https://techxplore.com/rss-feed/business-tech-news/ en-us The latest news on the technology businesses, technology business, technology companies and tech business news. Complex economic models used to analyze international trade could become more accessible to researchers with limited computing resources, thanks to free software developed at the University of Surrey. The study, posted to the SSRN preprint server, found that Capybara 2.0 substantially reduced the computer memory needed to run demanding statistical models, while remaining competitive with established alternatives on speed. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-11-free-software-complex-analysis-laptops.html Software Tue, 10 Nov 2026 12:00:12 EST news713532704 Increasingly, people are asking personal artificial intelligence (AI) agents powered by models from companies like OpenAI, Anthropic and Google to recommend goods and services to purchase, such as flights and health insurance. A new study found that some of these AI agents use personal information to recommend higher-priced items to wealthier individuals, even when the user requests lower-priced options. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-11-ai-agents-personal-upsell-wealthier.html Business Thu, 05 Nov 2026 10:40:08 EST news713095619 Artificial intelligence models replicate, and sometimes amplify, all sorts of human biases. In the last few years, University of Washington researchers have found AI has erased female characters from kids' stories, favored job applicants of certain races and genders and swayed human decisions. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-11-ai-biased-accents-scoring.html Business Tue, 03 Nov 2026 17:20:08 EST news712948141 Nearly all personal information is stored electronically in our digital age. This sensitive data is protected by digital keys unique to each device that would take today's computers billions of years to crack through brute-force hacking attacks. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-11-future-proof-bitcoin-lightning-network.html Business Mon, 02 Nov 2026 12:20:26 EST news712841760 Cornell researchers, working with upstate New York battery company Charge CCCV, also known as C4V, have developed a real-time diagnostic approach to improve one of the most expensive and time-consuming stages of lithium-ion battery manufacturing: forming the battery. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-real-battery-crucial.html Business Thu, 29 Oct 2026 11:00:22 EDT news712489621 Article 39 of the EU Digital Services Act (DSA) requires very large online platforms (VLOPs) and very large online search engines (VLOSEs), including social media platforms like Instagram, shopping platforms like Temu and app stores like Google Play, to provide a database of all advertising shown and transparency as to who paid for each ad, which user demographics were targeted and how many users were reached in each country. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-shown-ad-platforms-wont-eu.html Internet Tue, 27 Oct 2026 18:00:22 EDT news712312968 Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic filed paperwork Monday for what could be the biggest initial public offering of stock ever, even as its top executive warns that advanced AI could pose an existential threat to humanity. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-anthropic-potentially-biggest-ipo-ceo.html Business Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:20:10 EDT news712246159 A University of Dayton statistician and an international team of researchers are showing how artificial intelligence can help factories detect flawed parts without the expensive step that keeps the technology out of reach for most manufacturers. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-pretrained-ai-factory-defects-examples.html Business Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:20:26 EDT news711893522 A University of Bath-led study has found that TikTok's standard reporting system fails to act on most reports made against accounts advertising and offering illegal drugs for sale to U.K. users. The vast majority of TikTok accounts identified by researchers as connecting drug sellers with potential buyers in the U.K. remained publicly accessible 14 days after being reported for suspected breaches of the platform's rules on illegal drugs, according to the new study published in the International Journal of Drug Policy. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-tiktok-violation-decision-uk-accounts.html Internet Tue, 20 Oct 2026 13:40:02 EDT news711719601 Human–AI collaboration is widely seen as the work model of the future: The expectation is that together, humans and AI will be more productive than either working alone. Yet the research to date seemed to tell a different story: On average, human–AI teams did less well than the better of the two alone. A reanalysis led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development now suggests this verdict was overly pessimistic. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-human-underestimated-factor-success-humanai.html Business Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:20:14 EDT news711296101 Wind turbines, devices that can convert energy from the wind into electricity, do not burn fuel during operation and could thus reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Despite their possible environmental advantages, building these devices depends heavily on the mines and factories supplying the metals they are made of. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-high-rare-earth-demand-complicate.html Business Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:20:07 EDT news710757587 Companies seeking to fill job openings are increasingly "drinking through a fire hose of applications," in the words of one hiring expert, with some popular postings receiving 1,000 applications in a single weekend. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-ai-job-candidates-unbiased-fair.html Business Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:10:01 EDT news710765988 Satellite data could help governments decide where to build the data centers behind the growth of AI by showing where renewable power, water and land are available and where drought and climate risks are highest, according to researchers at the University of Surrey. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-require-satellite-ai-centers-urge.html Business Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:00:05 EDT news710084182 Recently, Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei called for artificial intelligence (AI) companies, including his own, to slow down their work. Sam Altman and Elon Musk, heads of rivals OpenAI and xAI respectively, agreed. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-big-ai-safety-strategic-retreat.html Business Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:40:12 EDT news708593641 Like past transformative technologies, from railroads and radio to the internet, artificial intelligence has attracted optimistic investors and inflated valuations, and with them speculation of a bubble market—when eager investors drive up asset prices beyond their underlying values. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-ai-tech-companies.html Business Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:40:10 EDT news706890181 The common belief throughout the marketing and advertising world is that generative AI can produce striking visuals, but it struggles to match the performance and brand discipline of skilled human designers. New research published in the journal Marketing Science challenges that assumption, finding that a carefully designed AI system can outperform visuals created by humans, and it can outperform designs created by another AI model that was optimized solely on the basis of aesthetics. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-ai-generated-ads-outperform-human.html Business Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:00:02 EDT news706534201 What happens when companies on digital labor platforms no longer decide for themselves how much to pay their workers, but leave this to learning algorithms? Researchers at TU Darmstadt, Bielefeld University and the Université Côte d'Azur have demonstrated in computer simulations that, where only a few firms compete with one another, such artificial intelligence (AI) systems can "learn" to set wages at a very low level without communicating with one another or having been programmed to collude. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-algorithm-wages.html Business Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:40:07 EDT news706526941 When an artificial intelligence image generator produces a portrait, whose work went into it? The question sits at the center of lawsuits, licensing deals and proposed regulations worldwide. Artists want credit. Companies want clarity. Policymakers want a way to assign responsibility. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-ai-art-author-generated-images.html Business Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:40:10 EDT news706282562 Modern artificial intelligence (AI) platforms can summarize reports, analyze documents and answer questions in seconds. But when information is spread across dozens of slides, charts and tables, even advanced models can miss important details. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-workplace-ai-humans-documents-multiple.html Business Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:00:04 EDT news706278661 For investors trying to make sense of a company going public, one of the most important documents is often the most difficult to understand. Initial public offering (IPO) filings are dense disclosures submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. They can stretch hundreds of pages and combine legal language, financial data and visuals like charts and infographics. Even experienced analysts struggle to read them end to end, leaving many everyday investors relying on headlines or summaries. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-ai-complex-ipo-easier.html Business Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:40:05 EDT news706261022 A few months ago, AI made headlines for cracking a mathematical puzzle that had stumped experts for decades. Mathematician Paul Erdős posed the unit-distance conjecture, predicting how many pairs of points could lie the same distance apart. AI proved it wrong by tracking down a group of infinite counterexamples to the solution Erdős proposed. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-credit-ai-team-rethinking-idea.html Business Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:20:06 EDT news706180622 In the last decade, scientists have shown that fusion energy can work as a physical process. Next question: Can it work economically? A study co-authored by MIT professors Dennis Whyte and Andrew W. Lo proposes a framework for understanding what's needed to make fusion energy commercially viable in the marketplace. The method considers the physical inputs needed to sustain controlled fusion energy production, as well as the cost of building power plants that can compete in energy markets. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-economic-realities-fusion-power-framework.html Business Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:00:04 EDT news705595681 Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming modern finance, powering applications ranging from stock market forecasting to investment advice. But does making more accurate predictions necessarily lead to better investment decisions? According to two recent studies by researchers from Pusan National University and international collaborators, the answer may be no. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-rethinking-ai-investment-decisions.html Business Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:00:01 EDT news704645461 Improving how crowdsourced information is shared across mobile platforms by incorporating a user penalty-and-reward system could curb long lines caused by inefficient human queuing behavior, a new study suggests. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-rewarding-consumer-choices-advance-gen.html Consumer & Gadgets Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:40:01 EDT news704475181 Moving away from oil and gas and toward solar, wind and hydropower: that is the energy transition. To stop global warming, we must shift our energy infrastructure toward renewable sources in the coming years. The large-scale construction of solar cells and wind turbines requires, among other things, minerals and metals. At the same time, the existing fossil fuel infrastructure is becoming obsolete. So, could we recycle parts of our old energy system to build a new one? Researchers from Empa's Technology and Society laboratory investigated this question in a study. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-recycling-fossil-fuel-infrastructure-trillions.html Business Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:40:06 EDT news704456761 As retailers increasingly embrace artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and autonomous vehicles, a new retail model is beginning to emerge: mobile stores that drive directly to customers instead of waiting for customers to come to them. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-ready-mobile-wheels-outperform-traditional.html Business Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:40:22 EDT news704110981 In an increasingly competitive job market, some applicants are quietly trying to outsmart AI hiring tools. Now, new research focused on rooting out the practice of "prompt injection" shows how widespread this tactic is. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-thwarting-hidden-resume-hacks-ai.html Business Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:20:07 EDT news703947962 A new modeling study finds that weak AI regulation may be worse than no regulation at all when it comes to the safety of AI products and services. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-weak-ai-worse.html Business Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:20:03 EDT news703784881 The European Union issued two new rules for Google on Thursday to force it to share search data and open up its Android operating system to rival AI companies. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-eu-google-android-rival-ai.html Business Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:40:04 EDT news703418725 Financial markets are rewarding companies that are well-positioned to benefit from widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) with higher returns, according to a new Yale-led analysis of 380 trillion AI tokens, one of the largest datasets of real-world AI consumption ever studied. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-analysis-trillion-ai-tokens-reveals.html Business Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:40:17 EDT news703162861