tech

Valve's Steam Machine Lands at $1,049 — No Controller Included

Valve has opened reservations for its long-awaited Steam Machine, a living-room box for playing PC games on your TV.…

#valve#steammachine#steamos#pcgaming

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chips

Trump Says Apple Will Build Chips With Intel in the U.S.

Apple has agreed to work with Intel to design and manufacture chips in the United States, according to remarks from…

#apple#intel#tsmc#semiconductors

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tech

This AI Startup Will Clean Your Home for Free — If You Hand Over the Data

An AI startup is offering to clean your home for nothing — but the real product is the data it gathers while doing it.…

#microagi#shift#ai#robotics

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stocks

Nvidia, Oracle and SpaceX Turn to Debt to Fuel the AI Boom

Some of the biggest names riding the artificial intelligence wave are increasingly turning to borrowed money to keep…

#nvidia#oracle#spacex#artificial-intelligence

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stocks

AI's Big Three Get Real — and Wall Street Is Buying In

The major AI labs — OpenAI, xAI and Anthropic — have moved past the hype stage and into serious commercial territory,…

#openai#xai#anthropic#janestreet

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stocks

Microsoft Trails the Pack: Worst Mag 7 Stock of 2026 So Far

Microsoft has landed at the bottom of an elite group. According to Benzinga, the software giant is the worst-performing…

#microsoft#magnificent7#artificialintelligence#stocks

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ai

Writing Code Isn't Shipping It: New Study Finds AI Coding Gains Are Uneven

A new analysis published by CEPR takes a sober look at one of the tech industry's loudest promises: that AI coding…

#ai#cepr#ai-coding-tools#software-development

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stocks

Qualcomm Jumps 6% as Wall Street Bets on Its AI Data Center Push

Qualcomm shares climbed 6% in a single trading session, lifted by growing investor optimism about the chipmaker's…

#qualcomm#ai#datacenters#semiconductors

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chips

Google and Amazon Take Their AI Chips to Outside Buyers

The race among big cloud providers to build their own artificial-intelligence chips is moving into a new stage,…

#google#amazon#ai-chips#cloud-computing

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ai

Ex-OpenAI Founders Build a Tool to Measure What AI Knows About You

Two former OpenAI founders have built a tool designed to measure how well artificial intelligence models actually know…

#openai#ai#chatbots#machine-learning

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stocks

Want a Piece of OpenAI? This Tiny Stock Is One Backdoor — With a Catch

OpenAI is one of the most talked-about companies in the world, but ordinary investors can't simply buy its shares —…

#openai#eightcoholdings#artificialintelligence#stocks

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stocks

Pundits Ask: Where Will Alphabet Stock Land Five Years From Now?

Two financial outlets are tackling the same forward-looking question about one of the market's biggest names: where…

#alphabet#google#artificial-intelligence#stocks

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tech

Feds Tell Grid Operators: Get Power to AI Data Centers, Fast

Federal regulators have ordered the operators of America's electric grid to move faster in connecting power-hungry data…

#artificialintelligence#datacenters#electricgrid#broadbandbreakfast

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stocks

Palantir Shares in Focus as France Stirs Europe's AI Rules Debate

Shares of data-analytics company Palantir are drawing attention as the trading week opens, against a backdrop of…

#palantir#artificialintelligence#france#europe

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ai

Agency Plagiarized a Bestselling Book, Then Used AI to Relaunch It as Its Own

A creative agency lifted a bestselling author's book wholesale and used AI to repackage and relaunch it under its own…

#ai#waxy#hacker-news#plagiarism

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ai

OpenAI's Codex Learns to Watch and Repeat: No Script Required

OpenAI's Codex is picking up a new way to automate tasks, according to a report from Tech Times. The publication says…

#openai#codex#automation#ai

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tech

Canada's Farms Turn to Robots to Close the Labor Gap

Canada's agricultural sector is increasingly turning to robotics, according to a report published by Digital Journal.…

#robotics#agriculture#automation#canada

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chips

Could Quantum Computing Be Europe's Secret Weapon in the AI Race?

As the global contest over artificial intelligence intensifies, a quieter technology is being floated as a potential…

#quantumcomputing#ibm#artificialintelligence#europe

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chips

AntSDR T510 Puts an AMD Radio Chip and an NVIDIA Jetson on a Single Board

Two chipmakers who usually compete now share real estate on one circuit board. According to Hackster.io, the new AntSDR…

#amd#nvidia#antsdr#jetson

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ai

Anthropic Pulls Its Fable Model, and the Reaction Is Already Spreading

Anthropic has shut down its Fable model, and the move is drawing notice across the AI world even as concrete details…

#anthropic#fable#fable-5#ai-models

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ai

ChatGPT's Evil Twin: How Criminals Are Turning AI Into a Trap

Artificial intelligence tools have rapidly become part of everyday life, but the same technology is now being turned to…

#ai#chatgpt#openai#cybersecurity

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stocks

"It Looked Ridiculous": Vinod Khosla on His Early OpenAI Bet

Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla is looking back on one of his most talked-about bets: an early investment in OpenAI,…

#openai#khoslaventures#vinodkhosla#artificialintelligence

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stocks

Tired of Chasing AI Headlines? One ETF Buys the Whole Trend

If you've been following the daily drumbeat of artificial-intelligence news and wondering how to actually invest in it,…

#ai#etf#artificial-intelligence#stocks

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chips

Could a Rising Chip Maker Become the "Nvidia of AI Inference"?

A new contender may be angling to dominate one slice of the artificial intelligence boom the way Nvidia dominates…

#nvidia#aiinference#semiconductors#gpu

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ai

AI Is Quietly Rebuilding the Modern Airport, Industry Report Says

Airports are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to run their day-to-day operations, according to…

#artificial-intelligence#airports#automation#aviation

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ai

AI Could Reshape 2.8 Million Michigan Jobs

Artificial intelligence could reshape roughly 2.8 million jobs across Michigan, according to a report published by…

#ai#michigan#automation#workforce

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stocks

SpaceX's Blockbuster IPO Stokes Bets on OpenAI and Anthropic

SpaceX's stock market debut is being read as a signal far beyond the rocket business. The company finished its first…

#spacex#openai#anthropic#ipo

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tech

Nebius Pledges £1.7B for UK AI Buildout, Teams With Nvidia on Robotics Lab

Nebius Group, the AI infrastructure company that trades under the ticker NBIS, is launching a £1.7 billion buildout of…

#nebius#nvidia#robotics#aiinfrastructure

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ai

"Europe 2031": A Thought Experiment Imagines the EU Losing the AI Race

A new speculative scenario imagines what could happen to Europe if it fails to keep up with the United States and China…

#artificial-intelligence#european-union#united-states#china

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ai

OpenAI Backs Kyoto Startup Contest With $1M in API Credits

OpenAI is putting its tools, rather than cash, behind a new generation of Japanese startups. According to Crypto…

#openai#opennetworklab#apicredits#artificialintelligence

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stocks

Short Sellers Bet Quantum Computing Stocks Have Run Too Hot

Quantum computing has become one of the market's hottest themes — and some investors are now betting it has gotten…

#quantum-computing#d-wave-quantum#qbts#mizuho

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chips

Amkor and TSMC Deepen Arizona Tie-Up, Spotlighting Chip Packaging

Two of the biggest names in the global semiconductor supply chain are tightening their partnership on American soil.…

#amkor#tsmc#chip-packaging#semiconductors

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ai

The Atlantic Built a Searchable Database of the Music Training AI

The Atlantic has turned a quiet corner of the AI industry into something anyone can browse. According to The Verge,…

#theatlantic#theverge#ai#music

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stocks

Why a Single AI 'Memory' ETF Is Suddenly on Investors' Radar

A piece of investing commentary is drawing attention to a niche corner of the artificial intelligence boom: memory…

#etf#ai#memory-chips#semiconductors

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stocks

AI Boom Ignites Stock Fever Across South Korea, Taiwan and Japan

A wave of enthusiasm for artificial intelligence is reshaping financial markets across Asia, according to the Wall…

#artificial-intelligence#south-korea#taiwan#japan

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pharma

AI Enters the Conversation on Lymphoma Immunotherapy

Artificial intelligence is increasingly part of the conversation in cancer care, and a new discussion puts it squarely…

#artificial-intelligence#immunotherapy#oncodaily#lymphoma

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tech

This Fridge-Sized Robot Kills Fish Humanely — and Founders Fund Is Betting On It

A startup called Shinkei has built a refrigerator-sized robot designed to kill fish quickly and humanely, according to…

#shinkei#poseidon#founders-fund#robotics

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chips

NVIDIA's Open-Source NVK Driver Is Getting DLSS Support

NVIDIA's open-source NVK Vulkan driver is set to gain support for DLSS, the company's upscaling technology, in the…

#nvidia#nvk#dlss#vulkan

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chips

Amazon Takes Aim at Nvidia With Its Own AI Chips

Amazon is moving to loosen Nvidia's grip on the market for artificial-intelligence chips by leaning on silicon it…

#amazon#nvidia#trainium#aichips

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ai

Microsoft's CEO Warns: AI Dominance Will Spark a Backlash

Microsoft's chief executive has a message for the companies racing to lead artificial intelligence: the very dominance…

#microsoft#artificialintelligence#aistocks

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ai

Daily Herald: Politicians Can No Longer Sidestep AI

Artificial intelligence is moving from a niche technical topic to a central question for elected officials, according…

#artificial-intelligence#ai-policy#ai-regulation

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chips

Nvidia's Real Moat Isn't Silicon — It's Software Called CUDA

When investors size up Nvidia, they tend to focus on its chips. But a growing argument says they may be looking at the…

#nvidia#cuda#aichips#gpu

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ai

Nobel Laureate John Jumper Leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic

John Jumper, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist behind Google DeepMind's protein-folding work, is leaving the company to…

#anthropic#googledeepmind#alphafold#claude

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stocks

Microsoft Retools Copilot Pricing as China AI Demand Reshapes Azure

Microsoft is reworking how it prices Copilot, its AI assistant, at the same time that surging demand for artificial…

#microsoft#copilot#azure#china

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stocks

Micron Earnings Become Wall Street's Pulse Check on the AI Rally

Investors are treating Micron's upcoming earnings report as a gauge of whether the AI-driven stock rally still has…

#micron#ai#stocks#semiconductors

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chips

Nvidia's RTX Spark Draws Comparisons to Apple's iMac

Nvidia's new RTX Spark is getting an early read from Wall Street, and at least one analyst is framing it through an…

#nvidia#rtxspark#gpu#apple

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chips

Foxconn Puts a Price on the AI Boom: $47 Billion Per Gigawatt

The race to build artificial intelligence has a staggering new price tag. According to Wccftech, Foxconn — the…

#foxconn#nvidia#verarubin#datacenter

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ai

Granta Pulls Back From Story Contests After AI Allegations

The literary magazine Granta says it will stop publishing the winners of short story contests, and will no longer enter…

#granta#ai#theguardian#generativeai

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ai

The EU Can't Define a Deepfake. Retailers Want That Fixed.

Europe's biggest retailers are pushing back against the EU AI Act, and their argument hinges on a deceptively simple…

#eurocommerce#euaiact#zalando#amazon

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stocks

UBS Sticks With Palantir, Keeps $200 Target Despite Rivals

Investment bank UBS is standing by Palantir Technologies NASDAQ: PLTR, reaffirming its "Buy" rating on the…

#palantir#ubs#pltr#artificial-intelligence

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stocks

BOTZ ETF Draws Attention as the Largest Pure-Play Robotics Fund in the U.S.

Investors looking for a single, simple way to bet on robots and artificial intelligence are turning to the Global X…

#botz#globalx#robotics#artificialintelligence

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stocks

Google Loses a Top AI Leader, and Wall Street Is Watching

Google is losing one of its top artificial intelligence executives to a competitor, a departure that financial outlet…

#google#alphabet#artificial-intelligence

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stocks

Is AI Coming for S&P Global? An Analyst Says Investors Might Be Surprised

As artificial intelligence reshapes industry after industry, investors are asking a pointed question about one of Wall…

#s&pglobal#artificialintelligence#yahoofinance#creditratings

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tech

Amazon MGM Pulls the Plug on Its Planned OpenAI Movie

Hollywood's interest in the artificial intelligence boom just hit a snag. Amazon MGM Studios has dropped a planned…

#amazonmgm#openai#amazon#hollywood

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tech

China Forges Tech Alliance to Build AI Data Centers in Orbit

China is moving its artificial-intelligence ambitions off the ground and into orbit. According to Tom's Hardware,…

#spacex#china#artificialintelligence#datacenters

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ai

The Jobs AI Still Can't Do: What Workplace Experts Say Humans Do Best

As artificial intelligence tools spread through offices, a familiar anxiety follows close behind: which parts of our…

#ai#artificialintelligence#automation#futureofwork

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stocks

AI Stocks Are Carrying the Market — and the Dot-Com Echoes Are Getting Louder

A small cluster of artificial-intelligence stocks has become the engine of the U.S. stock market — and that narrowing…

#s&p500#artificialintelligence#aistocks#stockmarket

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stocks

Nvidia Stock Slips After Blockbuster Earnings — But Wall Street Stays Bullish

Nvidia's shares kept sliding even after the chipmaker delivered what one outlet described as a "blockbuster" earnings…

#nvidia#nvda#ai#semiconductors

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defense

GrayMatter Robotics: Defense Manufacturing Readiness Rides on Autonomous Finishing

The pressure to build defense hardware faster has a bottleneck that rarely makes headlines: finishing. The sanding,…

#graymatterrobotics#robotics#automation#defensemanufacturing

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chips

D-Wave Lands $100M Federal Quantum Pledge Under the CHIPS Act

Quantum computing company D-Wave Quantum, which trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker QBTS, has…

#d-wave#qbts#quantum-computing#chips-act

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stocks

A New ETF Lets Investors Bet Against Nvidia as AI Doubts Grow

For years, the easiest trade in tech has been betting on Nvidia, the chipmaker at the center of the artificial…

#nvidia#etf#artificialintelligence#stocks

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stocks

A SpaceX IPO Could Crack Open the Floodgates for OpenAI and Anthropic

Anticipation is building that a wave of high-profile artificial intelligence companies could head to the public…

#spacex#openai#anthropic#cerebras

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chips

Trump Says Apple Will Build Chips With Intel in US Manufacturing Push

Apple has agreed to build chips with Intel, President Trump confirmed, adding the iPhone maker to a growing list of…

#apple#intel#nvidia#tesla

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stocks

Why Big Tech's AI Spending Spree Has Investors Glued to the Bond Market

The companies pouring money into artificial intelligence are changing what their investors need to pay attention to —…

#artificial-intelligence#data-centers#bond-market#interest-rates

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defense

China Tightens Its Grip on Indium, the Metal Behind AI Optical Chips

China is moving to restrict exports of indium, a critical metal used in the optical chips that help power artificial…

#indium#ai-chips#china#optical-chips

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chips

Why Arm Could Be the AI Boom's Most Overlooked Winner

While the AI conversation is dominated by OpenAI and the race to build ever-bigger models, one quieter company may…

#arm#openai#aichips#datacenters

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stocks

Wall Street Eyes the Next $1 Trillion Chip Stocks

The race to a $1 trillion valuation in the chip industry has a new chapter, according to a report from The Globe and…

#marvell#semiconductors#aichips#stocks

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tech

Kazakhstan and Firebird Ink €8.6B AI Data Center Deals, Backed by NVIDIA

Kazakhstan and a company called Firebird have signed roughly €8.6 billion in agreements to build out…

#nvidia#firebird#kazakhstan#data-centers

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tech

UK Will Scan Asylum Seekers' Faces to Check Their Age — Even Knowing the Tech Can Fail

The UK government plans to use facial recognition technology to estimate the ages of asylum seekers, according to Ars…

#facial-recognition#age-verification#uk-government#biometrics

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chips

Intel and AMD Team Up on ACE, a New x86 Instruction Set Built for AI

Longtime rivals Intel and AMD are joining forces on a new set of CPU instructions designed for artificial intelligence…

#intel#amd#ace#x86

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stocks

SanDisk Stock Rockets 4,800% in a Year as Memory Chip Shortage Bites

One of the year's most dramatic stock stories isn't a household AI name like Nvidia — it's SanDisk, the memory chip…

#sandisk#memory-chips#ai#semiconductors

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defense

Your Old Pokémon Go Walks May Now Be Training War Drones

According to a report from Memeburn, data generated by Pokémon Go — the augmented-reality mobile game that sent…

#pokemon-go#military-ai#drones#augmented-reality

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defense

China Shows Off Backpack-Sized Laser That Burns Drones From a Quarter-Mile Away

China has revealed a portable laser weapon designed to be carried and fired by a single soldier to shoot down drones,…

#harbinxinguangoptic-electronicstechnology#laserweapon#anti-drone#artificialintelligence

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chips

Amazon Moves to Sell Its Own AI Chips, Taking Aim at Nvidia

Amazon is preparing to sell its own custom artificial intelligence chips, a step that would put the tech giant in more…

#amazon#nvidia#aichips#semiconductors

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chips

Trump Says Apple and Nvidia Will Make Chips With Intel in the US, and Intel Stock Soars

Intel's shares surged after President Trump said two of the biggest names in technology, Apple and Nvidia, would turn…

#intel#apple#nvidia#semiconductors

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ai

Google Home Gets a Magic Touch: AI Comes to the Smart Speaker

Google's smart speaker is being framed as something close to magic, thanks to a new layer of artificial intelligence.…

#google#google-home#smart-speaker#artificial-intelligence

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ai

OpenAI Moves to Give Businesses a Handle on Runaway AI Costs

OpenAI is turning its attention to a complaint that has dogged corporate customers as they scale up their use of…

#openai#artificial-intelligence#enterprise-software

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stocks

AI's Wall Street Boom Collides With a Harsher Political Reality

The stock market's enthusiasm for artificial intelligence is bumping up against forces that share prices alone can't…

#artificial-intelligence#ai-stocks#wall-street#regulation

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stocks

Rigetti Stock Jumps After $100 Million Trump Administration Award

Quantum computing company Rigetti Computing has landed a financial boost from Washington, and investors took notice.…

#rigetti#quantumcomputing#trumpadministration#stocks

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