Alphabet challenges Nvidia for title of world’s largest company

Despite years of digitization, organizations capture less than one-third of the value expected from digital investments, according to McKinsey research. That’s because most big companies begin with technological capabilities and bolt applications onto them, rather than starting with customer needs and working backward to technology solutions. Not prioritizing the customer can create fragmented solutions; disjointed…

In finance departments that have long been defined by precision and control, AI has arrived less as a neatly managed upgrade than as a quiet insurgency. Employees are already using it while leadership races to impose structure, governance, and strategy after the fact. The result is a paradox: one of the most tightly regulated functions…

Comedy debuts at Versailles featuring dialogue, music, costumes and scenery created with help of AI tool Le Chat Europe live – latest updates Molière is to the French, what Shakespeare is to the English; the last word in historical literature, drama, wit and satire. Now, more than 350 years after his death, the 17th century dramatist has been revived after scholars at the Sorbonne University in Paris used artificial intelligence to help write an experimental play in his style. Continue reading...

The current “no-hire-no-fire” environment in the workplace has slowed the pace of tech hiring in the US, but companies have seen one benefit — the selection of job candidates is easier. Many employers have become clearer about the qualifications they’re seeking in new hires: they’re focused less on people who can service large stacks of code, and more on ability to have a direct impact on corporate revenue and operations. “Roles are narrower, expectations are clearer, and teams are being built with purpose rather than volume,” said Kye Mitchell, head of Experis, a division of recruiting firm ManpowerGroup. That’s the backdrop amid a spate of recent hiring data reports released by the US government and various private firms that track hiring. Overall, employment in the US rose by 115,000 jobs in April, with gains in healthcare, transportation and warehousing, and retail trade, according to the latest report by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.  But tech hiring has slowed and in the las

The partnership is among a startling wave of multi-billion-dollar AI compute arrangements between tech giants and neocloud vendors.

Decision made to grant US tech firm ‘unlimited access’ to data in project to build integrated platform, according to reports UK politics live – latest updates MPs have warned that an NHS decision to grant Palantir access to identifiable patient information in its plan to use AI to improve the health service is “dangerous” and will fuel public fears that data privacy is not being prioritised. NHS England has allowed staff from the US tech firm and other contractors access to patient data before it has been pseudonymised, despite internal fears of a “risk of loss of public confidence”, the Financial Times reported. Continue reading...

Welcome to AI Insider’s The Week Ahead in AI. See the key developments and events we’re watching May 10- 16. Weekend AI News Briefs Oracle’s AI-Driven Mass Layoff of 30,000 Draws Backlash Over Severance Terms and Forfeited Stock Oracle’s reported March 31 layoff of an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 employees has triggered employee criticism over severance […]

The post FBI Director says AI now powers crime-fighting as crypto scams grow appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. FBI Director Kash Patel said artificial intelligence now plays a central role in the bureau’s work, including tip review, threat tracking, violent crime probes, and taxpayer accountability.  Summary Kash Patel said AI now plays a central role in FBI threat detection and tip review. The FBI’s AI push comes as crypto crime and AI-powered fraud continue to grow. Related crypto.news reports show U.S. agencies are already using AI to police crypto risks. Patel made the comments in a May 11 op-ed and a post on X. Patel became the ninth FBI Director on Feb. 20, 2025, according to the bureau’s official profile. His latest comments frame AI as part of a wider modernization drive inside the agency. In the op-ed, Patel said AI had “almost zero role” at the FBI when he and Deputy Director Dan Bongino arrived. He said the bureau set up an AI working group, named a chief AI officer, and