Time pressure, limited information, confusion, fatigue, and mortality salience combine to set the stage for decision-making errors, sometimes with grave consequences. An example is the downing of Iran Air Flight 655 by a missile launched by the USS Vincennes in 1988, resulting in the death of 290 passengers and crew. In a time of heightened tension between the U.S. and Iran, the captain of the Vincennes misidentified the airliner as an incoming hostile aircraft and ordered his crew to shoot it down.
For advertisers, it's a problem because the world is going to change a lot for them. We've really fine tuned the system that you're talking about, and now we're throwing a wrench into all of that and saying actually people aren't interacting with the web in the same way they used to, which means a whole completely different type of interaction that you are all going to have to adjust to,
U.S. financial markets ended the week on a cautious note as investors weighed strong employment data against growing concerns about the impact of artificial intelligence on traditional business models. Major stock indexes declined, led by technology-heavy shares, reflecting worries that rapid AI developments may disrupt established industries and earnings outlooks. The Nasdaq Composite recorded the steepest losses, while the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average also finished lower. Value-oriented stocks continued to outperform growth stocks, extending a trend that has persisted for several weeks.
The 62nd Munich Security Conference opened on 13 February 2026 in Munich, Germany, and this year's gathering feels different from past editions. For decades, Munich was about jets, troops, and treaties. Today, cyber and AI are no longer peripheral; they are part of the architecture of security itself. Cyber risks, digital infrastructure, and emerging technologies like AI now sit alongside tanks and treaties on the agenda as European leaders try to make sense of a world where digital threats and geopolitical tensions are deeply intertwined.
On August 20, 2011, legendary venture capitalist Marc Andreessen published a blog post-and an accompanying essay in The Wall Street Journal-that would become the sacred texts of the Silicon Valley bull run. Titled "Why Software Is Eating The World," he argued that the global economy was undergoing a "dramatic and broad technological and economic shift" and that software companies were poised to take over large swathes of the industry.
The South Korean tech giant confirmed Tuesday that Galaxy Unpacked 2026 will take place Feb. 25 in San Francisco, where the company is expected to unveil its Galaxy S26 series. The keynote kicks off at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET) and will stream live on Samsung.com, YouTube, and the company's newsroom. This year's Unpacked arrives notably later than Samsung's typical January timeline for Galaxy S launches. The company hasn't publicly explained the delay, though industry whispers point to behind-the-scenes reshuffling.
Sir Demis Hassabis, the recently minted Nobel laureate and CEO of Google DeepMind, believes humanity is standing on the precipice of a "new golden era of discovery." But reaching this utopia will require navigating a turbulent transition period-a decade-long sprint that Hassabis describes as a necessary disruption for the $3.9 trillion tech giant he helps lead. Speaking to Fortune Editor-in-Chief Alyson Shontell on the Fortune 500: Titans and Disruptors of Industry podcast, Hassabis offered a vision of the future defined by "radical abundance." It is a world where artificial intelligence has successfully bottled the scientific method to solve the planet's most intractable problems.
David Solomon is officially done playing defense. The Goldman Sachs CEO has steered the bank through several grueling years for the industry, including a multi-year drought in private equity spending and extreme trading volatility. But after a booming 2025, Solomon told investors at a UBS financial services conference on Tuesday that the firm is entering 2026 with the wind at its back.
Medicare has launched a six-year pilot program that could eventually transform access to healthcare for some of the millions of people across the U.S. who rely on it for their health insurance coverage. Traditional Medicare is a government-administered insurance plan for people over 65 or with disabilities. About half of the 67 million Americans insured through Medicare have this coverage. The rest have Medicare Advantage plans administered by private companies.
Barclays is turning to artificial intelligence to power the next phase of its turnaround, as the bank targets around £2 billion of cost savings and commits to returning more than £15 billion of surplus capital to shareholders by the end of 2028. C.S. Venkatakrishnan, the chief executive, widely known as Venkat, said the bank would pursue about £2 billion of gross efficiency savings over the next three years, alongside increased investment in technology, including AI, to improve productivity and customer experience.
The rapid expansion of the online casino industry has significantly impacted digital business strategies. As these platforms continue to grow, they are incorporating cutting-edge technologies to enhance their offerings and improve user engagement. Platforms that are on the rise, like Admiral Casino, exemplify how the industry is leveraging technology to remain competitive. This article explores the technological innovations driving this sector forward and how they are reshaping the way businesses approach digital strategy.
We tend to think of the five-day workweek as a law of nature, as certain as the rising of the sun. But it's nothing of the sort. The five-day workweek is a human invention that was introduced just over a century ago to solve the specific problems of the industrial age. By now it's so ingrained in our lives that we've forgotten we created it in the first place-but we did create it and we can also un-create it.
Artificial intelligence has taken the medical device industry by storm - even adding a layer of complexity to the operating room that's resulting in patients being hurt, some health professionals claim. As Reuters reports, the TruDi Navigation System by device maker Acclarent was designed to treat chronic sinusitis, inflammation of the nasal sinuses, by inserting a tiny balloon to enlarge the sinus cavity openings.
From coding tools and chatbots to smart assistants and wearables, the commercials suggest the industry is moving past the hype and skepticism and is betting on mainstream AI adoption. With 30-second spots averaging about $8 million, companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Amazon, and Meta used the broadcast to explain what their technology does and why it matters to consumers and businesses alike.
Just in time to create a new Super Bowl ad, Crypto.com founder Kris Marszalek has made the priciest domain purchase in history, buying AI.com for $70 million, according to the Financial Times. The deal, paid entirely in cryptocurrency to an unknown seller, shatters previous records. (Broker Larry Fischer, who facilitated the sale, is presumably celebrating his good fortune.)
An analysis of two paintings in museums in the US and Italy by the 15th-century Flemish artist Jan van Eyck has raised a profound question: what if neither were by Van Eyck? Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata, the name given to near-identical unsigned paintings hanging in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Royal Museums of Turin, represent two of the small number of surviving works by one of western art's greatest masters, revered for his naturalistic portraits and religious subjects.
The briefing paper pointedly cites Newsom's veto of last year's Senate Bill 7, a union-backed bill to bar employers from using AI to make employee discipline and termination decisions. In rejecting it, Newsom said the measure was overly broad and would prevent even innocuous uses of AI. Newsom's veto exemplifies his efforts, as the AI industry explodes, to satisfy both the tech industry, with which he has decades-long political ties, and those who worry about AI's societal and economic impacts.
Now, marking its most comprehensive technology initiative since that seminal report, the LSC has released a new report, The Next Frontier: Harnessing Technology to Close the Justice Gap, which represents the findings of an extensive two-year Technology Summit process that kicked off with LSC's 50th anniversary in 2024. Like its predecessor, this new report offers an ambitious roadmap for leveraging technology to narrow America's justice gap.
