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Anthropic also unveiled Claude Opus 4.8, an upgrade to its Opus class of models with stronger performance across coding, agentic tasks, and professional work

These AI stocks are going to be certain winners of the huge investments in data centers.

The United States Postal Service said Thursday it reached a $10 billion deal to provide “last-mile” package delivery services for DHL eCommerce, an arm of German package services provider DHL. The USPS said in December it intended to open its last-mile delivery network to large and small shippers, expanding beyond current arrangements with Amazon and UPS. Postmaster General David Steiner said in a call with reporters that since the USPS delivers to 170 million locations six days a week, “we are the best last-mile provider by default.”

Best Buy is known for its laptops and smartphones. Best Buy stock surged nearly 17% Thursday after the electronics chain reported first-quarter operating earnings of $1.28 a share, up from $1.15 a year earlier—helped by higher margins and a 2% bump in same-store sales. Best Buy, meanwhile, stoked the uncertainty further when it announced in April that CEO Corie Barry would step down Oct. 31, to be replaced by longtime company veteran Jason Bonfig.

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Bath & Body Works (BBWI) is entering a "multiyear process" to revamp direct-to-consumer sales growth

RGTI's 108-qubit Cepheus-1 launch and rising QPU demand strengthen its push toward quantum advantage and revenue growth.

Analyst Geoffrey Kendrick argued that Ethereum’s internal metrics remain strong despite ETH’s prolonged price weakness.