Jamie would meticulously schedule his days around finding time alone to watch porn and masturbate—often up to five times a day. The 32-year-old Michigan engineer, who did not want to use his real name due to privacy concerns, first watched porn at the impressionable age of 12, but never realized he had a problem until…
The Netherlands just backed down from its unprecedented takeover of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia, suspending state intervention after two months of escalating trade tensions. The move ends a bitter dispute that threatened global automotive supply chains and sent car manufacturers scrambling for alternative chip sources. The Dutch government just blinked first in its high-stakes showdown with…
The U.S. stock market sank sharply in early trading, with investors increasingly skittish about the strength of the artificial intelligence boom. The S&P 500, which set a record high in late October, fell 78 points, or 1.2%, to 6,594 roughly an hour into Tuesday’s session. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite dropped…
Shares of cloud computing and online retail behemoth Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) fell 3.4% in the afternoon session after concerns regarding lofty artificial intelligence valuations triggered a pullback in the technology sector. Nvidia slid ahead of its earnings report, dragging down fellow “Magnificent Seven” peers despite a major partnership announcement with Anthropic, as investors increasingly question the…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged more than 300 points, or 0.7%, Tuesday as fears over an AI bubble shook the market and traders fretted that rate cuts from the Federal Reserve aren’t a sure thing. The S&P 500 had dipped 0.3% while the tech-heavy Nasdaq had fallen 0.6% as of about 1:15 p.m. ET…
If you read any of WIRED’s recent AI edition, you know that lots of people are spending lots of time talking about how the technology is revolutionizing pretty much everything—from coding to writing to accounting. You’ve also probably heard by now, from us or somebody else, that we might very well be in an economic…
The freefall in crypto token prices is sparking some concern about a spiral of selling pressure hitting other markets. The worrying scenario is that investors, facing steep losses on their Bitcoin holdings, may sell other assets to shore up cash, adding momentum to the broad markets downdraft. That could potentially heap pressure on stock prices…
BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares tumbled on Tuesday, with benchmarks in Tokyo and Seoul sinking more than 3%, after Nvidia and other artificial-intelligence -related shares pulled U.S. stocks lower. U.S. futures dropped, with the contract for the S&P 500 down 0.6% while the future for the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 0.4%. Computer chip…
If you felt a personal connection with a celebrity this year, you likely weren’t alone. That feeling led Cambridge Dictionary to select “parasocial” as its 2025 word of the year. Parasocial is defied as “involving or relating to a connection that someone feels between themselves and a famous person they do not know, a character…
This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Bezos is stepping back into the operator’s chair, and the timing could be intentional. Project Prometheus, his new artificial intelligence venture, is rolling out with a $6.2 billion war chest, partly financed by the Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) founder himself, placing it among the most heavily backed early-stage AI companies anywhere….