Apple just snatched back its throne. The Cupertino giant closed Monday as the world’s most valuable company, dethroning Nvidia after the chipmaker’s 13-month run at the top. The shift marks a pivotal moment in markets that have been obsessed with AI infrastructure plays, signaling investors might be rotating back toward diversified tech giants with proven…
Author: Ewang Johnson
Global technology, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence firms are stepping up their push for the U.S. government to embrace open AI systems, touting their security benefits and warning against efforts to block them amid an AI arms race with China.
You’re probably familiar with the idea that in the world of big tech, “we” are the product.
U.S. stocks closed mixed as memory and chip sectors declined following competition from Chinese manufacturers and Nvidia’s AI infrastructure news. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell 2.23%, with significant drops in SanDisk and ASML. Conversely, major cloud and software stocks demonstrated resilience. CME Group launched near-24-hour single-stock futures to capture retail volume, while Amazon expanded its…
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has launched a new Artificial Intelligence Technology Evaluation (AITE) program that will provide researchers and developers with a sequestered testing environment to evaluate artificial intelligence (AI) models on blind datasets across multiple domains.
Microsoft on Monday launched its first cybersecurity-specialized model alongside a new AI cybersecurity platform at a small event in San Francisco, taking a big swipe at major players in the space — namely Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI.
The tech world has been consumed recently by the debate over open-weight and closed AI models, but it doesn’t have to be a zero-sum game.
The Digital Omnibus on AI has entered into force today, 27 July 2026, following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
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198-year-old mutual property and casualty insurer to optimize core systems, unify its data and advance responsible AI adoption under a five-year partnership
