A new study shows just how much AI slop has infiltrated YouTube. By on December 29, 2025 Examples of AI slop from YouTube Shorts (AI-generated images). Credit: YouTube / Three Minutes Wisdom, Imperio de jesus, Bandar Apna Dost If it feels like there’s a lot of AI slop on YouTube, that’s because there is a lot…
Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on Dec. 30, 2025. NYSE The S&P 500 fell modestly on Tuesday, notching a third consecutive losing session. The broad market S&P 500 lost 0.14% and closed at 6,896.24, while the Nasdaq Composite slipped 0.24% and settled at 23,419.08. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 94.87 points,…
A selection of one kilogram silver bars at Conclude Zrt bullion dealer arranged in Budapest, Hungary, on Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. Akos Stiller | Bloomberg | Getty Images One of the best trades of the year just staged a massive reversal. Silver futures fell 8.7% on Monday, after topping $80 an ounce for the first…
In this article GM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors, attends the annual Allen and Co. Sun Valley Media and Technology Conference at the Sun Valley Resort in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 8, 2025. David A. Grogan | CNBC DETROIT — General Motors is on pace to be…
Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — Copper rose in a volatile trading session, with London Metal Exchange futures jumping on their reopening after the Christmas holiday, extending a strong end-of-year rally as global availability tightened. Prices increased as much as 6.6% in the initial minutes of trading — the biggest intraday gain since 2022 — to near $13,000…
This article first appeared on GuruFocus. A supplier to Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) has seen a major reassessment of a long-term battery materials agreement, underscoring how shifts in vehicle programs and end-market demand could feed back into the EV supply chain. L&F disclosed that a 3.83 trillion won supply contract announced in February 2023 has been revised…
The weakest job market since 2011 is increasingly being framed not as a glitch, but as the new normal—one where growth roars and jobs barely move, leaving a generation asking, “Dude, where’s my job?” Bank of America Global Research’s “Situation Room” note warned in mid-December that markets are priced for a robust 2026 even as…
With 2026 around the corner, many people are eyeing tips and tricks to bring into the new year at home and at work. And while many are considering a new morning or evening routine, there are two other routines you might want to incorporate into your schedule, specifically at work, to better focus when you…
New York — Lululemon’s former CEO Chip Wilson is once again slamming the struggling company he founded, and he’s launching a campaign to shake up its board. Wilson, Lululemon’s controversial founder and second largest shareholder, announced Monday that he nominated three new directors, including former executives from ESPN and Activision, as well as a former…
This is the season when everyone’s planning for next year. When it comes to money, I can assure you that the secret isn’t in some fancy investing tactic, hot stock tip, or obscure cryptocurrency. If you and your partner set just one money resolution for 2026, make it this: You both stay actively involved in…
Businesswoman working on laptop in modern office space Momo Productions | Digitalvision | Getty Images Student debt has long been considered difficult, if not impossible, to discharge in bankruptcy. But that hasn’t been the case in recent years, a new study finds. The success rate for student loan borrowers who attempt to discharge their debt…
Photographer: Akos Stiller/Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — Gold and silver slumped as traders booked profit following a powerful year-end rally that sent both metals to record highs, with thin market liquidity exacerbating the price swings. Spot gold fell as much as 5%, marking the biggest intraday drop since Oct. 21 and the second time this year the…
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President Donald Trump never misses an opportunity to criticize his predecessor about the economy, alleging former President Joe Biden caused an inflation crisis. But some of Trump’s economic proposals are starting to sound a lot like Biden’s. At the start of Biden’s presidency, the unemployment rate remained high, but the overall economy was growing at…
A frustrated patient took to Reddit to share a photo taken inside a doctor’s office waiting room that many found a bit unsettling. The image was posted to the r/Anticonsumption subreddit and shows a neatly arranged shelf of consumer products positioned near a television playing advertisements for similar items “on loop,” as the original poster…
In this article NVDA INTC Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Dado Ruvic | Reuters Nvidia has purchased Intel shares worth $5 billion, the American semiconductor firm said in a filing on Monday, carrying out a transaction announced in September. The leading AI chip designer said in September it would pay $23.28 per share for…
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, U.S., Dec. 17, 2025. Brendan McDermid | Reuters This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day: 1. Green Christmas Joy to…
Dec. 28, 2025, 11:00 p.m. ET A nearly four-decade-long business partnership between The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press ended Sunday, pitting the newspapers against each other financially at a time when few other U.S. cities support two major papers. Free Press owner USA TODAY Co., formerly known as Gannett Co. Inc., and MediaNews Group…
China’s central bank has set the yuan’s daily reference rate at its strongest level in 15 months, as the currency strengthened in offshore trading and briefly broke through the closely watched seven-per-US-dollar threshold. The move followed a recent rally in the Chinese currency, with the offshore yuan briefly breaching the benchmark rate of seven against…
With Trump 2.0, markets and the media knew they would get their fair share of double takes. For me, the image that springs to mind the most was the moment in July when the President of the United States showed up on the doorstep of the Fed, literally. Armed with a disputed list of costs…
The need for copper is growing as a result of the shift from fossil fuels to renewables and the boom in the construction of data centres © Damian Lemanski/Bloomberg Copper is on track for its largest annual price rise in more than a decade as US tariffs, supply disruptions and fears of a global shortage fuelled a…
New York — Starbucks spent years trying to become an inescapable storefront on the streets of New York, Los Angeles and other big cities in America. Now that’s coming to an end. Its expansion once seemed limitless. It was even a joke. In 1998, an Onion headline read “New Starbucks Opens In Rest Room Of…
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A Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicle on Nov. 20, 2024, in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. Yan Dobronosov | Global Images Ukraine | Getty Images LONDON — European stocks closed mixed on Monday, with defense stocks continuing to struggle amid a possible peace deal in Ukraine. The pan-European Stoxx 600 index stood little changed at close, having hit an intraday…
When New York-based model and influencer Wisdom Kaye went shopping at the Italian fashion label Miu Miu and returned home with a haul of clothes he says he spent $18,000 on, he didn’t expect some of the items would fall apart in front of his eyes. In now-viral videos posted to his TikTok account, where…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Monday, Dec. 22, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images The U.S. 10-year Treasury yield was slightly lower on Monday as investors returned from the Christmas holiday and began to look ahead to the new year. The…
The logo of Japanese company SoftBank Group at the company’s headquarters in Tokyo on November 21, 2025. Kazuhiro Nogi | Afp | Getty Images Japan’s SoftBank on Monday said it has agreed to buy data center investment firm DigitalBridge for $4 billion as part of its artificial intelligence push. The deal, which has been unanimously…
Computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton said artificial intelligence technology will continue improving next year, enough to wipe out more human workers. During an interview on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, he was asked for his 2026 predictions after declaring 2025 a pivotal year for AI. “I think we’re going to see AI get even…
HUZHOU, Dec 29 (Reuters) – China’s rocket startup LandSpace has made no secret about drawing inspiration from Elon Musk’s SpaceX (SPAX.PVT). Earlier this month, the Beijing-based firm became the first Chinese entity to conduct a reusable rocket test. That put SpaceX on alert and LandSpace is now preparing to go public to fund its future…
Major payment and tech companies are racing to build the infrastructure for what they see as the next evolution of global commerce: artificial intelligence agents that can perform searches, compare prices, and make purchases on behalf of consumers. The trend is referred to as “agentic commerce,” and reflects consumers’ growing reliance on chatbots for everyday…
Lenovo in partnership with AKT II and Mamou-Mani imagines the data centers of the future: a data center spa James Cheung, partner at Mamou-Mani Artificial intelligence is advancing at breakneck speed, forcing a rethink of how the power-hungry servers behind the boom can coexist with — and draw less from — the environment. Data centers…
The renminbi’s weakness against the dollar has helped Chinese exporters © Reuters China has fixed the renminbi at its strongest level against the dollar in 15 months, a move that analysts say signals its tolerance of a gradual appreciation as its soaring exports stoke tensions with trading partners. The People’s Bank of China on Monday…
The winning tickets were sold in Colorado Springs, Lone Tree and Pueblo. COLORADO, USA — Four Coloradans woke up to being at least $100,000 richer on Christmas morning. Santa Claus wasn’t dropping off extra cash – the four lucky people won prizes as part of the record-setting Powerball drawing on Christmas Eve. A single ticket…