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.
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.
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.
At the University of Southern California at Santa Barbara, researchers have created a substance that stores the energy of sunlight for years, then releases it when the material is treated with a catalyst or heated.
Israel’s increased number of attacks on Palestinians across Gaza and the West Bank raises new concerns that the military is carrying out “ethnic cleansing” in the territories, according to a new report issued by OHCHR, the UN human rights office.
“Trust is not a virtue when it is blind. It is a responsibility when it is earned.”
— Gary Null
“No one, including the President of the United States, should be able to cover up crimes against children.”—James Talarico
The Trump administration plans to develop a massive military base inside Gaza that will house up to 5,000 members of the so-called International Stabilization Force (ISF), which is a key initiative of President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, according to a report.
The CIA, the U.S. intelligence service, was aware of the Ukrainian plot to blow up the Nord Stream pipelines to cut Europeans off from inexpensive Russian gas months before the September 2022 sabotage attack, according to a report in Der Spiegel, the German outlet.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared to throw cold water on any possibility for peace with Russia last week when he told reporters that the Ukrainian public would never allow him to give up land in the eastern Donbas that is not yet in Moscow’s control.