“When was the last time you had a creation tool that was so editorially controlled?” Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Satya Nadella quizzed engineers while taking shots at Anthropic’s much-talked-about Fable model, according to CNBC reporting. That remark was puzzling because Microsoft has hardly been an outsider to Anthropic’s tremendous come-from-behind story. For some context, Microsoft has
Fort Knox has been a source of fascination for Americans for generations. The vault, built in 1936 adjacent to the U.S. Army post in Fort Knox, Kentucky, currently holds 147.3 million ounces of gold, about 59% of total U.S. gold reserves, according to the U.S. Mint. The rest is stored at the West Point Bullion
Most tech executives selling the AI revolution focus on what it will do for everyone. Better products, more efficiency, higher productivity, broadly shared prosperity. It’s the pitch that keeps the investment flowing and the public sentiment warm. Alex Karp isn’t making that pitch. The Palantir CEO, who is already worth around $15 billion, thanks in
Real yields on Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities are at their highest levels since before the Covid pandemic, according to Mark Hulbert’s July 2026 MarketWatch analysis. He argues that current levels may compress if inflation expectations fall or the Federal Reserve cuts rates, narrowing the window to lock in a generous payout. A Treasury Inflation-Protected Security, or
Microsoft has been one of the worst-performing large-cap tech stocks of 2026, down about 20% year to date, even as the company keeps expanding its AI business and growing Azure at a pace most cloud companies would envy. A lot of investors have been sitting on their hands, waiting either for a reason to get
Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk, whom JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon once called “our Einstein”, has had plenty on his plate lately. SpaceX’s (SPCX) latest Starship launch was aborted, sending the stock tumbling below its IPO price to $123.99 on Friday, 45% below its post-listing peak, according to Barrons. But the stock market’s giving Musk little
Washington spent four years trying to convince the world’s most important chipmaker to build in America. On Thursday, July 16, it got a positive answer. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSM) confirmed an additional $100 billion for its Arizona operations. That lifted its total US commitment to $265 billion, which is the largest foreign direct investment
In any competitive market, there comes a time when the field thins out. When that happens, of course, the strongest players quietly start doing the math. That moment is slowly arriving for T-Mobile US Inc. (TMUS). In the span of a few weeks, two of its rivals have made moves that could reshape the wireless
Warren Buffett has been making the same argument about market downturns for decades. He doesn’t dress it up. His position is that bad news in financial markets is good news for investors who are prepared. “Bad news is an investor’s best friend,” he has said, The Motley Fool reported. For anyone who has watched his
Warren Buffet sums up new Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh in two words: “Good choice.” But wait. There’s more. First, a very short history lesson. President Donald Trump nominated Warsh in January to replace Jerome Powell as the head of the world’s largest central bank. Warsh, a former Fed governor and Stanford University scholar with