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Goldman Sachs tops estimates on record equities trading

Goldman Sachs reported earnings that beat expectations, driven by a surge in equities trading revenue that set a new record for the quarter.

Sony Raises PS5 Prices as AI Boom and Middle East Conflict Drive Up Chip Costs

Will Vibe-Design Replace Designers?

AI design tools are getting scarily good. But the real question isn't whether machines can design — it's whether design is just about making things look good.

The $14 Trillion Warning: AI’s Riches Will Be a “Few and the Rest” Story

Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, warns the AI boom risks worsening inequality, with rewards flowing only to a handful of firms and investors. In his annual letter, he noted that AI threatens to repeat—and amplify—a pattern where wealth accrues to those who already own assets. His solution: more people should invest in capital markets rather than rely on homeownership. The warning comes as BlackRock manages $14tn and Fink’s own $30.8m pay package has drawn shareholder scrutiny.

MacBook Neo: The $599 Laptop That's Making People Ditch Big Tech AI Forever

Apple's boldest value play in years isn't just turning heads — it's quietly becoming the go-to machine for a generation tired of paying monthly fees to borrow someone else's intelligence.

AI Ate Your Job. Here's What the Smart Ones Did Next

AI is doing in seconds what once took days. The old ladder is gone. But the smartest people aren't mourning it — they're rewiring themselves as orchestrators, wielding AI like a force multiplier. The career isn't dead. It's just been rebuilt from scratch.

The AI Tools that will Quietly Change Your Life

The question in 2026 isn't "have you heard of AI?" — it's which tools are actually worth your attention, and how do you use them without wasting three hours watching tutorial videos?

AI Tools in 2026 That Are Actually Worth Your Time

China's Blueprint to Own the Future

China has a plan to own the future — and it's already running. Robots, open-source AI, and a hard deadline of 2030. Here's what Beijing's Five-Year Plan actually means for the rest of the world.

Stocks Fall as Iran's New Supreme Leader Vows to Keep Strait of Hormuz Closed

Global markets tumbled Thursday as Iran's newly appointed supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei vowed to keep the Strait of Hormuz closed indefinitely, sending oil prices above $95 a barrel and pushing US stocks down more than 1%. The Dow lost over 500 points while the S&P 500 extended its losing streak to three days. With roughly a fifth of the world's oil supply flowing through the waterway, analysts are calling it the largest supply disruption in oil market history.

Apple's $599 MacBook Neo Is the Budget Laptop It Should Have Built Years Ago

The MacBook Neo is Apple’s most affordable laptop ever and its clearest attempt yet to compete with Chromebooks and entry-level Windows laptops. Unlike the MacBook Air and Pro, the Neo runs on an iPhone-class A-series chip, which helps Apple cut the starting price sharply while keeping the design lightweight and colorful.

Nvidia and UK Wealth Fund Throw Weight Behind British Self-Driving Pioneer Oxa

Nvidia has teamed up with the UK's National Wealth Fund to invest $103 million in British autonomous driving startup Oxa. The Oxford-based company, which develops software for self-driving industrial vehicles in ports and factories, has pivoted away from the complex passenger car market to focus on automating repetitive goods movement—a shift that co-founder Paul Newman says makes the "economics...cracking."

One Year Later: What Society Really Thinks About Apple’s iPhone 17

Nearly a year after its launch, the Apple iPhone 17 is being seen less as a revolutionary device and more as a refined, reliable tool. Society’s reaction highlights a shift: smartphones are no longer about dramatic innovation, but seamless integration into daily life.

CrowdStrike and Microsoft Expand Strategic Alliance to Accelerate Cloud Security Adoption

CrowdStrike and Microsoft Corp. have expanded their strategic partnership to make the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform available through the Microsoft Marketplace. This move enables organizations to deploy advanced, AI-native cybersecurity solutions while leveraging their existing Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC). By streamlining procurement and aligning security investments with cloud spending, the integration helps enterprises accelerate secure digital transformation, improve operational efficiency, and maximize the value of their existing cloud budgets.

Apple Brings Video to Podcasts — With Full Creator Control

Using HLS technology, Apple Podcasts will let creators monetize video and users switch between watching and listening — coming this spring.

Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 4.6 — Its Most Capable Model Yet

Anthropic's new flagship AI model tops industry benchmarks for coding, reasoning, and long-context tasks — and now features a 1 million token context window in beta.

NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra Cuts AI Inference Costs Up to 35×, Boosts Agentic AI Performance by 50×

New performance data shows that NVIDIA’s next-generation Blackwell Ultra platform delivers up to 50× higher throughput and up to 35× lower cost per token for agentic AI workloads compared with the previous Hopper generation — enabling significantly faster, more economically scalable real-time coding assistants and autonomous AI agents.

YouTube’s New Look: Immersive Viewing or Unwelcome Overhaul?

YouTube is rolling out its most significant design overhaul in years, transforming its interface to be more immersive, modern, and visually cohesive. The changes, which affect both desktop and mobile, are a clear attempt to refine the user experience, though they have sparked a mixed reaction from the platform’s massive user base.