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Since August 2, any AI that talks to someone in the EU has to admit it's a machine — at first contact, every time, on pain of fines reaching €15 million or 3% of global revenue. The rule reaches any company whose website serves a European, and by one survey most of them haven't started preparing.
For years the knock on Berkshire was that its mountain of cash just sat there. Under Greg Abel it's moving: a $10 billion purchase of Alphabet shares — deepening a stake that now ranks among Berkshire's largest holdings — plus $4.5 billion spent buying back its own stock. The bet, in effect, is that the AI buildout is worth owning through Google.
Apple's market cap briefly topped $5 trillion on Tuesday, a day after it overtook Nvidia as the world's most valuable public company. Shares have climbed roughly 25% this year on strong iPhone demand.
Q2 earnings landed July 22–23; the raised AI infrastructure forecast spooked investors and dragged the Nasdaq down 2.15%.
A truckload of chocolate vanishes in Europe, the internet joins the manhunt — and the trail leads into a worldwide crime wave that's quietly taxing everyone's grocery bill.
More than half of homes are selling above asking price in Newark, San Francisco, San Jose and Nassau County, making them the most competitive markets in the nation. The AI boom is fueling Bay Area bidding wars, while Florida and Texas remain the least competitive.
An AI that can conjure a movie star, a courtroom still deciding who owns her face, and 42,000 people who used to have steady work — how Hollywood started racing a machine it doesn't yet know how to beat
An unnamed company racked up a half-billion-dollar Claude bill in one month after failing to set usage limits on employee licenses — a cautionary tale for the AI era.
AI coding agents are shifting the build-versus-buy equation, threatening the per-seat SaaS model. As companies replace entire teams with AI tools, the predictable recurring revenue that defined SaaS may be unraveling.
As AI becomes embedded across organizations, senior leaders face pressures that rarely surface in public forums. New research with 35 executives uncovers what they are really struggling with.
The Silicon Ridge mine could bolster efforts to make the U.S. less dependent on China as it seeks to lead the world in AI, electric vehicles, green energy and defense.
From America's 250th birthday to the Trumpnado spinning on, here are ten trends and themes shaping global affairs in the coming year.