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Monday, December 15, 2025, Bank of England (BOE), City of London, United Kingdom. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe bonanza of interest rate decisions announced by Europe’s four central banks on Thursday was as expected, with the European Central Bank, Norges Bank and Riksbank leaving interest rates unchanged, while the Bank of England cut rates.But there were hints about the future in 2026. Here are four important points.1. The BoE voted for cuts, but they were just cuts.Markets believe the BoE has agreed to cut interest rates, with futures markets suggesting there is almost a 98% chance of a rate…

At Meta, everything is hands-on as we develop new AI models under the Superintelligence Lab led by Scale AI co-founder Alexandr Wang. The company is currently working on an image and video model codenamed “Mango,” and a new text-based model internally called “Avocado,” The Wall Street Journal reported. The tech giant plans to launch new models in the first half of 2026, the paper said, citing an internal Q&A with Meta on Thursday, in which Wang and chief product officer Chris Cox announced a new roadmap. Wang said Meta aims to improve the coding capabilities of text-based models, while at…

oracleThe company’s stock rose 7% on Friday after the cloud provider joined a group of investors set to lead TikTok’s U.S. operations. CEO Shou Zi Chew said in a memo to employees Thursday that the social media company’s U.S. division will be run by a joint venture that includes Oracle, Silver Lake and Abu Dhabi-based MGX. The deal is expected to close on January 22nd.The agreement protects the popular social platform from being banned after President Joe Biden signed legislation mandating the sale of the company’s U.S. division, citing national security concerns. President Donald Trump has repeatedly extended the deadline…

Reuters — A knife-wielding assailant rampaged through central Taipei on Friday, killing three people and injuring five others, before falling from a building and dying during a police chase, the prime minister announced. Prime Minister Cho Jun-tai said the man set off a smoke bomb at Taipei’s main train station, then ran to a nearby subway station in the downtown area, attacking people along the way. The deceased suspect, who had a criminal record and an outstanding warrant, had his home searched, Cho told reporters. Violent crime is extremely rare in Taiwan. “We will investigate his background and related relationships…

Emilia Clarke’s brain aneurysmEmilia Clarke, who filmed battle scenes for Game of Thrones, published an essay in The New Yorker in 2019 titled “A Battle for My Life.”After suffering a severe headache at the gym, the actress writes, “I made it to the bathroom and fell to my knees feeling very, very sick.” “During that time, the pain was getting worse with shooting, stabbing, squeezing pain. On some level, I knew what was happening: my brain was damaged.”She was taken to the hospital for a brain scan.”The diagnosis was swift and ominous: a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a life-threatening type…

A shopper carries a Nike bag on Wednesday, December 17, 2025 in San Francisco, California, USA. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Imagesnike Shares fell more than 10% in premarket trading Friday morning as concerns about its performance in China outweighed the sportswear giant’s profits. Nike on Thursday reported quarterly profit and sales that beat Wall Street expectations as strong performance in North America offset a sales decline in China.The stock’s move comes as investors digest the continued hit from China’s reported economic downturn and increased tariffs Nike is facing.Stock chart iconStock chart iconnike stock priceHere’s what Nike will…

palo alto networks Migrate major internal workloads to google cloud The companies announced Friday as part of a new multibillion-dollar deal.The companies said the agreement is an expansion of their existing strategic partnership and further deepens their engineering cooperation. Palo Alto Networks is currently using Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence model to power the co-pilot, as well as Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform, according to the release. “Every board is looking for ways to harness the power of AI without exposing their business to new threats,” Palo Alto Networks President BJ Jenkins said in a statement. “This partnership answers that question.”Palo…

Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah has joined Egypt for AFCON 2025, but is rumored to be moving to the Saudi Professional League.Published December 19, 2025December 19, 2025Click here to share on social mediaShare 2shareArne Slott says Liverpool have “moved on” from the turmoil caused by Mohamed Salah’s explosive exit and are showing signs of developing into the team he wants them to be.The Reds begin what could be up to a month away without Salah, who is representing Egypt at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), on Saturday when they face Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League.Recommended stories list of 4…

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on December 17, 2025 in New York City, USA. Brendan McDiarmid | ReutersWall Street could be in for a volatile weekend as traders brace for Goldman Sachs’ biggest option expiry on record.Options expiration dates on short-term derivative contracts have become a monthly tradition on Wall Street. Friday is one of the rare days (four times a year) when options on four types of securities expire on the same day: index options, single stock options, index futures options, and index futures options. This day is called “Four Witch Day”.More than…

OpenAI is in talks to raise up to $100 billion in a funding round that could value the ChatGPT maker as much as $830 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, citing anonymous sources. The company aims to raise funds by the end of the first quarter of next year and may ask sovereign wealth funds to invest in this round, WSJ reported. The Information, which first reported news of the deal, said the funding would give OpenAI a $750 billion price tag. The funding comes as OpenAI pledges to spend trillions of dollars and close deals around the world…