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Emma Radukanu defeated Oleksandra Olnikova in a “brutal” three-set semi-final at the Transylvania Open to reach her first final since winning the 2021 US Open.The British No. 1, playing in his fifth tour-level semi-final of his career, won the first set 7-5 before his Ukrainian opponent won the second set 6-3. But Raducanu recovered from losing serve early in the deciding third and won four of the next five games to take the set 6-3 and secure a spot in Saturday’s highlight, the WTA250 tournament in Cluj, Romania. She is the No. 1 seed. Trailing 5-2 after the third match,…
Tuesday, January 27, 2026, at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, DC.Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesIf the Supreme Court rules that President Donald Trump’s International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) tariffs are illegal, U.S. companies would not only receive tariff refunds, but also billions of dollars paid to insurance companies in bonds and collateral. Customs bonds, also known as surety bonds, provide coverage to importers to ensure payment of duties and taxes levied on imported goods. The value of these bonds and related collateral has soared as the Trump administration increases tariffs. Importers purchase these bonds through specialized…
SAN FRANCISCO, USA – During an appearance on ABC’s popular daytime show The View in November 2024, host Sunny Hostin asked then-Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris if she planned to do anything different from President Joe Biden. “I can’t think of anything,” Harris said.Analysts said the moment tied Harris closely to the economic hardships and other failures voters faced under the Biden administration. Harris returned to the show a year after losing the election, saying, “In hindsight, I realize I didn’t fully appreciate how much of a problem it was.” In his book “107 Days,” Harris likened his remarks to…
Cristiano Ronaldo did not play in Friday’s match against Al Ittihad in the Saudi Pro League, missing his second consecutive match against Al Nasr.Ronaldo returned to training this week with his Al Nasr teammates, but was not included in the match-day squad named by coach Jorge Jesus. The Portuguese forward is continuing his solo protest following news that Saudi football officials are losing patience with the 41-year-old. Officials are hoping Ronaldo will make his case by missing Al Nasr’s game against Al Riyadh on Monday, and Friday’s game, which he had asked to return to the pitch for, will be…
Last month, I wrote about Mercor’s new benchmarks that measure the ability of AI agents in specialized tasks such as law and corporate analysis. The scores at the time were pretty dire, with all major institutes scoring below 25%. Therefore, we conclude that lawyers are safe from AI exclusion, at least for now. But AI capabilities can change significantly in a matter of weeks. This week’s release of Opus 4.6 rocked the leaderboards, with Anthropic’s new model scoring just under 30% in the one-shot trial, and an average score of 45% after solving a few more problems. Notably, this release…
My Top 10 to Watch for Friday, February 6th 1. After three sessions in which the S&P 500 and Nasdaq fell sharply on a rotation of tech stocks, stocks were looking at an uptrend. Nasdaq futures rose this morning, despite heavy losses after Amazon’s earnings. Both indexes had their worst week since April 2025. 2. Bitcoin on Friday morning rebounded from overnight lows when the world’s largest cryptocurrency nearly fell below $60,000. Volatility in tech stocks and precious metals, especially silver, led to sell-offs and forced liquidations of exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Bitcoin hit an all-time high of over $126,000 in…
The tech industry’s surge in capital spending on AI infrastructure is justified, appropriate, and sustainable. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Friday on CNBC’s “Halftime Report.””The reason is that the cash flow of all these companies will start to increase,” Huang said. Nvidia stock rose 7% during Friday trading. Huang’s comments are aimed at NVIDIA’s major customers meta, Amazon, google and microsoft Reported the latest earnings for the past two weeks. These companies have told investors that they plan to significantly increase spending on AI infrastructure. These hyperscalers could spend a total of $660 billion in capital expenditures this year, with…
Delegations from the United States and Iran concluded indirect talks in the Gulf Arab nation of Oman on Friday. This was the first round of negotiations between the two countries since the United States and Israel attacked the Islamic Republic last summer. The U.S. and Iran have agreed to continue talks after the capital talks, according to people familiar with the negotiations, an outcome that is cautiously viewed as positive for both sides. The talks come amid a growing U.S. military buildup in the Middle East and after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to attack Iran if it uses lethal…
Matt Kaeberlein began studying the science of longevity “by chance,” he says.Kaeberlein is the founder and former director of the Institute for Healthy Aging and Longevity at the University of Washington and co-founder and CEO of a health tech startup called Optispan. Throughout his career, he has published hundreds of research papers, including many on aging.In 1998, while a graduate student in biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Koeberlein attended a lecture by a biology professor about the relationship between genetics and longevity. “I was in my late 20s, so aging wasn’t yet personal, but the complexity of biology…
Every weekday, Jim Cramer’s CNBC Investment Club releases the Homestretch, a practical afternoon update to coincide with the last hour of trading on Wall Street. Stocks were rebounding on Friday. After a terrible week, technology drove the market higher on Friday, even as Amazon, which is technically in consumer discretionary power, pulled out following the results. For the week, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq still fell. Fears that AI tools will replace their businesses has led to a sell-off in enterprise software stocks, inflicting major damage on the tech industry. While the Magnificent Seven struggled, with club-name software stocks like…