UK Growth Data Show AI Boom Is Beginning to Lift the Economy
Economy

UK Growth Data Show AI Boom Is Beginning to Lift the Economy

ONS figures show ICT and computer programming accounted for almost half of second-quarter UK growth, with hardware inves...

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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky: Silicon Valley Needs Consumer AI to Win Over Regular Americans
Technology

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky: Silicon Valley Needs Consumer AI to Win Over Regular Americans

Chesky says AI's poor public image is partly a product problem: too many enterprise tools, too few things ordinary peopl...

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Anthropic backers eye $2 trillion IPO, topping SpaceX
Technology

Anthropic backers eye $2 trillion IPO, topping SpaceX

Investors cited by the FT expect Anthropic to go public at about $2 trillion on surging Claude sales, with talks reporte...

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White House Moves Ahead With Voluntary Frontier AI Cybersecurity Testing
Technology

White House Moves Ahead With Voluntary Frontier AI Cybersecurity Testing

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and Nvidia met with officials, but the evaluation benchmark remains classified and no ag...

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UNAM Applicants Say Scheduling Failures Are Blocking Them From the Control Exam
Education

UNAM Applicants Say Scheduling Failures Are Blocking Them From the Control Exam

Two days before the Aug. 12–19 control exam, some of the 58,783 UNAM applicants say they still cannot get an appointment...

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Google DeepMind's Leadership Shake-Up Tests Its Scientific Independence
Technology

Google DeepMind's Leadership Shake-Up Tests Its Scientific Independence

A CEO-to-chair move, key departures and missed model deadlines leave Google's flagship AI lab defending its London-roote...

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World Bank: Developing Countries Have Less to Fear From AI, but Depend on Outside Tech
Economy

World Bank: Developing Countries Have Less to Fear From AI, but Depend on Outside Tech

The World Bank's 2026 World Development Report says AI could help low- and middle-income countries catch up faster and b...

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Google Gemini Surpasses 1 Billion Monthly Users as Voice and Screen-Sharing Surge
Technology

Google Gemini Surpasses 1 Billion Monthly Users as Voice and Screen-Sharing Surge

Google's Gemini passed 1 billion monthly active users in August, up from 950 million in July, even as Google shares fell...

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Nvidia Loses $130 Billion in Market Value on Reports of a $500 Billion AI Financing Plan
Companies

Nvidia Loses $130 Billion in Market Value on Reports of a $500 Billion AI Financing Plan

Shares fell 2.4% to about $218 on Monday as the Financial Times reported Nvidia is working with Apollo, Blackstone, Blac...

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Google DeepMind Expert: No Evidence of AI Job Collapse, but AI Panic Could Trigger Copycat Layoffs
Technology

Google DeepMind Expert: No Evidence of AI Job Collapse, but AI Panic Could Trigger Copycat Layoffs

Alex Imas says current data do not show a white-collar employment collapse from AI. The bigger near-term risk, he argues...

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FAA to Begin AI Rollout in September to Cut Weather Delays by Next Summer
Travel

FAA to Begin AI Rollout in September to Cut Weather Delays by Next Summer

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says new AI air-traffic software will deploy in phases starting September, with the ...

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Target Creates Chief AI Officer Role as Retail AI Leadership Goes C-Suite
Retail

Target Creates Chief AI Officer Role as Retail AI Leadership Goes C-Suite

Target names Chandhu Nair as its first chief AI officer, following Walmart's high-paying AI executive push. The move tes...

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Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-Word AI Manifesto: Open Models, Earlier U.S. Oversight, $1 Billion Fund
Technology

Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-Word AI Manifesto: Open Models, Earlier U.S. Oversight, $1 Billion Fund

Meta's CEO urges open-source AI and earlier government collaboration, defends distillation, and launches a $1 billion da...

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Tencent Says WeChat Will Become AI-First as It Front-Loads AI Capex
Technology

Tencent Says WeChat Will Become AI-First as It Front-Loads AI Capex

Tencent's earnings call positioned WeChat as an AI-first ecosystem, with Work Buddy as a model-agnostic coordinator and ...

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ADWEEK’s 2026 Tech Stack Awards: The Martech That Turns Data into Real Revenue
Technology

ADWEEK’s 2026 Tech Stack Awards: The Martech That Turns Data into Real Revenue

From agentic AI to incrementality measurement, this year’s winners show how marketing technology is closing the gap betw...

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IBM Strikes $240M Deal with $8.3B Startup Together AI for Massive Inference Infrastructure
Companies

IBM Strikes $240M Deal with $8.3B Startup Together AI for Massive Inference Infrastructure

The multi-year agreement will see IBM’s cloud host Nvidia-powered systems dedicated to running open-source AI models fro...

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Bentley University Reimagines Tech as a 'Learning Partner', Not Just a Tool
Education

Bentley University Reimagines Tech as a 'Learning Partner', Not Just a Tool

A lecturer and student from Bentley's CIS Sandbox argue that edtech is shifting from information delivery to interactive...

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Eldridge Takes $75 Billion Portfolio on an AI Push, Buying Stake in Sudolabs
Companies

Eldridge Takes $75 Billion Portfolio on an AI Push, Buying Stake in Sudolabs

Investment group Eldridge, led by billionaire Todd Boehly, is rapidly deploying AI across its 100+ companies—from Chelse...

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How DDN Quietly Turned Supercomputer Storage into a $1B AI-Fueled Juggernaut
Companies

How DDN Quietly Turned Supercomputer Storage into a $1B AI-Fueled Juggernaut

For nearly three decades, DDN kept the world's fastest supercomputers fed with data. Now, riding the AI explosion, it ex...

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CoreWeave Tops Revenue Forecast on AI Cloud Surge, Posts Narrower Loss
Companies

CoreWeave Tops Revenue Forecast on AI Cloud Surge, Posts Narrower Loss

CoreWeave beat second-quarter revenue estimates and reported a smaller-than-expected loss, driven by surging demand for ...

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Morgan Stanley: SpaceX Shares Can Double as AI Bet, Cursor Deal Drives New Thesis
Companies

Morgan Stanley: SpaceX Shares Can Double as AI Bet, Cursor Deal Drives New Thesis

Morgan Stanley sees SpaceX's $60B purchase of AI coding tool Cursor as a re-rating catalyst, with a $300 price target im...

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Zuckerberg Defends Open-Source Superintelligence, Pledges $1B Community Fund
Technology

Zuckerberg Defends Open-Source Superintelligence, Pledges $1B Community Fund

Mark Zuckerberg outlines Meta’s vision of widespread superintelligence access, proposes government collaboration on AI s...

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Capgemini's Andrea Falleni: 'Love what you do, and do not fear AI'
Lifestyle

Capgemini's Andrea Falleni: 'Love what you do, and do not fear AI'

The Southern Europe CEO shares lessons from leaving banking for entrepreneurship, why soft skills will matter more, and ...

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SoftBank’s $64bn OpenAI bet turns the Japanese giant into a tech roulette
Companies

SoftBank’s $64bn OpenAI bet turns the Japanese giant into a tech roulette

Masayoshi Son has placed the biggest wager in his four-decade career: $64 billion for a 13% stake in OpenAI. As SoftBank...

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Denmark Mandates Oral Defense and AI Blocks to Stop High School Cheating
Education

Denmark Mandates Oral Defense and AI Blocks to Stop High School Cheating

Three emergency measures are taking effect immediately in Danish upper secondary schools, requiring oral defense of writ...

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Colliding risks strain corporate resilience – WEF report urges boards to act
Companies

Colliding risks strain corporate resilience – WEF report urges boards to act

The World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report 2026 warns that climate stress, geopolitical tensions and AI concentratio...

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US Schools Ramp Up AI Policies, but the Destination for Students Remains Unclear
Education

US Schools Ramp Up AI Policies, but the Destination for Students Remains Unclear

Thirty-four states have issued AI guidance, yet a fundamental question is being skipped: what skills will keep students ...

Rivka Stern 👁 35 💬 0
Mars and CVS Health to Receive NextGen Supply Chain Awards for AI and Automation Leadership
Logistics

Mars and CVS Health to Receive NextGen Supply Chain Awards for AI and Automation Leadership

The 2026 NextGen Supply Chain Conference will honor Mars and CVS Health for transforming operations through artificial i...

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Thomson Reuters Launches Own AI Model, Raises Revenue Outlook
Companies

Thomson Reuters Launches Own AI Model, Raises Revenue Outlook

The information group lifted its full-year growth forecast to about 8% and revealed its in-house AI model Thomson, targe...

Declan Byrne 👁 37 💬 0
Tech’s Two-Faced Approach: Open AI and the Sealed Borders of Robotics
Technology

Tech’s Two-Faced Approach: Open AI and the Sealed Borders of Robotics

In the same week, US regulators moved to block foreign-made advanced robots while tech giants led by Nvidia called for o...

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