Adobe shares dropped 13% following the company's quarterly earnings report.

The selloff came despite better-than-expected results.

The design software maker topped Wall Street's estimates and maintained guidance.

Worries have mounted in recent months that the company is losing its advantage in generative AI .

Social scientists seek to understand human behavior while NLP researchers aim to predict it.

Leveraging NLP can help social scientists efficiently sift through digital text data that comes with the Information Age to understand underlying behaviors.

NLP methods can detect subtle shifts in people's use of pronouns (such as I, we, and they), articles (a, an, the), and other forgettable words which reveal changes in psychological states.

BMW 's net profits slumped by more than a third in 2024 , flagging "continuing subdued demand in the Chinese market" The car maker said that it expects an earnings margin for cars of around 5% to 7% in 2025 , compared with 6.3% achieved last year .

BMW deliveries totaled around 2.45 million units last year , slightly down from 2.55 million of 2023 .

A research team has developed technology that could dramatically increase the lifespan and energy density of electric vehicle batteries.

The research team implemented a multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) on the surface of battery electrode materials.

This absorbed strain energy generated from the charging and discharging process, preventing cracks, and minimizing thickness changes in electrodes to improve stability.

Bria, founded in 2023 , raises $40 million in Series B funding round.

Bria pays for images from around 20 partners, including Getty Images , and uses these to train image-generating models with content guardrails.

The company also offers plug-ins for image editing and design apps including Photoshop and Figma .

FCC says it's creating a new Council for National Security within the agency.

The Council will include representatives from eight Bureaus and Offices within the FCC .

The group will focus on US competition with China , including in AI and other tech sectors.

FCC Chair Carr wrote Project 2025 's chapter on the agency, which has been aggressive and controversial.

Meta said Thursday that its new Community Notes crowdsourced content moderation tool will use the open-source algorithm from X.

Mark Zuckerberg pitched Community Notes in January as the company's preferred replacement for third -party fact-checking in the U.S. The company will begin testing Community Notes next week .

A judge in Singapore granted bail to three men suspected of smuggling Nvidia chips from Singapore to China .

The chips may contain chips affected by U.S. export rules that bar the sale of them to certain countries.

The three men were charged with fraud against Dell and Super Micro by falsely stating where the servers would be located.

Amazon , Google , Meta , Dow , and Occidental were among the founding signatories of the Wednesday pledge.

The pledge came on the sidelines of the CERAWeek Conference in Houston , Texas , where big tech joined forces with more than a dozen global banks, 140 nuclear industry companies and 31 countries to support nuclear energy expansion.

Nuclear energy currently generates around 9% of the world’s electricity.

The “Hui Si Kai Wu ” platform is a universal software system designed to enhance robotic intelligence and adaptability.

The platform combines vision, decision-making, language comprehension, learning, and motion control, functioning as a central intelligence system.

In November 2024 , the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center made Tiangong humanoid an open source, promoting further development and integration.