Palantir Technologies Inc

• Chip stocks rally to start 2026 after third-straight winning year - Investors piled into the winning artificial intelligence-adjacent sector following another big year of gains.
• 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.
• Retail investors close out one of their best years ever. How they beat Wall Street at their own game - Mom-and-pop investors bought the dip at key points, giving them outsized benefits from the market's run this year.
• Asia-Pacific markets set to open mostly lower on penultimate day of the year - Investors will be focused on China's military exercises around Taiwan today, after it announced new drills surrounding the island Monday.
• Wall Street wrote off Palantir as too expensive. Retail investors can't get enough - The stock, which made its market debut in 2020, is an indisputable star of the retail investing world.
• Trump admin to hire 1,000 specialists for 'Tech Force' to build AI, finance projects - A slew of tech giants, including Amazon Web Services, Apple, Google Public Sector, Dell Technologies, Microsoft, Nvidia and OpenAI, are listed as partners.
• Palantir CIO Jim Siders leaves to become head of Thrive Capital's new IT services business - Siders spent more than 12 years at Palantir, recently overseeing its global IT operations, business applications and infrastructure.
• Trump wants the U.S. shipbuilding industry to be great again. Here's what it will take, and what's at stake - President Trump is promising a shipbuilding renaissance in the U.S. to rival China, but it will not happen overnight, and will require allies.
• Michael Burry calls Tesla 'ridiculously overvalued' and knocks tech industry for a widely used practice - "The Big Short" investor Michael Burry put Tesla's valuation in the spotlight.
• Forget AI spending — the biggest risk to this stock market is speculative junk - The idea that these alternative investments somehow create anything en masse is almost ludicrous.