Judith Murphy

Judith Murphy is a financial journalist and market analyst covering AI, technology stocks, and emerging market trends. She has contributed to multiple financial publications and brings a data-driven approach to her coverage of the technology sector and its impact on global markets.

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Judith Murphy · May 20, 2026 · 1:05 PM

Barnes & Noble's AI book stance could reshape retail shelves

Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt says the chain would stock AI-written books if they are clearly labeled and not misleading, a stance that could normalize AI publishing in physical retail.

Judith Murphy · May 20, 2026 · 12:15 PM

SoftBank's OpenAI bet is drawing fresh internal scrutiny

Masayoshi Son's expanding OpenAI wager is becoming a source of internal concern at SoftBank as investors rethink concentration risk in the AI boom.

Judith Murphy · May 20, 2026 · 9:35 AM

SpaceX's push into developer tools with Cursor shows hardware-first firms want the software that builds their products

SpaceX's option to acquire Cursor for about $60 billion, or to pay $10 billion for a partnership, is less a simple buyout and more a strategic play to own the developer tooling that builds next-generation hardware and software, with big consequences for consolidation in the AI dev-tools market.

Judith Murphy · May 20, 2026 · 7:16 AM

Google's Antigravity 2.0 shows it wants the agentic coding stack

Google has turned Antigravity into a broader agent-first development platform, and that matters because it is no longer just chasing editor features. It is trying to own the workflow.

Judith Murphy · May 20, 2026 · 3:49 AM

NVIDIA pushes past autoregressive text generation with Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion

NVIDIA's Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion pushes diffusion language models into production-minded territory, giving startups another open-weight path for faster and more flexible inference.

Judith Murphy · May 20, 2026 · 1:31 AM

CLARITY Act vote gives crypto startups a real shot at federal rules

The CLARITY Act's 15-9 committee approval is more than a procedural win, it is a sign that Congress is getting serious about crypto rules.

Judith Murphy · May 19, 2026 · 10:27 PM

Google's Gemini Omni Flash pushes harder into agentic AI

Google has launched Gemini Omni Flash inside Flow, pairing multimodal generation with an Agent Mode that shows a more coherent push toward agentic AI.

Judith Murphy · May 19, 2026 · 5:51 PM

Demis Hassabis's Anthropic stake complicates the AI power map

Demis Hassabis's early investment in Anthropic exposes how closely linked the AI elite has become, even as Google and Anthropic compete for the same frontier market.

Judith Murphy · May 19, 2026 · 2:53 PM

Echo Protocol hack shows admin key risk for DeFi startups

AsinglecompromisedadminkeyturnedEchoProtocol ′ seBTCmarketintoamoneyprinter.Theactuallosswasunder900,000, but the near miss exposes a deeper problem in how DeFi teams ship products.

Judith Murphy · May 19, 2026 · 1:36 PM

Citi warns Bitcoin is more exposed than Ethereum to quantum risk

Citi says Bitcoin's structure leaves it more vulnerable than Ethereum to future quantum attacks, and the warning is forcing institutions to think about post-quantum planning now.

Judith Murphy · May 19, 2026 · 4:31 AM

llama.cpp adds Multi-Token Prediction and doubles Qwen3.6 27B throughput for local inference

llama.cpp's merge of Multi-Token Prediction unlocks large local inference speedups for Qwen3.6 27B, with community benchmarks showing roughly 2.4× on Strix Halo and 2.17× on other rigs, making on-device open-weight models far more practical for low-latency and privacy-sensitive workloads.

Judith Murphy · May 19, 2026 · 1:27 AM

Boston Dynamics turns Atlas into a stronger industrial contender

Boston Dynamics' new Atlas footage shows the humanoid robot moving a full-sized refrigerator, a sign the company is pushing beyond spectacle and toward industrial deployment.

Judith Murphy · May 18, 2026 · 11:09 PM

Solana's RWA business is quietly becoming one of crypto's strongest cases

Solana's real-world asset market has climbed to $2.68 billion, and the pace of growth suggests the chain is moving from speculative narrative to financial plumbing.

Judith Murphy · May 18, 2026 · 8:02 PM

NextEra's Dominion deal shows how AI is redrawing the utility business

NextEra's Dominion deal is a reminder that AI's next bottleneck is power, and the companies controlling the grid are gaining strategic value fast.

Judith Murphy · May 18, 2026 · 1:54 PM

Pizza Hut Franchisee Sues, Saying Yum's AI Broke Its Business and Cost $100 Million

Chaac Pizza Northeast sued Pizza Hut and Yum Brands, claiming the Dragontail AI system caused cascading operational failures that cut delivery performance and harmed enterprise value, and it seeks at least $100 million in damages, a case that could reshape liability expectations for enterprise AI deployments.

Judith Murphy · May 18, 2026 · 1:31 PM

Eric Schmidt's boos expose the AI message students are no longer buying

Eric Schmidt was booed at a University of Arizona commencement after urging graduates to embrace AI, a reaction that highlights growing student anxiety about jobs and the future of work.