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The sport incorporates a certain kind of shenanigans: running headfirst on a small sled down a winding road at speeds of 90 miles per hour. But Lowe, the first American athlete to medal in skeleton in 12 years at the 2025 IBSF World Championships, admittedly didn’t think it was for her at first. “My coach walked me to the line and let me go, and all of a sudden I was going so fast I couldn’t see anything, I couldn’t process anything,” she told The Athletic in December, recalling her first taste of the sport in 2016 when she was…
Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman delivers the keynote address at the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas on December 2, 2025.Noah Berger | Amazon Web Services | Getty ImagesAmazon announced Thursday that its cloud division’s revenue rose nearly 24% in the fourth quarter, beating analyst expectations.Amazon Web Services had revenue of $35.58 billion, the statement said. Analyst estimates compiled by Street Account were for $34.93 billion. AWS accounted for approximately 17% of Amazon’s total revenue in the quarter.Operating profit within AWS was $12.47 billion, beating the StreetAccount consensus of $11.91 billion and accounting for the majority of the parent…
On Monday, OpenAI launched Codex, an agent coding tool sold to software developers. Today, OpenAI also announced a new model designed to turbocharge Codex: GPT-5.3 Codex. The company says this model transforms Codex from an agent that simply “writes and reviews code” to one that can do “almost everything developers and professionals do on a computer,” expanding the number of people who can build software and how they work. After testing the new model against numerous performance benchmarks, OpenAI claims it can “build highly capable and complex games and apps from scratch in days.” OpenAI says the GPT-5.3 Codex is…
Online retailer Amazon’s logo and lettering can be seen on the facade of Amazon’s German headquarters. Sven Hoppe | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Amazon Following in the footsteps of the same tech giants microsoftand not in a good way. Shares of the e-commerce and cloud giant fell more than 11% in after-hours trading after the company reported lower-than-expected fourth-quarter results.But the bigger shock comes from Amazon’s huge projected capital spending of $200 billion, far higher than the $146.6 billion expected by analysts and significantly higher than the roughly $131 billion in 2025.That number also dwarfs Alphabet’s expected capital spending…
2026 Olympics: Meet the athletes representing the United States aiming for gold at the Milan-Cortina Winter GamesThe 2026 Olympics are finally here. The Milan-Cortina Winter Games will be held from February 6th to 22nd and there will be plenty to see, with more than 2,800 athletes from over 90 countries competing for a chance to win gold. In fact, this year’s sporting event, co-hosted by Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo in northern Italy for the first time in Olympic history, will feature a record-breaking 116 events across 16 sports, including figure skating, ice hockey, snowboarding, curling and luge. But even before…
Given Bitcoin’s recent selloff, investors may be wondering whether to buy now at rock-bottom prices, sell and run for the hills, or stick with it for the long term. It also brings back a common question: What role should the world’s most widely held cryptocurrency play in an individual’s investment portfolio?Bitcoin’s price has fallen from a peak of more than $126,000 in October to less than $64,000 as of Thursday afternoon, a drop of about 50% in just a few months.The drop continues after the launch of the Spot Bitcoin ETF in January 2024, with analysts expecting this to attract…
The AI industry can sometimes seem like a competition to see who can spend the most money on data centers. It is believed that whoever builds the most data centers will have the most computing power and therefore be able to build the best AI products, which will guarantee victory in the coming years. This way of thinking has its limits. Traditionally, businesses ultimately succeed by making more money and spending less. But this idea has proven very persuasive to big tech companies. If it’s a contest, Amazon appears to be winning. The company announced in its earnings call Thursday…
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks at a launch event in New York on February 26, 2025.Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAmazonThe company’s shares plunged 11% in extended trading Thursday, dragged down by market turmoil over the company’s $200 billion capital investment plan, the most expensive among mega-cap companies. The forecast is a significant increase from Amazon’s capital spending last year, which exceeded analysts’ expectations by more than $50 billion. The company reported spending about $131 billion on property and equipment purchases in 2025, up from about $83 billion a year earlier. Ever since OpenAI ushered in the modern era…
Malaysia’s tiger population is rapidly disappearing, and its unlikely champion is the 30-year-old crown prince. Pahang’s Crown Prince Tengku Hassanal Ibrahim Alam Shah has launched the Save the Malayan Tiger conservation program and established Southeast Asia’s first Royal Tiger Reserve, surrounding part of Taman Negara, the country’s largest national park, with newly protected forests. In the 1950s, as many as 3,000 Malayan tigers roamed the peninsula in the wild. But now only 150 remain. Taman Negara has no buffer zone, and its borders are under pressure from logging and deforestation for illegal hunting and agriculture. In 2023, the Crown Prince…
Nikola Stojadinovic | E+ | Getty ImagesA new study from AARP shows that some Americans over 50 are returning to work after retirement.The non-profit organization representing people over 50 says most “non-retired” people surveyed said they were motivated to make money given today’s high cost of living.AARP’s findings show that 7% of retirees have rejoined the workforce in the past six months, up from 6% who said the same in summer 2025. The latest poll results are based on responses from 2,083 adults aged 50 and older interviewed in November and December. This follows a summer survey of 2,362 adults…