If companies put public chatbots on top of their corporate databases, it won’t be for radical transparency, or because they haven’t had the technology to “crunch digital data” without it. Instead, they’ll do it because that chatbot will be told that it should use the right optimistic adjectives, that it should keep to the company line about the... See more

Company bosses will blanch at the idea of radical financial transparency. After all, it amounts to handing over some control of how corporate facts are presented. Real-time reporting would also reduce the value of financial window-dressing — arranging cash flows to make the quarterly snapshot more attractive — to zero. Still, some nerves could be... See more

Google’s earnings power is holding up well, even as the internet giant spends record sums on artificial intelligence in the midst of global economic turbulence.

Parent company reported operating income of $30.6 billion for the first quarter on Thursday—solidly beating Wall Street’s forecast of $28.7 billion.

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Holding up? Holding up well ? Solidly

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