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Short selling is a trading strategy used by investors to profit from a decline in the price of a stock or other securities.

In January 2026, Higgsfield has rolled out its AI Influencer Studio (accessible at higgsfield.ai/ai-influencer-studio), a no-prompt-required builder that lets anyone create fully customizable AI influencers.

Some 23% of jobs will be disrupted, WEF said in its ‘Future of Jobs’ report, with some eliminated and others created.

As we kick off 2026, social media is buzzing with a peculiar mix of trends: frugal chic outfits, confessions like "sorry, I lied to you," and a massive surge in "My 2016" posts. It's not just harmless fun—it's a symptom of deeper forces at play.

We don’t divide all the influencers into two groups in 2026, macro and micro-influencers, because a new type of bloggers is gaining their positions in the market.

In the high-stakes world of venture capital, startup exits are often painted in black-and-white terms: a fire sale below $30 million spells failure, while a blockbuster over $1 billion lights up the scoreboard. But what about the murky middle ground of $150 million to $300 million?

In the fast-evolving landscape of software engineering, AI coding assistants have emerged as game-changers, promising to supercharge developer productivity.

On January 26, 2026, at the American Meteorological Society’s Annual Meeting, NVIDIA announced Earth-2—a comprehensive family of open-source AI models, libraries, and frameworks designed to democratize weather and climate forecasting.

Field tests involving a standard military assault rifle mounted on a quadcopter have demonstrated a level of accuracy that was previously thought to be years—or even decades—away.

Now zoom in on the real heavyweight: Strategy (Michael Saylor's rebranded beast, ex-MicroStrategy). They're still piling in — just added 2,932 BTC for $264 million at ~ $90,061 average last week (Jan 20–25), pushing total holdings to 712,647 BTC. Average cost basis sits at ~ $76,037–$76,040 per coin, total acquisition cost ~ $54.2 billion. At today's ~ $87,800 levels, the stack is worth around $62.5–$62.6 billion — still a paper gain, but the premium is thinning fast.

Let’s face the reality regarding the existing managers of this corporate world.

In an era where personal branding meets artificial intelligence, a new trend is reshaping the self-help and coaching industries: influencers and life coaches are monetizing AI-powered "clones" of themselves.

Successful content marketing strategies can be the catalyst that pushes a business up into the stratosphere.

In January 2026, Google unveiled Personal Intelligence, a groundbreaking beta feature for its Gemini AI that integrates deeply with users' personal data across Gmail, Google Photos, YouTube, and Search history.