Monday saw a historic stock market selloff that started in Tokyo and spread westward fast and hard, sending some 95% of all listed corporate shares down. Technology stocks, the market’s darlings, fell noticeably hard.  One culprit was Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, which nearly halved its holdings of Apple Inc. over the weekend in a $75.5 billion stock unloading. This was likely for tax reasons. (Buffett said Apple is an “even better” business than Coca-Cola, an old favorite.) But the move revealed how reliant the global tech industry is on the iPhone maker. Shares of Apple’s major suppliers dropped drastically on Monday. Taiwan’s stock index had … Continue reading Was it Warren Buffett, the Bank of Japan or the AI bubble bursting? 

The regulation’s risk-based hierarchy may affect organizations in the United States whose products and services affect EU citizens Pending formal adoption by the European Parliament in April following a provisional agreement in late 2023, the final EU AI Act is expected to apply to any provider, deployer, or distributor of AI whose services or products reach the EU market. “These are broad-reaching requirements that are expected to apply to providers and users of AI systems outside the EU if the output of the AI system affects people located in the EU,” says Tim Davis, a principal with Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory at … Continue reading How EU AI Act May Accelerate Compliance Regime for U.S. Enterprises

Market Insights: A Peek Into the Semiconductor Industry The “Super 7” – Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Tesla, Meta, and Nvidia – have partly helped lift the tech-focused Nasdaq index up over 30% this year. All of them have outperformed the broader market, with the top performer Nvidia more than doubling its share price. These tech giants are all part of the latest artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, largely driven by the rise of ChatGPT and other generative AI apps earlier this year. Apple’s smart headset, Vision Pro, is an example of how this technology is being applied. Microsoft has invested in … Continue reading Market Insights: A Peek Into the Semiconductor Industry

The “Super 7” – Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Tesla, Meta, and Nvidia – have partly helped lift the tech-focused Nasdaq index up over 30% this year. All of them have outperformed the broader market, with the top performer Nvidia more than doubling its share price. These tech giants are all part of the latest artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, largely driven by the rise of ChatGPT and other generative AI apps earlier this year. Apple’s smart headset, Vision Pro, is an example of how this technology is being applied. Microsoft has invested in OpenAI, which is a prominent player in this … Continue reading Market Insights: A Peek Into the Semiconductor Industry

Every once in a while I go through an existential crisis in this area. it usually comes about due to the mammoth collection of folders and files which generally work for saving but are horrible for access and retrieval. Over the last few months I have installed the PARA method (projects, areas, resources, archival) in my Mac Notes and hard drive. this is a great first step but now my crisis has moved deeper to standards for input and methods of retrieval. And so enter Roam Research. I have tried them all except Roam, and in parallel the methods of … Continue reading Writing , cataloguing and effective archival