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APPLE is raising about $7.5 billion from a seven-part US-dollar bond offering, a term sheet seen by Reuters showed on Thursday, adding to a growing number of tech firms tapping debt markets to fund the artificial intelligence boom.
WHEN the Anti-Wiretapping Act was enacted in 1965, lawmakers aimed to regulate physical telephone taps. Decades later, courts struggle to apply that same statute to encrypted messaging, VoIP calls, and generative voice synthesis. A similar structural disconnect now defines the legislative push to protect children on…
Haircut No. 2: Anthropic IPO Talk Slides To $1.2 Trillion As AI Rout Crushes Odds Of A November Listing Keeps going lower.Three weeks ago we reported that Anthropic IPO investors had marked the valuation from $2 trillion down to $1.5 trillion as the growth slowdown sank in. This morning, Bloomberg reports that the p…
Asian and European markets follow US tech rout with many analysts predicting more waves of selling to comeEuropean and Asian stock markets fell sharply on Friday after the Democrats’ decisive victory in the midterms triggered a rout in US tech stocks a day earlier.A sell-off on Wall Street on Thursday was followed b…
Fears of more AI regulation appear to have sparked fear among investors, but concerns about the industry have been growing for some time.
Consumer Sentiment Unexpectedly Jumps, Fueled By Independents, Despite Growing AI Bubble Fears The UMichigan consumer sentiment survey unexpectedly jumped in November to a three-month high, boosted by modest improvements in Americans' views of their personal finances and the economic outlook.The University of Michig…
Anthropic has been pushing is biotechnology projects in a bid to drive up its stock price, but scientists warn people need to be realistic. The AI giant has opened a biology lab in the Bay Area, bought two biotech startups — one for about $400 million in stock — and partnered with drugmakers including Bristol...
Investors had been selling off tech shares in part due to concerns the Democrat election victory would mean slower AI development.
Protesters broke into a data centre construction site intended for Microsoft in Amsterdam, on 6 November, climbing cranes and unfurling banners denouncing artificial intelligence and the company's alleged involvement in the war in Gaza.
Chinese artificial intelligence models led by Moonshot AI’s Kimi family accounted for nearly nine-tenths of estimated global enterprise spending on open-source systems, according to a new study, even though proprietary US rivals continue to capture the vast majority of overall revenue. The report, released this week…
"If he were to get his paws on me, he would tear me apart, and that just makes him even more fascinating," Culkin told Decider.
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania— After a campaign season filled with outrage against artificial intelligence data centers, the midterm elections ushered in a wave of Democrats pledging to clamp down on the energy-hungry behemoths.
Nasdaq Futures Bounce As Dip-Buyers Pick Through AI Wreckage Ahead Of Payrolls US futures are higher, led by a sharp rebound in semis and memory names, as dip buyers emerge after Thursday's AI bloodbath which saw the Nasdaq 100 suffer its worst day since March 2020, while traders brace for the October jobs report; a…
Hundreds of millions of people worldwide use iPhones, so Apple's choices about which words its keyboard suggests could quietly shape how they communicate. Apple has not publicly disclosed the list.
Decision made in order for factory in Texas to be used for Cybercab, the carmaker’s self-driving taxiElon Musk has announced that Tesla will wind down production of its Cybertruck, marking the end of a failed effort to take a chunk of the lucrative market for pickups in the US.The billionaire chief executive said pr…
American voters have spoken. In the midterm elections, Democrats won both the House and Senate in a sweeping rebuttal of US President Donald Trump’s erratic management of domestic and foreign affairs. Despite this, the trajectory of US-China geopolitical rivalry will remain unchanged for decades, with every chance o…
Meta says it removes content that could cause imminent physical harm – but nearly half a million members have joined a group that regularly promotes misinformationAs a measles outbreak spread through Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in August, a parent turned to a massive public Facebook group, Crunchy Moms, for advi…
The election rout landed on an AI trade already under pressure from high interest rates, heavy capital spending and questions about returns.
Benchmark share price indices in South Korea and Taiwan plummeted on Friday by over 8 per cent amid massive regional sell-offs in AI and tech stocks.
ING is reportedly seeking bids for about $500 million across 12 data center loans, including debt tied to a New Mexico Stargate site.
UN conference this month seen as key moment after years of discussions on filling gap in governance of AI systemsPlans to fill a gap in the global governance of autonomous weapons are in jeopardy as a group of nations led by Russia and the US move to use a UN conference this month to block proposals to negotiate a l…
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China’s pure-play artificial intelligence chipmakers crossed an important milestone in the third quarter as several firms swung into profit, but severe supply chain hurdles and soaring memory costs cloud their long-term growth prospects. Domestic graphics processing unit (GPU) developers including Moore Threads, Met…
Japan’s government on Friday compiled a package of emergency measures to address a spate of recent personal data breaches caused by unauthorised access, amid growing public concerns over cybersecurity. Among the measures are promoting the use of artificial intelligence to identify vulnerabilities in computer systems…
SEOUL – The fallout from this week’s US midterms is already upending South Korea’s financial system. On Friday, the Kospi plunged more than 8% and fell below 5,000 for the first time since February. Investors clearly fear the Democratic sweep on November 3 will delay or halt data center construction in the US. Chip …
China's New 'AutoDNA' AI Lab Needs Humans For Just Two Chores Researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University have built a laboratory in which a team of AI agents designs and runs DNA experiments from a single typed prompt, with people stepping in only to restock reagents and service the hardware, according to a paper …
The world's biggest defense firms are finding that demand for traditional military equipment remains strong even as drones and AI reshape how wars are fought.
Global markets are being roiled due to concerns over US data centre expansion and AI regulation.
Worries over data center curbs accelerate skid in Asian markets
NextDC faces twin shareholder class actions over allegations it hid suburban grid delays while raising $1.1 billion, as rivals circle the wounded tech giant.
Fears of tighter regulation on AI data center investments after the US midterm elections have rattled markets, sending South Korea’s benchmark Kospi below the 5,000 mark at one point during intraday trading Friday. According to the Korea Exchange, the index closed at 5,059.69, down 6.02 percent from the previous ses…
China’s state intervention in the struggling market accelerated this week, even before the US midterm results gave global markets a jolt. Meanwhile, global executives gathered in Hong Kong to discuss issues ranging from the AI trade to asset diversification and wealth management, amid the city’s better-than-expected…
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Yonhap) -- Seoul stocks sank for the second consecutive session o...
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Equinix says smaller data centers may be less exposed to U.S. restrictions as scrutiny of AI infrastructure grows.
European and Asia-Pacific markets slide after Wall Street rout, while latest US jobs report beats forecastsDespite the sharp losses suffered on global stock markets around the world, most indices are still up for the year.The Nasdaq Composite index, for example, is still up 4.6% since the start of January – even tho…
Seoul stocks sank for the second consecutive session on Friday amid fears that a Democratic Congress could decelerate the pace of data center construction for artificial intelligence. The Korean won was trading sharply lower against the US dollar. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index closed down 324.11 po…
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Yonhap) -- Seoul stocks sank for the second consecutive session o...
NEW YORK — Three people accused of using artificial intelligence to impersonate corporate executives and attorneys to steal about $129 million have been indicted on charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, prosecutors said Thursday.
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Yonhap) -- Seoul stocks sank for the second consecutive session o...
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BBC Verify examines whether US voters were influenced by the data centre boom - and the impact anti-AI sentiment could have on the industry.
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean director Yeon Sang-ho has built his films around artificial intelligence. His latest, “Paradise Lost,” revisits the theme in a psychological thriller about a mother who spends nine years with an AI version of her missing son — until the real one comes home.
Three people accused of using artificial intelligence to impersonate corporate executives and lawyers to steal about US$129 million have been indicted on charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, prosecutors said Thursday. Over more than a year and a half, Jacob Soall, 41, Sharon Hazan, 54, and Guy Sheetr…
Over the last month, India's Nifty 50 has gained nearly 9%, while markets with heavy AI exposure, including the U.S., Japan, South Korea and Taiwan are deep in the red.
Woori Financial Group Chairman Yim Jong-yong met Henry Fernandez, chairman and chief executive of global index provider MSCI, in Seoul on Thursday to discuss climate change and artificial intelligence's impact on finance. The meeting at Woori's headquarters covered financial firms' responses to both trends, as the K…
The close defence relationship between the United States and Israel is set to be restructured over the coming two years, with billions of dollars in direct annual military aid being phased out in favour of joint weapons technology programmes. US President Donald Trump shocked Israelis and Americans alike on Tuesday …
Worries over data center curbs accelerate skid in Asian markets
Nearly 37,000 security flaws in software or computer systems were reported in the third quarter of 2026, tripling from a year earlier, according to the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures list, an international registry of disclosed security flaws
