December 23, 2025

How social media encourages the worst of AI boosterism

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, summed it up in three words: “This is embarrassing.”   Hassabis was replying on X to an overexcited post by Sébastien Bubeck, a research scientist at the rival firm OpenAI, announcing that two mathematicians had used OpenAI’s latest large language model, GPT-5, to find solutions to 10 unsolved problems in…

3 Consumer Stocks to Buy for End of May

May 29, 2023
With a growing demand for consumer-packaged and personal luxury goods, the consumer goods industry is expected to remain afloat. Therefore, consumer stocks Kimberly-Clark (KMB), Ennis (EBF), and Mannatech (MTEX) could…

Intel Corporation (INTC): Buy, Sell, or Hold?

May 29, 2023
Leading chip maker Intel (INTC) reported poor first quarter 2023 results, with declining revenue and rising losses. Despite its long-standing reputation, the company seems to be struggling to keep up…

How Does the Digital Era Impact Financial Literacy?

May 29, 2023
With paradigms of conventional financial literacy shifting to the digitized era, the impact of digitization on financial literacy has been profound. Whether it comes to managing funds, planning for retirement,…

The future of TikTok bans

May 29, 2023
This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review’s weekly tech policy newsletter about power, politics, and Silicon Valley. To receive it in your inbox every Friday, sign up here. Recently, I drove from Washington, DC, to New York and passed through Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey on the way while scrolling through Instagram, TikTok,…

Ambani’s JioCinema secures NBCUniversal titles, escalates Netflix and Disney rivalry

May 29, 2023

JioCinema, the affordable on-demand video streaming service rival to Netflix and Disney’s Hotstar in India, will soon be the home for “The Office” and other NBCUniversal titles. The Viacom18 streaming service said on Monday said it has signed a “multi-year” partnership with NBCUniversal to bring “thousands of hours” of NBCU movies and TV shows to […]

Ambani’s JioCinema secures NBCUniversal titles, escalates Netflix and Disney rivalry by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch