Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends an opening ceremony for Tesla China-made Model Y program in Shanghai, China, on Jan. 7, 2020. Aly Song | Reuters Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company is expanding its robotaxi service area and bringing xAI’s Grok to vehicles as it rolled out a new iteration of the artificial intelligence…
Pavlo Gonchar | Lightrocket | Getty Images Space startup Varda announced on Thursday that it has raised $187 million in Series C funding, led by venture capital firms Natural Capital and Shrug Capital, to continue advancing drug manufacturing in space. The latest round included participation from Peter Thiel, Lux Capital, Khosla Ventures and Caffeinated Capital….
The adoption of artificial intelligence tools is increasing at a rapid pace but remains far from ubiquity, providing more fuel for the AI trade to keep rallying. A string of recent data shows that businesses and consumers in the U.S. are increasingly using generative AI to help complete more tasks and address inquiries more quickly…
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to media ahead of boarding Marine One to depart to attend the NATO Summit in The Hague, Netherlands, from the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 24, 2025. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters Six months into his second term in office, President Trump has begun to…
Pipeline Winding in Summer Mountain Landscape Sarkophoto | Istock | Getty Images From the first discovery in Prudhoe Bay in 1968, Alaskans have had a love-hate relationship with oil. On one hand, it allowed Alaska to abolish its state income tax, fund most government operations and provide every Alaskan with a dividend that continues to…
The blue logo of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is displayed on the facade of its headquarters building in Vienna, Austria, on June 9, 2025. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images OPEC says more than 1,000 ministers, CEOs, policymakers, analysts and journalists were invited to its biennial seminar to discuss key trends…
To rank America’s Top States for Business in 2025, CNBC scored all 50 states on 135 metrics in 10 broad categories of competitiveness. The fundamentals of the study, now in its 19th year, are the same as they have always been, identifying the factors companies consider year after year when making site selection decisions, and that…
Dennis Macdonald | Photographer’s Choice Rf | Getty Images With a solid economy, a world-class workforce, and a wealth of corporate hospitality, North Carolina is America’s Top State for Business in 2025. The Tar Heel State is on a roll. It captured top honors in the annual CNBC rankings in 2022 and 2023, and it…
A drone view shows flooded houses, following torrential rains that unleashed flash floods along the Guadalupe River in San Angelo, Texas, on June 4, 2025, in this screen grab obtained from a social media video. Patrick Keely | Patrick Keely Via Reuters ‘Every home can be exposed’ Texas is one of the most flood-prone areas…
People shop at a grocery store in Manhattan, New York City, on April 1, 2025. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Republicans’ “big beautiful” reconciliation package includes tax cuts that policy researchers have found primarily benefit the wealthy. To help pay for that, the legislation also includes “substantial” cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or…
