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The US is racing ahead in artificial intelligence, but its biggest obstacle is more than chips, rare earths, or talent - it's electricity, according to a new report from Goldman Sachs. The US power grid is already straining under the surge of data centers fueling AI models, with these massive facilities now accounting for about 6% of total US electricity demand.

We relied on search filters to define queries for years, but people share more about their preferences when it's a conversation. According to Redfin, early testing shows that users of the new system view nearly twice as many listings as those using standard search tools. They were also 47% more likely to request home tours or other services. When you're buying a home, the options can be overwhelming, said Abhishek Singh, a homebuyer who tested the feature.

"Government intervention in the economy in the name of national security is most clearly warranted in cases of market failure," a new report from a bipartisan task force organized by the Council on Foreign Relations says. "Today, the market failures that loom largest for U.S. national security are shortfalls of private capital in strategically important areas and over-concentration of critical supply chains in unfriendly countries," the report adds.

Since dumping product can be written off as the cost of doing business in profit and loss statements, companies don't invest in a complex reverse supply chain or inspect items for potential resale value. But recommerce site Rebel just raised a $25 million series B round to fuel its work building a resale network for retailers-and the software to power it.

For Jan Gilg, SAP's co-chief revenue officer and head of the Americas market and the global Business Suite, thriving within today's economic climate and technology imperatives isn't about avoiding disruption. It's about using the agility those challenges cultivate to drive innovation. That can start with understanding what's proprietary about your business versus what's a process most businesses rely on. Gilg refers to this as "standardizing where you don't differentiate." In other words, automating standard processes that don't create value.

"Nobody in our country of animal lovers wants to see suffering and our plan will support work to end animal testing wherever possible and roll out alternatives as soon as it is safe and effective to do so," he said.

As for companies being built, she has a preference for the founders looking to create something entirely new. "Where I tend to get excited is when I see someone who is using AI to do something that isn't 10x better. It's actually to create a whole new experience or workflow or behavior," she said. "That's what we're looking at. Less of the incremental changes and more totally new behaviors."

In a blog post, the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that runs the popular online encyclopedia, called on AI developers to use its content "responsibly" by ensuring its contributions are properly attributed and that content is accessed through its paid product, the Wikimedia Enterprise platform. The opt-in, paid product allows companies to use Wikipedia's content at scale without "severely taxing Wikipedia's servers," the Wikimedia Foundation blog post explains.

In the fast-emerging market for AI legal tools, a two-horse race is taking shape. Harvey, the OpenAI-backed startup that has become the industry's breakout success, is now facing an ambitious challenger: Stockholm-based Legora, which is pitching law firms a new way to protect and monetize their intellectual property. Harvey has sprinted to $100 million in annual recurring revenue and an $8 billion valuation, turning the AI-for-law market into a serious money sport.

We're all living in a cyberpunk novel now. Unconstrained billionaires have space programs and robot armies. People are falling in love with and marrying AI chatbots. You can make movies where you're the star by typing a few sentences. Companies offer designer babies as a service. We've got brain implants for controlling computers, flying cars, robotic surgery, AI-controlled prosthetic limbs, and millions of drones in the sky. So why is the most effective form of communication still a hand-written note?

On the same day, Biohub said it wouldpartner with EvolutionaryScaleto leverage AI to "dramatically accelerate scientific progress toward understanding and addressing human disease." "When we started, our goal was to help scientists cure or prevent all diseases this century," Zuckerberg said in a press release. "With advances in AI, we now believe this may be possible much sooner. Accelerating science is the most positive impact we think we can make. So we're going all in on AI-powered biology for our next chapter."

"I only played rugby once, for my school team," Sutton said. "We were really excited on the bus on the way there, but we lost 72-0 and I never played again."

For now, it's... not. The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF ( NYSEMKT: VOO) is actually looking pretty healthy so far, up 0.2% premarket. And why is that? Perhaps investors are thinking all these layoffs, caused by cheap AI replacing expensive workers, and allowing corporate profits to rise. Or investors could be encouraged by the way oral arguments went before the Supreme Court yesterday, with the Justices apparently doubtful of President Trump's ability to legally and unilaterally impose tariffs on imports without Congressional assent.

The agreement, pending approval by Judge James Donato, builds on a prior injunction that required Google to allow rival app stores within its Play Store and prohibited the mandatory use of Google Play Billing. While those earlier measures were limited to the US and set to expire after three years, the new proposal extends globally through June 2032 and introduces a framework for "Registered App Stores" with reduced fees and easier installation.

Influencer marketing can be a challenge for business owners. Working with content creators can be expensive, time-consuming, and-worst of all-risky. It's not uncommon for marketing teams to shell out thousands of dollars to influencers in exchange for social media posts that result in sparse engagement and shockingly few sales. Still, if done right, influencer marketing can help elevate a small business into a household name. Just this year, better-for-you soda brand Poppi sold to PepsiCo for $1.95 billion after blowing up on TikTok.

At SAP TechEd 2025 in Berlin, a troika of technical executives unveiled artificial intelligence (AI)-driven features in the supplier's SAP Build platform, disclosed more agents in its Joule AI assistance portfolio and pointed to expanded partnerships with data specialist companies, most notably and recently Snowflake. These relationships betoken, according to SAP, a commitment to opening up its platforms to build a strong foundation for AI among its customers.

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AI is fueling a surge in cyberattacks. Startups, especially in Israel, are rushing to use their own AI to stay one step ahead of the bad guys. The latest is Tel Aviv-based Daylight, which closed a $33 million Series A round led by Craft Ventures, the San Francisco firm cofounded by PayPal and SpaceX backer David Sacks. The funding comes as Google is attempting to close its $32 billion acquisition of Wiz, another Israeli-founded security firm,

As the host of On With Kara Swisher, her twice weekly podcast for Vox Media, she grills leaders in tech and politics, coaxing them to share the things they may not reveal on any other gabfest. For Pivot, her Vox show with New York University marketing professor Scott Galloway, she keeps the banter between herself and her cohost-but still, she doesn't hold back.

An Oxford don in charge of mathematical finance told its reporters that almost all his students ended up working at quant trading firms, on salaries from 250,000 to 800,000. If you get offered a salary less than 250K, you're kind of the sad guy, he said, adding that nobody I know interviews for JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs not once do I hear anybody entertain any of these traditional investment banking jobs.

"Open Twitter, LinkedIn, or any blog platform. Scroll for five minutes. You'll see the same articles rewritten 50 different ways. Headlines like: morning routines of successful people, is coding dead in the age of AI, top programming languages to learn this year, how to stop procrastinating once and for all, ChatGPT will revolutionize everything, side hustles you can start today."

AI is a broad field that encompasses the development of intelligent systems capable of performing tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as perception, reasoning, learning, problem-solving, and decision-making. AI serves as an umbrella term for various techniques and approaches, including machine learning, deep learning, and generative AI, among others. Machine Learning(ML) ML is a type of AI for understanding and building methods that make it possible for machines to learn. These methods use data to improve computer performance on a set of tasks.

Tech hopefuls are associating themselves with San Francisco online; some say for social media clout or to attract investors. Eight rising tech workers told Business Insider that they've noticed an influx of San Francisco love online. One changed his location to San Francisco as a "manifestation." Another said they thought of it as a "heavenly land." 18-year-old Lance Yan recently made his location on X to "Waterloo | SF."

"When I interview people, I ask them to give me an example of something they've invented,"