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As ChatGPT approaches its third anniversary this fall, OpenAI announced that the chatbot has spurred a 50% increase in paid users since February.Read...
Maybe hold off on that hamburger: Beef and tomatoes have been recalled this week. Not to mention water.Read more...
Amazon (AMZN) is almost doubling its investment in North Carolina, announcing $10 billion worth of AI infrastructure for Amazon Web Services’ supply...
The U.S. inflation rate in April was almost negligible: 0.2% month-over-month, or 2.3% annually the lowest since 2021. Good news, right?Read more...
Bitcoin bonds are about to be listed on the Moscow Stock Exchange.Read more...
Even Donald Trump’s sons are finding their family’s crypto business a bit cryptic.Read more...
Sixty-four Tesla (TSLA) Superchargers will be removed from the New Jersey Turnpike, starting on Friday. Upon hearing the news, Elon Musk tweeted,...
Love is a lot less lucrative lately—if you’re the company that owns Tinder (MTCH), Hinge and OKCupid. Read more...
Meta (META) believes that the source of 97% of its revenue can be fully automated by AI: its ads.Read more...
A brain-computer interface (BCI), a fusion of man and machine, has sparked human imagination since the Industrial Revolution. This week, the small...
They may look like Oreos. The packaging uses the same colors as Oreos packaging. But the product seen on shelves of the Aldi supermarket chain are...
“All the music I’ve ever made now belongs to me,” wrote Taylor Swift on her website on Friday.Read more...
Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars. He’s starting with a tiny Texan town of 500 people — 260 of whom work for SpaceX — and a recent memo suggests...
President Donald Trump would prefer not to talk about TACO — an acronym for “Trump Always Chickens Out,” a term coined by Robert Armstrong of...
International growth is slowing, fewer new jobs will be created, and the global income gap is rising — largely because of elevated trade tension...
The election of Donald Trump provided a big boost for Bitcoin, as the incoming president promised to make the U.S. “the crypto capital of the...
Show up for work and do your job — that’s what 12 large pension funds, representing $950 billion in assets, told Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk in an...
Space X’s big ambitions came crashing back to Earth on Tuesday, when its Starship made what the company calls a “rapid unscheduled disassembly”...
One day after BYD (BYDDY) overtook Tesla’s (TSLA) market share in Europe, the Chinese EV maker and two of its contractors were sued by the Brazilian...
“This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it. I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me. And I’m afraid...
OnlyFans, a website that’s been called the future of sex work, could soon be sold to L.A. investment firm Forest Road Company, according to a report...
Since cryptocurrency’s inception a major selling point was that it sidestepped the banking system. Now that President Donald Trump appears to be...
The U.S. Mint confirmed on Thursday that the current crop of one-cent coins will be the last ever produced. Read more...
German carmaker Mercedes-Benz (MBGAF) announced plans Thursday to consolidate its U.S. operations by moving 500 jobs to Sandy Springs, Georgia —...
Google (GOOGL) co-founder Sergey Brin gave away almost $700 million, in the form of 4.1 million Alphabet shares, to an undisclosed charity on...
A group of global tech giants gathered in Abu Dhabi to pose for a photo as anAI supergroup, including OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Oracle’s (ORCL) Larry...
Walmart (WMT) is eliminating roughly 1,500 jobs, the Wall Street Journal reported, in what CEO John Furner described as “opportunities to remove...
In the first five months of 2025, Boeing (BA) is bouncing back from a truly miserable 2024 that included the resignation of CEO David Calhoun and a...
Competing members of Armenian-American organized crime groups have been charged with attempted murder, kidnapping, fraud, and more than $83 million in...
Google (GOOGL) is bringing its Gemini AI to Volvo cars. Google parent Alphabet and the Swedish carmaker, two companies that have collaborated for...
JPMorgan Chase (JPM) hired 60,000 people in the last five years, increasing its workforce by 23%. It looks like that’s about to grind to a half.Read...
Surely, the billions of dollars invested in AI chatbots will increase productivity and put economic performance into hyperdrive, right? Read more...
23andMe (ME) will have a second life. Read more...
Mark Cuban is best known for turning around the fortunes of the Dallas Mavericks from worst to first, after he bought the team in 2000. After selling...
Three hours after Verizon (VZ) announced it was shuttering all of its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, the Federal Communications...
You might not need to be a Teams player anymore, if you choose not to, based on Microsoft’s (MSFT) offer to the European Commission to unbundle...
Meta (META) has filed a motion for judgment to wrap up its antitrust trial, claiming it doesn’t want to spend more of anyone’s time or money....
The trade war agreement won’t be enough to avoid price hikes, a Federal Reserve governor said Monday.Read more...
American Bitcoin, a new crypto mining operation started by Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and data-center operator Hut 8, is merging with Gryphon...
The U.S. travel business may be in for some good news, for a change: AAA forecasts that a record number of Americans have plans for domestic travel...
Japanese electronics giant Panasonic, Tesla’s (TSLA) original battery supplier and one of its largest, announced today that it will lay off almost...
Meta’s (META) Mark Zuckerberg built his career on the idea that you have friends. Now he’s concerned that you don’t have enough, so he’d like...
Cisco Systems (CSCO) became the latest tech company to announce a new quantum computing chip, following similar announcements in recent months from...
Waymo (GOOGL), the self-driving car division of Google parent Alphabet, is preparing to scale up its manufacturing facility in the Phoenix suburb of...
Consumers using “snail mail” will have about 30,000 fewer people handling their letters and packages this year. Both UPS (UPS) and the U.S. Postal...