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Jan 22, 2026
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Tesla $TSLA ripped higher after Elon Musk said the company’s Robotaxis in Austin are now operating without a safety monitor inside the vehicle, which would mark a major milestone in Tesla’s autonomy roadmap.
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GameStop $GME just moved more than half of its bitcoin $BTC holdings to Coinbase Prime, and crypto traders immediately did what they do best: assume the worst (or at least the spiciest).
Arista Networks $ANET ripped higher Thursday, putting the AI data center networking name on track for its best session of the year so far. The move looks heavily tied to options positioning, not a single clean headline catalyst. By late morning, call buying in Arista was nearly 2x its 10-day moving average for a full session.
Goldman Sachs says investors made a huge allocation shift last week, dumping money market funds and rotating aggressively back into global equities. Goldman’s data shows net flows into global equity funds surged, led by a monster jump in US and emerging markets equity inflows.
POET Technologies $POET is getting hit in early trading after the optical communications company announced a $150 million capital raise through a registered direct offering.
Oracle $ORCL is catching a bid in premarket after Semafor reported that both China and the US have now signed off on the sale of TikTok’s US operations to a consortium where Oracle is one of the three lead investors.
The jet engine maker posted a better-than-expected Q4, then followed it up with full-year 2026 profit guidance that came in stronger than Wall Street was positioned for.
This week, Paramount said it’s extending the deadline for Warner Bros. Discovery $WBD shareholders to tender their shares into its hostile bid, pushing the timeline out to February 20.
Everyone bought into the same AI pitch: deploy these tools, and suddenly your workforce becomes 2x more productive. But now that AI has actually been inside companies for a while, reality is splitting into two very different stories depending on where you sit in the org chart.
Tesla $TSLA popped after Elon Musk threw fresh gasoline on two of the company’s biggest long-term narratives: humanoid robots and self-driving expansion. He said Tesla’s Optimus robot should be ready for public sales “by the end of next year,” once the company is confident it has “very high reliability” and “very high safety,” with a functionality level that’s actually usable in the real world.
Waymo, Google’s $GOOGL autonomous driving unit, is officially live in Miami, marking another big expansion for the most real and proven self-driving taxi network in the US.
The company reported Q4 sales that came in light, and then followed it up with Q1 guidance that missed expectations. That combo is usually all it takes for investors to hit sell.
Bloomberg reports that Apple $AAPL is preparing to transform Siri into a full conversational AI, similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, but built directly into iOS instead of being a separate app.
Goldman Sachs just hiked its December 2026 gold forecast to $5,400 per ounce, up from $4,900, basically saying: the bid under gold is not going away, because demand is coming from the most stubborn buyers on earth.
Alibaba $BABA is catching a serious bid after Bloomberg reported the company is preparing to list its AI chipmaking division, T-Head, in what could become one of the most important “China AI” IPOs in years.
GameStop $GME rallied again after a new filing showed Cohen bought another 500,000 shares on Wednesday for $10.8M, piling onto the 500,000 shares he purchased Tuesday for roughly $10.6M.
After getting clobbered Tuesday following a CapitalWatch report that accused the company of being tied to money laundering for “transnational criminal kingpins,” AppLovin managed to bounce off its lows into the close.
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After announcing last week that ads would begin rolling out inside ChatGPT in the coming weeks, we now have a clearer picture of what the pitch looks like behind the scenes. According to The Information, OpenAI has already reached out to dozens of advertisers and plans to charge based on ad views.
Jan 21, 2026
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+ Netflix Stock Drops After Weak Q1 Guidance
Ahead of Tesla’s earnings report next week, the bank put out a note estimating Tesla will have just 1,000 Robotaxis in service by the end of 2026.
Seagate $STX is catching a bid after BNP Paribas upgraded the stock to outperform from neutral and raised its price target to $380, implying roughly 15% upside from current levels.