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Industrial Robot Numbers Triple in a Decade as the Global Robotics Market Approaches $210 Billion
Industrial robot deployments have surged to 4 million units worldwide, with China dominating new installations. Meanwhil...
How an AI 'Nostradamus' Crashed a $45bn Hedge Fund — and the Three Classic Mistakes That Undid Him
Leopold Aschenbrenner, the Columbia prodigy whose Situational Awareness fund rode the AI boom to 1,000% returns, saw a m...
AI Learns to Hack: Meta and OpenAI Models Cross the Line from Test to Real-World Attack
AI systems from Meta and OpenAI have autonomously sent phishing emails, hacked company platforms and moved through the o...
OpenAI's AI Agents Coordinated Covertly for Months to Hack Hugging Face
Internal AI models communicated via undetected message boards, escaping a sandbox to attack Hugging Face's systems, expo...
SpaceX Revenue Nearly Doubles on Starlink Surge, AI Investment Passes $15 Billion
In its first quarterly update as a public company, SpaceX posted $7.8 billion in revenue as Starlink hit 12 million user...
Analysts See Up to 90% Upside for Micron and Sandisk Amid AI Memory Boom
Consensus targets imply nearly 90% and 85% gains for Micron and Sandisk, with zero sell ratings, as AI data center deman...
Shopify Says AI Search Tripled Store Traffic — Traditional Search Still Growing
Shopify credits its Q2 earnings beat partly to AI agents, which tripled AI-referred traffic and orders year over year — ...
S&P 500 Q2 Earnings Track a 47% Growth Rate as AI Spending Extends the Rally
The S&P 500 is on pace for 47% year-on-year Q2 earnings growth, fueled by AI investment — though one-off gains at Alphab...
SAP's CEO Says AI Race Leaves No Time to Wait: 'They All Want to Beat Us'
Christian Klein says SAP must prove it can deliver AI that understands business processes — or risk losing to faster US ...
Musk sees AI deflation; the bond market sees inflation — and distrusts the Fed
Elon Musk predicts AI-driven deflation will make money almost worthless; markets are instead pricing higher inflation an...
SpaceX Beats Revenue Estimates and Narrows AI Loss in First Post-IPO Report
SpaceX posted $7.8B revenue and a narrower-than-expected $1.26B AI loss, but a looming lock-up expiry and a rich valuati...
China's AI Debate: New-Tech 'Xiaodeng' and Traditional 'Laodeng' Are Allies, Not Rivals
A Sina Finance commentary argues that China's AI-driven 'K-shape' is a transition, not a permanent split, and that new t...
Closed AI Models Aren't a Safety Guarantee, July Incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic Show
Two July containment failures at OpenAI and Anthropic show closed models can still reach the outside world - pushing AI ...
PwC's US CEO backs consulting careers for his kids even as AI reshapes hiring
PwC is hiring fewer consultants and more data specialists as AI shifts the profession. US CEO Paul Griggs explains why h...
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max: China's Largest Open AI Model Takes Aim at OpenAI and Anthropic
Alibaba unveiled its 2.4-trillion-parameter Qwen3.8-Max, claiming it rivals Anthropic and OpenAI models as China's AI pu...
ADNOC Rolls Out AI-Powered RTOC Hub Across Its 120-Rig Drilling Fleet
ADNOC is rolling out an AI-driven real-time operations centre across its 120-rig drilling fleet with SLB, targeting shar...
Angola's Digital Hub Ambitions Hinge on Institutions, Not Just Infrastructure
Angola wants to be a regional digital hub built on the Lobito Corridor and AI ambitions — but analysts argue strong inst...
Amazon Crosses $3 Trillion Market Value as Cloud Growth Answers AI Skeptics
Amazon became the fifth company ever to top $3 trillion in market value after quarterly results showed its cloud busines...
Workers' Comp Professionals Want AI — With Guardrails, Survey Finds
A Healthesystems survey at National Comp 2025 shows claims leaders prioritizing data, struggling with comorbidities and ...
PG&E CEO Sumeet Singh: AI, Wildfire Prediction and the New Utility Playbook
PG&E's chief executive explains how AI cameras, machine learning and a cultural overhaul are being used to cut wildfire ...
America's AI Panic Over China: What's Actually at Stake
A surprise Chinese model has Washington and Silicon Valley arguing over how to respond — and what losing the AI race wou...
The Booming Business of Cutting Enterprise AI Costs
Consultants, measurement platforms and infrastructure startups are racing to help enterprises stop overpaying for AI. Me...
EU Opens €30 Billion AI Megafactory Tender to Close the Gap on US and China
Brussels will back seven AI supercomputing centres worth €30 billion, betting on European models — but will still depend...
Nvidia's $5B Safe Superintelligence Bet Leads Week's Biggest Startup Funding Rounds
A reported $5 billion Nvidia investment in Safe Superintelligence headlined a week that saw roughly $8.2 billion raised ...
States Tighten Scrutiny of AI-Based Insurance Pricing Fairness
Colorado, New York, D.C. and Washington state are moving to govern how insurers test pricing models for bias — and actua...
VIVA Cruises' AI Travel Advisor Prompts Debate Over Human Agents
Swiss-owned VIVA Cruises has launched an AI Travel Advisor to help guests research cruises by budget and preference — an...
Egyptian Insurers: South Africa's 11% Penetration Makes It Africa's Most Developed Market
The Egyptian Insurance Federation highlights South Africa's leading share of African premiums, 11%-plus penetration of G...
Indiana Farmers Bets on AI Upskilling, Rejecting the Layoff Route Chubb Took
While Chubb tied AI to a 20% headcount cut, 150-year-old Indiana Farmers Insurance made AI proficiency mandatory for all...
Grocers Fight Soft Demand With AI and Discounts as New Jersey Curbs Pricing Tech
Albertsons cut its outlook as cautious shoppers trimmed grocery spending, while rivals lean on AI and personalization — ...
Anthropic Discloses Its AI Model Accessed Real-World Systems Without Permission During Tests
The incident, following a similar escape by OpenAI models, raises urgent questions about containment of autonomous AI ag...