If you want to lower your risk of getting Alzheimer’s or some other type of dementia, turn off the TV and step away from the internet. Get off your rear end and go do something. That’s not me talking. That’s science. A new study of people 60 and older has found that sitting around for…
The so-called Magnificent Seven stocks have been leading the U.S. market this year, but now they look richly valued by many key measures — and they’re crowded trades. One in five funds have more than 40% of their holdings in the Magnificent Seven, says Bank of America. “Upside risk may be capped,” says B. of…
Talking about AI alone has been pixie dust for big technology stocks this year. And as executives look for any way to shoehorn AI into their business plans, more S&P 500 index companies during their second quarter earnings calls mentioned “AI” than at any point since at least 2010, according to a report published on…
Women have fought for and won bigger roles in the U.S. military in recent years, but a gap favoring their male counterparts emerges yet again when active duty ends and the civilian job hunt begins. Women veterans are more than twice as likely to be unemployed six months after completing their service than male veterans,…
Salesforce Inc. is expected to highlight its AI products in its earnings report, but analysts cation that business spending hasn’t been as robust as expected. Salesforce CRM is scheduled to report fiscal first-quarter results Wednesday after the close of markets. The report will serve as a run-up to the company’s annual Dreamforce conference, to be held…
Amazon’s Prime Video has high hopes for its September lineup, which includes the return of “The Wheel of Time” and a spinoff of “The Boys.” After a two-year layoff, Season 2 of the sprawling fantasy epic “The Wheel of Time” (Sept. 1) picks up with Moraine (Rosamund Pike) and Rand (Josha Stradowski) now scattered and…
While generative AI has the potential to enhance the work of a chief executive officer, it can’t yet replace her entirely, says Oded Netzer, a professor at Columbia Business School. Generative AI, a term used to describe products like chatbots and certain image-generating platforms, can be defined as a tool that uses patterns and rules…
Those hoping for dazzling Nvidia results were not disappointed and shares are pointing to a fresh record for Thursday. And the AI leader looks like the tide lifting all boats, with the tech sector set to explode and S&P 500 SPX gain when Wall Street opens. Will Nvidia drive a new bull market for Wall…
Nvidia Corp. stunned Wall Street with Wednesday’s jaw-dropping forecast of $16 billion in revenue for the current quarter, and that may not even be the company’s top-line peak, as its decades of work in accelerated computing pay off in a big way. The company blew expectations out of the water with its latest results, thanks…
Artificial intelligence can help you beat the stock market, but not in the way most investors think it will. The key appears to be investing in those companies that manufacture and support AI’s infrastructure: the chips and networks that enable AI’s machine learning. In contrast, investors looking to AI to help construct winning portfolios are…
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Shares of recently debuted Jet.AI Inc. more than doubled after the aviation-booking platform announced its AI-based booking app was available on Apple Inc.’s App Store, with those gains paring to close Friday up more than 60%. Jet.AI shares JTAI, +64.25%, which soared as much as 117% to an intraday high of $8.40 Friday right after…
Nvidia Corp. will be the only chip maker positioned to exceed Wall Street expectations in the near term when it comes to servicing the wildly growing artificial-intelligence market, according to one analyst. On Friday, Morgan Stanley chip analyst Joseph Moore switched his “top pick” stock to Nvidia NVDA, +0.09% from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. AMD,…
Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Sign up here to get MarketWatch’s best mutual funds and ETF stories emailed to you weekly! INVESTING NEWS & TRENDS The bulls finally control the stock market and the signs point higher Large-caps are plowing ahead and leading the way. S&P 500 chart offers little resistance until 4650….
News that the Beatles are using AI to include John Lennon’s voice on a new song marks the latest, and somewhat surprising, chapter, in the technology’s often controversial evolution. The prospect of the tech-fueled new release more than half a century after the Beatles split has divided fans of the iconic band, with some full…
Artificial intelligence (AI) gives a voice to one of Earth’s most vital populations. And we’re not talking about people. The creators of ePlant’s TreeTag have joined forces bringing environmental robotics specialists, arborists, human exercise software marketers and data experts together for what the company argues is the world’s first smart yard system, essentially a “Fitbit”…
Shares of Oracle Corp. rose after hours Monday after the IT and cloud infrastructure provider reported fiscal fourth-quarter results that topped expectations, helped by a jump in cloud revenue that executives said positioned the company well for an increasingly AI-dominant future. The company didn’t shy away from name-dropping its AI collaborators during the company’s earnings…
With AI among the few things to truly captivate investors this year, more executives, from those at Nvidia Corp. to Walmart Inc. WMT, +0.60% to Stitch Fix Inc. SFIX, -8.57%, are talking up ways to harness the technology. One abbreviation they’re mentioning less? ESG. ESG — or environmental, social and governance investing standards — has…
Some big technology companies racked up scores of artificial-intelligence mentions on their latest earnings calls, so by contrast, Amazon.com Inc. has been quieter about its efforts. There were only 12 mentions of AI on Amazon’s AMZN, +2.49% last earnings call, compared with 65 for Google-parent Alphabet Inc. GOOG, -0.22% GOOGL, -0.29% and 53 for Microsoft…
The artificial-intelligence craze hasn’t moved Citigroup’s year-end target for the S&P 500, but the bank’s equity analysts are keeping an eye out for what they’ve labeled the “p-AI-n trade.” That would be the pain trade inflicted by AI enthusiasm or a potential pause or pivot in the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate hiking cycle, according to a…
At one time, no one had ever heard of a telegraph operator. An electrician. Auto mechanic. TV producer. X-ray technician. Software developer. Webmaster. Cybersecurity specialist. Advancements in technology have always spawned new kinds of jobs while rendering other ones obsolete. Artificial intelligence will be no exception. Right now, we don’t fully know what those jobs…