TOKYO (AP) — Japanese technology giant SoftBank said Tuesday it has sold its stake in Nvidia, raising $5.8 billion to pour into other investments. It also reported its profit nearly tripled in the first half of this fiscal year from a year earlier. Tokyo-based SoftBank Group Corp. said it sold the…

Anthropic made headlines Thursday when it released research claiming that a previously unknown Chinese state-sponsored hacking group used the company’s Claude AI generative AI product to breach at least 30 different organizations. According to Anthropic’s report, the threat actor was able to bypass…

Nine months after Donald Trump took office, promising to reduce prices on “day one”, a clear majority of Americans say their monthly costs have risen by between $100 and $749, according to an exclusive new poll conducted for the Guardian. The president has continued to insist that there is…

The state-backed hackers who breached cybersecurity company F5 Inc. broke in beginning in late 2023 and lurked in the company’s systems until being discovered in August of this year, according to people who were briefed by F5 about the incident. The attackers penetrated F5’s computer systems by…

The collective wealth of the top 10 US billionaires has soared by $698bn in the past year, according to a new report from Oxfam America published on Monday on the growing wealth divide. The report warns that Trump administration policies risk driving US inequality to new heights, but points out that…

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On 14 October 2025, the CEO of OpenAI made an extraordinary announcement. “We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive,” it says, “to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues.” As a psychiatrist who studies emerging psychosis in adolescents and young adults, this was news to me. Researchers…

Removing carbon from the atmosphere will be necessary to avoid catastrophic tipping points, one of the world’s leading scientists has warned, as even in the best-case scenario the world will heat by about 1.7C. Johan Rockström of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, who is one of the…

Many organizations rushing to cut staff in the name of AI efficiency are expected to quietly rehire those roles – often "offshore or at lower salary." According to Forrester's "Predictions 2026: The Future Of Work" analysis, half of AI-attributed layoffs are likely to be reversed. Tech industry grad…

The surprising resilience of the US economy this year is masking underlying weakness among low- and middle-income households, as higher-income Americans continue to drive growth. This dichotomy between the haves and have-nots isn’t new, but the economic strain is now bleeding from the lowest earners…

The market’s confidence in artificial intelligence may be wavering, and companies with big investments in it seem to be shedding supporters. The Financial Times notes that, over the course of the past week, approximately $1 trillion in stock value has been wiped from several of Silicon Valley’s…

OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar said on Wednesday that the company is not planning to go public anytime soon, speaking on stage at the Wall Street Journal’s Tech Live conference. “IPO is not on the cards right now,” Friar said. “We are continuing to get the company into a state of…

The fact that Sam Altman is a liar is no longer news. As I argued here in late 2023, Altman truly was fired for being “not completely candid” — just like the board said. Recent books by Karen Hao and Keach Hagey pretty much confirm this. I dissected his 2023 Senate testimony here. But just in case…

A Miami husband and wife who recently attained the title of world’s longest-married couple say they managed that feat just by loving one another. “We love each other,” Eleanor Gittens, 107, said to LongeviQuest when the website specializing on people who are in their second century of life asked…

AI may not simply be “a bubble,” or even an enormous bubble. It may be the ultimate bubble. What you might cook up in a lab if your aim was to engineer the Platonic ideal of a tech bubble. One bubble to burst them all. I’ll explain. Since ChatGPT’s viral success in late 2022, which drove every…

The nation’s largest employers have a new message for office workers: help not wanted. Amazon.com said this week that it would cut 14,000 corporate jobs, with plans to eliminate as much as 10% of its white-collar workforce eventually. United Parcel Service UPS 1.08%increase; green up pointing…

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Summary Bostic, Musalem, keep focus on inflationLast week's cut appropriate; more in doubtMiran speaks later in the day WASHINGTON, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Federal Reserve officials on Monday cast doubt on the need for further rate cuts at a time when inflation remains above the central bank's 2% target…

A joint study by Stanford University researchers and a workplace performance consulting firm published in the Harvard Business Review details the plight of workers who have to fix their colleagues’ AI-generated “workslop,” which they describe as work content that “masquerades as good work, but lacks…

Police have warned that the growing furore around a Canadian ostrich farm – fanned by animal rights activists and prominent allies of Donald Trump – has led to intimidation, harassment and death threats against businesses in a small British Columbia town. Universal Ostrich Farms, near the town of…

On a week-long trip to Paris last year, I racked up nearly $100 in data charges on my iPhone, with taxes and fees. Ditto for a separate, eight-day trip to Spain, which was even more pricey. And, in what I now jokingly call an act of piracy, my three-week trip to seven countries – including a…

Food and agriculture contribute one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions – second only to the burning of fossil fuels. And yet the vast majority of media coverage of the climate crisis overlooks this critical sector, according to a new data analysis from Sentient Media. The findings suggest that…

You know MCP servers, right? Those handy tools that let your AI assistant send emails, run database queries, basically handle all the tedious stuff we don't want to do manually anymore. Well, here's the thing not enough people talk about: we're giving these tools god-mode permissions. Tools built by…

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Syracuse University in Upstate New York announced the establishment of its new Center for the Creator Economy earlier this week. It is the first academic center of its kind on a college campus to focus on the current creator-driven economic landscape. The center draws inspiration from new kinds of…

The State’s basic income scheme for artists will be opened up to 2,000 new entrants next year and put on a permanent footing in the budget. Under the scheme – which has so far operated on a pilot basis – those participating are paid €325 per week. Minister for Culture Patrick O’Donovan has agreed…

America's top banker sounds warning on US stock market fall Media caption, Watch: 'I'm more worried than others about stock market fall', says JP Morgan boss BySimon Jack, business editor, and Michael Sheils McNamee, business reporter Published 9 October 2025 There is a higher risk of a serious fall…

Several years after launching a trial, Ireland is set to make its basic income for artists program permanent starting in 2026. Under the program, selected artists receive a weekly payment of approximately $375, or about $1,500 per month. There are 2,000 spots available, with applications set to open…

Cards against Elon Musk Cards Against Humanity lawsuit forced SpaceX to vacate land on US/Mexico border CAH: Trespassing lawsuit forced SpaceX to “pack up the space garbage” and leave. Jon Brodkin – Oct 21, 2025 2:02 PM | 34 Credit: Aurich Lawson | Cards Against Humanity Credit: Aurich Lawson |…

Bubble Bobble Is the AI bubble about to pop? Sam Altman is prepared either way. "Someone will lose a phenomenal amount of money," says CEO while fundraising at record prices. Benj Edwards – Aug 21, 2025 6:06 PM | 136 Sam Altman during the AI Action Summit in Paris, France, on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025.…

An essential part of being able to say ‘I told you so’ is in fact having told you so. Here goes. In April 2023, I wrote an article titled AI: Guaranteed to disrupt our economies. In this piece I also announced I was going to make a fool of myself by making some AI predictions. I have singularly…

US regional banking stocks fell sharply on Thursday after two banks disclosed issues with bad and fraudulent loans, amplifying concerns on Wall Street around the state of credit markets. Zions Bancorp announced it had a $50m charge-off over two bad loans from its subsidiary, California Bank & Trust…

We all die eventually. This isn't morbid; it's clarifying. When you accept the finite nature of our time, you're forced to ask harder questions about how you spend it. And since most of our waking hours are spent at work, the question is simply: Is this work worth my life? Dan Pink's book Drive…

The earth has reached its first catastrophic tipping point linked to greenhouse gas emissions, with warm water coral reefs now facing a long-term decline and risking the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people, according to a new report. The report from scientists and conservationists warns…

(See how I cleverly did not mention AI in the title!) You know we have seen more than our fair share of slop reports sent to the curl project so it seems only fair that I also write something about the state of AI when we get to enjoy some positive aspects of this technology. Let’s try doing this in…

There are now almost daily attacks on critical infrastructure. In the same week that drones were spotted over several European airports, a cyberattack against security software used by many of those same hubs, including Berlin Airport, left passengers and personnel scrambling. At the same time,…