Billionaire founder of XPRIZE Peter Diamandis is tired of the doomsday scenarios painted by movies like Terminator or Ex Machina. The engineer and Harvard-trained doctor turned entrepreneur is trying to change the narrative with a new $3.5 million Future Vision…
Brazil 2014 had no-hassle “vanishing spray.” Qatar 2022 brought in much-debated video assistant referees. The 2026 World Cup, to be held in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, might already have confirmed its own next-gen contribution to the world’s game, and…
President Donald Trump said he plans to waive oil-related sanctions, have the US Navy escort tankers through the Strait of Hormuz and predicted the war with Iran would resolve “very soon” as he confronted mounting economic and political pressures after…
The $400 billion enterprise software and cloud infrastructure giant Oracle is in the hot seat with a fiscal third quarter earnings drop on Tuesday amid a spotlight on its heavy borrowing and negative free cash flow. To set the scene,…
AI won’t just reshape work and markets, Joseph Stiglitz says it will quietly rot the information those systems depend on. As large language models (LLMs) scrape our sarcastic Reddit comments and loud marginal voices on extremist forums, the Nobel laureate…
Oil prices plunged on Monday afternoon and equities went back into the green after President Trump suggested to CBS News reporter Weijia Jiang in a phone interview that the war may be winding down. “NEW—In a phone interview, President Trump…
Since the U.S.-Israeli war was mounted against Iran, oil prices have surged. As a result, pundits, journalists, and many economists have dusted off an often-used song sheet. It claims that higher oil prices will fuel inflation. While this narrative is…
Despite making up nearly a fifth of the U.S. economy and providing a much-needed set of crutches, the latest health care jobs data highlights just how wobbly the labor market is. Over 28,000 jobs in the health care industry were…
As consensus grows in Silicon Valley and Wall Street about the incoming artificial intelligence “job apocalypse,” there are few answers on what comes next. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman have predicted that most white-collar jobs…
Mojtaba Khamenei, who was named Iran’s new supreme leader over the weekend, shares something in common with President Donald Trump: They have both amassed global real estate empires. The son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in an airstrike…