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Artificial Intelligence

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

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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

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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Microsoft Patent Could Enable Enterprises to DIY AI Models

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

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Semiconductors

AMD Joins Chipmakers Struggling to Impress Traders With Upbeat Earnings

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

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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

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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Finance

Can the S&P 500 Sustain a #HotStockSummer?

On Tuesday, the S&P 500 closed down 0.3%, snapping a remarkable streak of six straight closing highs through Monday.

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CIO Upside

Microsoft SharePoint Attacks Show Weaknesses of On-Prem Storage vs. Cloud

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‘Given enough of an attack surface … it is going to be attacked’

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