Finance

Chip stocks tumbled across Asia as rising bond yields and higher financing costs put the AI investment boom under sharper scrutiny from global markets.

A July 2026 report estimates 105.8 million Americans aged 16 and over are not in the labor force, surpassing Great Recession and COVID highs.

Global coal demand hit an all-time high of 8.85 billion metric tons in 2025 as countries weigh energy security against climate pledges.

Thinking Machines trained language models on expert annotations to perform financial document triage, outperforming frontier models on accuracy and recall at a fraction of the cost.