Jack Dorsey’s Block Inc. has been notifying hundreds of employees that their jobs may be eliminated during annual performance reviews as the payments firm embarks on a broader business overhaul.…
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…
President Donald Trump’s racist social media post featuring former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, as primates in a jungle was deleted Friday after a backlash from both…
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.…
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…
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…
OpenAI believes it has finally pulled ahead in one of the most closely watched races in artificial intelligence: AI-powered coding. Its newest model, GPT-5.3-Codex, represents a solid advance over rival…
Gen Z creators in the U.S. are staging a quiet revolt against TikTok’s new American owners, and their protest is happening one download at a time: by installing a rising…
AI has a PR problem. As companies bet big on AI’s development—from Google saying it will double its capital expenditure to Meta’s bet on AI acceleration in 2026—Americans have soured…
As the foundations of the U.S. economy and future growth are increasingly built around digital assets, the Trump administration wants to remind Americans that commodities they can see and touch…