Opponents of data center expansion plan protests in at least 125 U.S. locations on Saturday, the first coordinated national action by grassroots group HumansFirst, co-founded by former Tea Party leade…
Electricity demand in Canada is poised to surge due to population growth, industrial expansion, electrification, and AI data centers, with Ontario projecting a 65% increase by 2050 and British Columbi…
A Leger poll found that 81% of Canadians worry AI data centres will spike household electricity bills, and 79% fear environmental impacts from water and energy use. The survey of 1,505 people conducte…
Plans for a massive boom in AI data centre construction across Canada are sparking opposition from residents concerned about electricity, water, noise, and broader anxieties about AI. A government doc…
Major League Baseball is restricting iPad usage in dugouts to prevent artificial intelligence from helping with strategy decisions, effective Wednesday night when the second half of the season started…
China's AI startup Moonshot has released its new AI model, Kimi K3, challenging leading rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic, according to Yahoo Finance Tech Editor Dan Howley. The model's technology and …
Elon Musk's SpaceX is in talks to provide the U.S. Department of Defense with access to data center capacity worth billions of dollars to run AI models, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, cit…
China's Moonshot AI revealed its Kimi K3 model is nearly as powerful as US frontier models Anthropic's Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, while costing significantly less at $3 per million input tokens…
A U.S. judge rejected a bid by 26 Meta Platforms employees to block the company from laying them off while they pursue claims that Meta's AI-powered tools targeted them for job cuts because of disabil…
Bank of America says the US dollar is set for a strong second half of 2026, driven by conflict in the Middle East, the AI boom, and a higher-for-longer interest rate outlook. The greenback has already…
Chinese startup Moonshot unveiled its Kimi K3 AI model on Friday, which is being hailed as the world's largest publicly available large language model for download, raising questions about whether thi…
U.S. manufacturing output was unchanged in June but grew at a 4.7% annualized rate in the second quarter, the fastest in five years, driven by AI investment and inventory accumulation amid Middle East…
The iShares Semiconductor ETF (SOXX) has fallen 11% in the past month, and BTIG strategist Jonathan Krinsky warns that too many investors remain overexposed to the sector and are unprepared for furthe…
Semiconductor stocks fell on Friday, with Micron Technology and Sandisk dropping more than 2% and Western Digital falling more than 3% in premarket trading, as global chip stocks have lost $3.3 trilli…
Wall Street headed for a weekly loss Friday as AI-related stocks slumped, with S&P 500 futures down 0.8%, Dow futures off 0.5%, and Nasdaq futures tumbling 1.6%. Chipmakers including Micron, Nvidia, B…
HSBC Holdings Plc upgraded Apple Inc. to buy from hold, citing the company's position in agentic AI and a strong hardware pipeline. Analyst Nicolas Cote-Colisson raised the price target to $366 from $…
Nvidia-backed AI company Fireworks raised $1.5 billion in its latest funding round, reaching a $17.5 billion valuation. Fireworks co-founder and CEO Lin Qiao said companies must "own their own intelli…
Investors are rotating into quality stocks as AI-related risks rise, with Barclays Plc reporting that its long-short quality basket gained 1.9% on Thursday while the Nasdaq 100 fell 1.6%. The quality …
Asian stocks tumbled this week even after Taiwan's TSMC reported blockbuster numbers, with Korea's KOSPI plunging 6% on Thursday amid concerns about AI capex durability and unwinding of leveraged posi…
Bonds sold by hyperscalers including Meta Platforms Inc., Alphabet Inc., and Amazon.com Inc. to fund AI infrastructure are underperforming across global markets, with 79% of sector bonds issued since …