Big Tech

Hedge Funds

Hedge Funds Are On an Equities Shopping Spree

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Punxsutawney Phil may see six more weeks of winter, but hedge funds aren’t waiting to emerge from their bearish slumber.

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Big Tech

Why Big Tech Thinks Augmented Reality is the Next Big Thing

Though consumers aren’t necessarily begging for head-worn computers yet, tech firms big and small see the technology as the next frontier of computing.

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CIO Upside

DeepSeek’s Rise is the Tip of the Open-Source Iceberg, Experts Say

“You have to be tracking open source as an option.”

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Policy & Power

Is Trump Pivoting From a Trade War to an International Tax Fight?

The Trump 2.0 era may have officially begun this week, but the much-hyped tariff-fueled trade war has not. At least, not yet.

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Big Tech

Under Trump 2.0, EU’s Big Tech Enforcement Becomes a Sovereignty Issue

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The EU wants everyone to know it has no intention of genuflecting toward a new Trump administration and won’t stop doling out Big Tech fines.

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Patent Drop

Into the Future: The Patent Drop Highlight Reel

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What the years of writing about Big Tech’s IP has taught us.

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Technology

The Costs and Benefits of Quantum Computing

Big Tech and startups alike are making strides in the race to supplant classical computers, but a few roadblocks remain.

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Energy

Big Tech’s Energy Rush Hits a Hurdle

FERC kiboshed a bid to increase the amount of power that a nuclear plant in Pennsylvania is allowed to supply to one of Amazon’s data centers.

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Technology

Tech FOMO Can Hurt on the Comedown. Can the Cycle Be Broken?

Shiny new innovations draw in ambitious founders and investors, and then FOMO brings in everyone else, making the eventual fall harder.

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Big Tech

The EU Might Regulate the Muskiverse as One Big Company

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Bad news for X: EU lawmakers might start looking at the companies in CEO Elon Musk’s stable as one interconnected web.

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Markets

Weathering the Storm: A Q&A with Vanguard on Market Volatility

The last four years have been head-spinning. Dan Newhall, Vanguard’s head of portfolio solutions, talked us through the volatility.

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Patent Drop

Tech Firms Inch Closer to Users with AI Wearables

Your data may be more valuable than the money made from selling devices themselves, experts told Patent Drop.

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Big Tech

IBM Shutters Its China R&D Division

IBM announced it would be shutting down its Chinese research and development team, shifting some operations to other locations.

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