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IBM'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 READChinese leader Xi Jinping endorsed open-source artificial intelligence at a Shanghai conference Friday, calling for global AI cooperation and warning against overstretching national-security restrictions in the field, as Beijing launched a…
2026-07-17 · 4 MIN READMicrosoft's Xbox division is laying off about 3,200 employees and divesting five game studios, with CEO Asha Sharma calling for a "reset" of the business after the company spent more than $80 billion acquiring studios and bringing…
2026-07-16 · 3 MIN READTrump Media & Technology Group on Thursday announced a paid data feed called Truth API that will give institutional customers, including high-frequency algorithmic trading firms, real-time access to posts from President Donald Trump's…
2026-07-16 · 4 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 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 READYouTube filed a notice of appeal Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, challenging a March jury verdict that found the company negligent in a case brought by a 20-year-old woman who said she became addicted to social media as a…
2026-07-15 · 4 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 READEricsson on Tuesday reported a 4% organic sales decline in its key networks unit and forecast a drop in adjusted gross margin to between 48% and 50% in the third quarter, as rising semiconductor and component costs pressure the Swedish…
2026-07-14 · 3 MIN READAnalysts expect Apple to raise the starting price of the iPhone 18 Pro by $200 this September, driven by a global memory-chip shortage that has already led the company to increase prices on MacBook and iPad models. The price increase would…
2026-07-12 · 3 MIN READThe Trump administration converted $9 billion in federal grants into a 10% ownership stake in Intel and pressed Apple, Nvidia, and SpaceX to work with the chipmaker, part of what the Wall Street Journal described as an unprecedented…
2026-07-11 · 3 MIN READOpenAI released its latest advanced AI model, ChatGPT 5.6, on Thursday after delaying the public rollout at the Trump administration's request over cybersecurity concerns, with the wider release following additional testing by the…
2026-07-09 · 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…
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South Korea's stock market triggered a buy-side sidecar for the third time this week on Friday after the KOSPI climbed as much as 5.7% intraday, before closing 2.52% higher at 7,475.94, as semiconductor shares rallied on Wall Street gains…
2026-07-10 · 3 MIN READThe Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities permanently revoked Meta's authority to discharge wastewater into city treatment facilities after water from the company's Project Cosmo data center tested positive for the rare bacterium Cupriavidus…
2026-07-08 · 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 READApple said Wednesday it will spend more than $30 billion with Broadcom over the next five years to produce radio and other chips in the United States, the largest single investment the company has specified as part of its $600 billion…
2026-07-08 · 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 READComcast said Monday it will separate its media and connectivity businesses, reversing its strategy of combining entertainment and distribution as competition intensifies in both sectors. Shares rose 7% to 8% in trading on the news.
2026-06-29 · 3 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 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 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 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 READVerizon Communications won 82 spectrum licenses for $3.16 billion in the Federal Communications Commission's first spectrum auction in four years, which generated over $3.5 billion in total proceeds, the agency said Friday.
2026-06-26 · 3 MIN READA group of former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration employees has launched a new website, Climate.us, to restore public access to climate information that was removed from government servers last year when the Trump…
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 READAustralian property manager Centuria Capital is raising A$300 million to expand its ResetData data-center platform, drawing sharply divergent analyst views, while the Cleveland Fed published research showing banks' indirect exposure to…
2026-06-23 · 3 MIN READInternational Business Machines is forming Anderon, a new independent subsidiary and foundry to produce silicon wafers for quantum-computing processors, the company announced last month. The venture is seeded by a $1 billion investment…
2026-06-23 · 4 MIN READConstruction is underway on the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, a $500 million state-funded quantum computing campus at the site of a former U.S. Steel mill on Chicago's South Side. The project is a bid to establish the region…
2026-06-23 · 3 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 READSemiconductor stocks with secular growth prospects appear undervalued relative to peers even as the broader chip sector's valuations have become stretched, Morningstar analyst Phelix Lee said in a note published June 23. The brokerage…
2026-06-23 · 3 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 READWill Cathcart, who led WhatsApp for nearly seven years and grew the messaging platform to more than three billion users, is stepping down as head of the app. Kunal Shah, founder of Indian fintech startup Cred, will take over as WhatsApp's…
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 READA suburban Philadelphia school board voted 7-2 to repeal a policy that allowed parents to opt their children out of using school-issued devices, triggering angry protests from hundreds of parents who said the district was ignoring their…
2026-06-21 · 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 READApple Inc. commands more than three-quarters of the global market for smartphones priced at $1,000 or more, giving it near-exclusive pricing power over the industry's wealthiest buyers as rising component costs push handset prices higher.
2026-06-20 · 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 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 READSeoul's benchmark stock index closed above the 9,000-point threshold for the first time ever on June 18, surging 2.25% as a sustained chipmaker rally and growing expectations that the U.S.-Iran war is nearing an end drew foreign investors…
2026-06-18 · 4 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 READPresident Donald Trump announced Thursday that Apple is partnering with Intel to design computer chips that will be manufactured in the United States, a move that aligns with the administration's push to bring semiconductor production back…
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 READA years-long investigation by Comcast has uncovered that millions of US home internet devices contain pre-installed backdoor software, creating vast residential proxy networks that nation-state hackers from Russia, China, Iran, and North…
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…
2026-06-18 · 4 MIN READU.S.-listed companies have issued about $54 billion in convertible bonds so far this year, a 43% increase from the same period in 2025, driven by artificial-intelligence companies seeking low-cost funding. Investors are drawn to the bonds…
2026-06-17 · 3 MIN READStuart Russell, a computer scientist and AI researcher, argued in a Guardian column published Wednesday that recent developments in artificial intelligence — including early signs of recursive self-improvement at Anthropic and the White…
2026-06-17 · 4 MIN READFrench President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday urged the world's wealthy democracies to work together on regulating advanced artificial intelligence systems, speaking at a high-level meeting that included top AI executives. OpenAI CEO Sam…
2026-06-17 · 4 MIN READA political group backed by Silicon Valley investors has spent more than $7 million on advertisements opposing New York Assemblyman Alex Bores, who is running in a crowded Democratic primary for a Manhattan-based U.S. House seat. The…
2026-06-17 · 3 MIN READApple's next flagship iPhone could carry a starting price of $1,299 or more — a $200 jump over the current model — driven by surging memory-chip costs as AI demand consumes global supply, according to estimates from research firm…
2026-06-17 · 3 MIN READThe U.K. Competition and Markets Authority on Wednesday ordered Alphabet Inc.'s Google to make its search rankings fairer and provide advance notice of significant changes, giving the company six months to comply under the country's…
2026-06-17 · 3 MIN READNew Mexico investigators have sent preservation letters to JPMorgan, Google, and more than two dozen companies ordering them to lock down records tied to Jeffrey Epstein and his associates, a sign the state's criminal probe into activity…
2026-06-16 · 4 MIN READFox has agreed to acquire Roku for roughly $25 billion, SpaceX struck a $60 billion deal to buy AI coding startup Cursor, and the U.S. Commerce Department has restricted the export of Anthropic's latest AI models, according to Wall Street…
2026-06-16 · 3 MIN READU.S. Coast Guard cyber teams have discovered that ships in the so-called dark fleet — tankers used to transport sanctioned Iranian and Russian oil — are equipped with remote desktop applications, pirated software carrying malware, and…
2026-06-15 · 3 MIN READThe Federal Bureau of Investigation warned Monday of a phishing scam that targets Microsoft 365 users by exploiting the device-code authentication flow, allowing attackers to bypass multi-factor authentication.
2026-06-15 · 3 MIN READThe Digital Citizens Alliance estimates that 20 million consumer devices in the United States have been infected with malware known as residential proxy software, creating a backdoor for hackers into home networks, according to a Wall…
2026-06-15 · 3 MIN READThe European Commission last week published its long-awaited digital sovereignty package, a set of proposals aimed at reducing Europe's dependence on U.S. technology companies and shielding the bloc from foreign interference. But critics…
2026-06-15 · 3 MIN READKevin O'Leary, the television personality and investor, is facing fierce local opposition to his planned data center in Utah's Hansel Valley, but he says the real opponents are not environmental activists — they are agents of the Chinese…
2026-06-14 · 3 MIN READSpaceX began trading Friday on the Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX, opening at $150 a share and climbing past $176 by early afternoon, making the initial public offering the largest in history and pushing the company above a $2 trillion…
2026-06-12 · 3 MIN READThe American single-family house is on track for its most radical technological overhaul in decades, with architects, designers and manufacturers predicting that what is considered luxury today — keyless entry, AI-assisted security…
2026-06-12 · 4 MIN READGoogle sued a group of scammers on Friday for using the company's Gemini AI model to create thousands of fake websites, part of a scheme that has stolen 3.87 million credit card numbers and caused $1.9 billion in losses since July 2023,…
2026-06-12 · 4 MIN READTeachers in a Louisiana school district will receive bonuses of as much as $50,935 this year, the Richland Parish School Board announced, funded by a surge in sales tax revenue linked to Meta Platforms' Hyperion data center construction…
2026-06-12 · 3 MIN READWearable-device makers Oura and Whoop are preparing to go public at private-market valuations of roughly $10 billion to $11 billion, riding a wave of consumer enthusiasm for health-tracking rings and wristbands. But the history of the…
2026-06-12 · 4 MIN READAnthropic will donate $150 million to launch Claude Corps, a fellowship program that places 1,000 early-career workers trained in the company’s AI chatbot at nonprofit organizations for one year to help them integrate artificial…
2026-06-11 · 3 MIN READCitigroup launched a blockchain-based venture Thursday that allows its wealthy and institutional clients to trade private-company shares as tokenized depositary receipts. The venture is initially available to foreign investors, with U.S.…
2026-06-11 · 3 MIN READTaiwan is reviewing plans to tighten export controls on advanced artificial intelligence chips bound for China, a move that would align the island's restrictions more closely with existing U.S. regulations and could draw sharp opposition…
2026-06-10 · 3 MIN READThe Seattle City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to impose a one-year moratorium on the construction of new datacenters, making the home city of Amazon and Microsoft the largest U.S. municipality to pass such a pause amid a growing…
2026-06-10 · 3 MIN READAnthropic on Tuesday released Claude Fable 5, a public version of its Claude Mythos AI model — a program the company had previously described as too powerful to release to the public, citing risks including the potential for autonomous…
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