Big Tech AI spending has reached new heights. During earnings calls this week, tech firms raised their capital expenditure, or capex, projections. Google’s parent company, Alphabet, said on Wednesday it plans to double capex in 2026 to nearly $185 billion.…
U.S. births fell a little in 2025, according to newly posted provisional data. Slightly over 3.6 million births have been reported through birth certificates, or about 24,000 fewer than in 2024. The decline seems to confirm predictions by some experts,…
Crypto prices got absolutely rocked this week with Bitcoin falling nearly $15,000 in 24 hours—a bloodbath not seen since the collapse of crypto conman Sam Bankman-Fried’s empire back in 2022. On Friday, Bitcoin had clawed back most of those losses,…
A division of the U.S. Agency for International Development eliminated by Trump administration cuts last year was reborn Thursday as an independent nonprofit, allowing its international work to continue in a new form. This reincarnation of USAID’s Development Innovation Ventures as the…
Frontier AI models are no longer merely helping engineers write code faster or automate routine tasks. They are increasingly capable of spotting their mistakes. Anthropic says its newest model, Claude Opus 4.6, excels at discovering the kinds of software weaknesses…
In some ways, 10-year-old Giancarlo is one of the lucky ones. He still goes to school. Each morning, he and his family bundle up and leave their Minneapolis apartment to wait for his bus. His little brother hefts on his backpack, even…
Noah Winter brags he’s been to way more Super Bowls than Tom Brady. Brady competed in 10 — more than any other player. But Winter will be part of the Super Bowl spectacle for his 30th straight year this year, not in uniform…
The convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein built his finance career through connections with the world’s most powerful people, from Apollo’s Leon Black to former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak. But newly released documents from the Department of Justice reveal that…
When it comes to the world’s richest billionaires, tech founders litter the top of the list. AI has been heralded as a multi-trillion-dollar industry, catapulting many founders to extreme wealth; but now AI bubble fears and doubts over valuations have…
Sentiment shifted in the stock market this week as investors began to question the value of corporate software and IT services in an age where artificial intelligence may be able to do the job in-house. But the market hasn’t significantly…