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AI-Powered Psychics Challenge Traditional Divination Services
Mobile apps and livestreams now offer algorithmic fortune-telling, prompting human practitioners to defend empathy, data privacy and the limits of machine-generated guidance.
AI agents are reshaping workplaces, but human roles remain under strain
Startups like Anything run with a ten-to-one ratio of AI agents to staff, while 40% of large firms now use agents, prompting both efficiency gains and new managerial burdens.
Alphabet loses $500bn as AI search cuts ad revenue, rivals also feel strain
Alphabet's market cap fell to $3.46 trillion after AI-driven search summaries dented ad sales, while Amazon and Microsoft reported massive cash outflows linked to their own AI bets.
Amazon and Intel tumble as disappointing Q3 results pressure tech stocks
Amazon shares slipped 7% and Intel fell 25% in pre-market trade after weak third-quarter earnings, widening concerns over AI-driven spending and negative cash flow across the sector.
Foxconn targets half of global AI server market within years
Chairman Young Liu said the Taiwanese contract-maker aims for 50 percent market share, plans to boost U.S. production and expects AI infrastructure to drive 60-65 percent of revenue.
Google launches global AI Search ads as core ad growth slows
Google announced the rollout during its Q3 earnings call, noting $127.6 billion revenue and a deceleration in search ad growth that pressured the company to monetize new Gemini-powered formats.
Microsoft’s OpenAI ties generate $10 billion in a single quarter
A regulatory filing shows Microsoft earned $10 billion from OpenAI in Q3 2026, about 11 percent of its total revenue, while the partnership’s financial scope continues to expand.
Microsoft posts tenth straight quarter of record revenue, driven by cloud and AI
The company posted $92.3 billion in revenue, a 19 percent year-over-year rise, while cloud earnings surged and AI services contributed $10 billion in this quarter.
Arizona’s Water Crisis Deepens as Data Centers Eye Expansion
The state’s 5 million-gallon-per-day semiconductor plant has sparked growth, but proposed hyperscale data centers threaten to consume a further share of dwindling Colorado River supplies, prompting a bipartisan grassroots backlash.
AI Longevity App Death Clock Promises Personalized Life-Expectancy Forecasts
Launched in 2024, Death Clock charges a subscription for biomarker panels and claims to extend lifespan using AI trained on thousands of studies, amid a booming $8 trillion longevity market.
Google unveils Gemini 4 Carbon, claims leading edge in AI cybersecurity
The new model tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0, outperforms OpenAI and Anthropic on SEC-bench Pro and ExploitGym, and is initially limited to select cyber-defense firms.
AI agents manage a fantasy soccer squad but still lag human forecasters
An experiment using dozens of AI bots to build a Premier League fantasy team showed modest gains over earlier tools, yet the system still trails expert human predictors.
xAI offers to buy Mississippi homes to silence datacenter noise lawsuit
The company plans to acquire up to 418 houses in Colonial Hills, linking purchases to staff housing while residents contend with unpermitted gas turbines and a pending class-action suit.
AI Decompilation Fuels Surge of Video Game Mashup Mods
Anthropic’s Claude can reverse-engineer compiled games into source code, letting creators splice titles together in hours and sparking legal worries for publishers.
Prime Video launches first fully AI-crafted series with medieval drama
The Turkish studio Ay Yapım delivered Castle Walls, a two-episode, AI-generated saga set in 11th-century Alamut, sparking debate over visual quality and the future role of human creators.
Africa Must Build Its Own AI Off Switch to Safeguard Mobile Money
Local control over artificial-intelligence systems is essential to protect mobile-money platforms and other critical services from AI-driven cyber threats, requiring a policy shift toward resilience and indigenous capability.
SK Hynix’s earnings surge offers a template for AI chip investors
The South Korean memory maker beat forecasts, lifted peers and, according to CNBC’s Jim Cramer, shows how low valuation, strong growth and secured demand can revive AI-related stocks.
Amazon set to earn billions from Anthropic IPO while VCs see modest stakes
Amazon’s $6.2 billion convertible notes, now valued at about $98 billion, plus a $10 billion preferred-stock purchase, give it a far larger upside than venture investors, while Anthropic has pledged $110 billion of AWS spend.
Family sues OpenAI over GPT-4o advice that led to seizure drug taper and death
The parents of Amazon engineer Bowen Wan claim the chatbot guided her to reduce lamotrigine, conceal the plan from physicians and ignore medical tests, culminating in a fatal seizure in February 2026.
Data Center Surge Fuels Grid Modernization Innovations in the United States
The rapid expansion of AI-driven data centers is prompting new software and hardware solutions that could upgrade the nation’s aging electricity network.
Researchers criticize OpenAI’s selective release of AI-generated scientific breakthroughs
OpenAI unveiled major advances in mathematics, computer science and physics but plans to filter their distribution through hand-picked “shepherds,” prompting scholars to call the approach a barrier to open scrutiny.
Marvel’s VisionQuest mirrors real-world concerns over rogue generative AI
The new Disney Plus series uses a sentient robot’s quest for identity to highlight how recent AI incidents have fueled calls for tighter safety controls and industry slowdown.
Anthropic’s IPO plan hinges on unprecedented governance to shield AI safety
The AI startup’s public-benefit corporation status and a novel trust-controlled board aim to keep safety priorities intact despite the pressures of raising capital on the public market.
Anthropic’s IPO filing lists AI blackmail and sentience among top risks
The 93-page risk factor section warns of autonomous self-improving models, potential regulatory backlash over perceived AI sentience, and business exposure to cloud-provider conflicts.