Facing the Looming Threat of A.I., Publishers Turn to Decentralized Platforms

Apple’s stock sees worst day since 2022. Here are 2 major worries for investors.

Investors are concerned about delayed AI features and the looming threat of tariffs.

MarketWatch - 1d

House spending bill to avert shutdown faces hurdles in Senate

House Speaker Mike Johnson was able to squeeze a short-term government funding bill through a vote by a slimmest of margins. Attention now turns to the senators across the hall with a government ...

CBS News - 11h

Government shutdown looms amid budget showdown in Congress

Congress is staring down a deadline to fund the government by the end of the week, as the familiar threat of a shutdown looms over Washington. Nikole Killion explains.

CBS News - 1d

AI vs. AI: 6 ways enterprises are automating cybersecurity to counter AI-powered attacks

AI-powered cybersecurity threats include deepfakes, automating breaches, and morphing malware in real time, challenging cyberdefenses.

VentureBeat - 20h

A standard, open framework for building AI agents is coming from Cisco, LangChain and Galileo

The collective, called AGNTCY, aims to create a standard way for AI agents from different platforms and frameworks to talk to each other.

VentureBeat - 5d

Canada’s designated PM Mark Carney meets Trudeau as Trump threat looms

Former central banker won landslide victory in Liberal party race as trade war with US hastens transfer of power. Canada ’s incoming prime minister, Mark Carney, has met with Justin Trudeau as ...

The Guardian - 1d

Schools use AI to monitor kids, but investigation finds risks

Schools are turning to AI-powered surveillance technology to monitor students on school-issued devices like laptops and tablets

ABC News - 1h

Infinite Realms turns fantasy books into living, breathing game worlds with help of AI

Infinite Realms wants to turn beloved fantasy books with big followings into living, breathing game worlds.

VentureBeat - 4d

Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf just challenged Anthropic CEO’s vision for AI’s future — and the $130 billion industry is taking notice

Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf challenges Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's "compressed 21st century" vision, arguing AI systems are building "yes-men on servers" rather than the revolutionary ...

VentureBeat - 5d

Bourbon is out, patriotism is in - how Canadians are facing US threats head on

Across the country, Canadians are defiant in boycotting American goods and travel even as Trump promises another temporary reprieve.

BBC News - 4d

Anthropic just launched a new platform that lets everyone in your company collaborate on AI — not just the tech team

Anthropic launches upgraded Console with team prompt collaboration tools and Claude 3.7 Sonnet's extended thinking controls.

VentureBeat - 5d

CRM provider Creatio launches first ‘AI native’ platform with agentic digital talent built-in

Creatio unveiled a new CRM paradigm that puts a prompt entry box front and center, allowing the user to simply type in what they need.

VentureBeat - 22h

Bringing Diverse Voices to Book Publishing

Sally Kim, president and publisher at Little, Brown and Company, wants to give everyone a seat at the table.

The New York Times - 5d

This Softbank-Backed Startup Wants to Put a Professional Economist in Your Pocket

Labelbox recruits finance and economics experts to make AI platforms even better at analyzing the economy.

Inc. - 17h

Jurassic-era trees have grown in Tasmania for millions of years. Now they face their biggest threat: fire

Pencil pines grow for more than a thousand years each, and only in Tasmania. As lightning fires become more common, humans must mobilise to protect them – or lose these ancients forever. Get our ...

The Guardian - 3d

Commentary: Documentary on Washington Post's former publisher reminds us there's one way forward for media

As publisher, Katharine Graham not only helped change the Washington Post from a small, local daily into a paper of international importance but also set the standard of media ownership.

Los Angeles Times - 6d

The two big questions looming over the shutdown fight: From the Politics Desk

Two big questions are looming over the shutdown fight as Republican lawmakers try to pass a stopgap bill to fund the government.

NBC News - 1d

Canada's next prime minister managed the financial crisis, then Brexit and now Trump's trade war

Canada’s next prime minister has helped run two Group of Seven economies in crisis before and now will try to steer Canada through a looming trade war brought by U.S. President Donald Trump, a ...

ABC News - 2d

Blending the worlds of hardware, games and creators in gaming PCs | Jo Tan interview

The PC has always been everything to everybody. HP is very focused on selling AI PCs, as evidenced by its lineup in January at the CES 2025 tech trade show in Las Vegas. And yet the PC is also the ...

VentureBeat - 3d

Trump on if he's expecting recession this year: 'I hate to predict things like that'

President Trump faced a slew of questions about the economic ripple effects of his tariff policy during an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News, including whether he worried about a looming ...

The Hill - 2d

LGBTQ groups call on Democrats to 'do more' to protect their rights

LGBTQ rights groups are asking the Democratic Party to “do more” to protect the rights of gay and transgender Americans in the face of threats from the Trump administration and a growing divide ...

The Hill - 1d

Inside Broadcom’s data simplification strategy that enables 26 business units to use the same data analytics platform

Broadcom’s CIO explains how his organization has consolidated the data analytics needs of 26 different business units, including VMware onto a single platform and what other organizations can learn ...

VentureBeat - 1d

Big Tech's big bet on nuclear power to fuel artificial intelligence

Faced with the need to cut carbon emissions, and an increasing energy demand to power AI, companies like Microsoft, Google and Amazon are investing in nuclear, from restarting Three Mile Island, to ...

CBS News - 2d

Police investigate MP Rupert Lowe over alleged threats

The Great Yarmouth MP is accused of making "verbal threats" against Reform UK's chairman.

BBC News - 22h

Trump's populist platform gives way to billionaires' agenda

Inside President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement, the populists and politicians are starting to take swings at the plutocrats — namely billionaire White House adviser Elon Musk.

NBC News - 4d

How Facebook Marketplace is keeping young people on the platform

Facebook Marketplace keeps users engaged with free listings, local pickups, and resale growth, helping Meta stay relevant despite declining teen activity.

CNBC - 3d

Why Workday’s CEO Made a Tough Layoff Decision to Invest in AI

Carl Eschenbach explains how workers—including CEOs—can coexist with AI.

Inc. - 2d

Google Says Its New AI Mode Will Help You Find Better, Deeper Information

The move to make search more efficient with generative AI is a clear shot at OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Perplexity, an AI-powered search engine.

Inc. - 2d

What you need to know about Manus, the new AI agentic system from China hailed as a second ‘DeepSeek moment’

Manus AI is designed as a multi-agent system, meaning it combines several AI models to handle tasks independently.

VentureBeat - 1d

Rage Against Elon Musk Turns Tesla Into a Target

The backlash against the electric vehicle company has turned violent at times, as its billionaire chief executive parlays his support for President Trump into consequential influence over the ...

The New York Times - 3d

Trump turns the White House lawn into a Tesla showroom

President Donald Trump on Tuesday turned the South Lawn of the White House into a temporary Tesla showroom in a conspicuous favor to his adviser Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of the car company.

NBC News - 16h

McDonald’s Customers Will Get Their Meals With a Side of AI

The Golden Arches is joining many of its fast-food rivals in rolling out AI technology it hopes will increase efficiency, ease workflows, and boost satisfaction.

Inc. - 4d

In Napa Vineyards, AI Boosts Grape Expectations

Artificial intelligence applications, from smart tractors to precision irrigation, are making their way into viticulture, while generative AI is creating labels and helping sell wine.

Inc. - 1d

Liminal Experiences raises $5.8M for UGC and AI gaming

Liminal Experiences, a new user-generated content gaming startup dedicated to using AI to assist human creativity, raised $5.8 million.

VentureBeat - 1d

Bolton claims Trump’s threat of sanctions on Russia is ‘totally hollow’

Former White House national security adviser John Bolton brushed off President Trump's recent threat to impose sanctions on Russia over its continued strikes in Ukraine as peace talks are underway. ...

The Hill - 3d

Federal judges raise alarm about security threats and impeachment calls

Two senior federal judges on Tuesday raised the alarm about the increase in violent threats against members of the judiciary and expressed concerns about calls to impeach judges over the rulings ...

NBC News - 17h

The left needs its own version of techno-optimism | Amana Fontanella-Khan

We live in dark, depressing and – frankly – terrifying times. Will technology push us over the edge or help us exit our many crises?. Today we live in an era defined by crisis. Indeed, we are ...

The Guardian - 2d

Face the Nation: Fitzpatrick, Suozzi, Hill

Missed the second half of the show? The latest on...Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi, who is one of the bipartisan co-chairs of the House Problem Solvers Caucus, tells "Face the Nation with Margaret ...

CBS News - 2d