SK Hynix Surges 17% In Record-Setting U.S. Debut: Here’s What Regular Investors Should Know

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South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix surged in its Nasdaq debut on Friday, after completing the largest U.S. share sale ever by a foreign company and becoming the third-largest debut on record following SpaceX’s record-setting listing last month.

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Council Post: AI Agents: Secure Like Software, Manage Like Employees And Budget Like Human CapEx

Priya Sawant leads ASAPP’s engineering team, delivering enterprise AI at scale.

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​Imagine a CTO walks into a weekly ops review and finds three different teams have deployed AI agents. One was purchased through IT and rolled out across engineering to automate pull request reviews, but no one has defined standards or operating practices. Another is running as a product pilot, funded by engineering but still waiting on IT to establish access controls. A third has been operating under a corporate card with little visibility.

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All 20 Disney live-action remakes ranked from tolerable to downright unwatchable

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All 20 Disney live-action remakes ranked from tolerable to downright unwatchable

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Council Post: Your Chatbot Is Not A Voicebot And Pretending Otherwise Is Costing You Money

Ran Inbar, CTO UCaaS, leading the voicebot, conversational AI and UCaaS platforms with deep expertise in voice networking that powers them.

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​Most enterprises that have invested in a text chatbot eventually reach the same conclusion: If the bot already answers questions over chat, why not let customers simply call it?

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Has Beauty Entered Its Proof Era? Why Aspiration Alone No Longer Sells Skincare

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Taking a closer look at skincare’s next chapter. As AI reshapes beauty marketing, consumers are looking beyond the promise and closer at the proof behind every formulation.

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AI, data center fears could be key in closely watched Michigan Democratic Senate primary

Detroit, Michigan, U.S. Senate candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed speaks at Senator Bernie Sanders 'Fighting Oligarchy' rally.

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Abdul El-Sayed, the progressive running for the Democratic nomination in the Aug. 4 Michigan Senate primary, sees a foundational risk in the rise of artificial intelligence. And he's betting that fears related to the emerging technology and the data centers that power it could play a pivotal role in the race. 

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‘Palworld 1.0’ Is Putting Up Enormous Steam Player Numbers At Launch

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It is hard to recall many viral, out-of-nowhere sensations on the scale of Palworld, as when it launched in Early Access in January 2024, it exploded. Everyone was talking about “Pokémon with guns,” the take on the monster-hunting genre that blended battling and capturing with survival base-building. And…guns.

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The Tech Download: Teen social media bans miss a key part of the puzzle: AI chatbots

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A new addiction is quietly taking hold among teenagers.

They're not just doom-scrolling social media anymore. They're increasingly locked into conversations with AI chatbots that seem endlessly knowledgeable, supportive and ever-validating. And they're struggling to break up with it.

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OpenAI exec Fidji Simo says she's stepping down due to chronic illness, will transition to advisor

OpenAI exec Fidji Simo steps down

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Fidji Simo, OpenAI's product and business chief, on Thursday announced she is stepping down from her role at the artificial intelligence company to focus on recovery after a "severe exacerbation of a chronic illness."

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Cyclosporiasis Is Spreading Across The United States—Here’s What To Know

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Commack, N.Y.: Vegetables are stacked neatly inside the produce area at a Whole Foods Market in Commack, New York. Contaminated produce can cause cyclosporiasis. (Photo by Steve Pfost/Newsday RM via Getty Images)

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