra, my new high school whose name I could not yet pronounce. At night, my dreams were filled with a soundscape of weeping women. When I woke, their wailing continued in the gusts outside. That was when I wrote. I wrote to understand myself in this new place. I wrote to understand Iceland, its brutality and its beauty. Continue reading...

On the Notes app on my phone, among the to-do lists and the half-drafted email replies, I have a random list called Things That Are Just Always Chic. Wearing a watch that only tells the time. Having a signature scent. Black Ray-Ban sunglasses. All-white flowers in a vase. Also: wearing jeans with high heels. The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. Jeans with heels gets me every time. The woman who walks into the room in jeans and heels looks as if she owns the place, in a good way. It is a style language that speaks to everyone, confident and direct, a woman who is on top of her brief but also fun. The impact is stronger than a casual outfit, more compelling than a formal one. There is sound mathematical logic behind the case for wearing jeans with heels. It works visually, because although the mood music of denim is informal, jeans have as much structure as a tailored suit. The rigidity of denim and the assertive stitching of a five-pocket jean create an architectural shape for the bottom half of your body. A high heel elongates the leg, exaggerating the effect. And by shifting your balance, heels tweak your centre of gravity, giving you no option but to pull your shoulders back and stand up straight, which makes you look taller. Wear jeans and heels together, and they elevate you. Literally. View image in fullscreen Victoria Beckham rocks the look. Photograph: JP Yim/Getty Images A pair of jeans is the most ordinary piece of clothing there is. There are designer jeans, of course, but in contrast to the mythology of handbags, shoes or jewellery, denim is a category in which the headline brands are affordable ones. And yet despite how everywhere jeans are, we are captivated by them. The saga of which denim silhouette is most fashionable is a soap opera that everyone follows – a variation of “what shape of jean should I be wearing?” is the fashion question I get asked most often. ...

Arundhati Roy, Sarah Perry and Lea Ypi are among the writers longlisted for this year’s Women’s prize for nonfiction. Sixteen authors are in contention to win the £30,000 award, launched in 2024 to address the persistent gender imbalance in UK nonfiction prize winners. The 2026 longlist spans politics, memoir, science, art, history and biography, and includes seven debut authors. Chair of judges and Labour peer Thangam Debbonaire said the longlist was “hopeful”, and represented “women writing excellently on a wide range of subjects, each uncovering something new about our world”. Among the best-known names on the list is the Booker prize-winning novelist and political activist Arundhati Roy, longlisted for her first memoir, Mother Mary Comes to Me, an exploration of identity, motherhood and the making of a writer, which Amit Chaudhuri described as “utterly absorbing” in a Guardian review. British author Sarah Perry’s Death of an Ordinary Man, a meditation on grief, family and faith, centred on the death of her father-in-law, is also longlisted. Writing in the Guardian, Joe Moran called it “gem-like” and “special”, a book that “works its magic through the adamantine detail and quiet lyricism”. The academic and author Lea Ypi is nominated for Indignity: A Life Reimagined, which examines her personal family history alongside political upheaval across the Balkans, from the Ottoman empire to the aftermath of communism – a history “brought to life through Ypi’s novelistic style”, Sami Kent wrote in his Guardian review. History and politics loom large on the list – the BBC’s chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet is recognised for The Finest Hotel in Kabul, a people’s history of Afghanistan told through the shifting fortunes of the InterContinental hotel in the capital. Barbara Demick’s Daughters of the Bamboo Grove tells the true story of separated twins to illuminate the human consequences of China’s one-child policy, while Jane Rogoyska’s debut Hotel Exile looks ...

Failing to adopt a definition of anti-Muslim hostility would signal to British Muslims that their safety does not matter, a charity’s head has warned, as critics argue that adopting a definition risks breaking the law. Shaista Gohir, a cross-bench peer and head of the Muslim Women’s Network, was part of a working group on anti-Muslim hatred and Islamophobia launched by the government in 2025 to define what would constitute unacceptable treatment, prejudice and discrimination against Muslims. It is understood that a proposal submitted to the government for consideration in October put forward a definition for anti-Muslim hostility, as opposed to anti-Muslim hatred or Islamophobia. The non-statutory definition was intended to protect people in line with existing law and legislation, said Lady Gohir, who criticised Downing Street for its handling of the issue after government figures showed hate crimes against Muslims rose by nearly a fifth in 2025. “Every group has the right to be protected. The only reason why we’re asking for it is because of the high levels of abuse,” said Gohir, who spoke of increased personal attacks. “We’ve got an election in about three years’ time and it’s just going to get worse,” she added. “And personally, if I’m going to blame anybody, I’m blaming No 10.” Gohir’s intervention comes as research reveals most British Muslims feel negative about their future in the UK. Muslim Census’s “The Crisis of Belonging” report found only 8.2% felt positive about their future in the UK, while 62.7% said they felt negative. Just over half – 51.9% – said they felt they “strongly belong to the UK”, plunging from the 93% reported in an Ipsos Mori 10 years ago. Rising Islamophobia, the political climate, “feeling unwelcome in their own country” and job security were identified as concerns in the survey of 4,800 people, conducted in partnership with charities Islamic Relief UK and the National Zakat Foundation. The Muslim Census analysed British Muslims’ finan...

Apptronik, a fast-growing startup that makes artificial intelligence-powered humanoid robots, has secured about $520 million in a new funding round that values the company at more than $5.5 billion, around three times its valuation from its initial Series A raise last year. The funding round was led by existing investors including Google, Mercedes-Benz Group AG and B Capital, along with new investors AT&T Ventures, John Deere & Co. and the Qatar Investment Authority. This investment is an extension of a $415 million fundraise in February 2025. The company said it received substantial inbound investor interest after the first round, leading it to open the new extension at three times the valuation. The funding comes at a time when investors have been committing billions of dollars to humanoid robotics startups, including Figure AI and Dexterity, betting that advances in AI will speed up commercial adoption. Founded in 2016, Apptronik has partnerships with Mercedes-Benz, GXO Logistics and Jabil, as well as a strategic tie-up with Google DeepMind to develop humanoid robots powered by Gemini Robotics, a series of AI models from Google optimized for robots. The new round of capital will be used to bring Apptronik’s humanoid robot, Apollo, to market, expand ongoing pilot programs and support the initial scaling and production of the system, the company said. Apollo is the company’s flagship humanoid robot, the latest in a series of 10 humanoid systems developed by the company over the past decade. It is designed as a general-purpose platform and can operate using either legs or wheels. The robot can also be deployed in a stationary configuration or mounted, an approach the company said is critical to moving robotics beyond single-purpose use cases. However, Apptronik argues that legged mobility is essential for whole body control and operating effectively in environments designed for humans. “Apollo will evolve over time,” said Jeff Cardenas, Apptronik’s co-founder and ch...

Welcome to the Brussels Edition. I’m Suzanne Lynch, Bloomberg’s Brussels bureau chief, bringing you the latest from the EU each weekday. Make sure you’re signed up . Can Europe rise to the moment and tackle its competitiveness problem? That’s the question looming over two days of meetings that kick off with an Industrial Summit in Antwerp today and a retreat for EU leaders at the 16th-century Alden Biesen castle east of Brussels tomorrow. In an interview with Bloomberg TV, European Council President Antonio Costa urged leaders to seize the moment. He cited a “clear sense of urgency” among EU decisionmakers, stressing that “now we need effectively to take decisions with an impact.” “We need to ensure that we have a real European capital market to fund our companies, fund innovation, and to be competitive in the global market,” Costa said. He also weighed in on growing calls for Europe to develop a digital euro as officials explore whether to break the hold US payment firms like Visa or Mastercard have over Europe’s transactions — or to push back on the dollar’s global dominance. Costa argued that Europe’s digital options would help weaken those constrictions. “It’s clear that we need to have a payment digital infrastructure in Europe to allow us to make payments without any kind of dependence,” he said. French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz are among those attending today’s Antwerp summit, where they’ll come face-to-face with business leaders. Exxon’s Matt Crocker told John Ainger ahead of the Antwerp summit that Europe needs to make progress. “We have investments ready to go in Antwerp and Rotterdam to use our existing refining infrastructure so it’s quick and we can invest, but those are on pause because the regulators are not willing to support that,” he said. Speaking this lunchtime at the summit, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen addressed business concerns, admitting that there is “too much gold-plating” when it ...

In this article SSP Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT FILE PHOTO: E.W. Scripps Co. signage is displayed on a monitor on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., on Friday, June 3, 2016. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images E.W. Scripps is setting into motion what it calls a transformation plan for the broadcast station company — intended to generate growth for both earnings and its local TV stations. The company plans to announce Wednesday that it's targeting growth of between $125 million and $150 million in annual enterprise earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization by 2028. In order to get there, Scripps will go through a number of cost savings and revenue growth measures that lean on technology, namely artificial intelligence, CNBC can exclusively report. "This will essentially be a reorienting of the entire company ... with a much more agile and efficient cost structure," CEO Adam Symson said in an interview with CNBC. "We have to act like a media startup. We've got to act like the company E.W. founded, because the marketplace cannot bear the legacy pace or legacy thinking." The company plans to outline more details about its efforts during its next earnings call with investors on Feb. 26, but Symson described making changes to the newsroom to alleviate journalists from administrative tasks and to focus more on gathering and reporting the news. The company declined to comment on specific impacts to staffing as a result of the cost cutting, saying potential impacts to jobs would be determined over the next several months. "Everything is on the table, but our goal is to always preserve the journalism and the sales, the two things that make up our customer relationship," said Symson. Scripps owns more than 60 local affiliate broadcast stations across 40 markets, including Ion, which has become a broadcaster of the WNBA and other pro sports games. The company's stock has dropped 70% in the last five y...

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Apptronik co-founders (L-R): CTO Nicholas Paine and CEO Jeff Cardenas Courtesy Apptronik Apptronik has raised $520 million in funding at a $5 billion valuation as the startup aims to commercialize its humanoid Apollo robots, potentially beating Chinese competitors and Tesla's Optimus to the market. The new funding, announced on Wednesday, brings Apptronik's series A funding round to $935 million. B Capital, chaired by Howard Morgan, co-led the deal with Google . Located in Austin, Texas, where Tesla is also headquartered, Apptronik is reeling in cash to refine and start producing more of its Apollo humanoids, CEO Jeff Cardenas told CNBC. Early versions of the company's Apollo robots are currently working within designated areas in factories and warehouses run by Apptronik strategic partners, including Mercedes-Benz, GXO Logistics and Jabil. The designated areas are defined by external sensors and so-called light curtains, Cardenas said, meaning an Apollo in the area will pause if a human steps across a boundary. Cardenas said that in the future, the Apollo will be engineered for "collaborative safety," so the humanoids can slow down, stop, or maneuver alongside other people, just as a human would, while performing tasks like transporting components, sorting and lifting. Apptronik's competitors include a wide array of humanoid developers, such as China-based Unitree, Figure, Agility Robotics and 1X. Tesla has grand ambitions with Optimus, one of the reasons it's planning to shell out $20 billion on capex in 2026. Tesla said it has to ramp up spending to start manufacturing its robots and self-driving cars. But in a recent earnings call , CEO Elon Musk said the Optimus humanoids remain in an early, research and development stage. Cardenas said that within the field of automation, the allure of humanoids is their versatility, which allows "one robot to do thousands of tasks, versus a thousand robots ...

Richa Kaul says she’s a bit of a data privacy nut. At parties, for example, she’s the one helping people with their phone privacy configurations. “It got to a point where I realized the best way to actually protect consumer data is to help secure the enterprises that hold the world’s data.” So she launched a company called Complyance to do just that. On Wednesday, the company announced a $20 million Series A led by GV. Complyance is an app that companies integrate into their existing tech stack. It uses AI agents to help them manage governance, risk, and, well, data compliance. “The AI basically automates a number of manual tasks,” Kaul said. “It uses AI to do custom checks on data coming in against their own specific criteria and risk thresholds.” The AI then flags any risks that need review. These risk reviews can take weeks or months when done manually. It’s a standard audit-based process that happens perhaps once a year or once a quarter, where teams will run a check on their organization. Tools like Complyance hope to make this process more efficient by using technology to run continuous checks in seconds, so companies never have to wonder if they are in data compliance. It also has an agent that assesses the risk of any third-party vendors. “We’re trying to redefine what enterprise GRC teams spend their time doing right now,” she said, adding that it’s usually chasing down mundane tasks. GRC refers to general, risk, and compliance. Others in the market include Archer, ServiceNow GRC, and OneTrust. She said her company differs from incumbents because it is AI-native, rather than layering AI features on top. Kaul declined to say how many customers the company has, but noted that it works with a few Fortune 500 companies. Complyance has raised $28 million in funding to date. Though the company came out of stealth in 2023, its first product didn’t go to market until the end of 2024. Kaul called fundraising “kind of a fairy tale,” because GV actually approached her...

University of Texas spinout Apptronik, a builder of humanoid robots for Google DeepMind among others, on Wednesday announced that it re-opened its Series A to raise a total of $935 million for the round. While the company did not disclose the valuation, TechCrunch separately learned that its post-money valuation is now about $5.3 billion. Apptronik previously announced a $350 million Series A a year ago, but demand was so strong, according to the company, that it expanded the round to $415 million. Now it has raised another $520 million from earlier investors Google, Mercedes-Benz, and B Capital, alongside some new investors. While it may sound like the startup is just selling off ever bigger chunks of itself at its Series A price, that’s not exactly what’s happening. The company says its investors have paid progressively more for shares in each subsequent extension — valuing it at roughly triple the initial Series A valuation of around $1.75 billion, according to PitchBook. Why not just call this a Series B then? The company says it is still in early stages of development and was not actively seeking funding — rather it was dealing with inbound interest, says a source close to the company. Fair enough. Another $520 million in a year, especially at a higher valuation, would be hard to turn away, particularly for tech as expensive to build as bipedal robots. Closely watched competitor Figure AI, for instance, had raised nearly $2 billion total since its 2022 founding before announcing a further $1 billion round last fall. Part of the excitement over Apptronik is that it has partnered with Google DeepMind, as well as GXO and Mercedes-Benz, to deliver what the industry calls embodied AI — robots capable of perceiving their environment and taking physical action based on reasoning, rather than just following fixed instructions. The robot is being built for tasks like unloading trailers, picking warehouse inventory, and tending machinery, the company says. Techcrunch eve...

The fight to tame spreadsheets with AI isn’t over yet. A new company called Meridian has emerged from stealth with a more comprehensive IDE-based approach to agentic financial modeling — and plenty of funding to build it. On Wednesday, the company announced $17 million in seed funding at a $100 million post-money valuation. “Our goal is to make financial modeling and spreadsheets way more predictable and auditable,” CEO and co-founder John Ling told TechCrunch. “How can you take a process that traditionally might have taken cool hours and condense it down into like 10 minutes?” The round was led by Andressen Horowitz and the General Partnership, with participation from QED Investors, FPV Ventures and Litquidity Ventures. The company says it is currently working with teams at Decagon and OffDeal, and signed $5 million of contracts in December alone. Excel agents have been a popular target for AI startups, due in part for the high cost of human-led financial analysis. But where previous Excel agents like Shortcut AI built agents into Excel, Meridian operates as a stand-alone workspace, more akin to Cursor. This allows the app to operate like an IDE, integrating data sources and other outside references that might otherwise create friction. Based in New York, the Meridian team includes both alumni of AI firms like Scale AI and Anthropic as well as financial veterans from firms like Goldman Sachs. As Ling describes it, Meridian’s biggest challenge is the strict requirements of financial clients, which often clash with the non-deterministic nature of AI models. “if you go to ten different software engineers at Google, and you want to add some new feature into an app, you’ll probably get like, 10 completely different implementations. And that’s totally fine,” Ling says. “But if you go to 10 banking analysts at Goldman Sachs and you ask for 10 valuation models for a company, you would probably get 10 almost identical workbooks.” Techcrunch event TechCrunch Founder Summit 2...

NEW YORK, Feb. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Oracle Corporation ("Oracle" or the "Company") (NYSE: ORCL) of a class action securities lawsuit. CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Oracle investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between June 12, 2025 and December 16, 2025. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team: https://zlk.com/pslra-1/oracle-corporation-lawsuit-submission-form?prid=183421&wire=4 ORCL investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at [email protected] or by telephone at (212) 363-7500. CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (1) the Company's AI infrastructure strategy would result in massive increases in capital expenditures without equivalent, near-term growth in revenue; (2) the Company's substantially increased spending created serious risks involving Oracle's debt and credit rating, free cash flow, and ability to fund its projects, among other concerns; and (3) as a result, defendants' representations about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis. WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Oracle during the relevant time frame, you have until April 6, 2026 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff. NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate. WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation...

Kenneth Cheung/iStock Unreleased via Getty Images The Adolescence of Technology It hasn't been long since my last Buy article on Amazon.com, Inc. ( AMZN ), but the market further discounted Amazon since then despite having pretty good earnings: Seeking Alpha Here is a company that could soon be doing $1 trillion a year in annual revenue; the moat isn't what investors are questioning, it's the spending. This isn't just an Amazon problem; this is ubiquitous amongst the hyperscalers of the Mag 7. More from the most recent earnings call (emphasis added): CEO Andrew Jassy outlined a "strong growth" quarter with reported revenue of $213.4 billion, operating income of $25 billion, and trailing 12-month free cash flow of $11.2 billion. Jassy revealed, "We expect to invest about $200 billion in capital expenditures across Amazon, but predominantly in AWS because we have very high demand, customers really want AWS for core and AI workloads, and we're monetizing capacity as fast as we can install it. The $200 billion number was enough to sink the stock post earnings call: Market reaction to CAPEX guidance Data by YCharts The stock is down -14.12 % for the month of February despite positive guidance otherwise. Words from Amazon AI partner Anthropic might be a good guidepost to understand just where we sit. Just how far out are we from AGI or "artificial general intelligence"? Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently came out with a great white paper addressing just that. Here are some highlights: Three years ago, AI struggled with elementary school arithmetic problems and was barely capable of writing a single line of code. Similar rates of improvement are occurring across biological science , finance, physics, and a variety of agentic tasks. If the exponential continues—which is not certain, but now has a decade-long track record supporting it—then it cannot possibly be more than a few years before AI is better than humans at essentially everything. In fact, that picture probably u...

Getty Images Ray Dalio warns of a regime shift , and here the All Weather returns to being one of the most read portfolios of the moment. In this game, State Street steps in, proposing the SPDR® Bridgewater® All Weather® ETF ( ALLW ) as an alternative. But let’s clarify things: does this “philosophy” of approach have a reason to exist today? Well, judging by the results, yes, and by how I interpret the market, also from a forward-looking perspective. Here is my opinion, but first … What is ALLW We are talking about a global multi-asset ETF that, on paper, is actively managed: the management follows Bridgewater’s All Weather approach. Born in 1996, it is the investment philosophy that made the well-known investor Ray Dalio famous, and it aims at compounding capital across different “economic weather,” including growth shocks and inflationary shocks. All of this comes with an expense ratio that, in my view, cannot be overlooked, equal to 0.85%; however, it is adequately covered by a 30-day SEC yield of 1.65% (for SA, the yield is 4.44%). ALLW - Profile (Seeking Alpha) Bridgewater’s All-Weather Philosophy The core is here: in the strategy famous for providing inter-regime stability , resilient across market regimes. On a practical level, Bridgewater provides the model portfolio, and SSGA Funds Management operationally implements the model, with the ability to also deviate from the implementation. The logic, however, remains all-weather, and typically this uses the MSCI ACWI IMI Index as a comparative reference. ALLW - ISVVF: total return (Seeking Alpha) In addition, we have a volatility target available, equal to 10-12% . A lower volatility compared to that of the S&P 500 (where annualized volatility is close to 20%). SPY - Risk grade (Seeking Alpha) It follows that the underlying objective will not be the maximization of CAGR in linear bull markets (where volatility is instead a central ingredient). The Result (Holding Distribution) Here equity is a satellite, not the...

Torsten Asmus/iStock via Getty Images Introduction & Thesis Investing in the long stretch of the interest rate curve can be an interesting option when looking for diversification in your portfolio. Doing so in an indexed way makes things much easier for the common investor, as you delegate management to a team of competent professionals who do that work for you. One of the alternatives offered by the market for this type of investment is the Vanguard Long-Term Treasury ETF ( VGLT ). This ETF invests in the long stretch of the curve, buying long-term US Treasuries. It is passively managed and seeks to track the Bloomberg U.S. Long Treasury Bond Index before fees and expenses. It uses representative sampling, holding a subset of the index’s securities that, in aggregate, closely matches the index’s key characteristics. One of the most important variables that influence this type of bond is the valuation of the term premium, which is the excess yield that the market asks for to absorb duration risk. As the reader will know, the yield on a bond is composed of two variables, short-term interest rate expectations and the evolution of the term premium. The longer the bond lasts, the higher the term premium and the more impact it has on the overall yield of the bond itself. As we will see below, the ETF that we analyze already offers today an attractive carry, which is influenced by the positive slope of the spread 30Y-10Y. Importantly, that carry is not only driven by higher coupon income, but also by positive roll-down: on an upward-sloping curve, bonds tend to “roll” into lower-yielding points over time, which can add to total return as long as the curve shape remains stable. While this is a positive development, the recent increase in term premium neutralizes this assertion. And because I think it's going to continue to increase because of the fiscal and inflationary uncertainty that exists around the United States, I recommend an ETF hold today. The main problem with a...

pingingz/iStock via Getty Images Doubling Down On My "Buy" Ahead Of Earnings In my most recent article on CoreWeave, Inc. ( CRWV ) stock, I was reviewing its Q3 2025 results, which, I thought, weren't as bad as the market assessed them at the time, rewarding CRWV with a heavy dip right after the print (and for a few trading sessions after that). Since my bullish update, the stock has managed to recover by 7.60%, although it's still trading over 50% off the ATH point. Seeking Alpha, Oakoff's coverage of CRWV The market may be a bit cautious now as the firm is approaching the key quarterly event - its earnings release (in about 2 weeks, 2/26/2026 ) - because CRWV's close peer, IREN Limited ( IREN ), has already reported, and its stock price isn't doing well: TrendSpider Software, IREN weekly, notes added In my view, the current weakness in CRWV's stock price action has already priced in a lot of risks related to potential GPU obsolescence, debt load, high price tag (valuation), etc. I expect a more active-than-expected backlog-to-revenue conversion in Q4, and hence, better revenue visibility. But what's more important, in my view, CRWV is scaling its ARENA lab for enterprise production readiness and is going to deploy NVIDIA Corporation's ( NVDA ) Rubin platform in 2H 2026, so management will likely provide new timelines on the call, lifting uncertainty to some extent. Given the end market's demand environment, I think CRWV looks like a no-brainer ahead of earnings. Previewing CRWV's Q4 2025 Results I've already mentioned that news piece in my latest article on Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd ( CRDO ), but I'll briefly repeat it here: Five hyperscalers, Amazon.com, Inc. ( AMZN ), Alphabet Inc. ( GOOG )( GOOGL ), Microsoft Corporation ( MSFT ), Meta Platforms, Inc. ( META ), and Oracle Corporation ( ORCL ), are planning to spend collectively ~$700 billion in CAPEX throughout FY2026. We might question their potential ROIC, sure thing, but these expenditures are flowi...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Feb. 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- APPlife Digital Solutions, Inc. (OTCID: ALDS ) ("APPlife" or "the Company"), a business incubator and portfolio manager specializing in e-commerce and marketplace solutions, today reports its second quarter 2026 financial results. Key Highlights: Following the acquisition of Sugar Auto Parts, the Company is focusing on the aftermarket automotive sector. The technical infrastructure for LiftKits4Less.com has been rebuilt to include features like real-time inventory synchronization and automated fulfillment. The Company increased real-time SKU access to over 175,000, a 40% increase from earlier in 2025, with a target of 350,000 to 450,000 SKUs by the end of 2026. Operational efficiency has been improved through enhanced platform architecture and integrations with warehouse distributors. Financial Results Summary: Revenue for the quarter ended December 31, 2025 was $894,309, compared to $464,172 for the quarter ended September 30, 2025. This significant growth of approximately 93% was primarily driven by the technical rebuild and improvements to the Company's flagship e-commerce platform, LiftKits4Less.com, which enabled a broader inventory selection and more effective digital media efforts. These enhancements increased product availability, boosted site traffic, and improved conversion rates, directly contributing to higher sales volumes. Gross profit was $226,854 for the quarter ended December 31, 2025 versus $105,024 for the quarter ended September 30, 2025, representing a gross margin of 25%, compared to 23% in the quarters ended December 31, 2025 and September 30, 2025, respectively. Operating expenses for the quarter ended December 31, 2025 totaled $774,701 versus $467,966 in the quarter ended September 30, 2025, reflecting costs attributable to labor, professional fees, advertising and merchant fees as we continue to branch out our product lines in Sugar Auto Parts and had increased labor and contractors i...

TEL AVIV, Feb. 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Entera Bio Ltd. (NASDAQ: ENTX) ("Entera" or the "Company"), a leader in the development of oral peptide and protein replacement therapies, today announced that several members of its Board of Directors, including the Company’s Chairman, have made open market purchases of the Company’s ordinary shares. These transactions follow an earlier open market purchase by Entera Bio’s Chief Executive Officer, Miranda Toledano, in December 2025. The purchases were made by Geno J. Germano, Chairman of the Board; Steven D. Rubin, Director; Haya Taitel, Director; and Sean Ellis, Director. The shares were acquired in open market transactions at prevailing market prices. Details regarding the transactions, including the number of shares purchased and the purchase prices, are reported in filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. All transactions were conducted in compliance with applicable securities laws and Entera Bio’s insider trading policies. About Entera Bio Entera is a clinical stage company focused on developing oral peptide and protein replacement therapies for significant unmet medical needs where an oral tablet form holds the potential to transform the standard of care. The Company leverages on a disruptive and proprietary technology platform (N-Tab®) and its pipeline of first-in-class oral peptide programs targeting PTH(1-34), GLP-1 and GLP-2. The Company’s most advanced product candidate, EB613 (oral PTH(1-34)), is being developed as the first oral, osteoanabolic (bone building) once-daily tablet treatment for post-menopausal women with low BMD and high-risk osteoporosis. A placebo-controlled, dose-ranging Phase 2 study of EB613 tablets (n= 161) met primary (PD/bone turnover biomarker) and secondary endpoints (BMD). The EB612 program is being developed as the first oral PTH(1-34) tablet peptide replacement therapy for hypoparathyroidism. Entera is also developing the first oral oxyntomodulin, a dual targeted GLP...

NEW YORK, Feb. 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nasdaq Private Market, a leading provider of liquidity, capital and investment solutions for private companies, employee shareholders and investors, today announced significant enhancements to its Transfer & Settlement business. The firm introduced AI-powered trade ingestion, automated agreement generation, and workflow management tools designed to dramatically simplify and accelerate the settlement of private market transactions. Settling private market transactions is fundamentally different from public markets. Unlike standardized public market infrastructure, private market settlements vary widely by issuer, lack unified processes, and often take months to complete. These challenges create friction for private companies, buyers, and sellers alike - and slow the velocity of private market liquidity. NPM’s mission is to modernize private market infrastructure. As part of that effort, the firm has been working closely with private companies to streamline the workflow from the moment two counterparties match on a transaction through the point at which shares and cash are fully transferred and settled. “Private market settlement has historically been manual, fragmented, and slow,” said Andrew Kroculick, COO at NPM. “Our goal is to bring structure, speed, and reliability to a process that was never designed to scale – while partnering directly with issuers to respect their unique requirements.” Addressing the Core Challenges of Private Market Settlement Today, two issues most significantly hinder private market settlement: A lack of standardized processes across private companies, each with its own transfer rules, documentation, and approval requirements. Extended settlement timelines, driven by manual coordination, document handling, and back-and-forth between multiple parties. NPM addresses these challenges by working directly with issuers to standardize settlement workflows on a company-by-company basis, while leveraging ...

SINGAPORE, Feb. 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bit Origin Ltd (NASDAQ: BTOG) (“Bit Origin” or the “Company”), today announced that it has received a notification letter from The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) on February 9, 2026, confirming that the Company has regained compliance with the minimum bid price requirement set forth in Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2). On February 21, 2025, the Company was notified by Nasdaq that its Class A ordinary shares failed to maintain a minimum bid price of $1.00 over the previous 30 consecutive business days. According to the notification letter received on February 9, 2026, Nasdaq staff has determined that for the last 14 consecutive business days, from January 20, 2026, to February 6, 2026, the closing bid price of the Company’s Class A ordinary shares has been at $1.00 per share or greater. Accordingly, the Company has regained compliance with Listing Rule 5550(a)(2), and this matter is now closed. “We are pleased to have successfully regained compliance with Nasdaq’s listing standards, confirming the effectiveness of our recent strategic actions,” said Jinghai Jiang, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Bit Origin. “Maintaining our Nasdaq listing is fundamental to our long-term strategy. We remain focused on executing our strategic initiatives and enhancing long-term value for our shareholders.” About Bit Origin Ltd Bit Origin Ltd (NASDAQ: BTOG) is an emerging growth company focused on digital asset innovation and blockchain-based strategies, including the development of its digital asset treasury initiatives and related ecosystem opportunities. For more information, please visit https://bitorigin.io. Safe Harbor Statement This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding the expected timing and effects of the Reverse Stock Split and the Company’s ability to regain or maintain compliance with Nasdaq listing req...

Something happens every time I try to use an iPhone camera like a real camera. Here’s how it goes: I shoot RAW in addition to the default HEIC output, and since I have the RAW file I might as well edit it to my taste. And if I’m going to do that, I want to use Lightroom on my MacBook. You know, real software. Then I remember: iPhone photos hate real software. Moving image files between devices is mysterious. If I Airdrop them to my Macbook will the HDR gain map tag along? Why do my photos always come out of Lightroom looking different than my edit? Where did that gain map go? I lack the patience to find out, so I just live with what my phone camera produces on its own and leave the heavy lifting to my “real” camera. This has its pros and cons. On the plus side, it’s way easier to deal with iPhone photos if they never leave the native camera app. But it also means leaving processing up to the iPhone, which tends to run amok with sharpening and raising shadows. I lean on the app’s built-in Photographic Styles (shout out to Rich Contrast, you’re a real one) to avoid this, but lots of people look to third party options like Halide’s Process Zero. Halide introduced this mode to its popular iPhone camera app last year. Process Zero promises to strip away the excess processing the native camera pipeline applies to images, resulting in photos with deeper shadows and less aggressive sharpening. Sounds great if you’re sick of the processed-to-death phone camera look! But I’ll admit to being a bit of a Process Zero skeptic. I lived through the pre-computational-photography era of crappy phone cameras, and I generally prefer the lower noise and usable low light photos you get with current camera tech. With a higher contrast photo style applied, it gets me close enough to the look I like, even if it feels like I’m taking pictures with a computer and not so much a camera. But Halide just released the second version of Process Zero in beta, adding a couple of features that got me ...

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Though catching monsters and making them fight have always been core elements of the Pokémon brand, spinoffs like the Pokémon Snap and Detective Pikachu series have stood out by approaching the franchise from different angles. In different (and often small) ways, recent mainline Pokémon titles like Sword / Shield, Scarlet / Violet, and Legends: Z-A have acknowledged that there are some players who would much rather spend their time hanging out and taking pictures with their monster friends. That leisurely approach to enjoying the Pokémon world doesn’t exactly gel with the main games’ focus on becoming a competitive champion, but it is exactly the sort of mindset you should have when you start playing Pokémon Pokopia for the Nintendo Switch 2. Co-developed by The Pokémon Company, Game Freak, and Koei Tecmo’s Omega Force division, Pokopia feels like Nintendo taking another stab at everything that makes Animal Crossing so enjoyable while experimenting with features from other crafting-forward games, like Minecraft. Pokopia uses conventions from the core Pokémon series to make its spin on classic life simulation game mechanics like building and nurturing relationships feel distinct. It’s a fun, cute game that plays just differently enough from Animal Crossing to say that Pokopia isn’t simply a Pokémon-themed New Horizons. But what delighted me most when I recently spent some hands-on time with the game was how — when you look past its bright, island-y vibes — Pokopia’s story seems to be teasing something dark and ominous about the Pokémon world. In Pokopia, you play as an unusual Ditto that has somehow ended up on an island after getting separated from its trainer. This Ditto isn’t great at transforming into other pokémon, and it doesn’t remember what happened to its partner. But after finding its lost trainer...

Kenneth Cheung/iStock Unreleased via Getty Images The Adolescence of Technology It hasn't been long since my last Buy article on Amazon.com, Inc. ( AMZN ), but the market further discounted Amazon since then despite having pretty good earnings: Seeking Alpha Here is a company that could soon be doing $1 trillion a year in annual revenue; the moat isn't what investors are questioning, it's the spending. This isn't just an Amazon problem; this is ubiquitous amongst the hyperscalers of the Mag 7. More from the most recent earnings call (emphasis added): CEO Andrew Jassy outlined a "strong growth" quarter with reported revenue of $213.4 billion, operating income of $25 billion, and trailing 12-month free cash flow of $11.2 billion. Jassy revealed, "We expect to invest about $200 billion in capital expenditures across Amazon, but predominantly in AWS because we have very high demand, customers really want AWS for core and AI workloads, and we're monetizing capacity as fast as we can install it. The $200 billion number was enough to sink the stock post earnings call: Market reaction to CAPEX guidance Data by YCharts The stock is down -14.12 % for the month of February despite positive guidance otherwise. Words from Amazon AI partner Anthropic might be a good guidepost to understand just where we sit. Just how far out are we from AGI or "artificial general intelligence"? Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently came out with a great white paper addressing just that. Here are some highlights: Three years ago, AI struggled with elementary school arithmetic problems and was barely capable of writing a single line of code. Similar rates of improvement are occurring across biological science , finance, physics, and a variety of agentic tasks. If the exponential continues—which is not certain, but now has a decade-long track record supporting it—then it cannot possibly be more than a few years before AI is better than humans at essentially everything. In fact, that picture probably u...

Security Operations Centers (SOCs) can now accelerate SAP detection and response, while managing unified cybersecurity workflows within their SIEM DENVER, Feb. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Pathlock, a leader in Identity and Access Governance, today announced the release of the integration of its Cybersecurity Application Controls (CAC) solution with Microsoft Sentinel Solution for SAP. The integration provides enterprise security teams with complete visibility into their SAP landscape and enables them to identify and respond to threats early — directly from their SIEM. SOC teams today are confronting an escalating wave of cyber threats affecting critical SAP applications, including profound zero-day vulnerabilities, insider misuse, and SAP exploits. But because SAP threat indicators often aren't surfaced in the same view as other application security data, SOC teams face critical visibility gaps that weaken their overall security posture. Pathlock's new integration seamlessly feeds enriched SAP security events, correlated insights, and critical alerts into Microsoft Sentinel Solution for SAP, giving Security Operations Centers (SOCs) a unified view of SAP and non-SAP risks in one place. "SAP systems play a critical role in the enterprise and are a treasure trove of sensitive data, making them attractive for cybercriminals, yet monitoring them often requires SOC teams to jump between specialized tools and workflows," said Damon Tompkins, CEO, Pathlock. "By integrating Pathlock's SAP threat detection capabilities with Microsoft Sentinel Solution for SAP, we eliminate that complexity and empower SOC teams to simplify end-to-end SAP threat protection." "Our holistic approach to enterprise security means we aim to provide customers with threat intelligence across the entire ecosystem, and SAP is a critical application and an important part of it. Pathlock's capabilities in SAP threat detection and response brought to Microsoft Sentinel Solution for SAP are a valuable contrib...

Apptronik Repeat investors including B Capital, Google, Mercedes-Benz and PEAK6, alongside new investors including AT&T Ventures, John Deere and QIA, back Apptronik to scale production and deployment of Apollo™ humanoid robots AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AI-powered robotics company Apptronik today announced a $520 million Series A-X funding round, with participation from existing investors including B Capital, Google, Mercedes-Benz and PEAK6, and new investors including AT&T Ventures, John Deere and Qatar Investment Authority (QIA). The Series A-X extension round follows a $415 million oversubscribed initial Series A raise in 2025, bringing Apptronik’s total Series A to more than $935 million and total capital raised to nearly $1 billion. After the initial Series A announcement, Apptronik continued to receive substantial inbound investor interest, leading the company to open the new extension of its Series A at a 3x multiple of the Series A valuation, underscoring strong investor confidence in Apptronik’s vision for AI-powered robots that support people in every facet of life. With this fresh capital, Apptronik will ramp up production of its award-winning humanoid robot, Apollo™, and expand its global network of commercial and pilot deployments. The investment will accelerate time to market and enable Apptronik to invest in projects that are needed to solve the use cases of its large number of retail, manufacturing, and logistics customers, including building state-of-the-art facilities for robot training and data collection. The funding will also fuel continued innovation in the company’s pioneering human-centered robot design, paving the way for its highly anticipated new robot set to debut in 2026. Apptronik has inked partnerships with some of the largest brands in the world, including Mercedes-Benz, GXO Logistics, and Jabil. Apptronik also has an industry-leading strategic partnership with Google DeepMind to build the next generation of huma...

University of Texas spinout Apptronik, a builder of humanoid robots for Google DeepMind among others, on Wednesday announced that it re-opened its Series A to raise a total of $935 million for the round. While the company did not disclose the valuation, TechCrunch separately learned that its post-money valuation is now about $5.3 billion. Apptronik previously announced a $350 million Series A a year ago, but demand was so strong, according to the company, that it expanded the round to $415 million. Now it has raised another $520 million from earlier investors Google, Mercedes-Benz, and B Capital, alongside some new investors. While it may sound like the startup is just selling off ever bigger chunks of itself at its Series A price, that’s not exactly what’s happening. The company says its investors have paid progressively more for shares in each subsequent extension — valuing it at roughly triple the initial Series A valuation of around $1.75 billion, according to PitchBook. Why not just call this a Series B then? The company says it is still in early stages of development and was not actively seeking funding — rather it was dealing with inbound interest, says a source close to the company. Fair enough. Another $520 million in a year, especially at a higher valuation, would be hard to turn away, particularly for tech as expensive to build as bipedal robots. Closely watched competitor Figure AI, for instance, had raised nearly $2 billion total since its 2022 founding before announcing a further $1 billion round last fall. Part of the excitement over Apptronik is that it has partnered with Google DeepMind, as well as GXO and Mercedes-Benz, to deliver what the industry calls embodied AI — robots capable of perceiving their environment and taking physical action based on reasoning, rather than just following fixed instructions. The robot is being built for tasks like unloading trailers, picking warehouse inventory, and tending machinery, the company says. Despite retain...

SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK), a developer of embedded FPGA (eFPGA) IP and ruggedized FPGAs and chiplet solutions, today announced it will exhibit and deliver a technical presentation at Chiplet Summit 2026, the industry's premier conference focused on chiplet architectures, advanced packaging, and heterogeneous integration. QuickLogic logo (PRNewsfoto/QuickLogic Corporation) Chiplet Summit 2026 will take place February 17–19 in Santa Clara, California. QuickLogic will exhibit at Booth #416, where attendees can learn how its eFPGA IP and eFPGA-based chiplets enable flexible, scalable architectures for advanced heterogeneous integration. In addition, QuickLogic will present a technical session titled: "Enabling Flexible Heterogeneous Integration with an eFPGA Chiplet on Intel® 18A" The presentation will be delivered by Trey Peterson, Applications Engineer at QuickLogic, during Session E-202 on Thursday, February 19, from 3:00 p.m. to 4:20 p.m. The session will explore how eFPGA chiplets can be used to add post-silicon adaptability and extend platform flexibility in advanced process nodes. Chiplet Summit 2026 Exhibit Hours Wednesday, February 18: 12:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Thursday, February 19: 12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. QuickLogic Booth: 416 About QuickLogic QuickLogic Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company specializing in eFPGA Hard IP, discrete FPGAs, and endpoint AI solutions. QuickLogic's unique approach combines cutting-edge technology with open-source tools to deliver highly customizable, low-power solutions for aerospace and defense, industrial, computing, and consumer markets. For more information, visit www.quicklogic.com. QuickLogic and logo are registered trademarks of QuickLogic. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders and should be treated as such. Cision View original content to download multimedia:https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/quicklogic-corporation-to-exhibit...

NetSuite Integration Platform enables customers to automate, orchestrate, and manage cross-application workflows NEW YORK, Feb. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- SuiteConnect New York -- Oracle NetSuite, the #1 AI Cloud ERP, today announced the availability of the NetSuite Integration Platform, a low-code, AI-powered solution that enables organizations to automate and unify complex business workflows across their enterprise applications. Complementing NetSuite's unified data model, the NetSuite Integration Platform enables customers to easily connect NetSuite to third-party CRM, ecommerce, HR, supply chain, industry and other systems using natural language and prebuilt AI integrations. Oracle NetSuite Logo (PRNewsfoto/Oracle NetSuite) "By using AI to bring together mission-critical business data, we are helping our customers reduce technical complexity, move faster, and gain more value from the comprehensive AI capabilities embedded in NetSuite," said Evan Goldberg, founder and executive vice president, Oracle NetSuite. "With the new NetSuite Integration Platform, organizations can transform integration from a technical bottleneck into a strategic enabler to accelerate automation, enhance data quality, and free up resources to focus on growing their business." NetSuite and NetSuite Integration Platform are built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), which provides a unified data foundation for streamlined integration and faster execution. With an embedded AI Assistant, NetSuite Integration Platform empowers both business and IT teams to orchestrate end-to-end workflows through a visual, low-code environment, enabling:

The beaten-down consumer discretionary stock trades 64% below its all-time record. There aren't many companies that have the brand recognition that Nike (NKE 0.59%) does. Over the decades, its leadership within the sportswear market has supported its financial success. And with its marketing prowess, the business has resonated with people all over the world. It's not always an easy journey, however. This consumer discretionary stock is not winning right now, as its price has declined 56% in the past five years (as of Feb. 6). Does Nike have what it takes to get to $100 per share? Patience is important Investors are seeking a 56% gain from the current price of $64. For what it's worth, Nike's all-time high stock price is around $166. This was reached in November 2021. Given that shares trade 64% below that record and show no signs of life, investors are lacking the optimism to be bullish. However, I think that it's only a matter of time for the stock to hit $100. It probably will take a few years, though, in a best-case scenario. Nike's turnaround will take time The current leadership team is working to boost Nike's growth, which has come under pressure in recent years. Competition, especially in the running category, is stiff. The company has failed to drive consumer excitement, with product innovation lacking. Nike also wants to strengthen ties with wholesale accounts that it abandoned during the pandemic-fueled e-commerce boom. Revenue is expected to rise by less than 1% in fiscal 2026, according to the consensus view among sell-side analysts. And earnings per share are expected to fall 28%. Nike is dealing with higher costs coming from the ongoing impact of tariffs. On an annualized basis, product costs are $1.5 billion higher now. CEO Elliott Hill is focused on getting the top line back to growth. After that, the profits should follow. Expand NYSE : NKE Nike Today's Change ( -0.59 %) $ -0.37 Current Price $ 62.67 Key Data Points Market Cap $93B Day's Range $ 62....