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 · Apr 29, 2026 · 8:00 PM

SoftBank-linked data center debt shows the AI boom is moving into junk bonds

A $999 million junk-bond deal for a data center project leased to a SoftBank subsidiary shows the AI infrastructure boom is moving from equity hype into high-yield credit markets, where investors are now underwriting the risk.

Judith Murphy · Apr 29, 2026 · 6:40 PM

Taylor Swift deepfake scam ads show how AI has made celebrity fraud cheap and scalable

AI-generated Taylor Swift scam ads on TikTok are turning celebrity deepfakes into a scalable fraud business, using fake reward programs and synthetic endorsement videos to funnel users into data-harvesting sites.

Judith Murphy · Apr 29, 2026 · 5:00 PM

China just turned robotaxi expansion into a regulatory stress test

China's reported freeze on new robotaxi permits after a Baidu Apollo Go outage in Wuhan is turning autonomous driving into a regulatory stress test, with the move threatening expansion plans for Baidu, Pony.ai, WeRide and the broader robotaxi market.

Judith Murphy · Apr 29, 2026 · 2:23 PM

Evan Spiegel sees the AI backlash coming before most of Silicon Valley does

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel warned on Lenny's Podcast, in comments highlighted by Business Insider, that AI's biggest bottleneck may be public trust rather than technical capability, a view that carries extra weight because Snap is already embedding AI into Snapchat and partnering with Perplexity.

Judith Murphy · Apr 29, 2026 · 11:15 AM

MIT just made it easier to train AI on your phone without sending your data anywhere

MIT's FTTE framework makes federated learning around 81 percent faster in simulation, strengthening the case for privacy-preserving AI training on phones and laptops without centralizing sensitive data.

Judith Murphy · Apr 29, 2026 · 8:45 AM

The next trillion dollars in AI spending isn't going where you think

As the AI infrastructure buildout matures, investors are shifting focus from chip designers like Nvidia to the essential supply chain players,cooling, power management, and edge architecture,that are solving the physical bottlenecks of scaling AI.

Judith Murphy · Apr 29, 2026 · 5:45 AM

AI is not killing tech jobs but it is splitting the labor market in two

Tech layoffs hit nearly 79,000 workers in Q1 2026 while 275,000 AI roles sit open, revealing a labor market that is splitting in two rather than shrinking, with serious consequences for wages, junior developers, and the global pricing of technical talent.

Judith Murphy · Apr 29, 2026 · 4:15 AM

Trump FCC launches early ABC license probe sparking free speech firestorm

Trump FCC's ABC license probe escalates free speech clashes, with media self-censorship and entrepreneur opportunities in decentralized alternatives.

Judith Murphy · Apr 29, 2026 · 2:27 AM

Sony's PS5 and Denuvo's total crack show why gaming's DRM war is finally unwinnable

Sony's 30-day PS5 check-in and Denuvo's total hypervisor crack arrived the same week, proving publishers' DRM strategy is broken on every platform simultaneously.

Judith Murphy · Apr 29, 2026 · 12:47 AM

Meta's AI agents now run entire ad campaigns on Instagram and Facebook

Meta AI agents autonomous ad campaigns Instagram Facebook 7% conversion $57B AI ads.

Judith Murphy · Apr 28, 2026 · 11:07 PM

OpenAI drops Microsoft exclusivity and AWS becomes the enterprise AI distributor

OpenAI ended Microsoft exclusivity April 28, naming AWS exclusive third-party distributor for Frontier agents in a $110B deal splitting stateless APIs to Azure and stateful workloads to AWS.

Judith Murphy · Apr 28, 2026 · 9:06 PM

Trump's AI executive order is supercharging mass surveillance with hacked DHS data and FBI broker purchases

Trump AI policy DHS $165B surveillance Ring cars 911 data predictive policing FBI broker buys.

Judith Murphy · Apr 28, 2026 · 7:06 PM

Neurable licenses BCI tech for headphones and wearables to scale cognitive tracking

Neurable OEM licensing EEG AI focus tracking headphones wearables beyond hardware.

Judith Murphy · Apr 28, 2026 · 5:07 PM

Venture capital hires its first chief AI officer and the entire industry must catch up

A VC firm's first chief AI officer formalizes deal sourcing, diligence, and portfolio AI as structured operations.

Judith Murphy · Apr 28, 2026 · 3:27 PM

SenseTime's SenseNova U1 ditches VAEs entirely to unify image generation and understanding

SenseNova U1's NEO-Unify architecture removes VAEs entirely, natively unifying image understanding and generation in a fully open-weight model.

Judith Murphy · Apr 28, 2026 · 1:58 PM

Xiaomi's MiMo V2.5 Pro open-source release brings hardware giant into AI model race

Xiaomi open-sources MiMo V2.5 Pro 7B multimodal model optimized for HyperOS devices.