Artificial intelligence
SoftBank founder Son makes his biggest bet by staking the Japanese giant’s future on AI
Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group Corp., speaks at the SoftBank World event in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, July 16, 2025. Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty Images Masayoshi Son is making his biggest bet yet: that his brainchild SoftBank will be the center of a revolution driven by artificial intelligence. […]
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AI agents are being drafted into the cyber defense forces of corporations
The rise of generative AI and large language models has drastically shifted the cybersecurity landscape, empowering attackers with easy-to-use tools that can create realistic video and voice deepfakes, personalized phishing campaigns, and malware and malicious code. That has opened the door for AI on the defense as well. As agentic AI becomes more deeply embedded in […]
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Gen AI is coming for online checkout in seismic shift for internet shopping
The logos of Google Gemini, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Claude by Anthropic, Perplexity, and Bing apps are displayed on the screen of a smartphone in Reno, United States, on November 21, 2024. Jaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty Images In the world of online payments, the buzzword these days is frictionless, as companies entice customers with […]
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Tech is getting a boost from AI ad tools. Some companies are being left behind
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms Inc., arrives for the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Artificial intelligence has been a shot in the arm for digital advertising. Meta and Alphabet both reported sales and earnings that beat Wall Street’s expectations, but […]
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Big Tech’s trillion-dollar market cap club could have a new member in the next few years, Dan Ives says
Palantir is on its way to becoming a trillion-dollar company, according to prominent tech bull Dan Ives. The AI company’s stock has surged more than 140% since the beginning of the year. Earnings beats , lucrative military contracts and the firm’s CEO boasting about “crazy, efficient revolution” in terms of growing revenue while downsizing headcount, […]
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Record-setting market: Using ETFs to help avoid hefty tax bills
ETF Edge Record-setting market: Using ETFs to help avoid hefty tax bills Published Fri, Aug 8 20257:30 AM EDT Siena Griffin@siena_griffin WATCH LIVE Source
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AppLovin CEO sees benefits from Apple-Epic fallout as stock pops on earnings
Adam Foroughi, CEO of AppLovin. CNBC AppLovin shares resumed their historic rally on Thursday after the ad-tech company reported better-than-expected earnings for the second quarter. The stock popped 11% and is now up 34% for the year after soaring more than eightfold in 2024. Wall Street has piled into the company due to its growth […]
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Amazon’s cloud business giving federal agencies up to $1 billion in discounts
Attendees walk through an exposition hall at AWS re:Invent, a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services, in Las Vegas on Dec. 3, 2024. Noah Berger | Getty Images Amazon Web Services has agreed to provide U.S. federal agencies with up to $1 billion in discounts for cloud adoption, modernization and training through 2028, an agency […]
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SoftBank Vision Fund posts $4.8 billion gain to drive second straight quarter of group profit
Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group Corp., speaks at the SoftBank World event in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, July 16, 2025. Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty Images SoftBank Group on Thursday reported fiscal first-quarter profit that topped expectations, driven by gains in its Vision Fund tech investment arm. The Japanese […]
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How Meta could challenge Apple and Google to become the AI king on our devices
Key Points Meta is well-positioned to be a key player in AI across our devices as chatbots become more personalized and advanced, according to one fund manager. Access to data of 3.48 billion usesr across its family of apps such as Facebook and Instagram could be a key advantage. However, Meta doesn’t own an operating […]
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