The AI financial Ouroboros

Jorge Costa Oliveira Last Friday, OpenAI announced it had raised $110 billion in its latest funding round; Amazon invested $50 billion, Nvidia $30 billion and SoftBank $30

Technology investor SoftBank Group sees profitability return on AI boom

Japanese technology and telecoms giant SoftBank Group Corp. swung back into profitability in the last quarter of 2025 as its investments in OpenAI and other

The miraculous AGI

Jorge Costa Oliveira Artificial general intelligence (AGI) – which can be understood as the point at which a machine is capable of performing any intellectual task a

Imagine OpenAI bonds and Labubu everywhere: Here’s to 2026

Shuli Ren, Bloomberg From an AI-fueled stock rally to China brushing off US tariff threats while posting a record trade surplus, 2025 delivered no shortage of economic

What if AI doesn’t generate profits?

Jorge Costa Oliveira In a recent article, we saw how excessive debt, when not matched by an adequate equity ratio or by income generated within the timeframe

OpenAI may move forward with new business structure, partnership with Microsoft, regulator says

OpenAI said yesterdayy it has reorganized its ownership structure and converted its business into a public benefit corporation and a crucial regulator, the Delaware attorney general,

OpenAI launches Atlas browser to compete with Google Chrome

OpenAI introduced its own web browser, Atlas, this week, putting the ChatGPT maker in direct competition with Google as more internet users rely on artificial intelligence to answer

Trump in London for trade and tech talks mix with royal pomp

U.S. President Donald Trump arrives in the United Kingdom today for a state visit during which the British government hopes a multibillion-dollar technology deal will

Masayoshi son is going big on OpenAI

Shuli Ren, Bloomberg When Masayoshi Son bets big, it either marks the dawn of an era or the dusk of a tech cycle. The chairman of

Study says AI chatbots need to fix suicide response, as family sues over ChatGPT role in boy’s death

Dr. Ateev Mehrotra A study of how three popular artificial intelligence chatbots respond to queries about suicide found that they generally avoid answering questions that pose the highest

To regulate or not to regulate AI

Jorge Costa Oliveira There is no doubt that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will revolutionize industries, supercharge scientific research, and make many aspects of life and work more efficient.

DeepSeek’s meteoric rise sparks billion-dollar debate

In less than two years, DeepSeek—a Chinese startup that began as a side project—has become the subject of heated valuation debates across the global tech community. Estimates

Trump highlights partnership investing $500 billion in AI

President Donald Trump yesterday talked up a joint venture investing up to $500 billion for infrastructure tied to artificial intelligence by a new partnership formed by

US ahead in AI innovation, surpassing China in Stanford’s new ranking

The U.S. leads the world in developing artificial intelligence technology, surpassing China in research and other important measures of AI innovation, according to a newly released

Profit with purpose

OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company that developed the popular ChatGPT chatbot and the text-to-art program Dall-E, is at a crossroads. On Oct. 2, 2024, it

AI pioneers want bots to replace human teachers – here’s why that’s unlikely

OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy envisions a world in which artificial intelligence bots can be made into subject matter experts that are “deeply passionate, great at

Hong Kong is testing out its own ChatGPT-style tool as OpenAI planned extra steps to block access

Hong Kong’s government is testing the city’s own ChatGPT -style tool for its employees, with plans to eventually make it available to the public, its innovation

Europe’s world-first AI rules are set for final approval. Here’s what happens next

European Union lawmakers are set to give final approval to the 27-nation bloc’s artificial intelligence law today , putting the world-leading rules on track to take

Microsoft says US rivals are beginning to use generative AI in offensive cyber ops

Microsoft said that U.S. adversaries — chiefly Iran and North Korea and to a lesser extent Russia and China — are beginning to use its generative artificial intelligence

AI-powered misinformation is the world’s biggest short-term threat

False and misleading information supercharged with cutting-edge artificial intelligence that threatens to erode democracy and polarize society is the top immediate risk to the global

The year we played with artificial intelligence — and weren’t sure what to do about it

Artificial intelligence went mainstream in 2023 — it was a long time coming yet has a long way to go for the technology to match people’s

Wikipedia, wrapped Here are 2023’s most-viewed articles on the internet’s encyclopedia

Remember what you searched for in 2023? Well, Wikipedia has the receipts. English Wikipedia raked in more than 84 billion views this year, according to

EU on AI regulation: Can leaders reach a deal?

The generative AI boom has sent governments worldwide scrambling to regulate the emerging technology, but it also has raised the risk of upending a European Union push to approve the

World-leading artificial intelligence rules are facing a do-or-die moment

Hailed as a world first, European Union artificial intelligence rules are facing a make-or-break moment as negotiators try to hammer out the final details this week

Sam Altman is back as OpenAI CEO just days after being removed, along with a new board

The ousted leader of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is returning to the company that fired him late last week, culminating a days-long power struggle that shocked the tech industry and

OpenAI’s new CEO says he’s launching investigation into Altman’s firing

The new head of ChatGPT maker OpenAI said yesterday that he would launch an investigation into the firing of co-founder Sam Altman and work to reform the

Baidu makes AI chatbot Ernie Bot publicly available

Chinese search engine and artificial intelligence firm Baidu made its ChatGPT-equivalent language model fully available to the public yesterday, raising the company’s stock price by over

Is it real or made by AI? Europe wants a label for that as it fights disinformation

The European Union is pushing online platforms like Google and Meta to step up the fight against false information by adding labels to text, photos and

Artificial intelligence threatens extinction, experts say in new warning

Scientists and tech industry leaders issued a new warning yesterday about the perils that artificial intelligence poses to humankind. “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should

Musk, scientists call for halt to AI race sparked by ChatGPT

Are tech companies moving too fast in rolling out powerful artificial intelligence technology that could one day outsmart humans? That’s the conclusion of a group of

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