BlackRock Investment Institute maintains overweight US equities stance ahead of midyear forum

AI-driven demand boosts Broadcom's long-term growth prospects, highlighting the transformative impact of AI on the semiconductor industry. The post Broadcom CEO expects AI demand to drive visibility through 2028 appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Stronger checks likely to be needed in England to safeguard reputation of GCSE, AS and A-levels, says Ian Bauckham Cheating in exams could be magnified by the new generation of wearable hi-tech devices such as smartglasses or invisible earpieces, according to England’s qualifications watchdog. Ian Bauckham, the head of the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual), also revealed that GCSEs and A-level courses in England were being scrutinised over potential AI use in students’ coursework, after teachers said they were struggling to detect it. Continue reading...

In 2025, the tech journalist invited artificial intelligence to do nearly everything for her, including editing the book she was writing about the experiment. Some of it was useful, some not – but it was her time with a chatbot companion that really shook her For a year, Joanna Stern decided to turn herself into a “lab rat” – the object of her own experiment. Throughout 2025, she invited artificial intelligence into “every corner” of her life. She let AI answer her texts, decide what she ate and cooked, mow her lawn, fold her washing, drive her places, parse her mammograms and even, in the darkness of a burner phone, be her lover. The resulting book, I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything, asks all the big questions, including: what happens when AI can do everything humans can do? And what comes after that? If anyone can produce answers, surely it’s Stern. Last February, she ended a 12-year stint as a personal technology columnist at the Wall Street Journal. Durin

A report released Wednesday by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) indicates that many organizations are having difficulty converting efficiency gains that are AI-driven into any sort of measurable value. The fourth edition of the consultancy’s annual Global AI at Work Survey reveals 42% of frontline employees who use AI on a regular basis save upwards of a full day each week; however, 66% are not given guidance on what to do with time they save, and “more than half don’t redirect it to strategic work.” The report, AI at Work: Strategy Matters More Than Tools, is based on a global survey of 11,749 employees in 14 markets, from industries ranging from financial services to the healthcare sector. David Martin, global leader of people and organization work at BCG, and the report’s lead author, said via email that the number of employees lacking the required guidance is surprising, “but it also tracks with what we see in many AI transformations. Companies have moved quickly to give people tools,

AI chatbots may already possess consciousness, challenging our understanding of intelligence and sparking ethical debates. The post Geoffrey Hinton: AI may already be conscious, superintelligence is expected in two decades, and rapid advancements are reshaping mathematics | Big Technology appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

The integration of AI in financial cybersecurity could revolutionize vulnerability detection but raises concerns about systemic reliance risks. The post NYSE joins ICE Markets in deploying Anthropic’s Claude Mythos for cybersecurity appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Broadcom's stock drop highlights market sensitivity to AI growth expectations, signaling potential volatility in tech investment sentiment. The post Broadcom’s forecast disappoints as AI sales growth slows, stock drops 11% appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Measure expected to pass next week represents major rebuke to big tech as local disquiet over AI boom grows Seattle’s city government is on the verge of passing a year-long ban on the construction of new datacenters, the largest city yet in the US to consider such a moratorium as nationwide backlash grows. Four companies sought to build five large datacenters in areas serviced by Seattle’s public utility; if approved, they would have consumed approximately a third of the city’s current daily demand for electricity. Continue reading...