Funding Fears Threaten AI Bull Market Early in the year, investors rushed into tech stocks as AI innovations, investment, and rapid growth expectations drew attention away from the rest of the market. AI-related leaders like Bloom Energy (BE), SanDisk (SNDK) and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) each soared more than 100%. However, over the past few…
A political ad from Spain’s main opposition party that used a deepfake video of the prime minister’s wife has sparked outrage and set off a wider debate on AI, as the deeply polarised country gears up for general elections next month. Launched this week across the social media channels of the conservative People’s party (PP),…
Apollon Wealth Management CIO Eric Sterner discusses how technology is driving gains in the healthcare sector on ‘The Claman Countdown.’ Microsoft researchers said in a study that a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can diagnose patients step by step, as a doctor would, was more than twice as accurate as general physicians at solving…
Vibe coding has reached TVs. Social media is awash with posts from people using LLMs and open-source tools to remove ads and tracking, trim bloat so the OS runs faster, and even completely change the look and organization of their homescreens. While a lot of it is fun — one user turned their TV homescreen…
Director-General of Investment Promotion of Invest HK Alpha Lau Hai-suen speaks at a press conference for the Hong Kong FinTech Week x StartmeupHK 2026, in Hong Kong, on Oct 23, 2026. (PHOTO/HKSAR GOVT) This year’s Hong Kong FinTech Week adopts “Finance+”, “AI+” and global expansion as its three core engines for sustainable business growth, bringing…
AI chatbots linked to higher loneliness in middle-schoolers, study warns Dana Perino highlights an AI chatbots study showing one in five middle-schoolers uses technology for companionship. Heritage Foundation policy analyst Annie Chestnut Tutor warns that chatbot design features are hooking vulnerable children. Tutor explains that these artificial relationships cannot replace real human connection, ultimately leading…
A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at the opening bell in New York City, on April 7, 2025. Timothy A. Clary | Afp | Getty Images Investors ran for cover this week as artificial intelligence fears hit stocks, driving the 10-year Treasury below 5%. The benchmark yield stayed…
A few weeks ago, I heard a strange story about a friend who works at one of the Big Tech companies in Silicon Valley. She’d recently ripped out the connected devices in her home, ordered paper bank statements, and stocked up on canned goods in her basement. Now, she’s a very sane, experienced person, and…
This report is from this week’s The Tech Download newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. Jensen Huang has been busy. Nvidia’s GTC in Berlin was the grand finale of a week-and-a-half whistle stop European tour. Huang met with world leaders — including U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham, French President Emmanuel Macron and German…
In July 2004, security researcher Stefan Esser sent a warning. A critical flaw in PHP, the programming language that powers 70% of the world’s websites, could allow an attacker to do some seriously nefarious stuff: read passwords, steal databases or even take over entire websites. But Esser’s warning went mostly ignored for decades. In 2020,…