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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 Racing against a stopwatch, a group of women folds bed sheets as they train to join an Indian startup that offers instant home services, transforming a traditionally word-of-mouth sector and promising better pay. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-india-domestic-workers-online-instant.html Business Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:57:17 EDT news703911420 South Africa's mining industry risks increased inequality through the adoption of fourth industrial revolution technologies unless automation is matched by stronger governance and workforce support, according to a review published in the International Journal of Mining and Mineral Engineering. The fourth industrial revolution refers to the growing use of digital technologies to improve industrial operations. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-effects-automation-industry-south-africa.html Business Tue, 21 Jul 2026 22:40:04 EDT news703856926 Generative AI is built on the work of humans, but these creatives are rarely paid. If we don't protect them now, entire categories of labor risk being obliterated. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-human-remixes-pay-creatives-ai.html Business Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:00:07 EDT news703856904 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 more Yoriko Kitagawa learns about a massive data center to be built near her home in Hino, on the outskirts of Tokyo, the more she worries. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-opposition-centers-cramped-urban-japan.html Business Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:40:01 EDT news703514966 Consumers are more likely to buy cryptocurrencies when they see them as easy to use, trustworthy and beneficial, according to research published in the International Journal of Blockchains and Cryptocurrencies, which used the Technology Acceptance Model as a framework to examine perceptions and adoption. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-factors-consumers-buy-cryptocurrencies.html Consumer & Gadgets Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:00:02 EDT news703427447 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 The European Union announced Wednesday that it had accepted a plan by Elon Musk's X social media platform to correct digital-content violations that led to a 120 million euros ($138 million) fine. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-eu-digital-content-violations.html Business Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:10:01 EDT news703394498 German food delivery group Delivery Hero said Thursday it has agreed to be acquired by U.S. ride-hailing giant Uber in a 12.7 billion euro ($14.6 billion) deal. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-germany-delivery-hero-bn-euro.html Business Thu, 16 Jul 2026 04:50:03 EDT news703394366 Can playing against AI make people more social? New research suggests the answer may be yes. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-video-game-ai-opponents-boost.html Business Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:00:07 EDT news703338284 Twenty-six Meta employees have filed a lawsuit accusing the tech giant of using artificial intelligence to select workers for mass layoffs, a claim strongly denied by the trillion-dollar company. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-meta-employees-allege-discriminatory-ai.html Business Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:00:19 EDT news703331324 Shares in PayPal surged as much as 13% on Wall Street Wednesday after reports that payments firm Stripe and private equity group Advent International had made a joint offer to buy the digital payments pioneer. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-paypal-bn-stripe-takeover.html Business Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:51:22 EDT news703331465 IBM shares plunged 25% Tuesday after the U.S. tech giant released disappointing preliminary second-quarter results, blaming a shift in customer spending because of expected higher prices for memory chips and other AI-related infrastructure. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-ibm-plunge-ai-boom-disrupts.html Business Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:40:01 EDT news703255681 The Swiss competition authority announced Tuesday that it had opened a preliminary investigation into Google's removal of the "choice screen" feature on Android devices in Switzerland. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-swiss-probe-google-choice-android.html Business Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:00:02 EDT news703250885 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 Apple on Friday accused OpenAI of stealing trade secrets as it seeks to build its own hardware for ChatGPT, a major rupture in a partnership between the iPhone maker and the artificial intelligence company. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-apple-lawsuit-accusing-chatgpt-maker.html Business Sat, 11 Jul 2026 03:17:58 EDT news702958659 The European Union accused Meta on Friday of breaching its social media law by designing Facebook and Instagram to get users hooked, and demanded it disable "key addictive features" like infinite scrolling. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-eu-demands-facebook-instagram-dismantle.html Business Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:20:01 EDT news702908179 Top Silicon Valley executive Fidji Simo announced Wednesday she is leaving her full-time role at OpenAI to go part time as an adviser and focus on recovery from a chronic illness. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-openai-simo-focus-health.html Business Fri, 10 Jul 2026 04:40:01 EDT news702876223 South Korean chip giant SK hynix set pricing for its mega U.S. listing on Friday, raising $26.5 billion as it takes advantage of the AI boom in what will be one of the world's biggest-ever stock sales. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-sk-hynix-billion-powered-ai.html Business Fri, 10 Jul 2026 04:23:36 EDT news702876198 Researchers have developed a benchmarking framework to assess whether artificial intelligence (AI) can generate decentralized finance (DeFi) smart contracts that are efficient and cost-effective, lowering computational costs, known jargonistically as "gas." The work might address a key problem seen in blockchain-based financial systems. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-lowering-decentralized-ai.html Business Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:40:04 EDT news702823737 Microsoft's greenhouse gas emissions jumped 27% in its latest fiscal year, the tech giant disclosed Thursday, adding to a wave of worsening environmental reports from an industry racing to build AI infrastructure. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-microsoft-emissions-surge-ai-buildout.html Business Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:20:13 EDT news702832303 EU lawmakers on Thursday backed starting negotiations on creating a digital version of the euro, as the European Union races to introduce the currency. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-eu-parliament-greenlights-digital-euro.html Business Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:20:01 EDT news702809953 Two sets of roles emerge when couples consider installing solar panels on their house, a new study shows: in sync, when partners with shared goals and defined tasks end up adopting solar, and oppositional, marked by discord and not making the solar investment. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-rooftop-solar-hinge-household-champion.html Business Thu, 09 Jul 2026 05:00:03 EDT news702711310 Facebook and Instagram parent Meta said Wednesday it will invest more than US$9.1 billion to build its first artificial intelligence data center in Canada and its largest outside the United States. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-meta-billions-ai-center-canada.html Business Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:50:01 EDT news702790818 A hybrid artificial intelligence model that combines two well-established deep learning techniques has improved the accuracy of financial market forecasts across major stock indices and so-called cryptocurrency, according to work in the International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-hybrid-ai-financial-error-stocks.html Business Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:10:01 EDT news702737687 While researching her forthcoming book on the promises and perils of visibility in the content creator economy, Brooke Erin Duffy noticed a surprising pattern. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-social-media-creators-job.html Business Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:00:01 EDT news702730322 Apple lost its bid to escape digital competition rules after an EU court on Wednesday rejected the U.S. giant's challenge. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-apple-eu-digital-competition.html Business Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:40:01 EDT news702729543 Netflix is pushing deeper into the short-form video territory dominated by TikTok and YouTube, striking licensing deals with a slate of major U.S. media publishers to carry bite-sized content on its platform. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-netflix-short-video.html Business Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:08:46 EDT news702702510 Shareholder activists are investors who leverage their ownership in a company to push for change. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-shareholder-activists-company-rivals-ways.html Business Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:00:05 EDT news702650161