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Volkswagen wrote down six billion euros of Porsche goodwill on September 18, the largest single charge in a ten-billion-euro package that slashed V...
Warren Buffett stepped down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway on September 18, effective immediately. He is 96. His son Howard replaces him as chai...
When the European Union imposed tariffs of up to 45 percent on Chinese battery electric vehicles in October 2024, it left plug-in hybrids untouched...
On September 16, Amazon signed an $8 billion supply agreement with Generac Holdings for backup power generators across its data center fleet. Initi...
A compaction summary is where a model's conversation history gets compressed between training runs. On July 9, OpenAI discovered that GPT-5.6 Sol h...
The Clarity Act died in the Senate on Tuesday, 49 to 50. Two days later, the SEC issued the Innovation Exemption, a five-year order that lets token...
Amazon Web Services admitted September 15 it cannot restore access to the Bahrain cloud region, six months after Iranian drone and cruise missile s...
The Federal Reserve voted 12-0 to raise interest rates for the first time since 2023. Seven weeks ago, nine members voted against this exact move. ...
The Federal Reserve is expected to raise rates for the first time since 2023, but Chair Kevin Warsh's refusal to submit dot plot projections may ca...
Not a single dollar of data center risk has reached the catastrophe bond market. A single hyperscale campus can carry between $20 billion and $30 b...
Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, published an essay calling on the AI industry to deliberately slow the rate at which it improves model capabili...
Saudi Arabia shut down its East-West oil pipeline after drone attacks from Iraq eliminated the kingdom's last bypass around the contested Strait of...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported August core CPI at 2.4% annually, the lowest since March 2021 and within striking distance of the Federal R...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says a large bank will be sanctioned on Monday. He names neither the institution nor its country. Since Operation ...
Bank of America says August PPI data should greenlight a Fed rate hike next week. CME FedWatch prices it at 70 percent. The ECB hiked 25 basis poin...
Trump promises $5,000 to every American adult if Republicans win both chambers in November, calling it the Trump Dividend. The proposal would cost ...
XPeng's IRON humanoid robot walked off a production line in Guangzhou under its own power. The factory shares 85 percent of its supply chain with t...
Kevin Warsh cut the Federal Reserve's policy statement from 341 words to 132, eliminating forward guidance that markets had relied on for three dec...
Tesla is mass-producing a two-seat robotaxi with no steering wheel, no pedals, and no way for a human to drive it. More than a hundred units sit in...
Moderna and Merck's personalized mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in its first Phase 3 trial. Each dose is built from the patient's own tumor. The man...
U.S. national debt crossed forty trillion dollars on Tuesday. On Wednesday, the Treasury doubled its long-bond buyback program. The number that mea...
A 25-year-old Russian shadow fleet tanker ran aground off Oman, spilling 800,000 barrels of crude into a marine reserve. The international oil spil...
Two more ADNOC tankers hit by drones in the Strait of Hormuz. Minor damage. No casualties. But Iran does not need the drones anymore. The strait ha...
Trump's Board of Peace spent seven months negotiating a 15-point roadmap for Gaza. Hamas agreed to disarm. Netanyahu rejected the plan on August 9,...
Google rolled out agentic checkout this month, letting AI agents monitor prices and buy products when they hit a target, and a Let Google Call feat...
On August 5, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat left Google after twenty-seven years to co-found Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation that autom...
OpenAI paused development of its Astra model after internal evaluations indicated it could independently identify and exploit zero-day vulnerabilit...
Iran and Oman have agreed on geographic coordinates for a new shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz. The proposed middle corridor would route...
The July jobs report showed the United States economy shed 23,000 jobs, the fourth negative nonfarm payrolls print since October 2025. Nine days ea...
The Government Accountability Office audited the Department of Government Efficiency's Wall of Receipts and found that more than half of claimed co...
Trump demanded 'Exquisite Class' weapons be quadrupled in March. Five months later, he confronted his defense secretary over shortages. The Pentago...
Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat left Google on Tuesday after twenty-seven years each. They are co-founding Discovery Loop with Oriol Vinyals and Quoc...
On his last day in office, Biden pardoned Anthony Fauci to protect him from political prosecution. Eighteen months later, a Senate committee voted ...
Bending Spoons agreed Monday to buy Airtable for $1.285 billion in cash. Airtable was valued at $11 billion in December 2021 after raising $735 mil...
Eli Lilly reported $23 billion in quarterly revenue, beating Wall Street's earnings estimate by 39 percent. Twenty-four hours earlier, Novo Nordisk...
On August 1, OpenAI announced that its unreleased model Astra solved ten open problems in mathematics for roughly $2,000 in compute and published m...
Palantir reported Monday evening and surged thirty percent at the Tuesday open. AMD rode the same AI momentum up seven percent during the day, then...
Capital One said it closed more than three hundred Trump Organization accounts after a months-long anti-money laundering review, the first time a b...
Palantir reports tonight growing 81 percent with its stock down 40 percent from peak. Maven, the Pentagon's AI targeting platform across all 11 com...
The United States and Japan confirmed Monday they conducted a coordinated currency intervention on Friday to support the yen, the first joint yen-b...
SpaceX raised $85.7 billion by selling less than five percent of itself in the largest IPO in history. The stock has fallen more than twenty percen...
A hacker in Zhuhai auditioned AI models for an autonomous cyberattack campaign. Claude refused. OpenAI refused and disabled the account. DeepSeek a...
Two AI transparency laws took effect on August 2, 2026. The EU began enforcing Article 50 of the AI Act. California's SB 942 went operative the sam...
Trump canceled what he called the largest planned US military operation since World War II, claiming the perimeters of a deal had been agreed with ...