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Eugene Mymrin | Moment | Getty ImagesAll computing devices require a part called memory, or RAM, for short-term data storage, but this year, there won’t be enough of these essential components to meet worldwide demand.That’s because companies like Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices and Google need so much RAM for their artificial intelligence chips, and those companies are the first ones in line for the components. Three primary memory vendors — Micron, SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics — make up nearly the entire RAM market, and their businesses are benefitting from the surge in demand. “We have seen a very sharp,…

If you are wondering whether Okta’s share price reflects its true worth today, you are not alone. This article will help you frame that question clearly before you make any decisions. Okta shares last closed at US$92.23, with returns of 10.3% over the past week, 2.7% over the past month, 10.3% year to date and 9.3% over the last year, while the 3 year return stands at 32.2% and the 5 year return at a 63.5% decline. Recent headlines around Okta have focused on its role in identity and access management and ongoing interest in cybersecurity stocks, which helps explain…

Pivoting to an AI job may be trendy, but that doesn’t mean it’s an easy feat.As AI-related jobs continue to pop up, and companies invest heavily in upskilling, more workers are looking to add “AI” to their job titles.To see how it can be done, Business Insider spoke with four Google employees who transitioned to AI teams. While each followed a different path, all of them spent roughly a year building the necessary skills to land new roles — and for some, the transition took several years.From participating in employee hackathons to becoming AI content creators, the four employees share…

Blockchain technology is changing the world of finance, and smart investors are turning to blockchain stocks for growth. These are shares in companies that build, support, or use blockchain and crypto tech. Think crypto miners, trading platforms, software makers, and firms adding blockchain to their services.Why watch them now? These stocks show huge trading volume lately, signaling strong interest. High volume means more buyers and sellers, which can lead to big moves in price. But remember, crypto markets are volatile, with risks from rules, tech changes, and market swings.In this post, we dive into seven top leading the pack. Based…

Data center stocks have become central to investor portfolios as cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) drive record demand for capacity and networking gear. These names tend to combine durable revenue with capital-spending cycles that can amplify earnings when enterprise customers expand deployments. Analyst ratings on Barchart point to three leaders for 2026. First of all, we have Nvidia (NVDA), which supplies the GPUs and AI accelerators that power modern data centers, positioning it to capture infrastructure spending. Secondly, Amazon (AMZN) benefits from Amazon Web Services’ dominant cloud share and steady enterprise demand. Finally, Broadcom (AVGO) offers networking silicon and…

2026 highlights several developments in new, emerging and evolving technologies that could revolutionize industries — and society — in unimaginable ways. Here are our picks of emerging technology to watch in 2026, listed alphabetically. Some of these technologies are new and waiting for the opportunity to make their mark. Others are more familiar and could potentially evolve in the coming year. Read on and let us know in our survey what tech you’re watching in 2026. 1. Advanced IoT (AIoT) The internet of things and its proliferation of devices have brought real-world monitoring and control to every industry, including…

CES has always been a robot extravaganza, and this year’s event saw the announcement of a number of important robotics developments, including the new, production-ready debut of Atlas, the humanoid from Boston Dynamics. Then there were all the robots on the showroom floor, where bots often serve as good marketing for the companies involved. If they don’t always give a totally accurate representation of where commercial deployment is at the moment, they do give visitors a peek at where it might be headed. And, of course, they sure are fun to look at. I spent a decent amount of time…

Editor’s note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry.On Tuesday, researchers at Stanford and Yale revealed something that AI companies would prefer to keep hidden. Four popular large language models—OpenAI’s GPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, and xAI’s Grok—have stored large portions of some of the books they’ve been trained on, and can reproduce long excerpts from those books.In fact, when prompted strategically by researchers, Claude delivered the near-complete text of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, The Great Gatsby, 1984, and Frankenstein, in addition to thousands of words from books including The…

Quick SummaryYou can build a working beginner cybersecurity home lab in 2026 by keeping it small and mission-driven – use host-only isolation, snapshots, and focused exercises so you can safely break and rebuild. A practical starter fits 2-4 VMs (Kali attacker, a vulnerable target like Metasploitable, plus a Windows endpoint), runs on at least 16 GB RAM (32 GB recommended), costs about $0-$500 depending on upgrades, and can be stood up in a few hours with hands-on exercises completed over a 60-day mission. You know that feeling when you finally finish a big LEGO spaceship from the box art, then…

This post is co-written by TrueLook and AWS. TrueLook is a construction camera and jobsite intelligence company that provides real-time visibility into construction projects. Its platform combines high-resolution time-lapse cameras, live video streaming, and AI-powered insights to help teams monitor progress, improve accountability, and reduce risk across the entire project lifecycle. TrueLook used Amazon SageMaker AI to build and deploy an AI-powered construction safety monitoring system that automatically detects personal protective equipment (PPE) by combining TrueLook’s experience in jobsite camera systems using the AWS machine learning (ML) infrastructure. TrueLook has built a solution that identifies safety issues through automated image…