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Waymo has been a real source of investor excitement over its new valuation report. This reaffirms Jim Cramer’s view that Alphabet stock remains a buy, and more. Launched in 2009 as the Google Self-Driving Car Project, once Alphabet’s moonshot, Waymo is now hurtling toward the moon. The robotaxi business is currently closing on a $16 billion funding round at a valuation of nearly $110 billion, Bloomberg and the Financial Times reported on Saturday. The financing, which could close as early as this month, is said to include participation from new investors including Sequoia Capital, DST Global, and Dragoneer Investment Group.…

President Trump imposed a 25% punitive tariff on India on purchases of Russian crude oil, in addition to a 25% “reciprocal” tariff.US President Donald Trump has agreed to reduce US tariffs on Indian goods from 50% to 18% in exchange for India to lower trade barriers, stop buying Russian oil and instead buy oil from the US and possibly Venezuela.”Out of friendship and respect for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, we have agreed to a trade agreement between the United States and India, effective immediately, as requested by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Under this agreement, the United States will reduce our…

Efforts to prevent Russia from using the Starlink internet system to guide drones for attacks on Ukraine have yielded “real results,” Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said on Sunday. Fedorov said Ukraine has taken initial steps to counter Russian drones in cooperation with Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which owns Starlink. He said the next step is “to put in place a system that will allow only authorized terminals to operate on Ukrainian territory.” Fedorov continued: “In the coming days, we will share instructions for Ukrainian users to register Starlink devices for verification. Unverified devices will be disabled.” He added that the…

Diplomacy is often more about symbolism than content. In the case of China, that may be especially true.In this sense, what was significant about British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s visit to China at the end of January was that it actually happened. There has been a lot of tension between the two countries in recent years. These include accusations of Chinese espionage against two British nationals, delays in approving a new Chinese embassy in London, and the trial of democracy activist Jimmy Lai.The fact that Mr Starmer visited Beijing – the first British Prime Minister in eight years – showed…

Housing affordability challenges are weighing not only on prospective buyers, but also on a growing proportion of existing homeowners, new data shows.Late-stage mortgage delinquencies (delinquencies that are more than 90 days past due) rose 18.6% in December from a year earlier, according to a new study from credit scoring firm VantageScore. Ricardo Vandebo, chief strategy officer and chief economist at VantageScore, said the percentage of mortgages in default is still small at about 0.2%, up from just under 0.17% in December 2024, but the increase is occurring faster than delinquencies for other types of consumer credit, such as auto loans,…

Palantir Technologies is facing earnings challenges following recent weakness. Palantir’s stock price has fallen 25% in the past three months as software stocks have fallen sharply. Software stocks have been among the S&P 500’s worst performers this year due to concerns about the disruption of artificial intelligence. One popular technical indicator showed that Palantir was one of the most oversold stocks on the market last week. But despite this, Palantir still leads by 81% over the past year. Wall Street is currently gearing up for Palantir’s fourth-quarter results, which will be released after the market closes on Monday. Analysts covering…

Henry Arundel, George Ford and Alex Coles have been named in the starting XI for England vs Wales in Saturday’s Six Nations opener, with captain Maro Itoje on the bench. England named their squad three days before regulation, with Tommy Freeman shifting to center alongside Northampton Saints team-mate Fraser Dingwall, and Joe Hayes starting at tighthead prop with Will Stewart absent through injury. Hooker Jamie George captains the team, with Itoje among the substitutes and British and Irish Lions players Henry Pollock, Tom Curry, Luke Cowan-Dickie and Marcus Smith on the bench. Lions captain Itoje missed the start of England’s…

Nine-year-old Jamal is paralyzed. He constantly experiences severe, uncontrollable convulsions. He can’t sleep during them. Neither can his mother. A drug called baclofen is needed to control the seizures. Relaxes muscles and stops shaking. Stopping Baclofen suddenly can have serious health consequences.Jamal’s mother, my cousin Shaima, wrote to me a week ago from her family’s tent in the al-Mawasi concentration camp in Gaza. It’s been 7 days since my son stopped taking his medicine. Jamal screamed in pain as severe neurological spasms gripped his limbs.Baclofen is not available anywhere in Gaza. It is not available in hospitals, clinics, Ministry of…

A coalition of nonprofit organizations is calling on the U.S. government to immediately halt the deployment of Grok, a chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, in federal agencies, including the Department of Defense. The open letter, shared exclusively with TechCrunch, tracks a number of concerning behaviors by large-scale language models over the past year, including a recent trend of X users asking Grok to convert photos of real women and, in some cases, children into sexualized images without their consent. According to some reports, Grok generated thousands of non-consensual and explicit images every hour, which were widely distributed on Musk’s…

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks before signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House on January 30, 2026 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong | Getty ImagesShares of U.S.-listed rare earth mining companies soared on Monday following news that President Donald Trump is preparing a major plan to build a strategic stockpile of critical minerals.The proposal, known as Project Vault, would launch a first-of-its-kind strategic mineral reserve designed for the U.S. private sector, White House officials said. The plan combines $1.67 billion in private capital and $10 billion in financing from the U.S. Export-Import Bank, the people…