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- Meet the 2026 stock market. It's the same AI-reliant market of 2025 - Tech's outperformance to start the new year suggests the AI trade still has legs, at least for now.
- Dust to data centers: The year AI tech giants, and billions in debt, began remaking the American landscape - Big Tech is remaking the U.S. map into an AI empire — kingdom-scale data centers, unprecedented debt, power constraints, and a near-religious belief in scaling.
- Google wraps up best year on Wall Street since 2009, beating megacap peers as AI story strengthens - Shares of Alphabet rallied in 2025 as the company responded to skepticism of its position in artificial intelligence with new products that excited investors.
- Apple needs to deliver an AI-charged Siri so good it gets older iPhone users to upgrade - Apple has one more chance to get AI right after its failure in 2025.
- Meta acquires intelligent agent firm Manus, capping year of aggressive AI moves - Meta Platforms has acquired Manus, a Singapore-based developer of general-purpose AI agents, capping a year of massive spending on artificial intelligence.
- Week in review: The S&P 500 kept hitting records, and an AI giant went back into the Bullpen - The Club added an old stock to the bullpen and bought more shares of another.
- One year on from the UK's grand AI plan: Has its infrastructure buildout been a success? - Hefty financial commitments from tech giants are positive signals, but big challenges remain for the U.K. to fulfil its ambitions.
- Nvidia-Groq deal is structured to keep 'fiction of competition alive,' analyst says - Groq's description of its Nvidia deal as a "non-exclusive licensing agreement" mimics other recent big AI transactions orchestrated by U.S. tech giants.
- Google is rolling out a new feature allowing users to change their Gmail address - Google says it is rolling out a feature that lets users change their Gmail addresses in a long-requested update to their email policy.
- Waymo pauses robotaxis in SF again due to flash flood warnings on Christmas Day - Waymo again paused it robotaxi service, citing a flash flood warning on Christmas Day.