Eight years ago, the November US election results profoundly shocked the small staff at Backchannel, the boutique tech publication I headed. The morning after, an editor posted on our Slack that working on a technology story seemed tone-deaf, if not futile. On a plane from New York to San Francisco, I wrote a column to…
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Russia’s internet giant Yandex plans to invest in Indonesia’s artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem, the Southeast Asian country’s communications and digital minister said. Meutya Hafid, Indonesia’s communications minister, met Alexander Popovskiy, head of Yandex’s international search division, on Thursday and said the company expressed its plan to “widen the search engine platform in…
When Donald Trump ran for president back in 2016, one of the chief targets of his ire was China and what he considered its unfair trade practices—practices he said were coming at the expense of the American economy. After defeating Hillary Clinton, Trump’s adjutants set about putting his plan for tariffs into place, and executed…
Artificial intelligence seems to be everywhere these days, from chatbots to Hollywood movies. Tech giants have poured billions of dollars into AI, and “prompt engineering” is a lucrative, in-demand job. Nearly a decade ago, Bill Gates saw it coming: When asked which industry he would focus on if he had to start over from scratch,…
Joe Rogan is once again concerned about the rise of artificial intelligence. On a recent episode of his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, he was joined by the hosts of the “Triggernometry” podcast. About halfway into the episode, Rogan dove into how artificial intelligence could impact our jobs and even reshape the way we run…
(Reuters) – Palantir shares jumped over 12% on Tuesday after the data analytics firm raised its annual revenue forecast for the third time, bolstering investor confidence that the artificial intelligence boom was fueling demand for its services. The company is among the biggest stock market winners of the generative AI boom, with its shares more…
Warren Buffett has once again sold off another large piece of his stake in Apple. As CNBC reported Saturday (Nov. 2), the billionaire investor’s Berkshire Hathaway had $69.9 billion worth of Apple shares at the end of September, according to its latest earnings report. This implies Buffett had sold around a quarter of his stake…
AI stocks Meta Platforms (META) and Oracle (ORCL) lead the parade of top five stocks to watch near buy points this week. Netflix (NFLX), TG Therapeutics (TGTX) and GoDaddy (GDDY) also make the cut. Meta stock and Netflix stock eye buy points. TG Therapeutics has broken out while GoDaddy briefly did. Oracle stock may offer…
Photo: Michael M. Santiago (Getty Images) The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 250 points Thursday mid-morning, alongside sharp Nasdaq and S&P 500 declines, following earnings reports from Microsoft (MSFT) and Meta (META), as both tech giants grapple with challenges in meeting the surging demand for AI. Meta stock fell about 3% in Thursday…
NEW YORK – Nvidia is replacing Intel on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, ending a 25-year-run for a pioneering semiconductor company that has fallen behind as Nvidia cornered the market for chips that run artificial intelligence systems. Paint-maker Sherwin-Williams will also replace chemical company Dow Inc. among the companies that make up the 30-stock average….