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Technology

Quantinuum Trims the Timeline for Quantum Computing

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Quantum computers are expected to solve previously unsolvable problems (or ones that would take ages) across industries.

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Finance

Can a Fed Rate Cut Boost the Magnificent Seven to New Heights?

In a note last week, JPMorgan’s Andrew Tyler wrote that macro conditions could turn a widely-expected rate cut into a “sell the news” event.

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Artificial Intelligence

Overenthusiastic or Just Right? The AI Boom’s Goldilocks Question

Between 2000 and 2002, after the dot com bubble popped, the Nasdaq lost nearly 80% of its value, wiping out trillions of dollars in wealth.

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Artificial Intelligence

Oracle’s AI-Powered Sales Growth Threatens Elon Musk’s Reign as World’s Richest Man

Oracle said its remaining performance obligations is now sitting at $455 billion. That’s up 359% from where it stood just a year ago.

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CIO Upside

Microsoft Targets AI’s Bias Problem in Recent Patent

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Bias is one of the fundamental issues that AI developers face as they build and deploy models.

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Artificial Intelligence

AI Wrestles Jobs from Gen Z Workers

Customer service agents, receptionists, and translators saw sizable drop-offs as more companies tapped agentic AI.

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CIO Upside

Microsoft Patent Could Enable Enterprises to DIY AI Models

Microsoft may want to lower the entry barrier to machine learning.

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CIO Upside

How the AI Talent War is Worsening an Ethical Dilemma

‘Governance should be taught, but isn’t. Ethics should be applied, but aren’t.’

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Advisor Upside

Microsoft Thinks AI Can Replace Wealth Managers. Advisors Say: Yeah, Right.

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The industry isn’t sweating the new research as clients largely prefer bespoke plans from actual humans.

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CIO Upside

Big Tech’s Bigger AI Investments May Lead to a ‘Winner Takes All’

Some companies may be digging themselves into a hole that they’re not able to get out of.

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Semiconductors

AMD Joins Chipmakers Struggling to Impress Traders With Upbeat Earnings

It’s not just AMD. Investors have generally been hard to please for most chipmakers so far this earnings season.

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CIO Upside

Microsoft Patent Highlights Weaknesses in Code Generators

AI-powered coding has emerged as one of the best use cases for the powerful foundational models.

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Big Tech

Big Tech Pulls Off a Very Big Earnings Week

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The reports made one thing clear: Big Tech’s big AI bet is already paying off — which explains why they can’t help but double down.

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