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Cracks are beginning to show in the stock market as doubts about AI investments grow
Reports on an AI-linked stock selloff as investors question returns on trillions committed to AI infrastructure.
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Ten items on this week's AI investment jitters and agentic oversight push, plus engineering, commerce, and Denver notes, closing with a plastic-eating enzyme.
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Reports on an AI-linked stock selloff as investors question returns on trillions committed to AI infrastructure.
The Financial Stability Board finalized 12 practices requiring board-level oversight of agentic AI at banks.
Ben Thompson talks with WME and TKO's Ari Emanuel about AI's effect on Hollywood and entertainment.
The Rails team's third benchmark stage tests whether models can build on their own work across sessions.
A developer survey finds AI now writes 42% of code while pull-request merge time rose 49%.
Wix's Symphony agents gain the ability to pay suppliers through Stripe's Link wallet with owner approval.
Rockefeller Foundation and OpenAI Foundation launch a $50 million initiative to bring AI to city public services.
Simon Willison walks through new Python 3.15 features after dropping support for Python 3.10.
Chalkbeat reports Denver Public Schools enrollment fell by nearly 1,800 students, steeper than officials expected.
University of Konstanz researchers describe a soil bacteria enzyme that degrades both bioplastics and penicillin.