AI researcher Andrej Karpathy said large language models are moving beyond basic content generation after Anthropic’s Claude Opus created a procedural 3D world inspired by The Lord of the Rings using thousands of lines …
Some travellers are heading into the long weekend on edge, as WestJet begins its first round of cancellations ahead of a possible strike by flight attendants.
Shares of Sandisk (SNDK) and SK Hynix (SKHY) rose in early morning trade on Tuesday after the companies unveiled the first industry standard for High Bandwidth Flash (HBF), a new memory technology that could make it eas…
India's youth unemployment crisis has become one of the biggest vulnerabilities for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, exposing the gap between the country's economic ambitions and the reality facing millions of…
Evergrande, the world’s most heavily indebted property developer, is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. Having missed two payments to its creditors last week, trading in Evergrande’s shares has been suspended, as Chi…
TOKYO, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama will announce on Monday that Tokyo and Washington took joint action in the currency market to arrest the yen's slide to 40-year lows, two Japanese go…
SINGAPORE, July 31 (Reuters) – Japan and South Korea have stepped in to buy their currencies, possibly with involvement from the United States, in a rare coordinated intervention, sources and analysts said.
Corn futures posted losses of 1 ½ to 5 cents on the Friday session, as September and December both closed the week with a 23 ½ cent loss. Spillover weakness from wheat, rains, and month end pressure is a factor. Decembe…
The wheat complex fell into the weekend, with losses across the three exchanges as money was coming out at the end of the month. Chicago SRW contracts were down 18 ¼ to 24 ¼ cents at the close. September was down 38 ¾ c…
Soybeans posted 1 to 5 ¼ cent losses across most contracts on Friday. August was down 76 cents on the week, with November dropping 66 cents. November still managed a 43 ¾ cent gain on the month The cmdtyView national av…
Cotton futures closed the Friday session with contracts 53 to 112 points. December managed to close the week with a 181 point gains. Crude oil was back up $3.21 per barrel, with the US dollar index back up $0.016.
U.S. forces have intensified strikes across the Persian Gulf, launching fresh assaults on Iranian drones and naval assets as Washington races to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Nearly three weeks into the U.S.-Israeli war …
Soybeans are trading with Friday midday losses of 6 to 9 1/2 cents at midday. The cmdtyView national average Cash Bean price was up 8 1/2 cents at $11.40. Soymeal futures are $4.00 to $4.50 lower across most contracts, …
You know the expression "burning a hole in my pocket?" It's an old phrase for the restless feeling some people get when they have extra cash. But spending money on a whim is no way to invest, and it could lead to bad ha…
Target-Date Funds With Annuities Are Gaining Ground. Is That Good for Your Retirement Plan? Plus, how income and guaranteed lifetime withdrawal benefits work. Jason Kephart and Ivanna Hampton
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX) (SPY) on Friday closed up +0.70%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI) (DIA) closed up +0.53%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX) (QQQ) closed up +0.60%. September E-mini S&P futures (ESU26) r…
Twenty years ago, the U.S. economy morphed into a huge bet on the frothy housing market. The bubble’s animating narrative was simple: housing prices had been rising for a long time, and they would continue to do so. Ent…
The AI infrastructure company's second-quarter earnings beat expectations, but its revenue fell short of Wall Street's expectations, and that was enough to sink the stock.
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs likened Microsoft to fast-food giant McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE:MCD) during a 1995 interview for PBS’s Triumph of the Nerds documentary series.
Meta Platforms (META) has been one of the weaker-performing "Magnificent Seven" stocks in 2026, as investors grow increasingly concerned about the company's massive AI spending. Billions of dollars are flowing into data…
This analysis has been updated July 1, 2026 to reflect March 2026 data for overall Medicare Advantage penetration, though the Medicare Advantage penetration rate remains at 55%. It also now includes Medicare Advantage p…
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