October 2026

The entire US stock market looked like a house of Halloween horrors on Friday, driven by rapidly sinking tech stocks tied to the swelling AI bubble. The tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 — home of major AI stocks like Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft Corp and Amazon — was down 2.6 percent at the time of writing, well on track for […]

As potentially the largest IPO in history, Anthropic PBC is breaking new ground. Its prospectus lists 88 risk factors covering 93 pages alone. From artificial intelligence posing an existential threat to humanity to the possibility AI will blackmail people, the company lists a litany of risks that should make any potential Anthropic investor wary. One

The other artificial intelligence shoe dropped this week, as Anthropic filed for what surely will be the second blockbuster AI initial public offering of stock this year. Nearly 70,000 words in the filing list a ton of risks, but in short, it’s making unimaginably huge bets on buying computing power, it’s uncertain on how long

Small businesses have long treated cash flow management as an afterthought, tallying expenses after the money is gone. Now, financial platforms are folding payments, payroll, credit and lending into one system that can see money moving both ways — and predict where it is headed. That shift puts software providers in direct competition with banks

Growing companies that outgrow entry-level accounting software face a hard choice: Stay put or gamble on a mid-market ERP that promises automation but often brings cost and disruption. Artificial intelligence is now giving financial software providers a way to close that gap without forcing businesses through a risky migration. Intuit Inc. is pushing finance toward

Ahead of the deadly airstrikes and military raid that saw US troops kidnap Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and deputy to the National Assembly Cilia Flores, Donald Trump was reportedly in the throes of a weeks-long mind meld with Grok. Elon Musk’s notorious generative AI chatbot had evidently convinced the president that he would be hailed

Ghost hunting has changed in recent years due to AI chatbots, and paranormal enthusiasts are concerned Ghost hunting is a tech-heavy pursuit. When Amy Waine and Jarrad Cutting investigate haunted locations, they’re loaded up with software of their own design, such as an app that assigns signals from a phone’s sensors to different words in

Binance has suspended all withdrawals after the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange fell victim to what appears to be the biggest heist in history. The exchange put the “estimated total impact” of the hack at about $6.3 billion and said around $3 billion of affected assets, mainly stablecoins that act as cash for the crypto market,

General Motors marketed its Smart Driver system as a way for parents to monitor teen drivers or for adults to track their driving behavior. But in 2024, it emerged that GM had been sharing that data with brokers. Those brokers then sold the data to insurance companies, and some drivers found that their insurance became

University of Kentucky administrator David Durman was granted a religious exemption from using AI at work, claiming that use of the tech violates his religious beliefs as a humanist. As Religion News Service reports, Durman maintains that outsourcing cognitive tasks to chatbots could interfere with his development as a “moral actor.” Assisted by the American