An open-source AI investing framework called AI Berkshire, built on Claude Code and modeled after legendary investors like Warren Buffett, claims a verified 69% return in 2024 and 66% year-to-date in 2025, outpacing the S&P 500 by over 46 percentage points using multi-agent analysis and 16 specialized AI skills.
OpenAI's new economic research reveals a seismic shift in workplace AI use, with 25% of workers now assigning AI agents full 8-hour workday tasks, 70% delegating over an hour of complex work, and employee AI agent adoption hitting 68% across industries, according to separate KPMG data.
Microsoft supercharges Excel Copilot with finance-grade AI tools, including customizable workflow skills for DCF modeling and variance analysis, live market data connectors from FactSet, S&P Global, and PitchBook, and full audit transparency through a new 'Plan with Copilot' feature that previews changes before execution.
Qualcomm surges 15% after unveiling its Dragonfly C1000 data center CPU for agentic AI, nearly doubling its non-handset revenue forecast to $40 billion by fiscal 2029, with Meta signed as a launch customer and $15 billion targeted from data center sales alone.
AI agent adoption among US workers has surged to 68% as companies prepare to invest an average of $269 million in the next 12 months, though fears over job security and skills gaps fuel resistance amid rising AI-related layoffs and shrinking entry-level hiring.
U.S. AI spending nearly doubles to $207 million as agent deployment surges from 12% to 54%, but organizations face mounting pressure to close skills gaps and strengthen governance before they can fully realize returns on their rapidly growing investments.
Fluree DB v4.1.0 launches with blazing 2M+ facts per second import speeds and a 10.4x performance edge over competitors, completing all 850 WGPB queries on a 21.5-billion-triple Wikidata dataset with a 43ms geometric mean, while introducing AI memory integration for tools like Claude Code and Cursor.
The job market is tightening sharply as AI reshapes hiring demands, with U.S. hiring still 24% below pre-pandemic levels and employers now seeking candidates who combine technical skills with human strengths like adaptability and collaboration — as LinkedIn warns 70% of job skills will change by 2030.
NVIDIA's next-gen Rubin AI servers eliminate fans entirely with 100% liquid cooling, running at 45°C to enable chiller-free operation, slashing hyperscale data center cooling costs by over $4 million annually while reducing facility water consumption by up to 100%.
A powerful new open-source tool called 'Lift' launches on GitHub, achieving 90.2% accuracy in extracting structured JSON data from PDFs and images, outperforming Azure Content Understanding and NuExtract3 across 225 benchmark documents, with a managed API version pushing accuracy even further to 95.9%.