Can the world's newest technology give a boost to one of transportation's oldest? A plan by leading Asia companies wants to find out.
Nvidia and Kawasaki Heavy Industries announced a joint effort to build a "next‑generation digital shipyard" at Kawasaki's Sakaide Works in ****** an.
The core of the deal is co‑development of AI‑powered robots for shipbuilding tasks such as welding, painting, inspection, and material handling.
Kawasaki (OTC: KWHIY) will contribute decades of shipbuilding data, production know‑how, and its own robotics capabilities. Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) will contribute its AI and simulation stack, including products for applications in digital twins, robotics, vision/AI, and edge AI, which applies AI models and algorithms directly to devices such as sensors, cameras, robots, vehicles, or industrial controllers.
One report notes Nvidia making a $5 million investment connected to this 1990s‑era Kawasaki shipbuilding business as part of the arrangement, though the main value is technology integration rather than large equity stakes in shipyards.

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Management attributes solid performance to a fundamental shift in operational discipline and financial execution, moving closer to customers and communities to drive reliability.
Total forecasted data center demand surged 30% since Q1 to approximately 25 gigawatts, representing roughly 70% of the company's July system peak load.
The company is positioning West Virginia as a key growth engine, utilizing its status as a vertically integrated utility to offer 'one-stop shop' generation and transmission solutions.
Operational improvements in New Jersey have resulted in a 38% year-over-year increase in reliability, which management believes provides a constructive foundation for upcoming rate filings.

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Soybeans posted a modest recovery on Tuesday following sharp Monday losses, with contracts up 2 ½ to 6 ¼ cents. The cmdtyView national average Cash Bean price was 3 3/4 cents higher at $11.78. Soymeal futures were $1 to 4.30 higher with front month August and exception, down 50 cents. Soy Oil futures were down 40 to 71 points.
The Monday Crop Progress data from NASS showed 80% of the US soybean crop blooming by 7/26, up 6% from normal, with 47% setting pods and 8 percentage points faster than the 5-year average. Condition ratings were down 3% at 63% gd/ex, with the Brugler500 index dropping 6 points to 363. Improvement was noted in MO (+7) and IN (+1), with NC, MI, and LA also seeing better conditions and AR/TN posting steady ratings on the Brugler500 index. The deterioration was seen in NE (-22), SD (-20), ND (-12), OH/MI/KS (-10), as well as MN/IL (-5), and IA (-3).
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The Internal Revenue Service is making it a bit less onerous for some people who are late paying their taxes.
The IRS will automatically waive fines tied to late filing or payment of taxes for taxpayers who have a history of being on time. The policy, called the Automatic Exemption from Penalty (AEP), streamlines the process of penalty relief.
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It's amazing how the free cash flow line has meant wildly different things for Apple (AAPL) and Oracle (ORCL) investors this year.
Call it an Investing 101 reminder: Cash is king.
Quick insight: With tech investors laser-focused on capex, free cash flow has emerged as a major driver of share prices this year.
The latest example: Alphabet (GOOGL) reported its first negative free cash flow quarter, and the stock was hammered last week after its earnings. Free cash flow could remain negative for Alphabet in the near-term, based on guidance from its earnings call.
As for Apple, it has generated about $129 billion in trailing 12-month free cash flow. On the other hand, Oracle has seen a $24 billion outflow. It's not that Apple isn't investing in AI, but Oracle's business model requires it to take bigger financial swings. In this case, those swings are being funded by new debt.

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Delivered 10% organic constant currency revenue growth, marking the tenth consecutive quarter of high single-digit growth or better.
U.S. Financial Services outperformance was driven by share gains and innovation rather than underlying market volumes, growing at a 9% CAGR excluding mortgage.
Strategic diversification has resulted in over one-third of Financial Services revenue coming from alternative data and non-credit solutions like Trusted Call.
Platform modernization reached a milestone with 60% of U.S. match activity and 30% of online customers now migrated to the OneTru platform.

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New draft EB-5 regulations propose significant limits on the use of bridge financing for qualifying investments.
Stricter job creation standards and full-capital deployment requirements could upend common practices for both investors and regional centers.
The rule changes risk slowing EB-5 project pipelines and may tighten the program in ways that reshape real estate funding strategies nationwide.
For the first time since 2022, the EB-5 immigrant investor program is facing a major regulatory overhaul. According to Bisnow, the Department of Homeland Security released a draft of updated EB-5 rules on July 2, introducing proposals that could sharply curtail the use of bridge financing—a pillar of many real estate deals reliant on foreign capital.

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In this episode of Behind the Ticker, Brad Roth, CIO of Thor Financial Technologies, chats with Young Jae Lee, Senior Investment Manager at Pictet ******* et Management about what traditional emerging market ETFs capture, what they don't, and why the Pictet Emerging Markets Rising Economies ETF (RISE) offers true diversification.
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Emerging markets ETFs are secretly tech bets. The top five holdings in the MSCI EM benchmark mirror the top five in the S&P 500 almost sector-for-sector. Buy traditional EM ETFs and you're really just doubling down on the same tech risk.
Pictet's new ETF, RISE, kicks out the biggest names in EM. It excludes Korea, Taiwan, and China entirely, even though those three countries make up more than 70% of the standard benchmark. The bet: real emerging-market exposure means growing working-age populations, not aging economies riding on legacy index weight.
Demographics are EM's version of AI. Borrowing from the Solow Growth Model, Young Jae Lee argues population growth is what actually drives GDP in developing markets like India, Brazil, Indonesia, and Mexico. That demographic engine deserves the same portfolio spotlight in EM allocations that AI gets in US ones.

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Valued at a market cap of $68.8 billion, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (REGN) is a leading biotechnology company that discovers, develops, and commercializes antibody-based medicines for serious diseases. Headquartered in Tarrytown, New York, the company is known for leveraging its proprietary genetic research and antibody technologies to develop innovative therapies.
REGN is scheduled to announce its fiscal Q2 earnings for 2026 before the market opens on Thursday, July 30. Ahead of the release, **** ysts expect this healthcare company to report a profit of $8 per share, down 25.4% from $10.72 per share in the year-ago quarter. The company has topped Wall Street's bottom-line estimates in each of the last four quarters.
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Chime is adding an investment product to its ******* nal.
The fintech launched Chime Invest on its app, allowing users to buy stocks and exchange-traded funds commission-free, the company announced Monday.
Alternately, customers can choose to let Chime partner Atomic Invest create a portfolio tailored to their goals and risk profile, with no account balance minimum and no fees if they are Chime Prime members.
Chime unveiled a tiered membership structure in April. The managed portfolio option in Chime Invest comes with a 0.10% annual fee for users in the fintech's second tier, Chime Plus. Other Chime members would pay a 0.25% annual management fee for the service.

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This is a crucial time of the year for retirees who receive Social Security benefits. Each fall, the Social Security Administration (SSA) issues a cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, to account for inflation's impact on living expenses. What happens in the economy this summer will determine what next year's COLA looks like.
The latest forecast from The Senior Citizens League calls for a 3.8% COLA this year. That's not an official number, but it does signal that retirees may see a larger increase than last year's 2.8%. Here are some factors retirees should watch before the formal COLA announcement later this year.
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The SSA bases the COLA on the performance of the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers, or CPI-W, in July, August, and September of each year. The SSA averages the CPI-W's value over those three months and compares it to the same months of the prior year. In 2025, the index averaged 317.265 in the third quarter, which drove that 2.8% COLA.
Rather than focusing on headline inflation numbers in the news, retirees should keep their eye on the index. To get a 3.8% COLA, the CPI-W would need to average approximately 329.321. The SSA will announce the index's July average next month, kicking off that crucial three-month window. It was at 327.075 in June, the most recent number at the time of writing this article.

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Stocks snapped a three-day losing streak Tuesday, carried by a recovery in chip stocks and hopes for strong earnings from some of America’s biggest tech companies.

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After a punishing slide, Intuit's stock has landed on a price floor that has launched major rallies before, forcing investors to decide if history is a guide or a trap.
Intuit (INTU), the company behind TurboTax and QuickBooks, has seen its stock fall back to a familiar place. After a -25% return over the last three months, shares now trade inside a price zone between $279.13 and $308.51. More than a simple number on a chart, this is a level where buyers have forcefully stepped in three separate times before, sparking rallies that produced an average peak gain of 66%. History says this is where the selling stops. The question every investor watching this descent must answer is a simple one: will they show up again this time?
The historical precedent is strong. In May 2020, a defense of this level led to a 22% gain over the next 107 days. A test in September of that year produced a 10.6% bounce in just 28 days. The most dramatic defense came in October 2020, which became the launchpad for a huge 164% climb. The past performance at this level is not subtle, which is why the stock's return to it now creates such a palpable standoff.
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A floor holds or breaks based on the health of the business arriving at it. Intuit lands on this level with several of its key initiatives firing on all cylinders. Management points to its designated growth engines, specifically "Assisted tax, money, portfolio and mid-market," as "all growing north of 30%." This is not a business standing still. The company is executing a deliberate pivot away from its traditional do-it-yourself tax software and into the much larger, more lucrative ***** isted tax preparation market.

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A warehouse shift in Tulsa will result in 184 job cuts, even as production lines beside it continue to operate.
TheStreet recently reported that Coca-Cola is closing a Massachusetts bottling plant, while Mars-owned Nature's Bakery is transferring production from a Missouri facility to other locations.
The circumstances differ, but both showed how companies are redrawing their manufacturing and distribution networks while their products remain widely available to shoppers.
Now a similar shift is affecting PepsiCo workers in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
PepsiCo Beverages will discontinue warehouse operations at its facility at 510 W. Skelly Drive, Tulsa, on Nov. 15, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notice reviewed by TheStreet.

Global chip stocks have lost roughly $2.7 trillion in market value since the PHLX Semiconductor Index (^SOX) peaked on June 22.
Wall Street still expects Micron (MU), Nvidia (NVDA), and the rest of the industry to generate about $700 billion in profit in 2027.
The damage from the recent stock weakness has spread from Micron and Nvidia to Samsung (005930.KS) and SK Hynix (SKHY), which just debuted in the US on Friday, even as earnings estimates keep climbing.
Micron offers the most dramatic example. The memory maker, whose stock fell more than 4% over the past month, is projected to earn $83 billion in fiscal 2026 and $176 billion in fiscal 2027, according to Bloomberg consensus estimates, after earning about $9 billion in fiscal 2025.
The surge reflects AI's growing appetite for advanced memory.

Americans, on the whole, are in debt, but Gen Xers are in more debt than most. Gen Xers are between 46 and 61 years old, and according to Experian (1), in 2025, they owed an average of $158,105 in total consumer debt.
Unfortunately, as members of this generation get nearer to retirement, carrying substantial amounts of consumer debt becomes an increasingly big problem as it creates tough choices about whether to prioritize payoff or retirement savings. It also raises questions about whether it's even possible to retire with high monthly debt payments.
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Palm Valley Capital Management, an investment management firm, has issued the second-quarter 2026 investor letter for the "Palm Valley Capital Fund." A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. In the second quarter, the fund's investor class gained 1.80%, while the S&P SmallCap 600 rose 19.7% and the Morningstar Small Cap Total Return Index returned 14.0%. The Strategy primarily focused on small-cap categories, allocating 75% to cash equivalents. This led to underperformance relative to benchmarks. The Fund is currently seeking more small-cap opportunities that meet its return criteria and will act swiftly if market conditions improve. The Index benefited from strong contributions from data center construction and biotech sectors, while the energy industry lagged. Additionally, reviewing the fund's top five holdings can reveal its best investments in 2026.
In its second-quarter 2026 investor letter, Palm Valley Capital Management highlighted LKQ Corporation (NASDAQ:LKQ). LKQ Corporation (NASDAQ:LKQ) is a leading vehicle parts distributor used in the repair and maintenance of vehicles and specialty vehicles. On July 7, 2026, LKQ Corporation (NASDAQ:LKQ) closed at $26.21 per share, reflecting a market capitalization of $6.67 billion. LKQ Corporation (NASDAQ:LKQ) posted a one-month return of 2.91%, while its shares lost 32.54% over the past 52 weeks.
Palm Valley Capital Management stated the following regarding LKQ Corporation (NASDAQ:LKQ) in its Q2 2026 investor letter:
"The stocks most negatively affecting the Fund's second quarter return were Amdocs (ticker: DOX), LKQ Corporation (NASDAQ:LKQ), and Chord Energy (ticker: CHRD). LKQ's stock declined in the second quarter after management disclosed that the sale process for the firm's Specialty division has been diminished by tightening credit conditions for potential buyers. Regardless, LKQ's overall business appears to be on the mend, with tailwinds forming for key drivers of repairable claims. Additionally, the stock has potential catalysts from a strategic review currently underway. Shares are selling for 8.5x trailing free cash flow."
LKQ Corporation (NASDAQ:LKQ) is not on our list of 40 Most Popular Stocks Among Hedge Funds Heading Into 2026. According to our database, 43 hedge fund portfolios held LKQ Corporation (NASDAQ:LKQ) at the end of the first quarter, the same as in the previous quarter. While we acknowledge the potential of LKQ Corporation (NASDAQ:LKQ) as an investment, we believe certain AI stocks offer greater upside potential and carry less downside risk. If you're looking for an extremely undervalued AI stock that also stands to benefit significantly from Trump-era tariffs and the onshoring trend, see our free report on the best short-term AI stock.

In a taxable brokerage account, holding stock more than one year slashes your gains tax rate from 37% to as low as 0%.
Selling gains during a low-income year such as a sabbatical, gap year, or early retirement can reduce your federal capital gains tax to 0%.
Miss the one-year mark by even one day and the IRS taxes the entire gain as ordinary income, up to 37%.
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If you own individual stocks in a regular taxable brokerage account, the IRS quietly hands you one of the biggest tax breaks in the code: hold a winner for more than 365 days, and the tax rate on your gain can collapse from as high as 37% all the way to 0%. Same stock, same profit, same you. The only thing that changed is the calendar. This is the short-term vs. long-term capital gains split, and most retail investors treat it as an afterthought while leaving thousands on the table.

September soft red winter wheat (ZWU26) futures present a buying opportunity on more price strength.
See on the daily bar chart for September soft red winter wheat futures that prices have rebounded from the June low and the bulls have gained some upside momentum. See, too, at the bottom of the chart that the moving average convergence divergence (MACD) indicator is in a bullish posture as the blue MACD line is above the red trigger line and both lines are trending up.
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Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) was among the stocks Jim Cramer commented on as he advised investors on how to take advantage of Wednesday's market rotation. Cramer highlighted the stock's recent rally and the reason behind it, as he stated:
Let's start with one of the Mag Seven stocks. Let's start with Meta Platforms. Last night, I told you that Meta could make a fortune simply by announcing it would rent out its extra computing power via a cloud infrastructure business like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft's Azure. Today, Bloomberg said Meta's doing precisely that, and the company confirmed it to me. Now, previously I said this move could be worth $100 per share. Today alone, Meta has already rallied nearly $50. And you know what? I think it's got more room to run because their cloud business will be instantly profitable.
I don't know if Meta needs to do an equity offering to pay for more of its data center build-out; I don't. That said, it has countless potential clients, and it can snare big business, something it needs because, see, right now, Meta is too much of a consumer-oriented advertising company. The enterprise-oriented cloud infrastructure game represents a much better, less episodic business model. Now, that'll cause Meta's incredibly low price-to-earnings multiple to expand, and the stock will rise proportionally, or in the Street terms, raising numbers Meta.
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Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) develops technologies and applications that connect people through social networking and messaging. The company's portfolio includes Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, Threads, and virtual and augmented reality products.

When the largest corporate holder of a scarce ******* et says that it has new rules for when it will sell some of that ******* et, the rest of the ******* et's holders tend to pay rapt attention. On June 29, Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) published a new Digital Credit Capital Framework wherein it reserves the right to sell as much as $1.25 billion in Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), with the proceeds of any such sales being earmarked for paying dividends, interest expenses, and for its stock buybacks.
Bitcoin fell by 2.2% in the 24 hours after the announcement. Should Bitcoin holders be looking for the sell ******* on?
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Strategy holds about 4% of all Bitcoin that will ever exist, making it the biggest corporate holder by far.
The $1.25 billion authorization for potential future Bitcoin sales is worth just a smidgen of its ******* d of $50.6 billion at current prices. In other words, even if the company sold the full authorized amount at once, it's unlikely that it would flood the market with supply and force prices down. So, right off the bat, there's no five-alarm fire here that would make it worth dumping the coin in a hurry.

June 30 (Reuters) - BMW on Tuesday announced the completion of a $1.7 billion investment ‌in its production plants in South ‌Carolina, gearing up for the launch of fully electric vehicle production in the country.
• The German carmaker said it completed the expansion of its main plant in Spartanburg as well as ‌the construction of ⁠a new plant in Woodruff
• BMW's iX5 SUV will be its ⁠first fully electric model made in the U.S., starting from late 2026
• At least five more fully electric models are scheduled to be ‌assembled in the U.S. by 2030
• The Spartanburg plant, which exports around half of its output, caters to the European SUV market and others

XRP Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse told CNBC on June 26 that Ripple now processes approximately $16 trillion in annual payments and clearing activity across its acquired businesses, and that digital **** ets, including XRP, account for "close to zero percent" of that volume.
That gap is either the most compelling institutional payments story in crypto or one of the most misread setups in the market right now, depending on which numbers you trust.
This commentary from Garlinghouse came as XRP opened the week down around -1% and is currently trading for $1.04, worrying close to the long-standing $1 support zone, which, if lost, could see a freefall toward $0.80.
Garlinghouse framed the figure as an opportunity, not a failure. "How do we bring traditional finance into the modern architecture of blockchain?" he said, adding that through acquisitions, "we have a tremendous opportunity to bring that in." The $16 trillion covers payments and clearing throughput across businesses Ripple has acquired; it is not a pipeline of pending XRP transactions.
That distinction matters. In an April 2026 Fox Business interview tied to the GTreasury acquisition, Garlinghouse cited a similar $13 trillion figure and projected that around 30% of that volume could migrate to blockchain rails within five years. Even a 1% migration at sustained velocity would represent volumes orders of magnitude beyond current on-chain settlement activity.

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According to the Zillow lender marketplace, the average 30-year fixed rate is 6.19%, up 2 basis points since yesterday. Despite the slight uptick in the 30-year, it's still the lowest 30-year rate we've seen since May 12. The 15-year fixed loan is currently at 5.70%, 5 basis points lower than yesterday. The 5/1 ARM is 6.06%, 3 basis points lower than on Monday.
Weekly survey of mortgage lenders with the lowest rates: 6% is back (without fees)
Here are the current mortgage rates, according to our latest Zillow data, for Tuesday, June 30, 2026:
30-year fixed: 6.19%

Palladyne AI Corp (NASDAQ:PDYN) is one of the best AI stocks under $10 to buy now. The stock is backed by 15 hedge funds, and ***** ysts expect the shares to surge more than 88% from the current price over the next 12 months. Palladyne shares are already up roughly 50% year-to-date.
On June 16, Palladyne AI Corp (NASDAQ:PDYN) announced that it tested its drone-swarming software during a recent US Army exercise. The company said that its SwarmOS software and Gremlin-X reusable mini-bomber drone were put to demanding tests during the exercise and proved their capability. The live multi-domain fire support and command-control exercise was conducted by the 4th Infantry Division of the US Army.
In that exercise, Palladyne integrated its SwarmOS software with the Army's command-and-control system. This enabled a single operator to control multiple drones doing different tasks simultaneously. It said the software worked in a difficult environment without cloud dependency.
Palladyne co-founder and chief technology officer, Denis Garagic, commented that they cleared a key technical threshold for battlefield autonomy. Garagic noted that SwarmOS enabled a fleet of drones to autonomously adapt in real-time while operating within the Army's own command and control platform.
According to Palladyne, the success of the exercise brings it closer to potential operational force inclusion and additional Pentagon programs.

Dave Ramsey advised trading a $7,000 SUV for a similarly priced three-row vehicle to solve the seating need without derailing debt payoff.
Credit card balances at 21% APR add over $1,000 in annual interest on a $5,000 balance, making every month of delay genuinely costly.
Ramsey urged the caller to separate business and personal finances with a dedicated account and maintain a $4,000 buffer to stabilize variable monthly income.
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A veteran called in to a recent episode of The Ramsey Show with a question most growing families face. He carries $16,000 in consumer debt, split between a personal loan of just over $8,000 and credit card balances. His wife is pregnant with their third child, due in January, and she wants to spend $10,000 to $12,000 on something newer with lower mileage. The current family vehicle, a 2015 Volkswagen SUV worth about $7,000, was inherited from his mother. His question to Dave Ramsey was simple: can I pause the debt snowball to upgrade?

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We just covered Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Reveals Its 10 Under-The-Radar AI Stock Picks. Bitdeer Technologies Group (NASDAQ:BTDR) ranks #7 (see Situational Awareness Top 5 Under-The-Radar AI Stock Picks).
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Bitdeer Technologies Group (NASDAQ:BTDR) is a Bitcoin miner founded in 2021 that is now pivoting toward AI cloud services. What makes it stand out from its peers is its vertical integration strategy. Instead of buying mining hardware from third parties, Bitdeer designs and manufactures its own proprietary SEALMINER chips and machines. This gives it control over its supply chain, cost structure, and deployment pace.
However, Bitdeer Technologies Group (NASDAQ:BTDR) has not yet announced a major anchor tenant deal the way peers have. IREN landed a $9.7 billion five-year contract with Microsoft, TeraWulf secured a $3.7 billion 10-year deal with Fluidstack, and Hut 8 signed a $7 billion 15-year Google-backed deal with Fluidstack. The absence of that kind of headline deal is believed to be the primary reason Bitdeer Technologies Group (NASDAQ:BTDR) has lagged peers on price action over the past year.
On the Q1 earnings call, management said the AI cloud customer mix has shifted toward three- to five-year enterprise contracts, which supports a more durable and predictable revenue stream going forward and reduces the risk that high GPU utilization is just a short-term spike.

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