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Markets

Hypothetical AI Doomsday Scenario Lights Up Wall Street’s HALO Trade

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A post from Citrini Research has drawn widespread attention for its imagining of a 2028 in which AI leads to unceasing white collar layoffs.

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Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic Tussles with Pentagon as AI Goes to War

Anthropic is insisting that its AI shouldn’t be used for surveillance or the development of automated weapons.

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Artificial Intelligence

Wall Street’s AI Anxiety-Induced Software Selloff Gets a Reality Check

Among the gainers in the software sector Wednesday was ServiceNow, whose shares rose 1.8% thanks to a vote of confidence from top insiders.

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Blockchain

Morgan Stanley Begins Coverage Of Bitcoin Miners As Wider Infrastructure Plays

The bank assigned overweight ratings to Cipher Mining and TeraWulf and a more cautious underweight rating to Marathon Digital.

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Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic Claude’s Legal Plugin Poses AI Threat to Big Law’s Billable Hours

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Shares of legal data service provider Thomson Reuters fell roughly 16% on Tuesday, while shares of LexisNexis parent company RELX fell 14%.

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Industrials

SpaceX May Launch IPO Market To The Moon

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SpaceX’s potential monster IPO would come after what’s been a remarkable rebound year for public listings.

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Artificial Intelligence

Trillion-Dollar Questions Bubble to the Top for OpenAI

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Sam Altman has begun floating the idea that the company could hit $100 billion in revenue by 2027, ahead of previous projections.

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CIO Upside

Microsoft Wants to Improve AI-Powered Code Generation

Microsoft wants to patent a system to improve how an LLM writes code in response to requests. One step is learning to recognize good code.

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Artificial Intelligence

Tech Stocks Slide as AI Reality Lags Behind Hype

Part of the investor pullback comes after an MIT report that checked in on the billions that companies have spent on generative AI.

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CIO Upside

Why Access Controls May Be AI’s Biggest Security Vulnerability

As model providers court government agencies, humans may present a major security threat.

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