Apple has scheduled a product launch event for October 28 in Los Angeles, with analysts expecting new Macs — potentially including the company's first touchscreen laptop — under CEO John Ternus.
Goldman Sachs is steering investors toward health care and consumer staples stocks as rising interest rates and slowing AI capital spending growth cloud the near-term earnings outlook for the S&P 500.
Anthropic holds 75% IPO odds on prediction platform Kalshi, making it the only major AI company still seen as a credible 2026 listing candidate after OpenAI ruled out a public debut and the broader U.S. IPO count fell 33% year-over-year.
Economists and labor researchers warn that women face disproportionate exposure to AI-driven job losses, citing their concentration in clerical and administrative roles — a pattern echoed by the automation of telephone switchboards, which eliminated an estimated 75,000 jobs held overwhelmingly by women.
Anthropic announced it is committing 5% of its shares to a newly created "public benefit fund," with provisions to contribute more as the company's valuation grows. CEO Dario Amodei has described the AI industry as facing "fundamentally a crisis of trust."
A hotter-than-expected consumer price index reading and growing concerns about AI sector debt sent the Nasdaq down 4.5% last week — its worst weekly performance since June — while the VanEck Semiconductor ETF posted its steepest weekly decline since July.
A new generation of AI wearables from Apple, Amazon, and Meta can continuously listen and transcribe conversations without storing audio — raising unsettled legal questions about wiretapping that experts say could expose wearers, not just device makers, to liability.
Goldman Sachs is steering investors toward health care and consumer staples stocks as rising interest rates and slowing AI capital spending growth cloud the near-term earnings outlook for the S&P 500.
Anthropic holds 75% IPO odds on prediction platform Kalshi, making it the only major AI company still seen as a credible 2026 listing candidate after OpenAI ruled out a public debut and the broader U.S. IPO count fell 33% year-over-year.
A hotter-than-expected consumer price index reading and growing concerns about AI sector debt sent the Nasdaq down 4.5% last week — its worst weekly performance since June — while the VanEck Semiconductor ETF posted its steepest weekly decline since July.
Apple has scheduled a product launch event for October 28 in Los Angeles, with analysts expecting new Macs — potentially including the company's first touchscreen laptop — under CEO John Ternus.
Economists and labor researchers warn that women face disproportionate exposure to AI-driven job losses, citing their concentration in clerical and administrative roles — a pattern echoed by the automation of telephone switchboards, which eliminated an estimated 75,000 jobs held overwhelmingly by women.
Anthropic announced it is committing 5% of its shares to a newly created "public benefit fund," with provisions to contribute more as the company's valuation grows. CEO Dario Amodei has described the AI industry as facing "fundamentally a crisis of trust."
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