Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence

We're in a new time now, and AI slop looks so good, it's hard to tell from the real thing. I've been fooled by it. You probably have, too, even if you don't think you have. For example, this extremely realistic video of Nicolás Maduro doing TikTok dances in prison with Diddy. You know it's AI only because it's improbable, not because the video quality is poor.

Sometimes, the best value picks are the ones that have been hiding in plain sight all along. And while Morgan Stanley has more than a handful of top picks for the new year, I do find that one of its top large-cap software picks for 2026 to be intriguing but not at all surprising. Undoubtedly, shares of Microsoft ( NASDAQ:MSFT) are a favored pick by many big-name pundits and investors for the new year, and it's no mystery as to why.

At the start of the video, the settings page search bar, with its gleaming AI icon, recommends searching "My mouse pointer is too small." This goes against the common search function wisdom that you should look up using keywords, not entire sentences, but whatever: AI magic can take care of that for you, right? But as it turns out, when Fleury searches "My mouse pointer is too small," as exactly phrased by the search suggestion, nothing turns up.

When the company reported Q3 earnings on Nov. 3, 2025, it beat on the top and bottom lines with EPS of 21 cents versus 17 cents expected, and revenue of $1.18 billion versus $1.09 billion expected. Palantir issued strong guidance, attributing growth to adoption of its AI software platform. Meanwhile, it announced that government sales - which have been essential to Palantir's rise - grew 52% from the same quarter a year ago.

Last week, news broke that Meta is buying Chinese AI startup Manus for around $2 billion. The company is known for its AI agent that can handle everything from job interviews to stock analysis. Meta plans to integrate Manus' AI agent into its own products. Now, the Financial Times reports that China's Ministry of Commerce has decided to review the purchase to determine whether the deal violates the country's export control rules for technology.

JPMorgan's asset and wealth management division is ditching its long-held practice of using external proxy advisors for advice on shareholder voting decisions. The bank said it was "the first major investment firm to fully eliminate any reliance on external proxy advisors for our U.S. voting process," according to an excerpt from an internal memo seen by Business Insider.

The AI gold rush has put new pressure on governments and other public agencies. As enterprises look to gain a competitive advantage from emerging technologies, governing bodies are eager to implement rules and regulations that protect individuals and their data. The most high-profile AI legislation is the EU's AI Act. However, global law firm Bird & Bird has developed an AI Horizon Tracker that analyzes 22 jurisdictions and presents a broad spectrum of regional approaches.

The big picture: A mass market, easy-to-use coding tool is a game changer for the 99% of people who, until now, had to rely on other people's software to do anything from building custom data tools to automating repetitive work to building apps or websites. And Claude Code - Anthropic's AI coding agent powered by models like Claude Opus 4.5 - is having a moment.

Modern cars, including EVs, have tons of safety features baked in, but sometimes the driver still has to take over when the going gets tough. That's why most new cars out there still have a button somewhere that disengages the traction control system, which can come in handy when tackling slippery roads or deep snow because it allows the wheels to spin without the electronics cutting power.

If you've been using ChatGPT for a while, you might read the title of this article and think, "Heh, I've been using ChatGPT for years, there can't be anything new for me here." But I've done my best to dig a little deeper and share 3 insights that often surprise even experienced ChatGPT users. If I ask you to describe the process you follow when interacting with ChatGPT, you describe something like this:

World's richest person, shielded by Donald Trump's anti-regulatory aggression, may not face sanctions here

comprising six new chips designed to deliver one incredible AI supercomputer. NVIDIA Rubin sets a new standard for building, deploying, and securing the world's largest and most advanced AI systems at the lowest cost to accelerate mainstream AI adoption,

A yottaflop is a one followed by 24 zeros. So 10 yottaflop flops is 10,000 times more compute than we had in 2022,

DeepSeek applied three new techniques in the development of DeepSeek-V3.2. First, they used a more efficient attention mechanism called DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA) that reduces the computational complexity of the model. They also scaled the reinforcement learning phase, which consumed more compute budget than did pre-training. Finally, they developed an agentic task synthesis pipeline to improve the models' tool use.