The American worker is on a productivity tear and it may have more to do with a surge in working from home than the effects of AI, according to a Stanford economist. For the past five years, the output for…
Amidst the anxiety and disdain for data center growth, startups see an opportunity by designing mini data centers to install in homes that have less of a financial burden on residents, as well as a potentially lower ecological footprint than…
For generations, the American Dream had an address: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago. A high-rise, a corner office, a zip code that announced your arrival. The Census Bureau just confirmed that time is long gone. New data released Thursday shows…
The next frontier in the AI arms race may be a couple miles beneath the Pacific Ocean. Minerals like copper and cobalt are in high demand thanks to the $700 billion AI infrastructure buildout. Microsoft’s 80-megawatt Chicago site, for example,…
Bonds sold off sharply around the world on Friday as investors brace for persistently elevated inflation amid the ongoing energy crisis. Oil jumped after the U.S.-China summit wrapped up without any signs that Beijing will lean on ally Iran to…
The Boring Company’s tunneling operations have been temporarily suspended at one of the company’s construction sites as regulatory officials investigate a “crushing injury” Wednesday evening that took place in Las Vegas, according to spokespeople from the local fire department and…
Pershing Square Capital Management, the hedge fund run by the billionaire investor, has built a new position in the software giant. And in typical Ackman fashion, he disclosed the stake in his trademark style: a lengthy post on X on…
Gone are the days of the Cold War, of nuclear anxiety, of those old animated “Duck and Cover” PSAs we were shown in school: Americans are now more opposed to an AI data center in their neighborhood than a nuclear…
At 8:45 a.m. Eastern Time today, oil was priced at $111.04 per barrel with Brent serving as the benchmark (we’ll explain different benchmarks later in this article). That’s a gain of $3.22 compared with yesterday morning and around $46 higher…
Larry Peter has as much personality as the cheeses that once made Julia Child melt. He once sold cheese out of a woodshed he built next to a schoolhouse he bought from Sonoma High School for a dollar and now…