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. 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 OpenAI is bringing in about $20 billion less in annualized revenue than investors had been led to believe, the Financial Times reported Thursday, raising questions about the solidity of the AI business. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-openai-revenue-gap-rattles-ai.html Business Fri, 09 Oct 2026 05:10:07 EDT news710738356 Samsung Electronics on Thursday forecast a more than 780% leap in third-quarter operating profit from a year earlier, buoyed by high memory chip prices as AI fuels a global supply shortage. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-samsung-quarterly-profit-ai-boom.html Business Thu, 08 Oct 2026 05:40:02 EDT news710652934 Elon Musk's SpaceX is aiming to raise $40 billion in bank loans and debt to further its purchases of AI chips from Nvidia, according to a Financial Times report citing sources close to the talks. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-spacex-billion-loans-nvidia-chips.html Business Thu, 08 Oct 2026 04:39:22 EDT news710653140 Long development timelines increase the cost of energy from offshore wind (OSW) farms, according to a new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters. The research estimates that cutting approval timelines by just one year for a 1-gigawatt (GW) OSW farm lowers its energy costs by around €1 per megawatt-hour—roughly €110 million over the plant's 25-year operational lifespan. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-shortening-offshore-year-millions.html Business Thu, 08 Oct 2026 04:00:01 EDT news710610601 Beyond the immediate headache for consumers affected by a data breach, breaches can also trigger years of financial repercussions, such as denials of mortgage refinancing and home improvement loans, according to new Virginia Tech research published in the journal MIS Quarterly. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-breach-victims-significant-loan-denials.html Business Wed, 07 Oct 2026 07:40:01 EDT news710574482 Supply chain disruptions can have swift and compounding consequences for manufacturers, leading to production delays, rising costs and a scramble to secure alternative suppliers. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-ai-resilient-chains-backup-suppliers.html Business Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:00:13 EDT news710419682 The transition to clean energy is underway, but major structural obstacles are slowing it down. Wind and solar power accounted for a record 17% of electricity generated by U.S. utilities last year. However, fossil fuels still supply the lion's share, and a huge number of new natural gas plants are in development to power data centers. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-energy-bottleneck-isnt-technology.html Business Fri, 02 Oct 2026 07:00:01 EDT news710140202 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 For the first time, researchers have identified and named key players facilitating the growing problem of AI-generated explicit sexual imagery online. The study "The Backbone of Abuse" has been published in the Journal of Online Trust and Safety. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-technology-dominate-infrastructure-nonconsensual-ai.html Internet Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:27 EDT news709981283 As artificial intelligence rapidly transforms the workplace, new research shows that human capabilities such as creativity, analytical thinking and systems thinking remain critical and are expected to remain important in the future world of work. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-ai-reshaping-workplace-human-judgment.html Business Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:20:04 EDT news709902487 Artificial intelligence is fueling a rebound in investment in innovation, with corporate research and development spending reaching record highs, the United Nations said Tuesday. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-ai-investment.html Business Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:51:51 EDT news709904915 Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices announced Monday that it has acquired World Labs, an artificial intelligence company founded by Fei-Fei Li, one of the field's most prominent researchers and sometimes referred to as "The Godmother of AI." https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-amd-buys-firm-founded-ai.html Business Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:20:24 EDT news709897704 When Apple recently presented its (rather pricey) new folding phone, one of the questions hovering over the launch—and in particular its new CEO, John Ternus—was whether the technology giant can recover its famously innovative magic touch. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-greater-job-inventors-creative.html Business Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:20:08 EDT news709816082 A high-profile Japanese anime voice actor has taken TikTok to court over videos he says feature an artificial intelligence clone of his "lustrous" baritone, with a verdict due Wednesday. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-japanese-anime-actor-tiktok-ai.html Business Sun, 27 Sep 2026 07:40:01 EDT news709712477 A jury in New Mexico on Friday found that Facebook's parent company, Meta, deceived users about privacy protections in a case linked to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, U.S. media reported. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-jury-meta-liable-cambridge-analytica.html Business Sat, 26 Sep 2026 06:40:01 EDT news709618620 A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld the Pentagon's decision to exclude Anthropic from its supply chain after the AI startup refused to remove certain safeguards on its Claude model. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-court-sides-pentagon-anthropic-ai.html Business Sat, 26 Sep 2026 06:00:01 EDT news709618507 TikTok on Friday agreed to pay Alabama at least $100 million and enact time limits and other restrictions for teen users, avoiding a trial with a settlement modeled on Instagram owner Meta's recent agreement with U.S. states. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-tiktok-teen-limits-settlement-meta.html Internet Sat, 26 Sep 2026 05:50:02 EDT news709618447 A computer-based method for evaluating and improving print advertisements by modeling how human binocular vision responds to images is discussed in the International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-binocular-vision-ads-automatically.html Business Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:20:09 EDT news709561021 TikTok goes on trial Monday in Alabama, accused by the state of misleading parents about tools meant to shield children from harmful content. It is the first case against the platform to go before a U.S. jury. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-trial-tiktok-monday.html Business Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:04 EDT news709556150 If you're not a fan of the video game Fortnite or a longtime user of the livestreaming platform Twitch, the name Ninja is likely new to you. Offline, he goes by Richard Tyler Blevins. But within the gameplay-streaming subculture, Ninja needs no introduction. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-internet-famous-superstars-sick-days.html Business Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:20:09 EDT news709553582 Meta shares bounced back to their summer 2025 highs this week, riding a wave of investor excitement about Muse, the social media giant's AI agent, which presents an opportunity to generate revenue beyond advertising. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-meta-soar-muse-ai.html Business Fri, 25 Sep 2026 04:20:01 EDT news709526760 Computer science student Jack Zemke was getting nowhere despite sending out hundreds of job applications that mostly disappeared into the void—ignored. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-coding-boom-science-grads-focus.html Business Thu, 24 Sep 2026 04:40:03 EDT news709442265 In the wake of the U.S. Screen Actors Guild strike over AI protections and U.K. musicians' silent album protesting proposed changes to copyright law, more than a dozen AI-produced tracks have appeared on the Billboard charts since 2022. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-ai-success-christian-gospel-country.html Business Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:40:06 EDT news709383915 If you're one of Google Discover's millions of daily users, you've doubtless come across all manner of content without actively searching for it. A Spanish user, for instance, might see headlines promising to reveal the secret recipes of avant-garde chef Ferran Adrià, what time 46-year-old TV presenter Pilar Rubio goes to bed, the latest unmissable deals from Lidl or the new car that will allow them to say "adiós" to annual inspections. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-google-online-personalized-content.html Internet Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:00:15 EDT news709372143 Meta has disrupted more than 3.7 million scam-linked accounts, pages and other content this year based on information provided by Singapore police, the company said Wednesday. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-meta-million-scammers-accounts-singapore.html Internet Wed, 23 Sep 2026 05:40:03 EDT news709357004 The latest Apple Watch models have some new features: they can listen to the sounds around you all day, transcribe snippets of conversation on demand and write up summaries of everything they heard. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-apple.html Business Tue, 22 Sep 2026 08:40:04 EDT news709284902 Google has been fined 403 million euros ($463 million) for breaching the European Union's strict privacy rules because it mishandled users' location data, the bloc's data privacy watchdog said Monday. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-google-million-fine-eu-breach.html Business Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:00:05 EDT news709210529 Meta on Thursday moved to remove AI-generated videos targeting two women, including a British politician, after the tech giant's Oversight Board blasted its "fundamentally inadequate" safeguards against proliferating deepfakes. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-oversight-board-blasts-inadequate-meta.html Internet Fri, 18 Sep 2026 03:40:02 EDT news708918199