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Google has unveiled plans to invest an additional £5 billion in the UK over the next two years, in a move it says will help expand the country's artificial intelligence economy, create thousands of jobs and accelerate breakthroughs in science and technology. The announcement coincides with the state visit of US President Donald Trump, during which major technology and energy deals are expected to dominate the agenda. The investment will include significant spending on Google's infrastructure, research and engineering teams, as well as support for Google DeepMind, its London-based AI arm. The company said the expansion would generate 8,250 " new AI-driven jobs " in Britain.

By the time Song-Chun Zhu was six years old, he had encountered death more times than he could count. Or so it felt. This was the early 1970s, the waning years of the Cultural Revolution, and his father ran a village supply store in rural China. There was little to do beyond till the fields and study Mao Zedong at home, and so the shop became a refuge where people could rest, recharge and share tales.

The originator of this concept, global humanitarian and spiritual leader Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, recently spoke at Deakin University's Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute, exploring the theme of Absolute Intelligence versus Artificial Intelligence and the nature of our innate, embedded intelligence. The key factor is that, unlike artificial intelligence, Absolute Intelligence becomes accessible when your mind is calm and settled. It's a deeper intelligence that allows you to see more possibilities and make better decisions by tapping into your intuitive abilities.

I feel like if A.I. can make all of our lives better, why do we need to work for five days a week?

Whether it's Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner or the legendary Novak Djokovic in the men's tournaments, Aryna Sabalenka, Iga Swiatek or Coco Gauff in the women's, the level of individual talent rises constantly. These improvements are attributable to the amazing natural talents of the athletes, combined with the best coaching the sport can offer. The right coach can make all the difference between being a player and being a champion.

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev told David Rubenstein this week on Bloomberg Wealth that the race to implement AI in business is a "huge platform shift" comparable to the mobile and cloud transformations in the mid-2000s, but "perhaps bigger." "In the same way that every company became a technology company, I think that every company will become an AI company," he explained. "But that will happen at an even more accelerated rate."

Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to stand out as a transformative force, fueling growth for select companies insulated from economic turbulence. With valuations in some tech giants like Nvidia ( NASDAQ:NVDA ) stretching thin, other players are poised to capitalize on AI's expansion. If you have $10,000 to invest - money not needed for bills or emergencies - you can turn it into more than $26,000 in just four years by investing in the following two stocks.

The S&P 500 utilities sector has gained well over 15% in 2025. Equities will be affected if the major stock market indices experience another significant decline similar to the one earlier this year. However, history shows that stodgy utility stocks are likely to hold their ground much better than high-flying technology stocks, especially those chasing the artificial intelligence mania. Oddly enough, AI and data center growth are becoming a massive tailwind

In the world of prestige sci-fi, Foundation reigns as the biggest sleeper hit. Mention the Apple TV+ adaptation of Isaac Asimov's classic series in a group of friends and you'll suddenly find everyone has been secretly watching it. Something of a flawed masterpiece, the show, which wraps its third season Friday, has been averaging about 1.5 million hours watched per week in the US over the last month, according to Luminate.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.

Publicis's Niel Bornman said advertising rivals were between five and 10 years behind in their adoption of data and AI The world's largest advertising agency is hiring more graduate roles than ever in the face of artificial intelligence's rise, gearing junior training to be more focused on client management, its UK media boss has said, bucking a global slowdown in junior white-collar employment.

To understand how artificial intelligence is starting to shape the built environment, look at the ceiling inside Mt. Hope Elementary School in Lansing, Michigan. There, running across the tops of classrooms and hallways are thousands of feet of exposed metal electrical conduit-the tubing that holds the electrical guts of the building.

Nejatian, who has prior experience as an attorney, entrepreneur and product leader, also has experience using artificial intelligence to scale products, teams and companies. He's been at Shopify since 2019, where he helped to build teams and products for the e-commerce platform. It's a privilege to become Opendoor's leader, Nejatian said. Few life events are as important as buying or selling a home. With AI, we have the tools to make that experience radically simpler, faster, and more certain. That's the future we're building.

"What I admire about it is it's not Alien-centric," she said. "It is about what world we will be living in in 100 years. I think the scope of it is so much bigger than an Alien project. Fascinating. Much more about our world, what's going to be happening to it, what's going to be important, the role of greed."

vocal and growing group of conservatives who are fundamentally suspicious of the benefits of technological innovation,

Oracle's fiscal 2026 first-quarter earnings - released after the market closed yesterday - painted a tale of contrasts . The company reported total revenue of $14.9 billion, up 12% year-over-year but slightly below Wall Street's $15.03 billion consensus. Earnings, however, came in at $1.47 per share on a non-GAAP basis, missing the $1.48 estimate by a hair, pressured by a one-time $958 million tax expense tied to recent U.S. tax law changes.

Located in the core area of Jiuxianqiao, Chaoyang District, Beijing, it is the only artificial intelligence computing power park within the central urban area of Beijing. The architectural concept overturns the traditional, enclosed data and information center systems, enabling society, people, and activities to coexist with the building, its contents, and the invisible world of intelligent information. Beyond the intelligent computing rooms, energy-related support, and functional hardware requirements, the building manifests as a physical grid system under sunlight.

And if Walmart U.S. CEO John Furner's instincts are right, that number will hold steady in the coming years, despite all the talk of how the growing use of artificial intelligence (A.I.) might decimate jobs across the economy. "When we look out two years, three years, five years, where I think we'll be is we'll have roughly the same number of people we have today,"

In 2019, as an entrepreneur in residence at Alphabet's X, the Moonshot Factory, Sarah Russell created Bellwether, which harnesses AI and data to assess natural disaster risk and mitigate impact on communities. Bellwether forecasts probabilities for severe weather, provides aerial images to first responders, and helps insurers understand disaster risk. When Hurricane Helene struck last September, the tool processed 75,000 images from Civil Air Patrol in a matter of minutes rather than days.

The pace of AI development is surging, and the effects on the economy, education, medicine, research, jobs, law, and lifestyle will be far-reaching and pervasive. Moves to begin regulation are surfacing on the federal and state level. President Trump in July unveiled executive orders and an A.I. action plan intended to speed the development of artificial intelligence and cement the U.S. as the global leader in the technology.

President Donald Trump welcomed a group of billionaire tech tycoons for an AI event at the White House on Sept. 4-gathering a host of industry leaders for a luxurious dinner. The billionaires included at the event were Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, OpenAI founder Sam Altman, Apple CEO Tim Cook, former Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang, Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su, Social Capital founder Chamath Palihapitiya, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

Thanks to artificial intelligence, the 29-year-old from Athens, Greece, is no longer writing notes or clicking on countless menus. He often has full customer profiles in front of him when a person calls in and may already know what problem the customer has before even saying "hello." He can spend more time actually serving the customer."A.I. has taken (the) robot out of us," Kirakosian said.

The social media advertising market is currently valued at about $234 billion, according to Statista, and growing. Reddit is benefiting from this tailwind, but what makes the stock a particularly compelling growth stock to buy is the company's data from user discussions, which is valuable for AI model makers. The stock is up more than 40% year to date, putting it on course to rise substantially over the next five years from continued growth of the platform.

The pace of change in the business world is relentless, and accountants are continually challenged to adapt. Evolving risks, shifting business models, emerging technologies-especially the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI)-and increasing regulatory complexity require professionals in this field to be agile lifelong learners and critical thinkers. The demands on accountants continue to evolve, but this is also what drives opportunity. Today, accountants are often expected to go beyond understanding the numbers by providing insights and interpretation within a rapidly changing environment.

The robots are here, proclaimed Melania Trump during an AI event at the White House on Thursday. It can be hard to parse the first lady's poker face and expressionless voice, but this certainly wasn't a statement of regret. Rather Trump, reading from a script encased in a very analogue binder, was taking it upon herself to help America's children navigate AI, which she touted as the greatest engine of progress in the history of the United States of America.

Meta has been quietly but steadily reshaping how its platforms operate, and artificial intelligence now sits at the heart of this transformation. From the familiar spaces of Facebook and Instagram to WhatsApp and the company's metaverse ambitions, automation powered by AI is becoming more visible to users and more influential for businesses. The pace of this evolution raises pressing questions. How much control do users truly retain over their own data? What does automation mean for the authenticity of brand communication?

Tolstoy's story, and even the title, is clearly unsettling. But it's not a story about death, it's about life. Tolstoy's narrative shines a light on a life lived on borrowed terms. It was a life that was unquestioned, unexamined, and, in the final analysis, unclaimed. Ivan Ilyich was respectable, even successful, but still a hollow man left on his deathbed with little more than the torment of introspection.

Gates declared he was in the second phase of his career, focusing on areas like vaccines or gene editing. He continued: We don't need new science to eradicate polio, but heralded Trump's past pandemic vaccine drive when adding on diseases like HIV and sickle-cell, we do need new science, but the U.S. has the seeds, the same that Warp Speed' took those seeds and put them together.

In 1985, at the tender age of 22, I played against 32 chess computers at the same time in Hamburg, West Germany. Believe it or not, I beat all 32 of them. Those were the golden days for me. Computers were weak, and my hair was strong. Just 12 years later, in 1997, I was in New York City fighting for my chess life against just one machine: a $10 million IBM supercomputer nicknamed Deep Blue.

The first lady, Melania Trump, issued a warning about the future of artificial intelligence during a meeting with tech executives at the White House on Thursday. The robots are here. Our future is no longer science fiction. A.I. will serve as the underpinning of every business sector in our nation. In fact, I predict A.I. will represent the single largest growth category in our nation during this administration.

Amazon's current market cap is $2.4 billion, compared to Apple's $3.4 trillion. That sounds like a massive difference, but it's worth noting that Amazon has consistently grown its revenue faster than its peers over the past three years, despite having higher sales numbers. The e-commerce specialist should maintain that momentum for several reasons. First, it remains a leader in the cloud computing market.

Salesforce has slashed another 4,000 jobs from its customer support workforce as the tech giant doubles down on artificial intelligence, even as the company reports strong financial results. The latest layoffs gutted Salesforce's customer service division, reducing its headcount from 9,000 to 5,000. AI agents now reportedly handle about one million customer conversations. list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4list 2 of 4list 3 of 4list 4 of 4end of list In a recent episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, CEO Marc Benioff justified the cuts by saying he needs less heads as Salesforce invests heavily in AI across its operations.