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The Champions League campaign ended in a thrilling fashion with 61 goals scored in 18 simultaneous matches, including one from Benfica goalkeeper Anatoly Trubin. Leaders Arsenal maintained their perfect record with a 3-2 win over Kairat Almaty. Liverpool, Tottenham, Chelsea and Manchester City also achieved top eight finishes and progressed to the last 16. Here are some of the key themes of the league stage and what we know about the impending knockout stage. Premier League clubs dominateThe final standings highlight the strength of the Premier League.Five of the top eight teams are English clubs, but no other country has…
If Elon Musk’s posts are to be believed, Elon Musk’s X is the latest social network to roll out the ability to label edited images as “manipulated media.” However, the company did not say how it makes this decision or whether images that have been edited using traditional tools such as Adobe’s Photoshop will be included. So far, the only details about this new feature have come from Elon Musk’s cryptic “Warning about edited visuals” X post, which reshares the new X feature announcement by the anonymous X account DogeDesigner. This account is often used as a proxy for introducing…
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer addresses a business delegation after arriving in China at a hotel in Beijing, January 28, 2026. Karl Cote | AFP | Getty ImagesChinese President Xi Jinping told British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday of his intention to build a long-term strategic partnership with Britain, as the two countries seek to restore bilateral relations after years of tensions. According to a statement published by Chinese state media, the two countries will expand cooperation in key areas such as education, healthcare, finance, artificial intelligence research, biological sciences and new energy development. The statement said the Chinese…
October 28, 2018, Samsung headquarters in Mountain View, California. Smith Collection/Gado | Archive Photos | Getty ImagesSamsung Electronics said Thursday its fourth-quarter profit soared more than threefold, setting a new record and beating analyst expectations, as a memory chip shortage and strong demand for artificial intelligence servers boosted revenue.Samsung Electronics’ stock price rose 2.58% on Thursday, but reversed and fell 1.54% in morning trading.Samsung executives said at an earnings conference that while rising memory prices are benefiting the company’s chip business, rising costs are also expected to impact its smartphone and display businesses.Samsung also said that although it expects to…
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell pauses during a press conference after the Federal Open Market Committee meeting in Washington, DC, on January 28, 2026. Kevin Dietch | Getty Images As expected, the US Federal Reserve kept its key interest rates unchanged at a range of 3.5% to 3.75%. But what investors were really looking at were signs that the independent central bank had political marks.Much of the meeting and press conference focused on the U.S. economy and labor market, which the Fed reassuringly believes has improved since its last meeting. However, Mr. Powell has filed a lawsuit against Fed Director…
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that continued operations will cost $93 million a month.It would cost President Donald Trump nearly $500 million to deploy troops to major U.S. cities in 2025, according to the latest estimates from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO).Last year, President Trump mobilized more than 10,000 National Guard and active-duty Marines and sent them to Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Memphis, Portland, Chicago and New Orleans to deter crime and protect federal immigration enforcement.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of list“Since June 2025, the administration has deployed National Guard or active-duty Marine Corps personnel to six…
Erling Haaland ended his five-game scoring drought as Manchester City secured a comfortable 2-0 victory over Galatasaray and advanced to the last 16 of the Champions League.Victory was the only acceptable result for Josep Guardiola’s side on the back of last week’s shock defeat to Bodo/Glimt, but they were still relying on other teams to slip in to secure a top-eight finish. The City granted their wishes. With Real Madrid, PSG and Newcastle all eliminated, City followed up in the first half with Haaland scoring his first goal in an exhibition match since the start of the year and Rayan…
Three weeks ago, Elon Musk’s AI company xAI announced it had raised $20 billion in a Series E funding round. Now it turns out that Tesla is one of the investors. Tesla said in a letter to shareholders Wednesday that it has invested $2 billion in xAI, the Grok chatbot startup that also owns Musk’s social media company X. Previously disclosed investors in xAI include Valor Equity Partners, Fidelity, Qatar Investment Authority, as well as NVIDIA and Cisco as “strategic investors.” This is a truly circular deal, and Tesla shareholders voted against it last year. In November, Tesla asked shareholders…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said that for investors struggling to make sense of volatile markets, focusing on scarcity as a key determinant of stock performance provides clarity.”When in doubt, ask whether the company in question is selling a shortage or an excess,” Kramer said Wednesday night on “Mad Money.” “If it’s the former, you can buy it, but if it’s the latter, you should stop avoiding it.”Kramer called the framework “the best cheat sheet I can offer at this point in earnings season,” adding, “Scarcity is the true north, oversupply is the kiss of death.” But that may not be obvious…
On January 26, 2024, the SK Hynix flag (R) and the Korean national flag (L) fly outside the Bundang office in Seongnam City. Jung Young Jae | AFP | Getty ImagesSK Hynix maintained its lead in high-bandwidth memory used in artificial intelligence chips, surpassing rival Samsung Electronics in operating profit for the first time in 2025. This week, two Korean memory manufacturers faced off, with SK Hynix announcing its financial results on Wednesday and Samsung announcing its financial results on Thursday morning local time.SK Hynix recorded full-year operating profit of 47.2 trillion won, exceeding Samsung’s 43.6 trillion won. The comparison…