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Let’s take a look at some of the stocks making the biggest moves during intraday trading. Bitcoin-related movements — As Bitcoin has recently widened its decline, major virtual currency-related stocks have fallen sharply. Bitcoin fell more than 3% in intraday trading, and Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy fell more than 8%. Shares of cryptocurrency miner MARA Holdings fell about 12%, and Riot Platforms fell about 9%. MGM Resorts — The casino operator soared nearly 10% after BetMGM, the sports betting operator co-owned by MGM and Entain, announced it had reached profitability. BetMGM also announced that its 2025 net revenue will increase…

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Mati Staniszewski, co-founder and CEO of Eleven Labs, says voice is becoming the next major interface for AI, meaning models are moving beyond text and screens and increasingly the way people interact with machines. Speaking at the Web Summit in Doha, Staniszewski told TechCrunch that speech models like the one developed by Eleven Labs are now moving beyond simply imitating human speech (including emotion and intonation) to working in conjunction with the inference capabilities of larger language models. As a result, he argued, the way people interact with technology will change. In the next few years, he said, “hopefully all…

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Bitcoin It fell below $67,000 on Thursday as investor confidence in the asset once hailed as “digital gold” and a unique store of value continued to waver.Digital assets, including Bitcoin, have fallen deeper into the red as investors reassess the utility of tokens that have been championed not only as hedges against inflation and macroeconomic uncertainty, but also as substitutes for traditional safe-haven assets such as fiat currencies and gold.Things haven’t been going well for Bitcoin lately, since it peaked at just over $126,000 in early October.On Thursday, Bitcoin last fell to $67,675, its lowest since November 2024. The cryptocurrency…

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Ukraine’s Defense Ministry claimed on Thursday that Russian Starlink satellite internet terminals were “blocked” inside Ukraine, thereby disrupting Russian military communications. Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said SpaceX is working with Ukraine to update a “white list” of approved and verified Starlink terminals, while unapproved Russian systems are blocked. “Starlink terminals added to the ‘whitelist’ are working. Russian terminals are already blocked,” Fedorov said in a statement on Thursday. “We continue to validate Starlink terminals. The first batch of ‘whitelisted’ terminals is already operational.” An official at Ukraine’s military general staff claimed that “all Russian Starlink links have been cut…

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Pakistan’s Super League side will move to sign Bangladesh’s Mustafizur Rahman following the two countries’ T20 dispute with India.Published February 5, 2026February 5, 2026Click here to share on social mediaShare 2sharePakistan’s cricket club has signed the Bangladeshi fast bowler whose expulsion from the Indian Premier League (IPL) sparked a Twenty20 World Cup crisis.Lahore Qalandars have signed Mustafizur Rahman for $230,000 in a draft that allows Pakistan Super League franchises to select one player before the February 11 auction.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of listMustafizur was purchased by the IPL’s Kolkata Knight Riders for $1 million, but on January 3,…

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U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D.Y.) holds a press conference after the Democratic Party’s weekly policy luncheon at the Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 3, 2026.Annabelle Gordon ReuterDemocrats in both chambers of Congress announced their calls for immigration enforcement reform Wednesday as Congress races to avoid a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. An agreement with Republicans seems a long way off. Under the law enacted Tuesday that reopens much of the government, DHS received only two weeks of stopgap funding. Democrats are currently holding off on introducing a year-round spending bill until Republicans agree on immigration…

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An AI lab called Fundamental emerged from stealth on Thursday to offer a new underlying model for solving an old problem: how to extract insights from the vast amounts of structured data that companies generate. The company believes that by combining older systems of predictive AI with more modern tools, it can reshape the way large enterprises analyze data. “LLM is great for processing unstructured data like text, audio, video, and code, but it’s not very good at processing structured data like tables,” CEO Jeremy Fraenkel told TechCrunch. “With our model Nexus, we built the best underlying model to process…

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This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox.Happy Thursday. Taco Bell’s parent company reported strong same-store sales growth for the chain yesterday, which makes me wonder how much my Crunchwrap Supreme order contributed.Stock futures are falling this morning. of S&P500 I saw a losing session yesterday as well.Here are five important things investors need to know to start their trading day.1. Hard resetPiotr Swat | SOPA Images | Light Rocket | Getty ImagesPressure on software stocks has intensified in recent days. Industry executives are urging investors not to panic, but Wall Street appears…

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Kelly Ripa details fight with kids over IG photo that ended in 4 hours of silenceKelly Ripa says her children don’t always have picture-perfect attitudes. In fact, it resulted in her and Mark Consuelos’ three children Michael, 28, Laura, 24, and Joaquin, 22, being silenced in social media posts over the holidays. “I have to say, I tried to post my family merry-go-round on Instagram for Christmas,” Kelly revealed to Bronwyn Newport on the Let’s Talk Off Camera podcast on February 11th. “I stopped talking to my kids for about four hours over Christmas because of arguments and arguments about,…

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People raise a flag outside the U.S. Supreme Court on December 4, 2024 in Washington, DC. Oral arguments underway over whether states can ban certain gender reassignment medical treatments for young people. Robert Schmidt AFP | Getty ImagesA new study by the LGBTQ+ group Human Rights Campaign shows a significant decline in Fortune 500 companies actively disclosing their diversity, equity, and inclusion practices.HRC’s 2026 Corporate Equality Index saw a 65% drop in participating companies this year, from 377 Fortune 500 companies in 2025 to just 131 in 2026. HRC noted that many of the companies that dropped out have federal…

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