For investors looking to build wealth over decades, dividend-paying stocks can be an attractive part of a portfolio. They offer something that stocks without dividends do not: a stream of cash payments simply for owning shares. But that does not automatically make dividend stocks better investments. The real question is whether an investor should prioritize… Continue reading Dividend Stocks: Can They Really Build a Lifetime of Passive Income?

For years, marijuana policy in the United States has existed in an unusual gray area. More than half of the states allow marijuana for medical purposes, many also permit recreational use, and the legal cannabis industry has grown into a multibillion-dollar business. Yet under federal law, marijuana has remained a controlled substance, creating a persistent… Continue reading Is Marijuana Finally Headed for Federal Legalization?

OpenAI has halted plans to release its next-generation GPT-6.1 Astra model after internal testing found that the system did not meet the company’s standards for safety and alignment. The decision, announced September 28, represents an unusual moment for the rapidly advancing artificial-intelligence industry: a major AI developer has decided that a more capable model is… Continue reading OpenAI Holds Back New AI Model as Safety Concerns Escalate Across the Industry

The idea of putting stocks on a blockchain has moved from a crypto experiment into a real financial product. In 2026, Binance introduced bStocks, a series of tokenized securities designed to give investors exposure to companies such as Apple, Amazon, Robinhood, IBM, Broadcom and others without holding the traditional shares directly. At first glance, the… Continue reading bStocks Explained: What Are Tokenized Securities, and Are They Better Than Regular Stocks?

OpenAI has made a remarkable claim that could represent one of the biggest demonstrations yet of artificial intelligence’s ability to perform original mathematical research. The company says its AI system has produced a solution to the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of the seven famous Millennium Prize Problems that have challenged mathematicians for decades.… Continue reading OpenAI’s Mathematical Breakthrough Could Change How Science Is Done

XRP is once again attracting investors’ attention as the cryptocurrency holds up against a difficult backdrop for financial markets, with growing institutional demand and strong inflows into XRP investment products providing fresh support for the digital asset. XRP was trading around $1.41 on Wednesday, September 9, up roughly 1.1% on the day. The move may… Continue reading XRP Draws Fresh Investor Attention as Institutional Demand Builds

SpaceX has quickly become one of the most closely watched stocks on Wall Street. After going public earlier this year, the company has already attracted an unusually high level of analyst enthusiasm. This week, Pivotal Research analyst Jeffrey Wlodarczak initiated coverage with a Buy rating and a $220 price target, implying roughly 50% upside from… Continue reading Why Wall Street Is Calling SpaceX a Buy — and What Could Go Wrong

The global memory-chip shortage is no longer a temporary supply-chain disruption. It is becoming a structural problem driven by the rapid construction of artificial-intelligence data centers, limited manufacturing capacity and growing geopolitical friction. The result is a costly squeeze on the DRAM and NAND flash used in smartphones, computers, gaming consoles, televisions and countless other… Continue reading The Memory Crisis Is Becoming a New Tax on Consumer Electronics

Only a few years ago, plant-based meat was being promoted as the future of food. Products from Beyond Meat, Impossible Foods and a growing collection of competitors appeared in supermarkets, fast-food restaurants and celebrity-backed advertising campaigns. Investors envisioned a major transformation in how the world consumed protein, while companies argued that realistic meat substitutes could… Continue reading Plant-Based Meats – From Boom to Bust

Google has temporarily removed a new artificial-intelligence feature from Google Earth after researchers demonstrated how easily it could be used to create convincing but entirely fabricated satellite images. The tool, which allowed users to select a real location and describe what they wanted to appear there, was withdrawn only a day after its introduction as… Continue reading Google Pauses AI Satellite-Image Generator After “Deepfakes in the Sky” Raise Alarm