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These AI stocks have been beaten down in 2025, but experts who follow them think they could bounce back. Don’t let your own disappointing experiences with artificial intelligence (AI) applications fool you into thinking this rapidly growing industry can’t produce real earnings. This year alone, the big four tech firms Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, and Microsoft told investors they’d spend a …
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The U.S. government is investing heavily in AI technology, particularly in software. When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) stocks, chances are investors’ thoughts may turn to semiconductors, massive data centers, or cloud computing infrastructure. This is great news for chip powerhouses and hyperscalers like Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices, Broadcom, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, Microsoft, Amazon, or Alphabet, but investors could …
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Rewatching Steven Spielberg’s 2001 film AI: Artificial Intelligence, it feels as plausible as ever, but also more misguided. In 2001, AI was barely a thought in everyday life. It was the thing that destroyed the world in Terminator, and still a lofty goal in tech circles. Today, as the technology continues to grow and dominate daily conversation in almost every …
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Gov. Jared Polis on Wednesday ordered state lawmakers back to the Colorado Capitol on Aug. 21 for a special legislative session aimed at addressing the nearly $1 billion hole punched in the state budget by the so-called big, beautiful bill, congressional Republicans’ federal tax and spending measure. In his executive order calling the special session, Polis also ordered state agencies …
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Google has outlined its latest step towards artificial general intelligence (AGI) with a new model that allows AI systems to interact with a convincing simulation of the real world. The Genie 3 “world model” could be used to train robots and autonomous vehicles as they engage with realistic recreations of environments such as warehouses, according to Google. The US technology …
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A popular sugar substitute may interfere with certain cancer treatments, according to new research. The University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Hillman Cancer Center have released new research suggesting that using sucralose — a popular sugar replacement used by those trying to lose weight or manage their blood sugar levels — may make it harder to the body to respond to …
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The US’s largest companies have spent 2025 locked in a competition to spend more money than one another, lavishing $155bn on the development of artificial intelligence, more than the US government has spent on education, training, employment and social services in the 2025 fiscal year so far. Based on the most recent financial disclosures of Silicon Valley’s biggest players, the …
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Oscar nominee Monica Barbaro is officially set to star in Luca Guadagnino’s “Artificial” for Amazon MGM Studios. Barbaro — whose casting had been rumored, but whose deal is now closed — joins previously reported stars Andrew Garfield, Yura Borisov, Jason Schwartzman, Cooper Hoffman and Cooper Koch. Ike Barinholtz remains in talks to join the cast. Plot details for “Artificial,” described as a …
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Researchers have created the simplest artificial cell ever—just a membrane, an enzyme, and a mission. In a breakthrough that strips life down to its most basic rules, scientists at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) have built a synthetic minimal cell that can move on its own, guided purely by chemistry. Just like bacteria that swim toward food or …
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