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SpaceX is in early discussions with the Defense Department about providing access to data-center capacity worth billions of dollars for running artificial intelligence models, according to a Friday report by The Wall Street Journal that…
2026-07-17 · 3 MIN READIBM's shares fell 25% this week, the worst single-day decline in the company's history, after the company issued a profit warning tied to its artificial-intelligence business, The Wall Street Journal reported.
2026-07-17 · 3 MIN READApple reclaimed the title of the most valuable publicly traded company in the U.S. on Friday, with a market capitalization of $4.9 trillion, edging out Nvidia at $4.8 trillion, according to The Wall Street Journal.
2026-07-17 · 3 MIN READAsian shares fell Friday, with Tokyo's Nikkei 225 declining 5% as heavy selling of computer chipmakers and other AI-related stocks dragged markets lower, according to the Associated Press. Taiwan's benchmark index tumbled more than 5%, and…
2026-07-17 · 3 MIN READAs the United States adds more than 1,500 data centers in development to the more than 3,000 already operating, power companies are turning to eminent domain to acquire private land for new transmission lines, sparking legal battles over…
2026-07-16 · 3 MIN READNetflix shares fell 5.9% in late trading Thursday after the streaming company narrowed its full-year revenue guidance, while PayPal rose 3% on reports of a potential acquisition by Stripe and Advent International, and OpenAI Chairman Bret…
2026-07-16 · 3 MIN READMajor AI systems, including U.S.-built chatbots, are more likely to refuse to criticize restrictive leaders or governments than democratic ones, according to a Meta Oversight Board study released Thursday, raising concerns that the…
2026-07-16 · 3 MIN READTOKYO — Fujitsu is leading a major push to bring artificial intelligence into robotics using Nvidia technology, an initiative disclosed Thursday by the CEOs of both companies alongside the heads of Japan's three largest industrial robot…
2026-07-16 · 3 MIN READUnitedHealth Group reported second-quarter results well above Wall Street expectations and substantially raised its earnings projection for the year, the company said. CEO Stephen Hemsley returned to the top job a little more than a year…
2026-07-16 · 3 MIN READTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported its fifth consecutive quarter of record earnings Thursday, with net profit surging 77% from a year earlier to NT$706.56 billion (US$21.98 billion), far exceeding analyst expectations as…
2026-07-16 · 3 MIN READPublicis Groupe raised its annual guidance Thursday after reporting second-quarter organic growth that exceeded expectations, citing a string of new client wins in the first half of the year.
2026-07-16 · 3 MIN READChinese AI startup DeepSeek is preparing for an initial public offering in Shanghai as early as the second quarter of 2027, people familiar with the matter said. Founder Liang Wenfeng has also begun talks with prospective investors to…
2026-07-15 · 3 MIN READThe Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 138 points Monday, the S&P 500 dropped 0.79%, and the Nasdaq Composite lost 1.55% as a selloff in semiconductor stocks led declines and oil prices surged after President Trump reimposed a shipping…
2026-07-13 · 3 MIN READThe boom in artificial-intelligence data center construction is masking a sharp slowdown in other U.S. commercial building, with factory and warehouse projects stalled by soaring costs, high interest rates and equipment shortages, the Wall…
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A group of 26 Meta employees filed a lawsuit late Monday in federal court in Oakland, California, alleging that the company used artificial intelligence systems to select people for layoffs in a way that disproportionately targeted those…
2026-07-14 · 3 MIN READOpenAI, the artificial intelligence company behind ChatGPT, has filed for an initial public offering but is confronting legal, competitive, and leadership challenges that could complicate its timing, according to The Wall Street Journal.
2026-07-14 · 3 MIN READMore than 200 economists and AI researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates, signed an open letter Monday organized by Stanford University's digital economy lab, warning that artificial intelligence could cause large-scale job displacement…
2026-07-13 · 3 MIN READArtificial intelligence is already making pharmaceutical research more efficient by predicting protein structures and screening molecules, but Wall Street has yet to see evidence that the technology can improve the financial returns of…
2026-07-12 · 3 MIN READPalantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp has put a public face on a simmering backlash from corporate America against the pricing and data practices of leading artificial-intelligence labs, declaring in a televised appearance that "something…
2026-07-11 · 5 MIN READQcells, a Hanwha subsidiary, said Friday it will handle engineering, procurement, and construction for Atlas Energy Park, one of the largest solar and energy storage complexes in the United States, to be built in La Paz County, Arizona.
2026-07-10 · 3 MIN READApple has filed a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of stealing trade secrets, alleging that former Apple employees took confidential information with them when they joined the artificial-intelligence company, according to a report by The Wall…
2026-07-10 · 3 MIN READPolice officers across the U.S. are grappling with how to enforce traffic laws against autonomous taxis that have no human driver to receive a ticket, according to interviews with law enforcement officials. The challenge is intensifying as…
2026-07-10 · 3 MIN READJim VandeHei, the Axios co-founder and CEO, argued in a Wall Street Journal op-ed published Thursday that the United States is failing to mount a coordinated national response to artificial intelligence and proposed seven policy actions to…
2026-07-09 · 3 MIN READBeijing-based artificial intelligence company Zhipu AI is raising US$4 billion through a private placement of 19.78 million new shares priced at HK$1,588 each, a near 13% discount to the stock's Wednesday close. Shares surged as much as…
2026-07-09 · 3 MIN READThe Wall Street Journal reports that more than 1,000 readers responded to an article about State Farm's AI makeover, with many agents and customers expressing concerns about the technology's reliability and the potential loss of personal…
2026-07-08 · 3 MIN READAnthropic is locked in legal battles with the Trump administration over defense contracts and export restrictions, but a Wall Street Journal analysis published Wednesday argues that OpenAI's broader public exposure will create more…
2026-07-08 · 3 MIN READMore than 140 homes in San Francisco sold for at least $1 million above their asking price in the first half of 2026, according to a new analysis from real-estate brokerage Compass. Forty-four of those sales occurred in June alone,…
2026-07-07 · 3 MIN READNokia's stock has climbed roughly 90 percent so far in 2026 as the Finnish telecom-equipment maker repositions itself around the artificial-intelligence data center boom, selling switches, routers, and optical networking equipment to the…
2026-07-07 · 3 MIN READA roundup of analyst notes Tuesday highlighted Huawei's first 5G smartphone launch abroad since U.S. sanctions, Tencent's latest AI model release, and Microsoft's plans to cut more than 3,000 jobs in its Xbox division as investors assessed…
2026-07-07 · 3 MIN READNscale Global Holdings, a U.K.-based AI infrastructure startup backed by Nvidia, said it has secured a $900 million revolving credit facility from a 12-bank syndicate that includes J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley. The…
2026-07-07 · 4 MIN READUnited Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday called for lethal autonomous weapons — which he termed “killer robots” — to be banned by international law, warning that machines selecting and engaging targets without human…
2026-07-06 · 3 MIN READA prescription refill program that launched in Utah earlier this year allows residents to obtain medication renewals through an AI chatbot, bypassing direct physician involvement and reigniting debate over whether artificial intelligence…
2026-07-06 · 3 MIN READBruce Schneier, a security technologist at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Jon Penney, an associate professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, warned in a Guardian op-ed published Monday that AI-powered surveillance systems combining facial…
2026-07-06 · 3 MIN READThe bipartisan Ratepayer Protection Act, which advanced through a House subcommittee in mid-June, would fail to meaningfully shield consumers from rising electricity costs tied to the data center boom, consumer advocates said. The full…
2026-07-05 · 3 MIN READWealthy families are increasingly choosing alternative K-8 schools that emphasize life skills, entrepreneurial thinking and AI-based learning, according to parents and school founders. Schools such as Alpha School and Forge Prep are…
2026-07-04 · 3 MIN READMicrosoft, Google and Amazon are among the tech companies spending an estimated $1 trillion on AI infrastructure, but their data centers are using far more water than most of them report. Indirect water consumption — the amount used at…
2026-07-03 · 4 MIN READNewly disclosed emails show in detail the uneasy back-and-forth between Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Undersecretary of Defense Emil Michael that led to the Pentagon labeling the AI company a supply-chain risk, according to court…
2026-07-02 · 3 MIN READChina and the European Union have agreed to hold ministerial-level trade talks once or twice a year, China's Commerce Ministry said Thursday, as the two sides work to increase and rebalance trade.
2026-07-02 · 3 MIN READHot weather of the kind sweeping the eastern United States is driving up electricity demand for data centers, adding to their strain on power grids and worsening air quality for surrounding communities, according to Associated Press…
2026-07-02 · 3 MIN READSecretaries and administrative assistants, a women-dominated profession already in decline, face potential job displacement from artificial intelligence tools that can accomplish aspects of their workload with a tap, according to…
2026-07-02 · 3 MIN READThe U.S. electric grid has added a record 58.5 gigawatts of new power generation — primarily solar and battery storage — ahead of a dangerous heat wave forecast to cover the eastern two-thirds of the country this week, according to the…
2026-07-02 · 5 MIN READSouth Korea's benchmark stock index plunged nearly 8% on Thursday, driven by a sell-off in semiconductor shares amid renewed concerns about excess AI computing capacity. The KOSPI fell 655.32 points, or 7.89%, to close at 7,648.09 after…
2026-07-02 · 3 MIN READNational Grid has agreed to invest $1.75 billion for a 35% stake in U.S. energy company Joulent, the British utility announced Wednesday, as it moves to capitalize on growing energy demand from data centers and artificial intelligence.
2026-07-01 · 3 MIN READThe net profit margin for S&P 500 companies climbed to a record 14.8% in the first quarter of 2026, the highest since FactSet began tracking the metric in 2009, giving investors a key rationale for elevated stock valuations.
2026-06-30 · 3 MIN READBefore Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg directed employees to build a standalone prediction market app, he proposed buying Kalshi, the leading company in the prediction market sector, according to three people with knowledge of the discussions who…
2026-06-30 · 3 MIN READSouth Korea's benchmark stock index closed nearly 1 percent higher Tuesday, lifted by technology shares as investors anticipated the resumption of U.S.-Iran negotiations in Qatar aimed at easing tensions in the Strait of Hormuz. The Korea…
2026-06-30 · 3 MIN READPresident Lee Jae Myung announced a plan to create a government-backed technology investment organization modeled on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's In-Q-Tel, a move expected to expand the National Intelligence Service's role in the…
2026-06-29 · 3 MIN READUS export controls on advanced artificial intelligence chips stalled sales of Nvidia's H200 chips in China, enabling domestic rival Huawei to gain ground in the market, the Associated Press reported.
2026-06-29 · 3 MIN READThe American steel industry, a beneficiary of the artificial intelligence data center construction boom, is now warning that the same surge in electricity demand is driving up power costs by tens of millions of dollars a year and…
2026-06-29 · 4 MIN READNational security agencies from the Five Eyes intelligence alliance warned this week that artificial intelligence models are increasing cyber risks by enabling autonomous hacking, while security technologist Bruce Schneier argued that AI…
2026-06-29 · 3 MIN READBritish American Tobacco plans to cut 5,500 jobs directly and outsource a further 3,500 roles to Accenture by the end of this year, eliminating about a fifth of a workforce that stood at 47,000 employees globally, the company said Monday.
2026-06-29 · 3 MIN READSouth Korea's Kospi index surged 125% in the first half of 2026, its strongest opening six-month period since at least 1990, according to a Guardian analysis of London Stock Exchange Group data. The rise was led by Samsung Electronics,…
2026-06-29 · 3 MIN READSouth Korean and Japanese defense chiefs agreed Sunday to expand cooperation in artificial intelligence, maritime search and rescue operations and other security fields while reaffirming their commitment to the complete denuclearization of…
2026-06-28 · 3 MIN READChinese artificial-intelligence systems have matched the performance of Anthropic's powerful model Mythos in some cybersecurity scenarios, security researchers told the Wall Street Journal, a development that is reshaping the global AI…
2026-06-28 · 3 MIN READWarnings that the artificial-intelligence sector has entered speculative bubble territory have mounted over the second quarter of 2026, with analysts, investors, and technology observers drawing comparisons to the dot-com era as U.S. stock…
2026-06-27 · 3 MIN READPsychiatric researchers have identified a combination of three chatbot behaviors — sycophancy, linguistic alignment and hyperpersonalization — that they say can drive users toward delusional thinking, according to a newly published review…
2026-06-27 · 3 MIN READOpenAI said Friday it will limit access to its new GPT-5.6 artificial-intelligence models to a small group of customers approved by the Trump administration after discussions with the White House, but warned that such government-imposed…
2026-06-26 · 3 MIN READON Semiconductor agreed Thursday to acquire Synaptics in an all-stock deal valued at roughly $7 billion, betting on physical AI systems for autonomous vehicles and industrial robots, even as the company’s shares fell and analysts…
2026-06-26 · 4 MIN READSouth Korea announced a $6.5 billion strategic technology financing plan Friday to develop homegrown security companies comparable to U.S. data analytics firm Palantir Technologies, the government said.
2026-06-26 · 3 MIN READU.S. cities whose infrastructure was designed for weather conditions that are becoming obsolete are exploring a suite of adaptation strategies — including AI-managed electrical grids that reroute power during heat waves, neighborhoods…
2026-06-26 · 3 MIN READChinese AI startup DeepSeek said it plans to at least double the size of all its departments after raising more than $7.4 billion in its first funding round at a valuation exceeding $50 billion, according to a company statement and reports.
2026-06-26 · 3 MIN READThe U.S. artificial intelligence company Anthropic has accused Chinese e-commerce and technology firm Alibaba of conducting what it called the largest known 'distillation' attack on its Claude AI model, alleging that Alibaba created nearly…
2026-06-25 · 4 MIN READOracle shed roughly 21,000 employees globally over the past year as the software and cloud-computing giant reorganized its operations around artificial intelligence, according to the company's latest annual report. The cuts amount to about…
2026-06-23 · 4 MIN READEide Bailly, the 18th-largest U.S. accounting firm, has agreed to sell a majority stake to private-equity firm Reverence Capital Partners and co-investors in a deal valued at about $1.8 billion, people familiar with the matter said. The…
2026-06-23 · 4 MIN READCalifornia drivers filed a proposed class-action lawsuit Monday accusing gas station operators including BP, Circle K, Marathon, 7-Eleven, Walmart, and Albertsons of using an artificial-intelligence tool from Kalibrate to coordinate prices…
2026-06-22 · 3 MIN READConventional DRAM prices have surged 4.5 times since the third quarter of 2025, according to Bernstein analysts, now rivaling high-bandwidth memory in per-bit pricing and generating higher revenue per wafer. Separately, Morgan Stanley…
2026-06-22 · 3 MIN READChevron struck a 20-year agreement to sell electricity to Microsoft, which plans to build what could become one of the country’s largest artificial-intelligence data centers in the Permian Basin of West Texas.
2026-06-22 · 3 MIN READApple CEO Tim Cook told The Wall Street Journal that price increases on the company's devices are "unavoidable" as surging costs for DRAM memory and NAND storage chips — driven by AI hyperscalers buying up global supply — squeeze even the…
2026-06-21 · 4 MIN READArtificial intelligence has crossed from a supporting role in military targeting into autonomous combat operations, driving an automation arms race among world powers while civilian safeguards lag behind the technology’s advance, according…
2026-06-19 · 3 MIN READA memory-chip shortage driven by surging artificial-intelligence demand is tightening supply for consumer-electronics manufacturers and pushing up prices, according to industry executives and analysts. The three main DRAM producers—Samsung…
2026-06-19 · 4 MIN READA new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that depending too heavily on AI chatbots to verify information can weaken people's ability to spot misinformation on their own, a trade-off that researchers say poses risks…
2026-06-19 · 3 MIN READDatacenters are fueling an unprecedented boom in U.S. clean energy development, with tech companies investing heavily in wind, solar, and battery storage to power their facilities. But the same surge in electricity demand is also driving…
2026-06-19 · 4 MIN READA newly revealed Department of Homeland Security document outlines plans to give local police working on behalf of ICE a mobile app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants in the field. The app, called the ICE Task Force…
2026-06-19 · 3 MIN READKansas City, Missouri, is moving ahead with plans to equip some public buses with facial recognition software capable of identifying passengers on a list of banned riders or missing persons, a move supporters and opponents alike view as a…
2026-06-18 · 3 MIN READSouth Korea's Gaon Cable has supplied transmission cables worth tens of millions of dollars to a solar power complex in the United States, the company said Thursday, as rapid construction of artificial intelligence data centers drives…
2026-06-18 · 3 MIN READIn a Guardian op-ed published Thursday, corporate marketing executive Andrea Javor argued that the three-martini lunch, a much-mocked relic of mid-century American business, should be revived as a tool for rebuilding authentic workplace…
2026-06-18 · 3 MIN READThe State of Texas has opened a dedicated trade office in London, aiming to deepen economic ties with the United Kingdom as Texas promotes its own stock exchange as an alternative to New York.
2026-06-18 · 3 MIN READWall Street banks are rapidly deploying artificial intelligence for tasks ranging from loan underwriting to deal presentations, but executives are wrestling with how to manage workforce changes, retraining needs, and the future path to…
2026-06-18 · 3 MIN READUtah launched a pilot project in January that will allow Doctronic, an AI startup, to renew prescriptions for common medications including antidepressants and cholesterol drugs, a move the state says could improve medication access. The…
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