Actualités technologiques et économiques

As exuberance around the technology stokes fears of a bubble, the nation’s public pensions are starting to grapple with their role — and their risks.

It is essential not just to fund the public goods the nation needs, it is indispensable to restore a sense of fairness Money doesn’t buy happiness, we’re told. Even some economists agree. The Nobel prize-winning economists Daniel Kahneman…

ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming has reclaimed the title of China’s richest person with a nearly US$100 billion fortune, as artificial intelligence powers a surge in wealth among China’s top entrepreneurs, according to the Hurun Research Ins…

As agents go mainstream, some publishers are hoping that people will pay for content tailor-made for AI—not humans.

Simplismart says its annualized revenue run rate has grown fourteenfold in six months, with the U.S. accounting for more than half its revenue.

Khawaja Shams shares a distributed systems perspective on scaling LLM inference stacks efficiently. He discusses practical strategies for optimizing GPU utilization, managing KV cache memory cliffs, leveraging tiered storage, reducing tail…

Ahead of the midterms, corporations want to win back favour with the Democrats

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OpenAI's Ted Sanders explains where GPT-6.1 Terra fits in the company's GPT lineup. The smaller model outperforms the larger Astra in technical communication and costs far less but trails it in most other areas. Sanders says model size, re…

Anthropic named the Wall Street firms lead underwriters on its upcoming public offering, a role that will generate generous fees and enormous prestige.

Luxury German carmaker Porsche said it's rapidly reducing its exposure to the Chinese autos market after reporting a profit recovery in the first nine months.

Social media companies including Meta have pulled back on efforts to protect voters from election-meddling lies Social media feeds are awash with an unprecedented flood of AI -driven disinformation ahead of November’s US midterm elections…

From apps that block distractions to stripped-down phones, young people are finding ways to unplug from platforms they say profit from their attention Gen Z voters: tell us what is guiding your vote in the US midterm elections? Nelissa Mou…

With six light wavelengths and almost endless ways to combine them, CurrentBody’s latest sets a new standard for red light therapy devices • The best LED face masks CurrentBody’s LED masks have long been my favourite. They’re comfortable,…

AI political groups are spending millions in the 2026 election as Silicon Valley factions battle over regulation, safeguards and state authority.

If there's one issue that seems to activate all kinds of voters in 2026, it's data centers. The rapid buildout of these massive server storage facilities - and the infrastructure construction and expenses that come with them - has sparked…

ia is buying into its customer Meta, which plans to run more of its AI agents on Nvidia hardware. The article Meta gets $3 billion from Nvidia and plans to spend more on Nvidia chips appeared first on The Decoder .

I ranked six AI agents—from Meta’s Muse to Anthropic’s Claude Duet—on how well they completed basic tasks.

China plans new measures against foreign entities that infringe on local trade secrets, a boost to its legal defences in a technology race with the United States. New rules will cover any infringement that harms or “poses a real threat to…