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The Week Ahead: US PCE, GDP and jobs; Big Tech earnings

May 2, 2025

Welcome to Michael Kramer’s pick of the major market events to look out for in the week beginning Monday 28 April. The coming week could be one of the most important of 2025. First, we’ll get a glut of key economic data from the US, including the March reading of the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) […]

Weekly Trader’s Outlook

May 2, 2025

At the time of this writing (2:30 p.m. ET), stocks are mixed (DJI – 37, SPX + 31, COMP + 177, RUT – 7), but above the midpoints of the intraday range, so the bulls appear to be holding their ground to close out what has been a strong week of gains. Additionally, the SPX […]

Vendor Notebook: Voice AI agents tackle trust, explainability

May 2, 2025

This week and in the days ahead, technology companies, including Infinitus, Ambience Healthcare and Anthropic, are releasing new artificial intelligence tools that could bolster trust and ease of use for patients, physicians and revenue cycle managers. Hallucination-free AI for engagement By limiting AI agent responses, Infinitus hopes to ensure trust and compliance with the first […]

AI Agents Playing Video Games Will Transform Future Robots

May 2, 2025

AI agents trained in video game environments are demonstrating a remarkable ability to transfer … More skills to new challenges, potentially revolutionizing how we build real-world robots. Adobe Stock Video games have played an important role in the development of AI. Many early demonstrations of machine learning involved teaching computers to play games. Eventually, Google […]

Tray.ai launches ITSM Agent to automate IT support tasks

May 2, 2025

Tray.ai has introduced an AI-powered agent for IT Service Management (ITSM) that automates routine IT support tasks and reduces the workload typically handled by humans. The company's ITSM Agent is part of Tray.ai's enterprise AI agent line-up, created using its low-code Merlin Agent Builder. While many software-as-a-service (SaaS) app agents function primarily as chatbots or […]

AI Agents Are Reinventing Business Analytics: What Leaders Should Know

May 2, 2025

Ariel Katz is the CEO of Sisense with 30 years of experience in technology, cloud products and leading innovation at Microsoft. getty The era of traditional business intelligence (BI)—with its static dashboards and quarterly reports—is coming to an end. As AI evolves from simple automation to sophisticated autonomous agents, companies face a critical inflection point […]

Members of Congress Are Buying This Beaten-Down “Magnificent Seven” Stock (Hint: It’s Not Nvidia or Tesla)

April 29, 2025

The U.S. Congress might not be the place you want to look for guidance on anything financial-related. After all, the national debt is over $36.7 trillion and growing, and every penny of the money spent by the federal government had to be approved by Congress. On the other hand, quite a few individual congressional representatives […]

Microsoft says everyone will be a boss in the future – of AI employees

April 28, 2025

Microsoft has good news for anyone with corner office ambitions. In the future we’re all going to be bosses – of AI employees. The tech company is predicting the rise of a new kind of business, called a “frontier firm”, where ultimately a human worker directs autonomous artificial intelligence agents to carry out tasks. Everyone, […]

Here are Thursday’s biggest analyst calls: Nvidia, Apple, Tesla, IBM, Meta, ServiceNow, Microsoft and more

April 27, 2025

Here are Thursday's biggest calls on Wall Street: JPM reiterates Texas Instruments as overweight JPM lowered its price target on the stock to $195 per share from $230 but said it is sticking with Texas Instruments following earnings on Wednesday. "Texas Instruments delivered better-than-expected Mar-Qtr results (revenue/ margins/earnings) and provided a solid 2Q outlook." Bank […]