U.S. equity markets have climbed from record high to record high this year, with the Standard & Poor’s 500 index setting nine new records this month and the NASDAQ 13.
Category: 29 July 2025
Post
GOING OUT OF BUSINESS TRENDS
The economic landscape has presented an array of challenges that will profoundly affect the business community this year.
Post
OPENAI TAKES A SALES COMMISSION ON CLICK-THROUGHS
OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which shows ads to users, will now include a payment system that will let shoppers complete purchases within the AI platform. OpenAI then will collect a commission from merchants making the sales.
Post
IMPROVED AI AUTOMATED LAB SPEEDS EXPERIMENTS TENFOLD
Scientists at North Carolina State University have found a way to improve automated laboratories in a way that speeds their work by a factor of ten, they say.
Post
GOOGLE BEWARE: STARTUP LAUNCHES AI-BASED SEARCH ENGINE
The Browser Company of New York (BCNY) has created Dia, an AI-based search engine. That’s a big deal because Google and other engines have largely tried to tack AI onto their existing platforms. Dia has AI in its DNA.
Post
AI’S NEW WORLD OF HAVES AND HAVE-NOTS
The rise of AI is accentuating the global divide between nations that have the resources to run with the technology and those who don’t.
Post
WHEN THE ECONOMY FALLS, JOBS GO WITH IT
Intel expects to cut its workforce by 25,000 this year through layoffs, attritions and other methods and will cancel plans to build new chip facilities in Europe.
Post
CHINA CLOSES THE AI GAP WITH THE WEST
China’s rise to become a contender as the global power in AI has been built on the same strategy that it has used to take the lead in solar panel technology and electric vehicles: strategically targeted government funding.
Post
TRUMP AI ACTION PLAN UNLEASHES AMERICAN AI INNOVATION, FOR BETTER AND WORSE
The clear object of a new AI action plan articulated as an overall framework this past week by the Trump administration, is to win what we have long termed in these pages “The AI Ams Race.”
Post
‘FOREVER CHEMICALS’ LINKED TO TYPE-2 DIABETES IN NEW STUDY
A newly released study from Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City found that the more exposure to perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the environment, the greater the risk of type-2 diabetes in humans, raising new alarm over the health risks found in everyday items like food packaging.