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COLUMBUS, Ohio — This week, for the first time, Ohio’s regional power grid operator was unable to buy enough power to meet its own reliability target. “Electricity costs are rising, and reliability is falling because we simply do not have enough supply to meet demand,” said Shayna Fritz, executive director of the Ohio Conservative Energy…

In brief Bitcoin is hovering around $66,150, down about 1.7% over the past 24 hours, as volatility spreads across global markets. U.S. stock-index futures tumbled, with Dow futures down more than 800 points while S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 futures each fell about 1.5%. Oil prices surged above $100 a barrel after strikes on energy infrastructure…

Dario Amodei falls into the same traps he warns about.  By  Timothy Beck Werth Timothy Beck Werth Tech Editor Timothy Beck Werth is the Tech Editor at Mashable, where he leads coverage and assignments for the Tech and Shopping verticals. Tim has over 15 years of experience as a journalist and editor, and he has…

Photographer: Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told the elites gathered in Davos that the Trump administration believes globalization is “a failed policy” that left America behind. A day later, his boss, President Donald Trump, predicted the US stock market would double from records he openly took credit for. There’s a…

When do we take AI doomers seriously? That’s a key subtext of Elon Musk’s attempt to shut down OpenAI’s for-profit AI business. His attorneys argue that the organization was set up as a charity focused on AI safety and lost its way in pursuit of lucre. To prove that, they cite old emails and statements…

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE U.S. equities suffered big losses Tuesday after President Donald Trump intensified his rhetoric on Greenland, threatening to impose new tariffs on countries opposing the sale of the Danish territory to the United States. U.S. Treasury yields spiked and the U.S. dollar declined as…