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A majority of surveyed global asset management firms plan to raise their artificial intelligence budgets by at least 50 per cent within the next year as the technology transforms the finance industry, a recent study showed. The adoption of AI is also going to have a big impact on labour-intensive operations: 62 per cent of polled fund managers expect transformative change in data generation and summarisation, according to a study released Tuesday by US fintech firm Clearwater...

Bond markets are increasingly dominated by a bet on the same thesis as other asset classes

Operators blame planning rules and low prices for a lack of investment

arXiv:2607.26062v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Background: This work investigates the presence of implicit bias in Large Language Model (LLM)-based chat AI models directed toward people with intellectual disabilities (ID). Objective: The study aims to identify and measure representational differences related to people with ID and examine them to identify implicit biases inherent in AI chat generation technologies. Methods: Utilizing the GPT-4-Turbo model, we requested story-generation based on

arXiv:2607.26067v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for estimating item difficulty in educational assessment. However, it remains unclear whether such estimates reflect how learners actually experience difficulty. This study investigates the alignment between LLM-generated difficulty ratings and empirical student performance on basic mathematics tasks. Four widely used LLM-based systems generated difficulty ratings on a 1-100 scale for 32 arithmetic

Hedge fund has held talks with existing investors and lenders in recent days

For investors anxious to hear more about Meta's plans to make money from its big AI spending, Mark Zuckerberg said there's a trade-off.

As Meta pours billions into AI infrastructure and agents, Zuckerberg is working to convince investors that the payoff will be worth the price.

When Microsoft reported killer fourth-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it tucked in an interesting little tidbit about how its investments in the two biggest, and competing, AI labs are doing.

Microsoft’s fiscal Q4 revenue of $90 billion topped Wall Street targets, while Copilot reached 30 million paid seats, and an investment in Anthropic delivered a $3.2 billion windfall.

Background: Understanding how sentiment toward COVID-19 mitigation measures evolves on social networks can help to inform infectious disease models and policymakers. Even though numerous studies have described social media interactions during the pandemic, few have modeled the underlying dynamics of sentiment contagion and polarization. Objective: This study aimed to investigate topic emergence and sentiment evolution in COVID-19 mitigation discussions on r/Belgium, focusing on (1) whether discu

Kenya's new crypto rules now empower authorities to seize and convert crypto assets into fiat asset to preserve value during investigations.

In American antitrust, clearing the federal gate increasingly means arriving at the state turnstiles. State attorneys general play a valuable role when harms are local or federal investigators miss key facts. But serial challenges to nationally integrated conduct turn that safeguard into a standing invitation to relitigate. The result is a system in which no ... Too Many Cooks Spoil the Settlement The post Too Many Cooks Spoil the Settlement appeared first on Truth on the Market .

Los astrónomos llevan décadas intentando desentrañar los misterios de la materia y la energía oscura . Sin embargo, ahora un equipo de científicos de la Universidad de Oxford ha lanzado la más controvertida de las soluciones : no hay nada que buscar, porque la energía oscura no existe. Y se han quedado tan panchos. Lógicamente, las reacciones no se han hecho esperar. Algunos investigadores creen que es una solución interesante en la que vale la pena seguir indagando. Otros, en cambio, consideran

Jim Cramer said investors should look to Seagate Technology as a barometer of whether the AI infrastructure trade can regain momentum on Wednesday.

The process remains in its early stages. No investors have emerged yet, AMCON spokesperson Jude Nwauzor said.

Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.

Strong corporate results buoy market as investors move money away from tech and semiconductor stocks London’s FTSE 100 stock index has touched a fresh high, driven by strong corporate results as investors moved money away from tech and semiconductor stocks amid the global tech stock sell-off . The UK’s blue chip index rose as high as 10,951 points on Wednesday morning before falling back slightly, its best level since 27 February, the day before the US and Israel began attacks on Iran and sparke

Korean retail investors have racked up heavy losses from leveraged bets on stocks, following rule changes earlier this year.

Babylist founder Natalie Gordon will become executive chair, in a rare founder-to-founder CEO transition.

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Canadian investment group to partner utility NextEra on data centre in Kentucky

Chinese home appliance maker Midea reported that European demand for its air conditioners continues to soar amid recurrent heatwaves, with two of its factories receiving hundreds of thousands of new orders in a month. The factories, in the eastern city of Wuhu and the southern port city Guangzhou, received new European orders for 200,000 units within a month amid “explosive demand”, the company said in a statement on Wednesday on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange’s investor Q&A platform. The company..

In this edition of AI Prognosis: A conversation about benchmarking leading clinical chatbots, investor view on AI in biopharma, and more.

Executives from BCX, Telkom Business and Openserve hosted a channel event to champion trusted data as the foundation of an intelligent company.

Serena Williams doesn’t just defy convention on the tennis court. She’s also applying her competitive mindset to entrepreneurship and venture investing, recently rebranding her firm from Serena Ventures to Starfire Ventures. Williams discusses the investment strategy that has led to 16 unicorns now in her portfolio, what she looks for in founders, and how partnerships with companies from Nike to Ro fit into her broader vision.  This is an abridged transcript of an interview from Rapid Respo

Samsung und SK Hynix investieren zusammen über eine Billion US-Dollar in neue Fabs. Silicon Motion startet die Entwicklung von SSD-Controllern für PCIe 7.0.

AI is no longer a future feature in application security; it is rapidly becoming a core part of how application security (AppSec) tools identify, prioritize, and remediate risk. Yet despite aggressive vendor investment, adoption remains constrained by trust concerns, questions about value, and uncertainty about pricing models. In our new report, The State Of Artificial […]

The Nasdaq 100 is flirting with correction territory as investors brace for earnings reports from Meta, Microsoft and Amazon.

A new investment opportunity became available to millions of American babies and children this summer. Trump Accounts, which allow parents and guardians to establish an individual retirement account for children under age 18 who have a valid Social Security number, went live on July 4. Babies born between Jan. 1, 2025, and Dec. 31, 2028 […]

The private equity firm, already THE•TEAM's majority investor, will make an additional investment to fund the buyout. Source

Artificial intelligence shifts hyperscale investment towards cities with abundant electricity, reshaping global data centre markets.

A plan to open the biggest sporting tournament, in part, to private investors has drawn widespread backlash from soccer associations and politicians around the world.

Zhongji Innolight’s buy-back plan – worth as much as 8 billion yuan (US$1.2 billion) in the run-up to its offshore listing in Hong Kong – may give global investors an anchor for pricing, as the Chinese supplier of US hyperscalers seeks to pre-empt a shaky start to trading in the city. The Chinese maker of optical transceivers used in artificial intelligence (AI) data centres said it would repurchase its Shenzhen-listed shares for between 4 billion and 8 billion yuan, through its own or borrowed.

The venture capital arm of Lenovo Group is doubling down on artificial intelligence for the next industrial cycle, expanding its focus beyond foundational models into robotics, computing infrastructure and AI agents, according to a senior executive. Lenovo Capital has made long-term bets on more than 100 AI companies across the value chain, ranging from chips and hardware infrastructure to models and applications, Song Chunyu, chief investment officer and senior partner at the unit, told the...

What We Know About the Government’s Investigations Into Medical Schools Johanna Alonso Wed, 07/29/2026 - 03:00 AM Initial findings from probes into medical schools’ admissions practices have left experts questioning the government’s evidence and analysis. Byline(s) Johanna Alonso

arXiv:2607.25105v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Social choice theory research demonstrates that single transferable voting (STV) results in more proportionally representative legislative bodies. We aim to understand how using multi-member districts and ranked ballots with STV would affect the representation of political parties in the Colorado House of Representatives. We investigated this objective by producing 10,000 multi-member districting plans of Colorado, generating ranked ballots for eac

arXiv:2607.25974v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Observed standardized test scores are the result of an endogenous process: students strategically allocate effort across multiple retake attempts to improve their outcomes. Because students differ in their ability to make these investments, the interaction between applicant strategy and institutional scoring rules---such as the widely used Single-Sitting and Superscoring policies---can disparately distort observed scores. We develop a strategic f

arXiv:2601.14429v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Open science initiatives have strengthened scientific integrity and accelerated research progress across many fields, but the state of their practice within transportation research remains under-investigated. Key features of open science, defined here as data and code availability, are difficult to extract due to the inherent complexity of the field. Previous work has either been limited to small-scale studies due to the labor-intensive n

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