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Korean investors are shifting to a 'barbell strategy' targeting financial, cosmetics, and industrial stocks as semiconductor volatility intensifies. On the 6th, Samsung Electronics fell 6.3% to 230,500 won and SK Hynix dropped 10.37% after SanDisk announced below-expectation Q1 FY2027 revenue

Chris Mancini, co-portfolio manager of the Gabelli Gold Fund (GOLDX), argued that gold's secular bull market remains firmly supported by structural forces as prices climbed above $4,250 an ounce on Wednesday, marking a seven-week high. Mancini stated that persistent geopolitical uncertainty,

The Optimism Foundation released its Year 5 budget outlook on Thursday, projecting approximately 343 million OP tokens will enter circulation between May 2026 and April 2027. The disclosure arrived five days after OP hit its lowest price in history at $0.082043 on August 1. The report reveals two

Sweetgreen cut its full-year outlook Thursday, projecting steeper same-store sales declines due to consumer fears of eating fresh produce during the ongoing cyclospora outbreak. The salad chain's stocks fell more than 15% in extended trading following the announcement. Sweetgreen has not been

Wintermute USA has registered as a broker-dealer with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, granting the crypto trading firm access to US markets it could not legally operate in before. Chief Executive Evgeny Gaevoy said the firm will begin trading commodities and digital asset

Suno announced plans to add watermarks to AI-generated music outputs, CEO and co-founder Mikey Shulman stated in a blog post. The company aims to meet emerging industry standards for labeling AI content, giving platforms the option to mark content as AI or block it entirely. Streaming music

Grindr reported second-quarter revenue of $138 million, up 33% from a year ago, and raised its full-year guidance as CEO George Arison said the company's artificial intelligence investments are delivering measurable returns. The LGBTQ-focused dating platform on Thursday increased its 2026 revenue gu

Advanced Micro Devices said Thursday it entered into an agreement to acquire Taalas, a Toronto-based startup that makes chips for inference, as the generative artificial intelligence boom approaches its fourth anniversary. Taalas' accelerators are customized, or hard-wired for a single AI model, rat

Anthropic is hiring a custom silicon team to design chips for running its models, the company confirmed through a spokesperson. Business Insider noticed a job listing yesterday for a senior engineer with semiconductor design experience, with current openings visible on Anthropic's job board for a

Kathleen Allman, mother of late Ondo Finance founder Nathan Allman, filed a complaint in Delaware Court of Chancery on July 24 seeking control of the company and removal of Ian De Bode as chief executive and president. Allman alleges De Bode improperly assumed the CEO role without board approval

Uphold launched the Exa Credit Card, a Visa-powered product that allows XRP holders to borrow against their cryptocurrency holdings without selling their tokens. Introduced by Uphold U.S. President Nancy Beaton, the card is powered by Exactly Protocol, a decentralized finance lending platform, and e

Savers Value Village launched ThriftIQ, an AI-powered pricing platform designed to optimize product pricing across its men's and women's apparel assortment, the company told CNBC exclusively. The tool aims to reduce manual pricing work and bring greater consistency to the tricky-to-price thrift

Tesla and SpaceX confirmed on Thursday that their planned Terafab chip factory will be built in Grimes County, Texas, with an initial phase costing $16.8 billion and creating at least 3,000 jobs. Hours after the announcement, CEO Elon Musk posted on X that roughly 25% of the facility's AI

Wells Fargo will launch tokenized U.S. dollar-to-pound deposits this fall, moving commercial bank deposits onto blockchain rails to offer corporate clients round-the-clock settlement within the regulated banking system. Chief Financial Officer Mike Santomassimo stated that tokenized deposits will en

US stocks opened mixed Thursday as the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 77.7 points, or 0.14%, to 54,426.85, while the S&P 500 fell 0.13% to 7,713.79 and the Nasdaq dropped 0.36% to 26,268.84. Technology losses weighed on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite, even as record call-option activity

The Wall Street Journal reported on the 6th that US-Japan yen intervention uses the Fed's FIMA repo facility, adding liquidity to the US economy. Joint intervention began on the 31st of last month with dollar selling and yen buying. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated the need to expand the