Current price of oil as of March 30, 2026
As of 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time today, oil sold for $111.10 per barrel (using Brent as the benchmark, which we’ll get into momentarily). That’s 16 cents lower than yesterday morning…
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This company is giving workers a raise for using AI — here’s what they have to do to earn it
Good morning! It’s one of the biggest questions leaders are facing in the age of AI: How do you incentivize workers to actually use the tech that might replace them?…
Ex-Blackstone staffers raise $25 million for startup Valinor, which aims to put private credit on the blockchain
Many corners of finance—stock exchanges, banks, and payments firms—are embracing digital assets, but the private credit industry has largely stayed away from the crypto craze. The startup Valinor aims to…
How Dell reinvented itself as an AI-server powerhouse — and what its CFO is building next
Good morning. Three years ago, Dell Technologies was watching its traditional PC business contract sharply after a pandemic-era boom, raising fresh questions among analysts about its growth trajectory. Then the…
Meet the ex-Google CMO who quit with a seven-figure package by 28—he says getting promoted was easy because he just ‘disregarded all the rules’
Alon Chen joined Google in 2006 at 23, with no marketing experience and no connections at the company. By 28 years old, he was a CMO—overseeing marketing for Israel and…
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says ‘We’ve achieved AGI.’ But no one can agree on what that means. Why the most important term in tech remains hotly debated.
Last week, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made headlines when he told podcaster Lex Fridman that AGI—artificial general intelligence—had already been achieved. AGI has long been the ultimate goal of many…
ICE agents called in to help ease airport security lines may not be leaving anytime soon, even after Trump ordered pay for TSA officers
Even after President Donald Trump ordered emergency pay for Transportation Security Administration agents to ease long security lines, major U.S. airports on Sunday were still urging travelers to arrive hours…
Tehran briefly loses power after strikes as peace push ramps up
Parts of Tehran lost electrical power after missile strikes on Sunday as Iran and its proxies lobbed attacks at US allies over the weekend and thousands more American military personnel…
Dow futures fall 300 points as Wall Street braces for potential U.S. ground assault on Iran and Houthi attacks that could slash oil supplies further
Investors are looking past President Donald Trump’s attempts to talk oil prices down as reports signal an increasing likelihood that U.S. ground troops will be deployed to fully reopen the…
Private equity is eying Asia’s healthcare funding gap as countries get wealthier and older
Asia is getting wealthier, older—and potentially sicker, as rates of non-communicable disease rise across Southeast Asia. Yet governments aren’t investing enough in public healthcare, threatening to open up a massive…