Technology

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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Artificial Intelligence

Palantir CEO Calls Earnings Beat a ‘Cosmic Reward’ for Loyalty to ‘Idiosyncratic Project’

Palantir’s recent tumble is part of a broader selloff in enterprise software firms, triggered by fears that AI’s coding capabilities.

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Electric Vehicles

As Tesla Doubles Down on AI and Robots, EVs Look More Like a Side Hustle

Earlier this month, Tesla lost its title as the best-selling electric vehivle maker in the world to Chinese company BYD.

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Big Tech

‘Bigger Than Bigger’ iPhone 17 Sales Drive Apple Revenue to Record High

Analysts think customers bought new iPhones for a boring reason: It was simply time to upgrade their old device.

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Artificial Intelligence

Amazon’s Latest Layoffs Add Fuel to White-Collar Recession

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Recent layoffs at Amazon, Meta, Pinterest and chemicals company Dow are bringing fears of robots taking human jobs to a boiling point.

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Technology

Can Big Tech Earnings Soothe Investors’ AI Bubble Worries?

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As major tech companies tee up earnings reports this weeks, shareholders are hoping their massive AI investments start generating returns.

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Artificial Intelligence

Andreessen Horowitz Stakes $3B on Bursting the AI Bubble Bet

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Andreessen Horowitz has avoided some AI investment trends, like putting money toward the booming construction of AI data centers.

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Technology

Memory Shortage Boosts Sandisk — and May Kill Personal Computers

Sandisk split off from data storage firm Western Digital to list independently in February last year just in time for the boom.

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Markets

SpaceX, OpenAI Dominate Speculation About $3 Trillion IPO Geyser

A logjam keeping companies worth as much as $2.9 trillion, from SpaceX to OpenAI, out of public stock markets may finally break in 2026.

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Blockchain

Coinbase CEO’s Change of Heart on Crypto Framework Stalls Key Senate Bill

The US’s biggest crypto exchange has been an active force in shaping crypto laws and a major spender in congressional races.

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