22 May 2026
AI in financial services moves beyond pilots to profits
18 ways AI is rewriting the future of financial services: Key insights from the AWS Financial Services Symposium AI in financial services has stopped being just another technology tool and started becoming a measure of operational readiness. In 2025, 45% of IT decision-makers ranked generative AI tools as their top budget priority. By 2026, nearly 100% of financial services respondents said their…
22 May 2026
End of manual labor: China surprises the world with revelation that it may have 24 million humanoid robots, more than the population of SP and Rio combined, to…
Study by British bank Barclays projects that China could have 24 million humanoid robots installed by 2035 to compensate for the projected reduction of 37 million workers, a result of the accelerated aging of the population and the historic decline in the country’s birth rate.
22 May 2026
Project Glasswing: An initial update
Last month, we launched Project Glasswing, our collaborative effort to secure the world’s most critical software before increasingly capable AI models can be turned against it.
22 May 2026
10 Cheap AI Stocks to Buy According to Analysts
On May 15, Alex Guiliano, CIO of Resonate Wealth Partners, joined BNN Bloomberg to suggest that valuations internationally look like an opportunity for investors to take advantage of.
22 May 2026
Figure’s robots just sorted packages for 200 hours straight
What started as a 10-hour human-versus-robot challenge turned into a continuous marathon shift spanning nine days of continuous work.
22 May 2026
Physical AI Is Already Here. But What Is It?
You may have seen it: a humanoid robot moonwalking across a stage to Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” before slipping several times on a set of steps and lying motionless. The video, filmed in Shenzhen, China, has taken social media by storm this week. The scene may well augur a future in which robots imitate, perform and work alongside humans. That’s because it is an early example of what many…
22 May 2026
Microsoft reports are exposing AI's real cost problem: Using the tech is more expensive than paying human employees
Firms today are pushing employees to use as much AI as possible to squeeze out the technology’s productivity gains. But that pressure is leading to cracks, and those cracks may be irreparable.
22 May 2026
How Stanford sold its soul to Silicon Valley
Theo Baker was still a teenager when he took down the president of Stanford University. And he hadn’t even meant to become a journalist. Baker had dreamed of going to Stanford since he was a wee nerd of 7, obsessed with coding and technology. He showed up at 17 to study computer science — the kid who’d built his first website in elementary school, now inside what he came to see as the world’s…
22 May 2026
Our editors' favorite 50 gadgets under $50: The best affordable gear we've tested
Testing new gear is a regular thing for all of us at Yahoo Tech. We test a lot of gadgets, and perhaps unsurprisingly, the most expensive, most flashy items are usually the ones to make headlines. But we’ve found that it would be a mistake to overlook the little things in the tech world. Some of the best gadgets we’ve tested don’t cost a fortune, and are small, affordable and endlessly useful.…
