AI-powered software has allowed gas station operators across California to illegally collude and drive up prices at the pump, according to a federal lawsuit. The proposed class action lawsuit, filed Monday, accuses gas station giants including Marathon and Circle K…
The quiet, wind-swept hills of the Battle of Greasy Grass, known to many as the Battle of Little Bighorn, are the setting for Native Americans commemorating the battle’s 150th anniversary with horse rides, battle reenactments and a camp of hundreds…
Humans and great apes have been giggling in similar ways since branching off the evolutionary tree, a new study suggests. How do we know this? Researchers tickled 13 captive apes — including gorillas, orangutans, chimpanzees and bonobos — and recorded the results. The new research…
Oil and gas chiefs may have quietly cracked a smile when Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election. Oil billionaire Harold Hamm, founder of Continental Resources, called it “the most important election in our lifetime” as he made calls urging…
Chief financial officers (CFOs) across U.S. companies said they’ve been able to navigate the challenges of increased energy costs as a result of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, but that’s done little to assuage their anxieties around future…
While many of Big Tech’s biggest names have been fairly public and open about their dealings with President Donald Trump, there’s one executive who has been more stealth in his dealings with the CEO-in-Chief. Larry Ellison, the billionaire Oracle cofounder,…
Taylor Swift upended the economics of the music industry by buying back her first six albums. Now, her most famous co-writers have sold the publishing rights to at least two of her chart-topping singles to a private equity company. It’s…
Micron’s blowout quarter wasn’t just a beat. It was a restructuring of how Wall Street will price memory — and maybe all of semiconductors — for years to come. The bears had been sharpening their claws all week. Korean semiconductor…
A court in Paris ruled on Thursday that energy giant TotalEnergies must account for its customer’s greenhouse gas emissions, giving the French company six months to report the environmental risks caused by the consumption of its gas and oil products.…
The billionaire founder of Softbank, who made a fortune backing companies with world-changing ideas like Alibaba, said Elon Musk’s orbital data center plans are as out there as the eccentric SpaceX founder himself. “In the battle for AI, the next…