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Big Tech earnings reignited AI spending fears, sending investors into defensive stocks.

Bloomberg Senior Editor for Technology and Strategic Industries Mike Shepard tells Bloomberg This Weekend that disappointing Big Tech earnings are intensifying investor concerns about whether massive AI spending will generate sufficient returns, as Alphabet and Intel come under particular pressure. Speaking with hosts David Gura and Lisa Mateo, Shepard also discusses the record $6.3 billion Binance hack and the possibility that North Korean hackers were responsible. (Source: Bloomberg)

This multifaceted home coffee brewer and its new AltaRounds will make you rethink everything you know about Keurig machines.

The AI logistics startup will bolster the CRM giant's Missionforce defense platform.

Intercontinental Exchange joined forces with one of the market operators behind offshore crypto-trading platform Hyperliquid as it seeks to bring perpetual futures products into US regulated markets. ICE and Trade.xyz are planning a new market for trading perpetual futures contracts, with its own clearing, know-your-customer and anti-money laundering systems. Jeff Sprecher, Intercontinental Exchange Founder, Chair and CEO, joins Bloomberg Businessweek Daily to discuss the agreement, plus Friday's major tech selloff, the growing demand for perpetual futures trading, and more. Sprecher speaks with Tim Stenovec and Jess Menton. (Source: Bloomberg)

Investors await earnings from Apple, AMD, and other major companies, as well as the midterm elections and the monthly jobs report.

S&P Global Ratings lowered the outlook on Meta Platforms Inc.’s AA- credit rating to negative on Friday, citing growing pressure on the tech company’s balance sheet stemming from elevated spending tied to artificial intelligence.

Plus, Binance executives are racing to cover billions in losses from the biggest crypto heist in history, and Ukraine struck a Russian oil refinery.

Find insight on Intel, Amazon and more in the latest Market Talks covering technology, media and telecom.

No Halloween costume? Just be a deceptively cute AI agent icon, a PHP vulnerability, or sleepy time Bryan Johnson.

Big Tech is pouring billions into AI infrastructure, but mounting debt, negative cash flow, and growing investor skepticism are raising questions about the sustainability of the AI spending boom.

Investors are nervous about the massive AI spending from the tech giants and whether that will pay off.

The five largest players in the data center race have committed more than $3 trillion in spending over the coming years, pointing to massive ongoing investment in AI infrastructure.

Wall Street got a reality check as a bruising selloff in technology shares fueled concern the artificial-intelligence frenzy might be overblown. Eric Weiner has more. (Source: Bloomberg)

Tech advocacy groups warn that foreign nationals at AI companies like OpenAI and Google pose a national security threat amid a lack of federal oversight.

Anthropic’s technical expertise, innovation and efficient use of compute set it apart in the AI landscape, says Peter Singlehurst, head of the Private Companies Team at Baillie Gifford. Singlehurst discusses why Anthropic’s governance structures – giving its seven founders voting control – are good for long-term investors. He joins Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)

Roblox CEO David Baszucki says the platform has seen an explosion of AI-fueled content in the last three months. But the online gaming company is seeing some growing pains after rolling out tougher child-safety measures, with daily active users falling 9% last quarter, while bookings dropped 12%. Baszucki joins Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)

Ghost hunting has changed in recent years due to AI chatbots, and paranormal enthusiasts are concerned Ghost hunting is a tech-heavy pursuit. When Amy Waine and Jarrad Cutting investigate haunted locations, they’re loaded up with software of their own design, such as an app that assigns signals from a phone’s sensors to different words in a database. In the age of ChatGPT, the ghost-hunting pair is probing the world of AI. They describe one of their latest inventions, an app called GhostTube Seer , as “the world’s first AI Ghost Hunting tool”. In the hands of paranormal investigators, scientific tools like EMF meters (used to detect electromagnetic fields) are repurposed to identify changes and anomalies that they believe indicate supernatural activity. Seer is, in many ways, simply an expansion of that practice, another way to scan an empty room and believe that something may be there. The app, which requires a paid monthly subscription, has more than 1m downloads, according to its Google Play store listing . But for others in the ghost hunting world, AI is an unwelcome presence. Since the release of ChatGPT in 2022, AI-generated ghost stories and images of the supernatural have flooded online spaces, so much so that popular forums like the r/Nosleep subreddit , meant for scary stories, have implemented a strict policy against AI-generated material. Continue reading...

Hyperscalers continue spending big on artificial intelligence, putting pressure on their legacy businesses and impacting their free cash flow.

Amazon and Intel worsen the sell-off with disappointing earnings releases

Tech stocks plunged on Friday for the second day in a row as fears around AI spending collide with disappointing earnings in big tech’s core businesses.

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Disappointing results from one company don't necessarily signal trouble for an entire industry.

Net profit slid 25% from a year earlier to $26.2bn, well short of expectations, though revenue rose to $127.6bn Shares in the Google parent Alphabet fell double digits Wednesday evening into Thursday trading, erasing hundreds of billions of dollars in stock market value from the $4tn tech giant. The company had reported lower-than-expected profit and a slowdown in its advertising business while it maintained big spending on AI. Continue reading...

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The battle over data centers is hitting the ballot box. Brookings scholar Darrell West talks about how the backlash against the AI boom, flock cameras and tech companies is crossing party lines.

As WIRED’s resident pet tech tester, I have lots of opinions on what’s worth your money. Petkit’s automatic litter boxes are my top picks—and my favorite models are $100 off right now.

Dyson’s first electric toothbrush watches you brush and flosses for you, but there are far cheaper ways to get an effective clean • The best electric toothbrushes for every budget When Dyson announced it was entering the toothbrush market , the world responded almost as one: “Four hundred and twenty pounds? For a toothbrush!?” No, it wasn’t a stray decimal point – or if it was, Dyson is doubling down and leaning into the mistake. Unlike high-end brushes from Oral-B or Philips Sonicare, where the “recommended” in “recommended retail price” is doing a heroic amount of heavy lifting given the frequent discounts, the Dyson CameraJet will actually set you back £419.99. Continue reading...

The tech giant is no longer loved by investors, despite its many advantages.

CNBC’s Jim Cramer said SK Hynix’s blockbuster earnings showed that AI stocks can still rally.

Cramer said a select group of technology stocks are less vulnerable to economic pressures.

The author believes we are at a turning point as a species – and even in the shadow of big tech it’s up to us how we want to proceed ‘I am a storyteller by trade,” writes Jeanette Winterson on the first page of her 2021 book 12 Bytes , an idiosyncratic and thought-provoking series of essays in which she considered just how artificial intelligence might change everything about our lives. “And I know everything we do is a fiction until it’s a fact: the dream of flying, the dream of space travel, the dream of speaking to someone instantly, across time and space, the dream of not dying – or of returning.” She had already been thinking about our possible futures for at least 15 years – her 2007 novel, The Stone Gods, for instance, imagined a post-climate catastrophe world populated by robots and humans who never age, while 12 Bytes was preceded by Frankisstein: A Love Story , which alternates a recreation of the summer Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein with a trans doctor’s travels among present-day cryogenecists and AI-enabled robots. Continue reading...

Labor government under pressure to create social media watchdog as new online safety standards bill passes lower house Follow our Australia politics live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The federal government wants to ban AI chatbots which seek to create “emotional intimacy” after prime minister Anthony Albanese raised the alarm in a heartfelt speech about children treating these agents as their “best friend”. But Labor is coming under increasing pressure to empower the telecommunications ombudsman to become a watchdog for social media and AI to give Australians an external complaints mechanism and allow the “naming and shaming” of big tech. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s Politics, really newsletter here Continue reading...

We hear from Ondřej Surý, the programmer whose PHP patches helped avert a cyber crisis.

Microsoft announced Monday it is offering voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees, more than a quarter of its global workforce. It is unclear how many positions the tech giant hopes to eliminate.

Anthropic, the tech company behind Claude, filed IPO paperwork Monday, marking a major step for the AI giant as concerns over the technology's potential threats ramps up. Jo Ling Kent reports.

Both private and public schools in tech regions are limiting the use of tech in classrooms. But will low-income districts be able to follow suit? German Gil spends most of his waking hours looking at screens. Since moving to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2015, the software engineer has bounced between startups and giants including Netflix , Facebook and GitHub. But when it came to the education of his daughter, Victoria, he wanted her to have a different experience, one in which his “kid could be a kid”. Continue reading...

From apps that block distractions to stripped-down phones, young people are finding ways to unplug from platforms they say profit from their attention Gen Z voters: tell us what is guiding your vote in the US midterm elections? Nelissa Moukoudi, 19, a university student in Canada, noticed a shift once she joined Instagram and TikTok. “My social life completely plummeted and it felt like my life was only [using] social media and school,” she said. Continue reading...

About a quarter of the tech giant’s employees were eligible for the packages, although the company cautioned it did not expect many employees to sign on.

Some are asking how to teach a chatbot right from wrong.

The AI boom is pitting local residents against corporate giants seeking to power their energy-hungry networks – but one Welsh city is fighting back Dale Johnston opens the gate to his neat suburban garden on the western fringes of Newport in South Wales. There’s a trampoline and a slide on the lawn for his grandchildren, and chairs for him and his wife. He should be enjoying the light draining from the perfect autumnal sky – but almost his entire view is blotted out by a vast expanse of prefabricated panels. The 23 metre-high grey hulk looming over him and his neighbours is a hyperscale datacentre. It is heralded by the area’s Labour politicians as a job creator, yet all Johnston can think about is what he has lost: “Before, the sun used to come around here and it was lovely.” The way residents have been treated is “disgusting”. Continue reading...

The Audacity is a fearless satire taking on Silicon Valley’s ‘egomaniac weirdos’. Its creator and stars talk ayahuasca ceremonies, mining kids for data – and punching CEOs Showrunner Jonathan Glatzer wanted the tagline of his latest TV creation to be: “We’re so fucked.” He laughs. “Sadly it got rejected by the network. Hey, maybe I can use it for season two!” The show in question is The Audacity, his darkly comic drama about AI tech titans. Instead, it went with the more PG tagline “Move fast and break people” – a twist on “Move fast and break things”, the Facebook motto coined by Mark Zuckerberg. The Audacity promises to do for tech bros what Succession did for legacy media. Considering Glatzer is a former writer on Succession, that is no empty threat. This acerbic and all-too-timely Silicon Valley satire follows CEO Duncan Park (played by Billy Magnussen), the obscenely wealthy founder of a data analytics company. He’s a self-proclaimed “inventor of the future” who also happens to be a morally bankrupt man-baby. “Duncan is worth about half a billion,” says Glatzer. “Naturally, that’s not enough. He desperately wants to be a billionaire and ascend to what we call ‘God Mountain’. But he’s no God.” Continue reading...

With host communities across the U.S. turning against their gargantuan data centers, America’s technology giants are promising to take fewer taxpayer handouts, keep fewer secrets or shower more money onto the communities willing to allow the server war...

Combining SpaceX and Tesla, whose stocks jumped after Musk said the companies are exploring a deal, would be the biggest corporate merger of all time.

The next generation of chip is thinner and flexible when compared to traditional silicon.

U.S. consumers are uneasy about the increasingly high-tech ways that restaurant chains and major retailers are setting prices

Wall Street is pulling back from chipmakers and other tech companies amid concerns about the debt incurred to build out AI.

The providers of Clairity Breast, a new FDA-approved AI tool, claim their tech provides an accurate five-year risk assessment for breast cancer, for just $249. Dr. Céline Gounder shares her thoughts.

The plan for an orbiting data centre involves linking satellites around Earth.