Economy

President Donald Trump points his finger as he signs an executive order on AI next to Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, left, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Dec. 11, 2025. Al Drago | Reuters The Trump administration has taken new steps to assert […]

Smoke from massive wildfires in Canada engulf the New York City skyline, reducing visibility and casting an orange haze over the city, July 16, 2026. Selcuk Acar | Anadolu | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Friday blasted Canada for wildfires enveloping swaths of the United States in a smoky haze and said he would […]

Customers enter a Taco Bell restaurant on July 14, 2026 in La Cañada Flintridge, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images Taco Bell has removed lettuce linked to a cyclosporiasis outbreak from restaurants, it said Friday. The outbreak has currently affected more than 1,600 people across five states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and […]

Chinese startup Moonshot AI has unveiled a new model it says closes the gap with leading U.S. offerings and surpasses OpenAI and Anthropic’s most capable systems on some benchmarks. Kimi K3 still trails Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI’s GPT 5.6 Sol on overall performance, the company said on Friday, but consistently outperformed other tested […]

Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun speaks briefly with reporters as he arrives for a meeting at the office of Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 24, 2024. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun will testify before a Senate panel on June 18 to answer lawmaker questions about […]

Spilled drinks, crunched laptop screens and crushed knees. A new video shows the reasons why reclining your seat on airplanes morphed from an acceptable practice into a top irritant for many air passengers. The video is part of an ad campaign launched in late November by the furniture company La-Z-Boy, which includes a petition imploring […]

People posing for photos in front of a Christmas light installation in central Seoul on December 22, 2023. Jung Yeon-je | Afp | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets traded mixed on Christmas Eve, after key U.S. benchmarks rose overnight, helped by gains in tech stocks. Japan’s Nikkei 225 slipped 0.32% to close at 39,036.85 as minutes […]

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the Microsoft AI Tour event in Munich, Germany, on Feb. 25, 2026. Sven Hoppe | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told employees Wednesday that Anthropic’s limits on requests that users submit to the startup’s high-end Fable artificial intelligence model don’t make sense. “If you use […]

A general view of a SpaceX building and Starship rocket ahead of the SpaceX initial public offering (IPO), in Starbase, Texas, U.S., June 11, 2026. Gabriel V. Cardenas | Reuters SpaceX scrubbed the launch of its Starship mega rocket on Thursday, with CEO Elon Musk pledging to make another attempt “hopefully in a few days.” […]

Sen. Mike RoundsR-S.D., a member of the Senate banking committeesaid on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Thursday that Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh struck the right tone in an appearance before the panel this week. “I think his message was a good message. He started off by talking about the need to get inflation under control […]