A decade ago, Seattle was the poster child of American tech prosperity. Amazon and Microsoft had turned a mid-sized Pacific...
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The horse race between Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud computing businesses has gone through various phases over its nearly two-decade history,...
Global households added a record $40 trillion in wealth in 2025, pushing total household net worth to $570 trillion—a 7.3%...
The U.S. and Iran have paused their daily attacks on each other, but the war is not on hold as...
To be fair, James Cameron did warn us. Long before OpenAI broke out of its test corral and hacked into Hugging...
Romania shot down a suspected Russian drone after it crossed into its airspace on Sunday — the third such incursion in three...
Investors were bullish on Sunday evening as the U.S. and Iran continued to halt their attacks on each other, providing...
It was, perhaps, the worst-kept secret in the AI community. In mid-July, online sleuths who obsessively track the internet for...
Appeals court upholds block on Trump order to create a federal list of voters and limit mail ballots
A federal appeals court has upheld a ruling that in nearly half of U.S. states halted President Donald Trump’s executive order to...
The four American troops killed during renewed fighting between the U.S. and Iran in recent weeks are no longer listed as part of the Iran...
Fighting across the oil-producing world is catching up with energy markets, which could soon be choked off by multiple chokepoints...
For years, US technology giants had a tacit agreement with investors: The companies could spend lavishly on artificial intelligence, and...
Investors will soon have another way to bet on the hottest stocks from Nvidia Corp. to SpaceX, without trading a...
The Trump administration has imposed double-digit tariffs on more than 60 countries, using a legal justification that permits the president to...
Laura Loomer became infamous for spreading conspiracy theories online. Now, as she travels across Ukraine to see the damage inflicted...
The United States paused its attacks on Iran for a second straight day Sunday and Tehran said it had done so too,...
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is proposing to eliminate a foundational safety principle that has for 50 years minimized the radiation...
When life feels chaotic and unmanageable, it often feels easier to just procrastinate or ignore snowballing problems. But one of...
You may have seen the headline on your social media feeds this week, or some instance of it: Miami is...
In April, I warned in these pages that companies letting AI absorb entry-level work were quietly accumulating a talent debt...
For decades, the story of American higher education has been about women pulling ahead. Now a new study shows that...
I have spent two decades teaching humanities and social sciences at Amherst College, and my classes have always been built...