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GM's LMR Battery Breakthrough Could Reshape EV Cost Economics and Stock Valuations

General Motors is set to launch its Lithium Manganese Rich (LMR) battery chemistry in 2028, promising several thousand dollars in cell and pack cost reductions that could fundamentally alter the EV margin equation. The announcement, made during GM's Q4 2025 earnings call, arrives as the automaker posted a 54% total shareholder return for 2025 and guided for $13-15B in adjusted EBIT for 2026. For investors, the battery roadmap represents a longer-dated but potentially transformative catalyst for

ViaNews Editorial Team (Markets)•Feb 18, 2026

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Enterprise Software Races to Govern and Consolidate Around Agentic AI

Enterprise software vendors are repositioning around autonomous AI agents. Salesforce is acquiring Braze, ServiceNow is launching agent governance tools (AI Passport, Super Intelligence Control Tower), SAP is pushing its 'Autonomous Enterprise', and Zeta is launching AthenaOS and its own inference model. Palantir is embedding itself in banking, aviation and sovereign AI infrastructure through partnerships with Customers Bank, Surf Air, Ondas and Armada. Governance, data sovereignty and enforced policy are emerging as preconditions for regulated sectors like finance. Investors such as Norwest see room to disrupt ERP and finance software, and they caution that AI should not be trusted with financial calculations. Consolidation and shareholder disputes (Salesforce/Braze, Tiny/Oso Cloud, ZenaTech/Boardwalktech) show the market reshaping.

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EPKINLY Regulatory-Clinical Success Cascade

High probability of expanded label indications, additional combination approvals, and competitive positioning strength in follicular lymphoma market. Predicts positive commercial uptake and potential accelerated review for related indications.

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Ford Motor Company

Both facts give cash for Ford Motor Company at the same point in time (2025-12-31; FY 2025 year-end and Q4 2025 year-end are the same date). Both are labelled USD, but the values are 23,356,000,000 and 23.356, which cannot both be true in USD. The two numbers agree once the second is read as billions (23.356 bn = 23,356,000,000), so the economic content is consistent and the conflict is a unit/scale error in the Q4 2025 record. The period is not the reason for the conflict: a Q4 and an FY figure at the same year-end date should match.

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