Microsoft's OneDrive is increasing the creepiness quotient by using AI to spot faces in photos and group images accordingly. Don't worry, it can be turned off - three times a year. This writer has been enrolled in a OneDrive feature on mobile to group photos by people. We're not alone - others have also reported it turning up on their devices.
Qualcomm ( NASDAQ:QCOM) stands out as one of the lesser-appreciated semiconductor names as the AI revolution continues to play out, while other emerging tech trends also start to gain traction among growth and momentum-focused investors. Indeed, the AI race and the road towards AGI (or artificial general intelligence) seems to be on, with many hyperscalers signing deals or taking stakes in the great OpenAI, the firm that kicked off the AI boom when it unleashed ChatGPT to the world.
In today's episode, Zoë Schiffer is joined by senior politics editor Leah Feiger to run through five stories that you need to know about this week-from the Antifa professor who's fleeing to Europe for safety, to how some chatbots are manipulating users to avoid saying goodbye. Then, Zoë and Leah break down why a recent announcement from OpenAI rattled the markets and answer the question everyone is wondering-are we in an AI bubble?
Longbridge found an opportunity to improve how it verifies loan data between its origination system and loan documents during servicing transfers. After reviewing several options, the company chose One Diligence to provide a machine learningbased solution, the release said. Since implementation, we've already seen more than a 60% reduction in common data errors, directly contributing to a smoother borrower experience, said Richard Burke, senior vice president of servicing and operations at Longbridge Financial.
The consensus holds that AI will inevitably deliver large productivity gains and that's powered deals worth hundreds of billions of dollars into a throwback, 19th-century style (or late 1990s-style) infrastructure boom. This has led to fears of bubble formation, with even Jeff Bezos saying recently it's "kind of an infrastructure bubble," not one purely driven by financial speculation, and it will pay off for years, even generations.
Rarely does a 29-page scholarly paper merit the attention of top-level executives, but every business leader should be familiar with a recent study from OpenAI. It's the best description yet of how AI can handle real-world tasks, showing which AI models are excelling, and hinting at what it all means for humans in the years ahead. The paper can be heavy going, but you can get a masterful summary from our AI Editor, Jeremy Kahn.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has taken a significant leap toward autonomous and sustainable transportation with the launch of the nation's first commercial fleet of self-driving electric trucks. The milestone, realised through a partnership between Evocargo, a developer of autonomous logistics solutions, and RAK Ceramics, one of the world's leading manufacturers of ceramics and sanitaryware, signals how automation, artificial intelligence (AI), and sustainability are converging to reshape the region's logistics sector.
Artificial intelligence is emerging as a key driver of growth in the UK's climate tech start-up ecosystem, with AI-related ventures attracting record levels of funding even as broader climate investment stalls, according to new research by Sustainable Ventures. The study, titled "Advancing AI's Potential for Climate Innovation", draws on data from 3,345 high-growth UK climate tech start-ups compiled by Beauhurst and includes qualitative insights from founders, investors and academics.
"Omdia forecasts a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 29.1% from 2025 to 2030, as vendors across the IT industry - from large global software vendors to ISV startups - increasingly embrace hyperscaler marketplaces as a primary route to market," said Omdia in a research note. It also cited the continued growth in upfront multi-year cloud commitments by enterprises as another driver of sales growth.
Our subsector coverage includes Online Advertising, eCommerce/Rideshare/Food Delivery, and Online Travel. We look at key themes across each subsector, the impact of AI, and company-specific product initiatives to identify the most compelling investment themes and stocks... We are particularly bullish on the online advertising space broadly, driven by several themes, most notably AI driving more user engagement, better advertising efficacy, helping expand the addressable market, and on the cusp of benefiting from a wave of customer acquisition spending from AI native companies,
"When I started 42 years ago and I wanted to look at five different companies and think about how to compare the trading in five different companies, I had to go to the library, I had to go to the microfiche, I had to spend hours really thinking about how to put that comparison together," Solomon said. Now, you can do that "just speaking into your phone," he said.
The solution combines attack surface management with code scanning, identifying forgotten assets and exposed services and uncovering vulnerabilities before they enter production. The company also offers penetration testing and helps organizations prepare for audits. Oneleet says its solution works with existing stacks, allowing businesses to connect cloud providers, repositories, identity platforms, and productivity utilities with its scanners and monitoring tools, for automated security.
In the absence of macro jobs data due to the U.S. government shutdown, traders are piling into AI stocks, ING told clients this morning. "Financial market volatility is falling across the board, partly driven by the US government shutdown and the delay to key data releases such as the September jobs data. Instead, investors remain transfixed by the AI-driven rally in megacap tech shares, which shows no signs of slowing."
What makes Palantir's story stand out is that it is no longer just a government contractor; it has become the go-to AI platform for companies that want to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) in their businesses right away. The key is its Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP), which gathers and organizes a customer's messy data into a clean structure that large language models can better work with, helping significantly reduce AI hallucinations.
We're not in the business of making financial recommendations, but CNBC personality Jim Cramer says there's no bubble coming for the AI sector - which, given his track record, should probably make any AI investors just a bit nervous. Now that Cramer - whose calls have historically underperformed so much that he inspired an entire phenomenon of people betting against him, called the " Inverse Cramer " effect - has chimed in on the topic, netizens are worried about an imminent collapse.
The most notable feature revealed at the event was "Familiar Faces," which uses AI to identify friends and family. Users can enroll the faces of their loved ones into the device, enabling Ring to alert them when it recognizes a visitor. The AI will also alert the user when an unfamiliar person is detected, helping them to make an informed decisions quickly.
Shares of Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) lost 2.94% over the past five trading sessions after losing 1.56% the five prior. The stock continues to struggle in the aftermath of tech's early August sell-off that saw AMZN fall by nearly 10% in one day. Still, the e-commerce and cloud storage solutions giant finds itself in the green this year with a year-to-date gain of 0.41%. Over the past year, Amazon is up 18.67%.
"One of the things we are seeing with AI is that it makes things too easy. We are seeing a decrease in willingness to struggle through hard things in this newer generation of employees," Kryscynski said. "If you want to stand out in the future workforce, then avoid offloading your thinking to AI and purposefully invest in challenging tasks that will challenge your brain to connect complex ideas, wrestle with moral ambiguities."
On Thursday at an internal town hall, BNY CEO Robin Vince unveiled the next-generation version of Eliza, its AI platform that allows employees to create bespoke agents and carry out tasks such as accelerated check processing built on reams of company data. "We think of AI as generating capacity for us," Vince said at the town hall. According to a BNY spokesperson, 98% of the company's employees are trained on generative AI, with the majority using Eliza daily.
At McKinsey, recruits rotate across industries and geographies, dissecting sprawling problems and creating and defending solutions before skeptical executives. General Electric built its reputation on world-class management programs that groomed future chiefs through exacting operating roles. PepsiCo and Procter & Gamble are legendary for giving young managers full P&L responsibility early and demanding sharp marketing instincts. JPMorgan Chase exposes rising leaders to complex global markets, risk management, and high-stakes client relationships.
According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman Apple is testing Siri's upcoming revamp using an internal chatbot called Veritas. The company's struggles as it tries to keep pace in the AI race are no secret. The next-gen Siri has been delayed multiple times and the debut of Apple Intelligence was met with a tepid response. Veritas gives Apple the ability to quickly develop, test, and collect feedback on new Siri features like "search[ing] through personal data... and perform[ing] in-app actions like editing photos."
As humanity inches closer to an AI apocalypse, a sliver of hope remains: the robots might not work. Such was the case last week, as Mark Zuckerberg attempted to demonstrate his company's new AI-enabled smart glasses. I don't know what to tell you guys, Zuckerberg told a crowd of Meta enthusiasts as he tried, and failed, for roughly the fourth time to hold a video call with his colleague via the glasses.
The feature leverages AI to translate millions of IoT data points into clear, actionable insights for operations and procurement teams, compressing days of analysis and synthesis work down to a matter of seconds. The agentic AI application ensures repeated synthesis of high-volume data to identify patterns and trends across four key areas: asset location, utilization, alerts, and general status updates, as well as sensor readings from monitoring devices.
Musk is now driving Tesla into its next stage of growth as 'wartime CEO,' and we expect Robotaxis to be rolled out aggressively to over 30 US cities within the next year. We estimate the AI and autonomous opportunity is worth at least $1 trillion alone for Tesla, and we fully expect under a Trump White House over the coming yea,r these key initiatives will now get fast-tracked
The decision will allow us to focus on developing safe AI systems that help people and organizations extend their capabilities, advance scientific discovery, and solve complex problems. As we've consistently maintained, the court's landmark June ruling that AI training constitutes transformative fair use remains intact. This settlement simply resolves narrow claims about how certain materials were obtained,
