Meta Platforms shares fell 6% after third-quarter spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure pushed the company's free cash flow negative for the first time in years. Prices for Meta's five-year credit default swaps climbed to record highs as investors signaled growing concern over the company's debt risk.

O Parque Municipal do Sítio das Fontes – Centro de Interpretação da Natureza recebe, no dia 8 de novembro, pelas 10h00, a II Oficina e Exposição de Bonsai com espécies Mediterrânicas. Esta oficina será dinamizada pelo Município de Lagoa em parceria com o Clube Bonsai do Algarve (CBA) e as inscrições são gratuitas. Oficina sobre […]

In the heart of the historic working-class and Latino Mission district in San Francisco, the door of a ground-floor unit next to a trendy coffee shop keeps opening. A private shuttle that ferries tech workers to their Silicon Valley headquarters farther south passes by every morning. The 796 sq.ft. (74-square-meter) apartment, recently renovated and furnished, is thoughtfully laid out, from the small open kitchen to the built-in closets. But it gets very little light. Of its two bedrooms, one has no windows. And it costs $4,750 a month.

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Leave it to Arundhati Roy to deliver a scorching, dizzying essay on the perils of artificial intelligence that references Greek mythology, Francis Ford Coppola, the Bible, India’s industrial history, and Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! Plus, Emily Dickinson features in the lede:

The auguries are raining down hard. Think or Sink. Comply or Die. Look Up or be Left Out. And so, with these not-so-gentle threats, it has come to pass that the Age of AI—Actual Idiocy, Actual Super Idiocy, Recursive Snowballing-Idiocy—is upon us. Heck, I’ve already used two dashes in this opening paragraph. That, as they say, is a tell. So, perhaps I haven’t written this essay at all. You’d have to use an AI app to check if it’s actually AI, and whether I’m really, or not really, or only partially me. You can no longer use your instincts. You have to use the App. Now that AI owns the em dash, what will future generations make of Emily Dickinson and her love of them? Has she been fed to the machine, too? Will they love her less? Are we being gradually locked out of language? Does it matter anymore?

Chinese artificial-intelligence company DeepSeek has completed a new fifteen-billion-dollar funding round. The company is now preparing for one of China's most closely watched market debuts in years, as it positions itself as a serious rival to leading US AI labs.

Barclays said it will cut 5,000 jobs, about 5% of its workforce, as the British bank increases its reliance on artificial intelligence. The lender said AI tools are taking over tasks previously handled by staff across its operations.

A newly discovered flaw in PHP, the programming language underpinning much of the internet, has already knocked government sites, schools and web hosts offline across Australia, and experts warn more breaches are coming.

Shares of AI cloud-computing company CoreWeave have fallen 29% in October. CNBC reports that the spreads on the company's credit default swaps are also widening, meaning investors are pricing in higher risk of default on its debt. The slide renews questions about the financing costs behind massive AI infrastructure spending.