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The United States is rapidly accelerating toward a definitive tipping point in its financial history, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) wrote in response to the latest 10-year outlook from the Congressional Budget Office. The nonpartisan budget watchdog issued a stark assessment: The current trajectory of borrowing, which is running at double the…

IKEA is expanding again in Colorado, this time with plans to open a store in Fort Collins this year. The Swedish furniture and home goods retailer announced Tuesday that the new location will mark its third in the state. A specific site has not been disclosed yet, nor has it been specified when construction will begin….

Anthropic has released a new version of its midsized Sonnet model, keeping pace with the company’s four-month update cycle. In a post announcing the new model, Anthropic emphasized improvements in coding, instruction-following, and computer use. Sonnet 4.6 will be the default model for Free and Pro plan users. The beta release of Sonnet 4.6 will…

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Agrochemical maker Bayer and attorneys for cancer patients announced a proposed $7.25 billion settlement Tuesday to resolve thousands of U.S. lawsuits alleging the company failed to warn people that its popular weedkiller Roundup could cause cancer. The proposed settlement comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is preparing to hear arguments…

Transportation The automaker’s EV skunkworks team is using ‘bounties’ to guide engineering decisions that track gains in battery range and reductions in cost. Feb 17, 2026, 4:00 PM UTC Transportation The automaker’s EV skunkworks team is using ‘bounties’ to guide engineering decisions that track gains in battery range and reductions in cost. Feb 17, 2026,…

Michael Selig, President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as Commodity Futures Trading Commission chairman, testifies in a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing on his nomination on Capitol Hill, Nov. 19, 2025. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters The Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed an amicus brief in federal court on Tuesday to assert the agency’s right to enforce…

Colorado will welcome a new IKEA store in Fort Collins in 2026, part of IKEA’s U.S. expansion plan. FORT COLLINS, Colo. — IKEA will open a new store in northern Colorado in 2026, the company announced on Tuesday. The 64,000-square-foot IKEA will be located in Fort Collins at the Front Range Village Shopping Center at 4250…

NEW YORK (AP) — A quiet finish for the U.S. stock market on Tuesday masked big swings underneath the surface as companies talked about how discouraged their customers are feeling and some tech stocks continued to feel the downside of the artificial-intelligence boom. The S&P 500 rose 0.1% after flipping earlier between a gain of…

Mobileum’s ex-chief financial officer Andrew Warner and former chief of delivery operations Kishore Vangipuram allegedly ‘pocketed millions of dollars in personal proceeds’ © Andrew Kelly/Reuters US prosecutors charged two former senior executives at a private equity-owned software group with fraud, accusing them of falsifying financial results to inflate the company’s value when it was sold…

The UK’s unemployment rate has increased again – to the highest level in nearly five years, according to new official figures. The jobless rate ticked up to 5.2% in December, the highest since the three months up to January 2021, data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed. The figure had stood at 4.1%…

In a major update to its ongoing sale process, Warner Bros. Discovery has set a March 20 vote for its blockbuster deal with Netflix … but the company says that it will reengage with David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance to see if it can resolve the outstanding issues it had with PSKY’s bid, and to secure…

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When it comes to electric vehicles, Detroit was in denial for too long. Then it panicked and launched a flurry of flawed initiatives and hurried Hail Marys. That knee-jerk reaction is now costing the auto companies—and America—a fortune. In December 2025, Ford announced a $19.5 billion write-down on its electric vehicle investments—one of the largest…

Oil Bears Are Dangerously Underestimating Geopolitical Risk | OilPrice.com Irina Slav Irina is a writer for Oilprice.com with over a decade of experience writing on the oil and gas industry. More Info Trending Discussions Premium Content By Irina Slav – Feb 16, 2026, 7:00 PM CST The current sense of security in the oil market…

Dollar positioning has reached its most negative level on record in Bank of America’s survey, reflecting broad expectations of US softness and potential Fed easing, with labour market risks seen as the main catalyst for further weakness. Summary: Investor positioning in the US dollar has fallen to its most negative level since at least January…

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. On a recent stay at a friend’s house, I encountered a familiar problem. The friend, a thoughtful host, had left us washcloths, shampoo, body wash, toothpaste, and towels. She’d set out a bottle of…

PHILADELPHIA, PA / ACCESS Newswire / February 17, 2026 / Datavault AI Inc. (NASDAQ:DVLT) (“Datavault AI” or the “Company”), a leader in data monetization, credentialing, digital engagement and real-world asset (RWA) tokenization technologies, today announced its updated preliminary (unaudited) fiscal year 2025 revenue is estimated to be $38 to $40 million, exceeding its prior estimate…

In a major update to its ongoing sale process, Warner Bros. Discovery has set a March 20 vote for its blockbuster deal with Netflix … but the company says that it will reengage with David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance to see if it can resolve the outstanding issues it had with PSKY’s bid, and to secure…

The AI jobs-apocalypse is here Prepare for the laptop-class revolt Michiganders protest a proposed data center in December, 2025. Credit: Getty Michiganders protest a proposed data center in December, 2025. Credit: Getty Age of AnxietyaiArtificial intelligenceChris Hayesfourth industrial revolutionRo KhannaRon DeSantisStuds Terkel Ryan Zickgraf 17 Feb 2026 – 9 mins In his 1974 masterpiece Working,…

Danaher, a sprawling life sciences conglomerate, makes laboratory equipment © Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images Danaher has struck an almost $10bn deal to buy patient monitoring company Masimo, two years after an activist investor overhauled the device maker’s board. The all-cash deal announced on Tuesday values Masimo at $180 a share — a 40 per cent…

Non-US and dividend-paying stocks could be the best options © Michael Nagle/Bloomberg The writer is chief executive and chief investment officer of Richard Bernstein Advisors Over the past several years it seems we’ve seen unprecedented use of the word “unprecedented”. Pundits and politicians now routinely claim that political and economic events have never before occurred….

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., February 17, 2026. Brendan McDermid | Reuters The S&P 500 inched higher on Tuesday, but declines in software stocks kept the index’s gains in check. The broad market benchmark advanced 0.1% and closed at 6,843.22, while the Nasdaq…

© Frame Stock Footage / Shutterstock.com Tech stocks delivered a choppy week, with the sector’s biggest names diverging sharply as AI spending debates intensified and bear market territory claimed two Magnificent Seven members. Incredibly, every single Magnificent 7 stock is now down year-to-date after NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) shares slipped 2.23% on Friday. Let’s dive into the biggest storylines in…

BHP’s Escondida mine in northern Chile is the world’s largest producer of copper concentrates and cathodes © Ivan Alvarado/Reuters BHP reported a near-30 per cent increase in first-half net profit as the world’s largest mining company by market capitalisation benefited from booming demand for copper. The Australian group on Tuesday said revenue in the six…

Two proposed class action lawsuits are taking aim at one of Costco’s beloved products. Don’t worry, the $1.50 hot dog-soda combo is still untouched. It’s a different bargain product that has found itself at the center of a pair of complaints targeting the wholesale retailer. If you’ve ever shopped at Costco, you’re most likely familiar…

Updated Feb. 16, 2026, 6:06 p.m. ET Trader Joe’s is planning to open eight new locations across the U.S., adding several locations to its “coming soon” list. The California-based grocer currently operates in 42 states, leaving Alaska, Hawaii, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Mississippi, and West Virginia without locations. Last week, Trader Joe’s announced…

DECATUR, Ga. – Federal investigators are offering a $250,000 reward for information following the fatal shooting of a 31-year-old U.S. Postal Service letter carrier as he delivered mail in Decatur last week.  Graves had been employed with the postal service for three years when he was killed.   Investigators are offering a reward for information…

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The Grok chatbot is integrated into X’s social media feeds © Dado Ruvic/Reuters Europe’s privacy watchdog has opened a “large-scale” inquiry into Elon Musk’s X over AI-generated non-consensual sexual imagery, in the latest sign of how regulators are scrutinising the social media site’s Grok chatbot. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, which is responsible for enforcing the…

The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE), operated by Japan Exchange Group Inc. (JPX), in Tokyo, Japan, on Monday, Aug. 5, 2024.  Noriko Hayashi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Asian financial markets were treading carefully on Tuesday in holiday-thinned trading, but oil pushed higher with U.S and Iran nuclear negotiations in Geneva due to begin later in…

Salesforce cofounder ‘not OK’ with Benioff’s ICE crack: ‘Marc made a very bad joke.’ Inside the outrage over Marc Benioff’s ICE jokes at a pivotal time for Salesforce A recording of CEO Marc Benioff’s keynote was posted on Salesforce’s internal site. His jokes about ICE weren’t included. Slack’s new head just denounced Salesforce CEO Marc…