Jeff Bezos says low earners in the US should pay zero tax – Business Insider

UPDATED: Paramount Skydance has denied a Variety report that the company was forming an investment consortium with the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Abu Dhabi to submit a bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, “The information Variety published is categorically inaccurate,” a rep for Paramount Skydance said in a statement. “This is a…

President Trump followed up his populist push, adopting traditionally Democratic economic talking points like capping credit card interest rates, with an endorsement of limiting merchant swipe fees using the Durbin-Marshall Credit Card Competitive Act. He doesn’t seem to understand that this would harm consumers and benefit retail businesses. However, the legislation isn’t going anywhere. It’s…

About six months before the first U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran, the Trump administration gutted the Bureau of Energy Resources (ENR), an 80-person team within the State Department tasked with leading international energy diplomacy. The cuts were part of the then Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative to reduce the federal workforce, with the…

Stephen Miran, governor of the US Federal Reserve, at the Nomura Research Forum during the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Fall meetings in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025. Samuel Corum | Bloomberg | Getty Images Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Miran on Monday advocated for further interest rate cuts as a…

Artificial intelligence firm Anthropic has accidentally revealed the source code for its popular coding tool Claude Code. The leak occurred Tuesday morning when the company published version 2.1.88 of Claude Code to the public npm registry and inadvertently included a source map file, exposing more than 500,000 lines of code and nearly 2,000 files. A…

When Demis Hassabis was 6 years old, he remembers his father giving him the age-old reassurance prompt used every day by millions of parents around the world—“do your best.” For a young Hassabis, already showing the precocious talents that were to culminate in his becoming one of the most important artificial intelligence leaders in the…