Precious metals were the best-performing sector of the commodities asset class in Q4 2025 and over the entire year. As the sector is now in 2026, the trends for gold, silver, platinum, and palladium remain bullish.
CUPERTINO, CA — January 13, 2026 — For years, the digital assistant was a punchline—a voice-activated timer that occasionally misunderstood the weather forecast. Today, that era is officially over. With the rollout of Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) reimagined Siri, the technology giant has successfully transitioned from a "reactive chatbot" to a "proactive agent." By integrating advanced [...]
As we enter the first weeks of 2026, the global semiconductor industry has officially crossed the threshold into the "Angstrom Era." While 2nm production (N2) is currently ramping up in Taiwan and the United States, the strategic focus of the world's most powerful foundries has already shifted toward the 1.4nm node. This milestone, designated as [...]
At the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) officially declared the arrival of the "ChatGPT moment" for physical AI and robotics. CEO Jensen Huang, in a visionary keynote, signaled a monumental pivot from generative AI focused on digital content to "embodied AI" that can perceive, reason, and interact with the [...]
A company controlled by the Johnson family sold thousands of shares of this clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, but that hasn't stopped the pharmaceutical stock from surging.
In a landmark release that has sent shockwaves through the global financial and cybersecurity sectors, Experian (LSE: EXPN) today published its "2026 Future of Fraud Forecast." The report details a historic and terrifying shift in the digital threat landscape: for the first time in the history of the internet, autonomous "Agentic AI" has overtaken human [...]
Tesla stock faces a crucial test on January 28, when the company reports fourth-quarter earnings and provides forward guidance that could reshape 2026 expectations.
In a move that has sent shockwaves through both Silicon Valley and Hollywood, The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) and OpenAI officially announced a landmark $1 billion investment and licensing deal on December 11, 2025. This historic agreement marks the definitive end of the "litigation era" between major studios and AI developers, replacing courtroom battles with [...]
In a watershed moment for the artificial intelligence industry, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently confirmed that the "vast majority"—estimated at over 90%—of the code for new Claude models and features is now authored autonomously by AI agents. Speaking at a series of industry briefings in early 2026, Amodei revealed that the internal development cycle at [...]
As of January 13, 2026, the artificial intelligence industry has reached a pivotal physical milestone. After years of grappling with the "interconnect wall"—the physical limit where traditional copper wiring can no longer keep up with the data demands of massive AI models—the shift from electrons to photons has officially gone mainstream. The deployment of Silicon [...]
In the first two weeks of 2026, the artificial intelligence landscape has reached a pivotal inflection point. Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL), through its latest model Google Gemini 3, has fundamentally disrupted the competitive hierarchy of the AI market. Data from the start of the year reveals that Gemini’s desktop user base is currently expanding at a [...]
As of January 2026, the global transition to electric vehicles (EVs) has reached a pivotal milestone, driven not just by battery chemistry, but by a revolution in power electronics. The widespread adoption of Silicon Carbide (SiC) has officially ended the era of traditional silicon-based power systems in high-performance and mid-market vehicles. This shift, underpinned by [...]
The artificial intelligence landscape underwent a fundamental transformation with the arrival of OpenAI’s "Operator," a sophisticated agentic system that transitioned AI from a passive conversationalist to an active participant in the digital world. First released as a research preview in early 2025 and maturing into a cornerstone feature of the ChatGPT ecosystem by early 2026, [...]
The deal marks Nike’s formal entry into one of the fastest-growing sports in the United States and signals a strategic expansion of its athlete roster during a critical turnaround phase.
The era of human-centric semiconductor engineering is rapidly giving way to a new paradigm: the "AI designing AI" loop. As of January 2026, the complexity of the world’s most advanced processors has surpassed the limits of manual human design, forcing a pivot toward autonomous agents capable of navigating near-infinite architectural possibilities. At the heart of [...]
As of January 1, 2026, the landscape of artificial intelligence development has fundamentally shifted with the enactment of California’s Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act (TFAIA), also known as SB 53. Signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom in late 2025, this landmark legislation marks the end of the "black box" era for large-scale AI [...]
As of January 2026, the global automotive industry has reached a pivotal turning point in its architectural evolution. What was once a landscape dominated by proprietary instruction sets has transformed into a competitive "three-pillar" ecosystem, with the open-source RISC-V architecture now commanding a staggering 25% of all new automotive silicon unit shipments. This shift was [...]
On December 11, 2025, President Trump signed the landmark Executive Order "Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence," a move that signaled a radical shift in the U.S. approach to technology governance. Designed to dismantle a burgeoning "patchwork" of state-level AI safety and bias laws, the order prioritizes a "light-touch" federal environment to accelerate [...]
TOKYO — In a decisive move to reclaim its status as a global technology superpower, the Japanese government has officially greenlit a massive $6.34 billion (¥1 trillion) "Sovereign AI" initiative. Announced as part of the nation’s National AI Basic Plan, the funding marks a historic shift toward total technological independence, aiming to create a domestic [...]
In a move that signals the dawn of the "gigawatt-scale" AI era, Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) has announced a historic trifecta of nuclear energy agreements with Vistra (NYSE: VST), TerraPower, and Oklo (NYSE: OKLO). The deals, totaling a staggering 6.6 gigawatts (GW) of carbon-free capacity, are designed to solve the single greatest bottleneck in modern [...]
The 2026 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) kicked off with a seismic shift in the semiconductor landscape as NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang took the stage to unveil the "Vera Rubin" architecture. Named after the legendary astronomer who provided evidence for the existence of dark matter, the platform is designed to illuminate the next frontier of [...]
As of January 13, 2026, the global semiconductor landscape has hardened into what analysts are calling the "Silicon Curtain," a profound geopolitical and technical bifurcation between Western and Chinese technology ecosystems. While a high-level trade truce brokered during the "Busan Rapprochement" in late 2025 prevented a total economic decoupling, the start of 2026 has been [...]
The US Treasury market finds itself in a state of precarious equilibrium as of mid-January 2026. Despite a "cooler" Consumer Price Index (CPI) reading released this morning, the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield has remained stubbornly range-bound, hovering between 4.17% and 4.19%. This stability is less a sign of
SAN FRANCISCO — In a move that signals the "Great Verticalization" of the artificial intelligence sector, Anthropic has officially launched its highly anticipated Claude for Healthcare and Claude for Lifesciences suites. Announced during the opening keynote of the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, the new specialized offerings represent Anthropic’s most aggressive move toward industry-specific AI [...]
As the first two weeks of 2026 draw to a close, a stark divergence has emerged in the global equity markets, revealing a "K-shaped" reality for the retail sector. While the broader indices have remained relatively flat following the Federal Reserve’s decision to pause interest rate adjustments this January,
As of January 2026, the artificial intelligence industry has reached a pivotal infrastructure milestone. For the past three years, the primary bottleneck for the global AI explosion has not been the design of the chips themselves, nor the availability of raw silicon wafers, but rather the specialized "advanced packaging" required to stitch these complex processors [...]
OpenAI has officially completed the global rollout of its much-anticipated GPT-5.2 model family, marking a definitive shift in the artificial intelligence landscape. Coming just weeks after a frantic competitive period in late 2025, the January 2026 stabilization of GPT-5.2 signifies a "return to strength" for the San Francisco-based lab. The release introduces a specialized tiered [...]
The global payment landscape faced a seismic shift this week as shares of the world’s dominant credit networks underwent a severe technical breakdown. The catalyst was a bold legislative and executive push to impose a national 10% cap on credit card interest rates—a move that sent shockwaves through
As the sun rose on January 13, 2026, Wall Street found itself navigating yet another "headline whirlwind" that has become the hallmark of the current administration’s economic strategy. In a pre-dawn post on Truth Social, President Donald Trump announced an "immediate" 25% tariff on all goods from any country
As of January 13, 2026, the global semiconductor industry has officially entered a high-stakes sprint toward the "Angstrom Era," a move that promises to redefine the limits of silicon physics. Within the last several months, the industry's two primary titans, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (NYSE: TSM) and Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), have solidified their [...]
