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Finance

Can the Magnificent Seven Ride Again?

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After serving as the driving force for a blistering market rise, the so-called Magnificent Seven have taken an epic stumble in 2025.

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Big Tech

Silicon Valley Gears Up for Crucial Earnings Week

Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta all report earnings this week. Wall Street is dying for any hint that heavy investment in AI is paying off.

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Technology

Y24K: Three Days After the Biggest IT Outage in History

A single file in a defective software update caused a global IT outage that disrupted airports, banks, hotels, trains, hospitals, and more.

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Media & Entertainment

Microsoft’s Gaming Dreams Enter Their Price-Hike Era

Microsoft’s gaming division Xbox announced it’s splitting its hugely popular subscription service Game Pass into two subscription tiers.

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CIO Upside

Google Patent Makes Cloud Infrastructure Simpler

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Patenting this kind of tech could benefit Google in more ways than one.

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Patent Drop

Microsoft Data Patent Walks the Line of Privacy Versus Nuance in AI Training

Though keeping privacy front-of-mind could help avoid AI-related data breaches, balancing privacy and nuance in data may be tricky.

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Patent Drop

Microsoft Coding AI Patent Highlights Ethics Concerns with Productivity Tools

A Microsoft patent for a machine learning-based coding tool underscores the potential pitfalls of relying too much on AI for productivity.

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Artificial Intelligence

The AI Bubble isn’t as Bubbly as It Looks

Nvidia’s market cap this week surpassed Microsoft’s to become the world’s most-valuable company. But it may be an outlier among AI firms.

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CIO Upside

Microsoft’s Data Center Pullback Raises Questions About AI Infrastructure Boom

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“People are freaked out. And with uncertainty comes cautiousness with capital-heavy investments.”

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CIO Upside

As Agentic AI Sweeps Market, OpenAI Seeks Patent For Easy Model Builder

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OpenAI’s patent history is rather sparse, especially in comparison with competitors such as Google, Microsoft or Amazon

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CIO Upside

What Enterprises Actually Need to Know About Quantum

“There are still going to be things that classical computers are better at.”

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Artificial Intelligence

Whatever Happened to All Those AI Copyright Lawsuits?

Last Tuesday, content conglomerate Thomson Reuters notched a big legal win against AI firm ROSS. Is it a sign of what’s to come?

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Advisor Upside

Microsoft Thinks AI Will Upend Financial Advice. Advisors Say Not So Fast

Can artificial intelligence reshape an industry that prides itself on building trusted relationships with clients?

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