South Korea’s AI stock rally is rapidly transforming different corners of the country’s society ranging all the way from romance to academics. In Korea’s dating scene, professionals such as physicians, lawyers and judges, have traditionally been the most sought-after. Now the preferences are changing, as the AI boom makes those working in the chip sector […]
When it first happens to you, you think you’re crazy. You wander into a cafe and look at a menu with a variety of bagel sandwiches, but each illustration looks eerily flawless, precisely symmetrical, and oddly smooth, eliciting a visceral sensation that something isn’t right. You might think you’re paranoid, but you’re not losing your […]
Zscaler stock sank on Friday even though the cloud security company beat Wall Street’s fiscal fourth-quarter estimates as rising artificial intelligence risk spurred urgent demand for cyber tools. Here’s how the company performed compared to LSEG estimates: Earnings per share: $1.19 adjusted vs. $1.09 expected Revenue: $898 million vs. $877 million expected Revenue jumped 25% […]
Nscale, a British AI infrastructure company founded just two years ago, has said it may go public as early as later this month. Ahead of that expected IPO, the company is reportedly in talks to raise an additional $3.5 billion. Bloomberg reported Friday that the company is looking to sell $1.5 billion in convertible notes […]
A Tesla “Cybercab” in downtown Austin, Texas, on Sept. 3, 2026. Ronaldo Schemidt | Afp | Getty Images Tesla shares slid 6% on Friday after the electric vehicle maker’s long-awaited Cybercab update failed to impress investors who are betting the company can become a major player in the U.S. robotaxi market currently dominated by Alphabet’s […]
For Alexander Lee, back-to-school shopping used to mean hours spent comparing prices, reading reviews, and figuring out where to buy a growing list of supplies for his two kids. “The pens and pencils are not that big of a deal,” Lee said in a CNBC interview ahead of the Labor Day weekend. Things like “calculators, […]
Less than three months after emerging from stealth, XDOF, a startup that collects real-world teleoperation data for training general-purpose robots, is in late-stage talks to raise a Series B at a valuation of about $1.2 billion valuation led by 8VC, several people with knowledge of the deal said. XDOF was co-founded by UC Berkeley researchers […]
Stocks kicked off September on shaky footing as higher oil prices and Treasury yields tested investors’ appetite for some of the market’s biggest artificial intelligence winners. For the week, the S & P 500 eked out a 0.1% gain, while the Nasdaq gained 0.4%, recovering from a rough start to the historically difficult month of […]
Two more news organizations are suing OpenAI and Microsoft over the supposed use of their journalism to train AI. A lawsuit filed by The Seattle Times and Newsday argued that with the advent of AI, the journalism industry could become “broken beyond repair.” The lawsuit described generative AI as “a snake eating its own tail” […]
A truck carrying construction materials at the new QTS Eagle Mountain data center under construction in Eagle Mountain, Utah, US, on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. QTS Realty Trust Inc. is an owner, developer, and operator of carrier-neutral and multi-tenant data centers. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images As America has an intense national debate about […]