Curious if an AI stock trading bot can deliver real results in today’s volatile market? I spent weeks linking eight top tools to broker APIs (like Alpaca, IBKR), running them on real-time US stock data, and gauging usability, logic, and performance.This article breaks down what each bot does—who it’s ideal for and what to watch

You register for Trade Ideas expecting another charting platform—but quickly realize it’s more like a turbocharged idea engine. That AI analyst—Holly—is scanning thousands of equities, and engines like The Money Machine or TradeWave aim to serve you trade signals, execution pathways, and pattern-based trade flow. Not just charts—real-time insight. What Is Trade Ideas, Really? At

GPTGirlfriend is an uncensored AI companion platform that allows users to create deeply personalized chatbots—referred to as virtual girlfriends or boyfriends—with customizable personalities, appearances, and backstories. The platform supports NSFW content, realistic emotional roleplay, and even AI-generated images in premium tiers. It’s marketed as a safe digital space for fantasy conversations and emotional companionship. How

Google has updated its managed database service — Spanner — with a new columnar engine to help enterprises run complex analytical queries on real-time transactional data for better decision-making. The update, currently in preview, will tackle a typical challenge that most enterprises face: running a database that can handle both online transaction processing (OLTP) and

TypeScript 5.9, an update to Microsoft’s JavaScript superset with syntax for types, is now available as a production release. The new TypeScript release brings support for ECMAScript’s deferred module evaluation and a preview of expandable hovers for viewing variable type details. General availability of TypeScript 5.9 was announced August 1, following a July 25 release

Google has made a series of incremental updates to its managed BigQuery data warehouse service to help data practitioners across enterprises further automate data analytics tasks. These updates were made to the data engineering and data science agents in BigQuery that the hyperscaler announced in April during its annual Google Cloud Next event. Data engineering

As we continue to move away from using AI tools to power chatbots, new ways of working are becoming more important. Agent technologies have proven to be an interesting way to automate business processes. They treat AI models as a flexible orchestration layer that makes it possible to dynamically build payloads for existing APIs based

AI coding assistants are a frequent topic for InfoWorld and probably most tech publications. However, the dirty secret is that this landscape changes daily. Not long ago Claude Code practically obliterated the competition. How? Well, it wasn’t that the CLI was amazing (or Aider would have run the board a year ago). It was Anthropic’s

Windows 11 24H2 has been released, but behind the scenes, Microsoft is constantly working to improve the newest version of Windows. The company frequently rolls out public preview builds to members of its Windows Insider Program, allowing them to test out — and even help shape — upcoming features. Skip to the latest builds The

Microsoft 365 (and Office 365) subscribers get more frequent software updates than those who have purchased Office without a subscription, which means subscribers have access to the latest features, security patches, and bug fixes. But it can be hard to keep track of the changes in each update and know when they’re available. We’re doing