Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) has seen a significant market reaction following its bold shift towards artificial intelligence (AI), resulting in a 25% drop in shares over the past month. What Happened: Oracle’s ambitious entry into the AI sector, fueled by substantial borrowing, has caused unease on Wall Street. The tech behemoth has pledged to invest hundreds of…
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Markets were on edge this week as a steady stream of negative headlines around the artificial intelligence trade stoked fears of a bubble. Famed short-seller Michael Burry cast doubt on the sustainability of AI earnings. Concerns around the levels of debt funding AI infrastructure buildouts grew louder. And once high-flyers like CoreWeave tanked on disappointing guidance. CNBC’s Deirdre Bosa asked those at…
“The assertions and innuendos in the article are completely false,” an Alibaba representative said. “We question the motivation behind the anonymous leak, which the FT admits that they cannot verify.” The Alibaba representative called the article a “malicious PR operation” that appears to “undermine President Trump’s recent trade deal with China”. Hangzhou-based Alibaba owns the…
A Louisiana family is outraged over the response to deepfake nude images of their 13-year-old daughter and other girls that allegedly circulated among male students at her middle school. “It’s disturbing. Those pictures are horrible. They’re extremely explicit, and they look real. You cannot tell the difference,” the father, Joseph Daniels, said. Daniels’ daughter was…
Artificial intelligence has fired the stock market to record highs this year, with companies eager to tout their AI prowess and investor darlings like AI chipmaker Nvidia soaring on expectations of runaway growth. But a tinge of fear is starting to shadow that exuberance as investors worry the AI boom could go bust. The startling run-up…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged Friday while the tech-heavy Nasdaq reversed a weeks long rout just a day after Wall Street suffered its worst trading session in more than a month. The Dow had plunged 107 points, or 0.2%, as of about 12:20 p.m. ET. The S&P 500 rose 0.5%, while the Nasdaq jumped…
WASHINGTON — A team of researchers has uncovered what they say is the first reported use of artificial intelligence to direct a hacking campaign in a largely automated fashion. The AI company Anthropic said this week that it disrupted a cyber operation that its researchers linked to the Chinese government. The operation involved the use…
Before Franz Kafka died in 1924, he had a simple wish for his friend and literary executor Max Brod: burn all of Kafka’s unpublished writing and papers. Fortunately for the rest of the world, Brod largely ignored what Kafka had said, which is why today we have works like The Castle and The Trial, not…
Anthropic said Thursday that Chinese hackers used its artificial intelligence technology in what the company believes is the first cyberespionage operation largely carried out using AI. Anthropic said the cybercriminals used its popular chatbot, Claude, to target roughly 30 technology companies, financial institutions, chemical manufacturers and government agencies. The hackers used the AI platform to…