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Microsoft Work Trend Index 2025: Firms with hybrid human-AI agent teams on the rise

April 27, 2025

“Intelligence is becoming abundant, affordable and available on demand,” Microsoft said on Wednesday, April 23, in its newly released fifth annual Work Trend Index Report. The latest edition of the report contains insights related to labour and hiring trends based on a survey of 31,000 people from 31 countries as well as trillions of anonymous […]

S&P 500 is flat as it wraps up big week of gains: Live updates

April 25, 2025

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange on April 24, 2025. The S&P 500 was unchanged on Friday following a three-day winning streak on Wall Street as investors weigh earnings from a major tech company and lingering trade fears. The broad market benchmark was last trading marginally higher, while the Nasdaq […]

Parasail says its fleet of on-demand GPUs is larger than Oracle’s entire cloud

April 2, 2025

Cloud infrastructure is dominated by several large industry players: AWS, Microsoft’s Azure, and Google Cloud. While to some it may look like AI is headed in a similar direction, the founders of Parasail think AI infrastructure will look very different — and are betting their company’s fate on it. Parasail works with dozens of providers to […]

What to know about TikTok’s uncertain future in the US and the people who want to buy it

April 2, 2025

TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, has been at the center of controversy in the U.S. for four years now due to concerns about user data potentially being accessed by the Chinese government. Earlier this year, the app experienced a temporary outage in the U.S. that left millions of users in suspense before it […]

OpenAI seeks to convene group to advise its nonprofit goals

April 2, 2025

As it prepares to transition from a nonprofit corporation to a for-profit, OpenAI says it’s convening a group of experts to “help OpenAI’s philanthropy understand the most urgent and intractable problems nonprofits face today.” This group, which OpenAI says will incorporate feedback from “leaders and communities” in health, science, education, and public services, particularly within […]