Every several weeks, we hear reports of mind-expanding new capabilities from the AI community. With excitement and dread, we try to extrapolate what this will mean for mankind and society: speculating which jobs will disappear, which jobs will appear, and when computers will outreason humans. These topics have become part of our everyday conversation. Less noticed, but…
US President Donald Trump during an announcement in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, July 24, 2026. Bonnie Cash | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Monday voiced support for Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh while insisting that the U.S. should have the lowest interest rates…
Vegetables on display in a grocery store on Aug. 15, 2025, in Delray Beach, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images The cyclospora outbreak that has sickened thousands in the U.S. is drawing renewed attention to a decades-long shift in how fresh food moves through the country. While investigators work to identify the original source of…
FILE PHOTO: FBI Director James Comey testifies before the House Intelligence Committee hearing into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 20, 2017. Joshua Roberts | Reuters Former FBI Director James Comey on Monday formally asked a federal judge to dismiss his indictment on a charge of…
The boom in GLP-1 weight-loss drugs and other specialized medicines has created lucrative logistics opportunities in an industry that pays a premium for reliability, visibility, and regulatory know-how. The expertise needed to properly transport these temperature-sensitive therapies is just part of the reason why FedEx created a dedicated unit to handle what has become a…
My top 10 things to watch Monday, July 27 1. Futures are surging this morning , and oil prices are tumbling after the U.S. and Iran paused fighting over the weekend. Nasdaq is leading the way, up about 1.4%. WTI crude is down about 7% to under $84 a barrel, on pace for its biggest…
A forest fire rages in Saint-Jean-d’Illac, some 30km from Bordeaux, on July 26, 2026. Romain Perrocheau | Afp | Getty Images A monster wildfire engulfing parts of France’s Bordeaux region has claimed hundreds and thousands of acres of land and forced one of the largest evacuations in the country. The fire began in the Southwest…
Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh concludes a news conference after a meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, June 17, 2026. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images The Federal Reserve is expected to hold interest rates unchanged at its upcoming July meeting — as higher energy prices and renewed tensions with Iran have complicated the picture for…
Nvidia and a host of tech giants on Monday launched a new AI safety initiative focused on open models, as the fallout from a cyber attack committed by a rogue OpenAI model continues. Last week, it emerged that the target of the attack, startup Hugging Face, was unable to use leading U.S. frontier models to…
A woman walks past war-themed graffiti and murals painted on walls along the capital Tehran’s streets and avenues as air defense systems are activated during the night while daily life continues in the shadow of rising military tensions between the US and Iran on July 22, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. Fatemeh Bahrami | Anadolu |…
