Nvidia’s Slide Turns Into a Board-Level Story, and the Market Is Pricing a Governance Discount
Nvidia shares fell more than 6 percent on Wednesday to around $166, a second straight decline, after the company’s board opened a probe in...
DeepMind’s New Robotics Model Learns Dozens of Physical Skills, and the Cost Curve Is the Real Story
DeepMind unveiled Gemini Robotics 2.5 on Wednesday, a model it says can acquire hundreds of real-world manipulation skills, from folding l...
Google Puts Its Strongest Model Yet Behind an Agentic Bet, and the Coding Race Just Got a New Benchmark
Google on Wednesday released Gemini 4 Carbon, which it described as its strongest model to date for long-horizon reasoning and agentic cod...
NYSE Picks Avalanche to Settle Tokenized Stocks. Wall Street's Settlement Layer Just Chose a Chain.
The New York Stock Exchange has selected the Avalanche network as the core settlement ledger for its planned blockchain-based stock market...
Coinbase Wins a Full U.S. Trust Charter. The Custody Race Just Got a New Ceiling.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has elevated Coinbase from a conditional to a full-fledged U.S. trust charter, giving the ex...
Poundland's Cash Crunch Exposes the Discount Retail Glut. The Second Rescue Bid Is the Signal.
Discount retailer Poundland is unable to buy new stock as it edges toward collapse, and a second rescue bid has emerged for the chain, lay...
Bank of England Lifts Rates to 4% for the First Time in Three Years. Borrowers Just Felt the Hitch.
The Bank of England raised its benchmark interest rate to 4 percent on Thursday, the first increase in more than three years, in a move th...
Meta Prices Muse Ember at 10 Cents a Million Tokens. The Agent-Model Price War Just Shifted.
Meta's new lightweight agent-execution model, Muse Ember, is priced at 10 cents per million input tokens, undercutting comparable fron...
Anthropic's $3.4 Billion Gas Turbine Bet Turns Data-Center Power Into a Balance Sheet Problem
Anthropic has agreed to buy roughly $3.4 billion in natural gas turbines, a purchase that locks in years of power for its growing cluster ...
US Labor Department Puts Forward Rule Allowing Crypto in 401(k) Plans, Testing the Retirement Frontier
A proposed federal rule would permit retirement savers to hold crypto for the first time, a landmark test of whether digital assets belong...
Apple and Google Post Senior Roles Seeking Stablecoin and Web3 Expertise as Big Tech Edges Into Crypto
The world's largest platform companies are quietly hiring for roles with stablecoin and Web3 requirements, a sign that digital assets ...
Fidelity and Vanguard Issue Sobering 10-Year Market Outlook That Lays Out a Harder Road for US Retirees
Two of America's largest asset managers have cut their long-term return forecasts, warning that retirees face a tougher decade ahead a...