‘Parasocial’ is Cambridge Dictionary's word of 2025

If you felt more excited for Taylor Swift’s engagement announcement earlier this year than you did for your friend or family member’s, you might relate to Cambridge Dictionary’s word of 2025: “parasocial,” which describes having a one-sided connection with someone you do not know, such as a celebrity, a fictional character or an AI chatbot.

The most important chart in AI today? Oracle’s default swaps blow out

Investing.com — Shares in Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) are down as much as 37% from the record high set in September as investors turned wary of its debt-financed jump into artificial-intelligence infrastructure, with bond and credit-default‐swap (CDS) markets flashing caution.In layman’s terms, a CDS is insurance against a company going bust. When the price of that insurance jumps, investors are getting nervous.Investors dumped Oracle bonds after a report that the company plans to add about

HyperPod enhances ML infrastructure with security and storage

This blog post introduces two major enhancements to Amazon SageMaker HyperPod that strengthen security and storage capabilities for large-scale machine learning infrastructure. The new features include customer managed key (CMK) support for encrypting EBS volumes with organization-controlled encryption keys, and Amazon EBS CSI driver integration that enables dynamic storage management for Kubernetes volumes in AI workloads.

These Are the 3 Cheapest Big Tech AI Stocks: Time to Buy?

The explosion of interest in artificial intelligence (AI) has caused the valuations of many tech stocks to skyrocket. Palantir Technologies (NYSE:PLTR), for example, trades at more than 170x forward earnings, Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) goes for 184x, and CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) trades at 111x. These multiples reflect high expectations for AI-driven growth, but they also raise questions about … These Are the 3 Cheapest Big Tech AI Stocks: Time to Buy?