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Check out some of the stocks posting the biggest moves in midday trading. Molina Healthcare — Shares advanced 2.5%. “Big Short” investor Michael Burry in a Substack post spoke highly of the health insurer and its valuation. He also drew a comparison to Warren Buffett’s investment in Geico. Intel — The chip company rose 1.7%. A day earlier, Nvidia disclosed in a regulatory filing that it has bought Intel shares valued at $5 billion, completing a transaction the artificial intelligence chip giant announced in September. Nvidia shares were little changed midday. OceanFirst Financial Group — The regional bank’s shares tumbled…

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In some ways, 2025 was when AI dictation apps really took off. Dictation apps have been around for years, but in the past they’ve proved slow and inaccurate — unless you speak with particular accents and enunciate clearly. But advances in large language models (LLMs) and speech-to-text models have helped improve the systems that can decipher speech better while retaining the context to format the text. And developers have built in features to automatically format text, remove filler words, and ignore fumbles to output text that would need fewer edits. But with the soaring popularity of everything AI, there’s dozens…

Enterprises have been piloting and testing different AI tools for the past few years to figure out what their adoption strategy will look like. Investors think that period of experimentation is coming to an end. TechCrunch recently surveyed 24 enterprise-focused VCs and an overwhelming majority predicted enterprises will increase their budgets for AI in 2026 — but not for everything. Most investors said this budget increase will be concentrated, and that many enterprises will spend more funds on fewer contracts. Andrew Ferguson, a vice president at Databricks Ventures, predicted 2026 will be the year that enterprises start consolidating their investments…

XRP (XRP) held above a key demand zone that has provided support for its price throughout 2025. Will holding this level and a reducing balance on exchanges trigger the start of a sustained recovery in 2026?Key takeaways:XRP supply on exchanges has dropped to an eight-year low, signalling reduced selling pressure.XRP price bulls look to establish strong support at $1.78 for the next leg up.XRP supply on exchanges fall to seven-year lowsAs Cointelegraph reported, there has been a sharp decrease in the XRP supply on exchanges over the last 60 days, according to data from Glassnode.Related: XRP price below $2: Negative…

Key takeawaysStrategy funds its dip buying primarily through ATM equity sales rather than operating cash flow.Preferred shares and other financing tools add buying power but create ongoing dividend and interest obligations.A $1.44-billion reserve is intended to reduce “forced seller” concerns during prolonged market slumps.The model’s constraint is the cost of capital. Dilution risk, market sentiment and index rule changes can tighten the loop.Strategy just spent another $980.3 million on Bitcoin (BTC), adding 10,645 BTC at an average price of $92,098 and lifting its total holdings to 671,268 BTC.It’s the kind of headline the company has trained the market to expect.…

Russia has proposed a new draft bill seeking to crack down on unregistered cryptocurrency miners in the country, following concerns from the finance minister about illegal mining activity.Russia’s Ministry of Justice has proposed imposing penalties of up to 1.5 million rubles (about $19,000) and up to two years of forced labor for illegal cryptocurrency mining, according to new draft amendments to the Criminal Code, published on Monday.For crypto mining activities involving outsized profits, the maximum sentence could reach up to five years in prison, 480 hours of forced labor, and a fine of up to 2.5 million rubles.Illegal cryptocurrency mining…

In early 2025, Michael Saylor’s technology company MicroStrategy officially rebranded to Strategy and adopted a Bitcoin-themed visual marketing program to reflect its core focus as the world’s largest corporate BTC holder.As of Dec. 30, Strategy has accumulated 672,497 Bitcoin (BTC), valued at nearly $59 billion and acquired at an average price of $74,997 per coin. With Bitcoin trading near $88,000, the company is sitting on an unrealized gain of roughly 17%.However, despite the paper profits, pressure has been building. Strategy must continue servicing dividends and financing costs tied to the preferred shares and debt used to fund its Bitcoin purchases,…

From Jan. 1, 2026, crypto users in 48 jurisdictions, including the United Kingdom and the European Union, will start to feel the first real effects of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD’s) Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF) as early‑moving jurisdictions begin collecting standardized data from exchanges and platforms. CARF requires in-scope providers to gather more detailed customer information, verify tax residency and report users’ balances and transactions annually to their domestic tax authorities, which will then share that data across borders under existing information‑exchange agreements. Lucy Frew, partner and head of the global Regulatory & Risk Advisory Group at…

Slam dunk into the super exciting world of SBL Reborn on Roblox, where you become a mighty hunter battling fierce monsters in mysterious dungeon gates just like in the awesome Solo Leveling story. Start as a weak newbie, smash enemies to level up fast, unlock classes with epic powers, and team up with friends to conquer huge bosses for loot. Explore wild maps, collect emeralds to upgrade your skills, and climb ranks from E to S-class hero—it’s packed with non-stop action, teamwork thrills, and getting stronger every second. Working codes are your power-up, giving free emeralds, pumpkins, mystery boxes, and…