LeBron James is the NBA’s first and only active player to reach billionaire status. The Chosen One has four championship rings, reached the finals 10 times, and brings with him a history of giving back to the community, both philanthropically…
The public has long questioned the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, about what he’s doing sitting on a trillion-dollar fortune. After all, other billionaires give away vast amounts of their wealth (take MacKenzie Scott, who’s donated more than $26 billion…
You’ll probably never hear a plane-with-only-two-parachutes joke featuring a crying baby, a chatty grandma, and the CEO of a Fortune 500 company. That’s because the besuited bunch is increasingly flying private—even as employers cut back on other lavish benefits for…
European and North American agricultural journals hailed guano as a miraculous remedy for exhausted soils. Wheat farmers in Britain, sugar beet growers in central Europe, tobacco planters in Virginia and cotton cultivators across the American South all embraced the new…
Across seven countries, seven people woke up to days that no longer looked the way they once did. The war in Iran began months ago and thousands of miles away. But its effects quickly ricocheted across the world — oil…
Traffic is set to start flowing Monday across a new bridge over the Detroit River that will serve as a critical route for trade, jobs and tourism between Canada and the U.S. Last week, Canada celebrated the Gordie Howe International Bridge with…
Incoming CEO John Ternus spent years building the credentials that could put him at the helm of Apple: engineering expertise, a record of delivering major products, relationships across the company, and the trust of its top leadership. Now comes the…
AI voice models are having a moment, and Alex Smola is seeing it up close. As the founder of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Boson AI, a startup that is set to release its first speech-to-speech model named Higgs RealTime, Smola says…
Good morning. Ticket resellers have long turned to StubHub to hawk their wares, selling seats to concerts and sports games, often at significant markups. But what happens when the CEO of a platform for ticket resellers turns out to be…
A decade ago, Seattle was the poster child of American tech prosperity. Amazon and Microsoft had turned a mid-sized Pacific Northwest city into a magnet for engineers, executives, and capital, adding roughly 40,000 jobs per year at the peak of…