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Intuit Inc. shares plunged as much as 12% to about $315 despite beating fiscal fourth-quarter estimates with adjusted earnings of $4.03 per share and revenue of $4.35 billion, up 14% year over year, because the company g…
Unit 42 analyzed 405 AI-related malware samples and found that only 12 (3.0%) appeared on non-test Cortex XDR protected endpoints, all of which generated alerts. The vast majority of samples were confined to research and…
A LinkedIn poll by an unnamed author found that technical professionals are split nearly 50-50 on the meaning of 'sovereign AI,' with half interpreting it as running AI on infrastructure you own and half as running it on…
Bill Gates warned that society is unprepared for the rapid advancement of AI, citing labor disruption, information integrity, and concentration of power as key risks. He argues that current efforts focus on capability ra…
Z.ai confirmed it built Ox Alpha, the anonymous model that topped OpenCode's usage charts, and will release its weights. The model, traced to Zhipu's GLM line, became the most-used on the open-source coding agent, nearly…
Los Gatos High School teacher David Homa now requires students in his honors economics and social entrepreneurship classes to handwrite notes or use one of five typewriters funded by the New Millennium Foundation, part o…
Australia's ARIA Charts will ban wholly AI-generated songs from its rankings starting with the chart dated Monday, 31 August, after an AI-assisted cover of Madonna's 'Like a Prayer' by Queensland DJ Josh Fawaz reached No…
The World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report 2025 estimates that 92 million roles will be displaced by 2030, while 170 million new roles will be created, a net gain of 78 million jobs. Goldman Sachs research projects…
Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, warned on Wednesday that artificial intelligence could cost millions of jobs and enable the creation of a devastating 'bioterrorism weapon,' calling the transition to the AI era 'one …
Saudi brothers Ibrahim and Khalid Al Moammar have amassed a combined fortune of roughly $1.4 billion, according to Bloomberg's Billionaires Index, after their company Al Moammar Information Systems Co. (MIS) nearly doubl…
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh will deliver his first Jackson Hole keynote on Friday, themed 'Financial Innovation: Implications for Payments and Policy,' marking the first time the symposium centers on digital paymen…
The VanEck Uranium and Nuclear ETF (NYSEARCA:NLR) offers a resilient AI growth investment by focusing on nuclear power and uranium miners, which are essential for data center electricity demand and geopolitical energy se…
Google launched a suite of cost-management tools for Gemini Enterprise on Google Cloud, including a pay-as-you-go pricing model with project-level spend caps and an AI Cost Summary Agent, to address rising AI costs. The …
OpenAI disrupted a covert influence operation likely originating in Russia that used ChatGPT to promote a fake think tank, copied academic work, and a 'sovereignty index' designed to portray Moscow favorably and Western …
Bill Gates warned that artificial intelligence could 'stunt our kids' development' and lead to 'many jobs disappearing forever,' arguing that world leaders are unprepared for the technology's rapid advance. In an essay p…
Meta has agreed to pay $17 billion and add child-safety measures to Facebook and Instagram to settle claims filed by 47 states over teen social media addiction, state attorneys general announced Wednesday. The settlement…
Google Cloud announced new FinOps controls for Gemini Enterprise to help organizations manage project-level AI spend, alongside best practices for dynamic capacity management to handle the infrastructure demands of auton…
Google Cloud introduced expanded billing flexibility and cost management tools for AI agent workloads across Gemini Enterprise and developer tools, including a new pay-as-you-go option and Flexible Savings Plans offering…
The EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689) will reshape how enterprises build, buy, and operate AI systems, with key deadlines including 2 August 2026 for general application and transparency obligations, 2 December 2027 …
A White House 'Ratepayer Protection Pledge' signed by major technology companies in July 2026 aims to have AI data centers help finance electricity infrastructure rather than passing costs to households. The debate over …