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Amazon’s Secret Weapon ‘Kiro’ Set to Blow Up the Coding World

May 11, 2025

Amazon is poised to revolutionise software development with a covert project codenamed Kiro, an AI-powered coding assistant unveiled in internal documents on 6 May 2025. Designed to outpace rivals like GitHub Copilot, Kiro uses AI agents to generate code in 'near real-time', promising to slash development time. With tech giants racing to dominate AI coding, […]

Massive Ukrainian attacks on Crimea. Day 1168 of the war

May 10, 2025

Analyses Massive Ukrainian attacks on Crimea. Day 1168 of the war The Russians broke through another Ukrainian line of defence on the eastern side of the Pokrovsk-Kostiantynivka road, where they penetrated their positions in a strip more than 5km wide to a depth of up to 5 km. After months of fighting, they also captured […]

OpenAI Ditches For-Profit Ambitions After Elon Musk Rips Sam Altman Over Plan

May 10, 2025

OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, has ditched its push to become a for-profit company — a plan that had pitted CEO Sam Altman against Elon Musk, who has criticized and even sued OpenAI over the attempted move. On Monday, OpenAI announced its nonprofit board will oversee a public benefit corporation that “has to consider […]

Bill Gates Says Elon Musk Is ‘Killing World’s Poorest Children’

May 10, 2025

Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Bill Gates has accused fellow billionaire Elon Musk of "killing the world's poorest children" over the cuts to the U.S. Agency for International […]

S&P 500 Notches Longest Winning Streak Since 2004 As Stocks Claw Back From ‘Liberation Day’ Crash

May 10, 2025

Topline Stocks rallied again Friday on a key data point showing strength in the U.S. economy and optimism about trade talks between the U.S. and China, sending the S&P 500 index to its longest winning stretch in two decades, completing the v-shaped recovery from President Donald Trump’s tariffs which briefly crashed U.S. stocks. The AI […]

AI may ‘exacerbate inequality’ at work. Here’s how experts think companies should address that

May 9, 2025

The rise of AI can cause both "utopian" and "dystopian" effects in the future, says AI expert Pedro Uria-Recio. Mtstock Studio | E+ | Getty Images Workplace leaders are grappling with balancing between prioritizing people and profit making amid the rapid rise of artificial intelligence. Companies have a responsibility to protect jobs as the AI […]

US adds 177K jobs in April, while unemployment holds

May 9, 2025

00:00 Speaker A Those numbers coming in right now. So 177,000 jobs over the course of the month added. That is above the survey data showing 138,000 jobs added here. Taking a look at the unemployment rate, that is being in line, the expectation 4.2% coming in, just in line with that at 4.2%. Unemployment, […]

US Stocks Jump on Strong Tech Earnings

May 9, 2025

Wall Street opened May on a strong note, with the S&P 500 rising 0.9%, the Dow Jones gaining 200 points, and the Nasdaq advancing 1.5%, supported by upbeat earnings from tech giants and optimism over global trade negotiations. Microsoft shares jumped 9% after the company projected stronger-than-expected growth for its Azure cloud business, while Meta […]

Microsoft Raises the Price of All Xbox Series Consoles, Xbox Games Confirmed to Hit $80 This Holiday

May 9, 2025

Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox. By a lot. In an announcement today, the company said it will be raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, headsets, and some games. The price hike for consoles and accessories kicks in today, May 1, and while game prices will stay the same for now, we should expect to […]

Binance lancia Space and Time (SXT), la blockchain per l’analisi dei dati con ZK-proof « LMF Lamiafinanza

May 8, 2025

Binance ha annunciato il lancio del 69° progetto su Launchpool, la sua sezione in cui vengono presentati progetti inediti: si tratta di Space and Time (SXT), una blockchain dedicata alla gestione decentralizzata dei dati con tecnologia ZK-proof e il supporto diretto di Microsoft. Come tutte le monete digitali, anche SXT ha i suoi dati e […]