Investors have sunk the market values of AI-related companies in recent weeks, worried that the technology isn’t producing bottom-line gains for businesse
Category: 24 February 2026
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MARKET OVERVIEW
As we had forecast, one of our Top Trends for 2026 is a Dot-com Bust 2.0, and now that reality is hitting The Street. Yesterday, U.S. equities plunged as the Wall Street gambling gang could no longer ignore the reality of how artificial intelligence will overtake human intelligence in many business sectors.
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TRUMP EMPLOYS ‘PLAN B’ AFTER SUPREME COURT RULING ON ‘RECIPROCAL’ IMPORT TARIFFS
The Trump administration responded to the Supreme Court’s ruling last week that President Donald Trump exceeded his authority when he imposed tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEPPA) in a 6-3 opinion that was seen as a blow to the White House’s economic agenda.
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ROBOTS NOT ABLE TO FILL WORKER SHORTAGE, CHINESE EXECUTIVE SAYS
Humanoid robots are only half as efficient as humans in factory work and thus not yet able to fill any worker shortage that factories are experiencing, Michael Tam, chief brand officer for UBTech, a leading Chinese robotics designer, said in a Financial Times interview.
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ISRAEL PLANNING PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKE TO TAKE IRANIAN ALLIES OUT OF THE FIGHT
The IDF is preparing major strikes to take out Iranian allies in the Middle East to prevent groups like Hezbollah and the Houthis from joining the fight if a large-scale war between the U.S. and Tehran breaks out.
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TRUMP PUTS U.S. ON THE PRECIPICE OF WAR WITH IRAN, HARDLY A PEEP OF RESISTANCE IN CONGRESS, MAINSTREAM MEDIA
President Donald Trump has ordered the most airpower into the Middle East since before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, as the U.S. prepares for a possible war with Iran that has hardly been explained by the administration and faced essentially no pushback in the news media or by politicians in Washington.
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HIGH EXPOSURE TO ULTRA-PROCESSED FOODS IN EARLY YEARS CAN MAKE YOUR CHILD DUMB
Newly released research found that the more children ingested ultra-processed food earlier in life, the lower their IQs developed into their childhood, raising new concerns about diets and their impact on the developing brain.
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ANTHROPIC SURGES TO $350 BILLION VALUATION AS IT DOMINATES BUSINESS AI
In a new $30-billion funding round, investments from backers including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Sequoia Capital have set the AI developer Anthropic’s value at $350 billion and put it on track for what is expected to be a wildly successful initial public stock offering later this year.
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IS AI ALREADY RUNNING AMOK?
“Today I finally feel the existential threat that AI is posing,” Hieu Pham, an OpenAI developer, wrote in an 11 February post on X. “When AI becomes overly good and disrupts everything, what will be left for humans to do?”
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PEACE PRESIDENT? STATE DEPARTMENT SAYS U.S. WILL PROVIDE THE PHILIPPINES WITH NEW ARMS TO THWART CHINA
The U.S. State Department announced last week that it will provide Manila with advanced missile systems and a slew of other weapons in Washington’s latest effort to thwart China in the South China Sea.