US stocks were mixed on Thursday as investors reacted to President Trump's new tariff threats and digested the latest earnings reports from major companies.

Building on our previous coverage of SMX's innovative solutions, particularly in areas like supply chain transparency and AI hardware security, today we focus on a new and potentially massive opportunity for the company: securing military hardware against increasingly sophisticated threats.

The lack of an annual AI revenue outlook, coupled with the arrival of DeepSeek & AMD’s struggles to gain traction in the AI accelerator market, has reinforced concerns that the company is losing ground to Nvidia in Gen AI.

Alphabet has been facing a rough patch in the AI race and the Google Cloud in its recent results, with its stock shedding 5% this past week, wiping out nearly $200 billion in market capitalization.

U.S. inflation came in hotter than expected in January, raising concerns that the Federal Reserve may delay anticipated interest rate cuts.

As of midday Tuesday, US stocks struggled as all three major indices fell. Investor sentiment was weighed down by President Trump's tariff comments and worsening consumer confidence.

Paysafe, the London-headquartered payments firm, backed by Blackstone Inc. and CVC Capital Partners, is working with financial advisers after receiving acquisition interest.