Microsoft Corp. said its carbon emissions climbed 25% in 2025, making it the latest technology company to report a setback in its efforts to erase emissions amid heavy spending on artificial intelligence data centers. The company emitted 20 million metric…
Meta released a new version of Muse Spark on Thursday, claiming that the AI model surpasses the capabilities of prior products from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Dubbed Muse Spark 1.1, the new model is proficient across a range of tasks,…
Sony’s plan to phase out physical PlayStation 5 discs by January 2028 has moved from a public relations problem to a legal one. Dutch consumer group Stichting Massaschade & Consument has filed a $457 million lawsuit on Tuesday on behalf…
The gap between the rich and the poor continues to rise at an extraordinary pace. Just 56,000 ultra-wealthy individuals—the world’s richest 0.001%—now control more wealth than the poorest 4 billion people on Earth combined, according to UBS’s 2026 Global Wealth…
Good morning. Wharton professor Eric Bradlow, who serves as the vice dean of AI and analytics, calls AI the most consequential innovation of his lifetime. A computer scientist and statistician, he’s drawn to AI for its ability to sift massive…
The oil industry has spent more than a century pushing into new frontiers. Its engineers pulled crude from beneath deserts, oceans and frozen tundra. Its traders built markets that turned oil into the world’s most actively traded commodity. Now a small…
By 8:05 a.m. Eastern Time today, oil had reached $79.25 per barrel, measured using the Brent benchmark. That’s $1.08 more than it cost yesterday morning and about $8.30 above its price a year earlier. Oil price per barrel % Change…
It seems U.S.-Iran negotiations aren’t going as planned for either side, with fresh hostilities flaring this week, sending oil prices higher once again. For analysts, the question is whether this is the tried-and-tested White House method of pressure and de-escalation,…
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Good morning. From searing heat waves to regulatory rollbacks, sustainability is a tough topic for global leaders. When asked, every CEO I talk to says that climate change is real. They acknowledge the need to address the societal and climate…