Adeoti Malik 
Few weeks on the economic calendar carry as much weight as this one. Investors get a fresh read on the labor market, a final look at second-quarter growth and the Federal Reserve’s favorite inflation gauge, all within days of each other and barely two weeks after the central bank raised interest rates for the first … Read more
Nvidia put out a new set of security software for AI agents on Monday, and the company is making a bold claim about it: had the tools been in place earlier, they would have prevented the attack on Hugging Face, the AI developer hub Nvidia bought for $13 billion only weeks after the incident became … Read more
Global stocks fell on Monday after oil jumped on a stalemate in US-Iranian negotiations, handing investors a rough start to a week already crowded with economic risks. The dollar, meanwhile, was heading for its strongest monthly showing since June, a sign that money has kept flowing toward safer assets as the standoff drags on. The … Read more
China’s Local Governments Are Racing to Turn AI Filmmaking Into the Next Big Industry Two years ago, when Chinese AI director Zhu Zhili went looking for a place to set up his artificial intelligence film studio, the choice was obvious: Shenzhen, with its dense concentration of tech talent and infrastructure. These days, Zhu doesn’t have … Read more
Xiaomi Brings Back Its Transparent Phone Tradition With a Red Special Edition of the 18 Pro Xiaomi has revived one of its more distinctive design traditions with the launch of Transparent Special Editions for its newly unveiled 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max flagships, unveiled alongside the standard models in China on September 23. The … Read more
China’s Viral AI Blackboard Lets Kids Watch Their Sketches Turn Into 3D Models in Real Time A video out of Shanghai’s World AI Conference has been racking up views across international social media for weeks, showing a teacher drawing a simple triangle on what looks like an ordinary classroom blackboard, only for the shape to … Read more
SpaceX’s Nasdaq-100 Weight Just Doubled: What Actually Matters Next for SPCX Investors SpaceX shareholders got a mechanical boost to their stock this week that had nothing to do with a rocket, a satellite, or an earnings report. Following the Nasdaq-100’s quarterly rebalancing that took effect Monday, SpaceX’s weighting in the index more than doubled, jumping … Read more
Stocks End Mixed as Treasury Yields Rocket to a 19-Year High on Surging Oil Prices Wall Street closed out Thursday in a holding pattern rather than a clean win or loss, even as bond markets around the world were anything but calm. The S&P 500 slipped a razor-thin 0.02 percent, the Dow Jones Industrial Average … Read more
Volkswagen Opens Presales for Its Second Xpeng-Built EV as It Fights to Stop the Bleeding in China Volkswagen kicked off presales Thursday for its second electric vehicle built in partnership with Chinese automaker Xpeng, pushing further into a strategy the German carmaker is counting on to turn around a genuinely rough stretch in what remains … Read more
Meta’s Muse Charm Is Zuckerberg’s Latest Bet on Life After Smartphones Mark Zuckerberg spent a good chunk of Wednesday’s Meta Connect keynote taking jabs at Apple, then turned around and pulled a very Apple-like move himself, channeling Steve Jobs for a surprise product reveal near the end of the presentation. The device, called Muse Charm, … Read more