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We’re two days away from Black Friday 2025, but Amazon Canada’s Black Friday sale is already in full swing. Ahead of the official Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend, Amazon Canada shoppers can save up to 90 per cent on tens of thousands of deals. Whether you’re shopping for tech, home & kitchen, Christmas gifts, beauty or…

I’m excited to publish this post co-authored with Timothy Lee, one of my favorite writers on technology and artificial intelligence. His Substack Understanding AI is a fantastic guide to how AI works as a technology and a business. In the last few weeks, something’s troubled and fascinated us about the national debate over whether artificial…

LOADINGERROR LOADING Americans “think prices are rising, rising, rising” in “each and every single part of their lives” and “they just don’t feel like they can catch a break,” CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten said on Monday. And that, he explained, is why voters think Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is “full of it” for…

A hiring sign is displayed in the window of a business in Manhattan on Nov. 27, 2025 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Consumers soured on the current economy and their prospects for the future, with worries growing over the ability to find a job, according to a Conference Board survey released…

Weak buyer demand, weakening home prices and overall uncertainty in the economy are combining to make home sellers change their minds and step out of the market. Close to 85,000 U.S. sellers took their homes off the market in September, up 28% from September 2024 and the highest level for that month in eight years,…

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Live Updated at 9:55 am ET November 26, 2025 Once upon a time, Americans lined up in droves outside Walmarts and Targets, still full from Thanksgiving dinner, so they could be first in the door at midnight. Thankfully, these frenzied Black Friday free-for-alls are a relic of a bygone era. Now, not only can you…

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. stock market climbed again Tuesday on hopes for a coming cut to interest rates. The S&P 500 rose 0.9% after breaking out of a morning lull and is back within 1.8% of its all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied 664 points, or 1.4%, and the Nasdaq composite…

(Bloomberg) — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. posted better-than-projected 34% revenue growth in its cloud business, offsetting a plunge in profit after the company unleashed spending on consumer subsidies and data centers to ride an AI boom. The cloud division, which houses the flagship Qwen platform, propelled overall revenue 5% higher to 247.8 billion yuan ($35…

In this article ANF Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT An Abercrombie & Fitch store stands in midtown Manhattan in New York City on Oct. 24, 2024. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Shares of Abercrombie & Fitch soared 37% Tuesday after the company showed investors it’s set to keep growing, even as its namesake brand…

A ‘Now Hiring’ sign sits in the window of a Denny’s restaurant on Nov. 19, 2025 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images The U.S. labor market is showing further signs of weakening as the pace of layoffs has picked up over the past four weeks, payrolls processing firm ADP reported Tuesday. Private companies…

After years of teasing that other automakers would license Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) system, Elon Musk has now admitted that no other automakers want to license it. “They don’t want it!” He says. For years, the bull case for Tesla (TSLA) has relied heavily on the idea that the company isn’t just an automaker, but…

A new report from McKinsey Global Institute tackles one of the most pressing fears of the modern economy: the sweeping job displacement threatened by artificial intelligence. While McKinsey’s research indicates that current technologies could, in theory, automate about 57% of U.S. work hours, the consulting firm concludes that this high figure measures technical potential in…

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In this article DKS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Dick’s Sporting Goods store in Pleasant Hill, California, US, on Monday, Nov. 24, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Dick’s Sporting Goods is planning to close a slew of Foot Locker stores now that its acquisition of the sneaker company is…

In this article BBY Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Best Buy store in Pinole, California, US, on Monday, Nov. 24, 2025. Best Buy Co. is expected to release earnings figures on November 25. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Best Buy hiked its full-year forecast Tuesday, as it topped Wall Street’s…

Electric prices in Pennsylvania are going up next month. The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission is alerting customers to an increase in prices on Dec. 1, encouraging those who are worried about their bills to call their utility companies to discuss affordability options and assistance programs now. How much are bills going up? The generation/supply charge,…

As millions of American families prepare to gather for Thanksgiving, they’re seeing a dose of the economic relief President Donald J. Trump is fighting to deliver. After inheriting the worst inflation crisis in 40 years from Joe Biden and Democrats, the Trump Administration’s actions to unleash American energy, slash regulations, and crush inflation are translating…

Just in time for the holiday shopping season. Just in time for the holiday shopping season. Nov 24, 2025, 11:40 PM UTC Elissa Welle is a NYC-based AI reporter and is currently supported by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism. She covers AI companies, policies, and products. OpenAI is making it easier to plan out…

Apple has confirmed that it recently cut a number of jobs within its sales division. While layoffs are common in the tech industry, Apple treats job cuts as a last resort option. Mark Gurman first reported the news, including Apple’s statement, for Bloomberg. Apple tells Bloomberg that it invites employees who were let go to…

Since 2010, Amazon has invested more than $31.3 billion in Indiana, including infrastructure and compensation to employees, and has created more than 24,500 direct jobs across the state. These investments support an additional 27,500 indirect jobs, in fields like construction and professional services, and have contributed more than $29.9 billion to the Indiana GDP, in…

The batteries that power Rad Power Bikes’ e-bikes “pose a risk of serious injury and death” and owners should stop using them, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). The warning, issued Monday by the CSPC, is due to a risk that the batteries can ignite or explode. The CPSC has linked the…

California Governor Gavin Newsom has proved once again that there’s an inconvenient MAGA photo for just about every trolling occasion. On Monday, Newsom set his sights on Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who can’t seem to put his weird crusade against comfort while traveling to rest. Speaking with reporters at Newark International Airport in New Jersey…

A lawsuit filed in Michigan last week alleges that a Campbell Soup Company executive made offensive comments about Indian workers and said the company’s products were for “poor people” during a conversation with a former employee. The suit was filed by Robert Garza, who was hired by Campbell’s as a cybersecurity analyst in September 2024. …

Anthropic today released Opus 4.5, its flagship frontier model, and it brings improvements in coding performance, as well as some user experience improvements that make it more generally competitive with OpenAI’s latest frontier models. Perhaps the most prominent change for most users is that in the consumer app experiences (web, mobile, and desktop), Claude will…

CHONGQING, CHINA – JULY 17: In this photo illustration, a person holds a physical representation of a Bitcoin (BTC) coin in front of a screen displaying a candlestick chart of Bitcoin’s latest price movements on July 17, 2025 in Chongqing, China. (Photo illustration by Cheng Xin/Getty Images) Cheng Xin | Getty Images News | Getty…

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., Nov. 25, 2025. Brendan McDermid | Reuters The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed higher on Tuesday following another winning session, with traders evaluating expectations of a Federal Reserve interest rate cut and the state of the artificial intelligence…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Tyson Foods’ decision to close a beef plant that employs nearly one third of residents of Lexington, Nebraska, could devastate the small city and undermine the profits of ranchers nationwide. Closing a single slaughterhouse might not seem significant, but the Lexington plant employs roughly 3,200 people in the city of 11,000…

Black Friday deals are already available at Walmart, and the discounts are adding up to some substantial savings. There are big-time price drops across a range of top-brand products, including smartwatches, headphones, keyboards, tablets, laptops, streaming sticks, and more. We’re gathering the best of the best when it comes to savings, because that’s our job….

Sinclair, the second-biggest U.S. TV station group owner, has proposed to acquire smaller rival E.W. Scripps Co. in its entirety, offering $7 per share for stock in Scripps that it does not already own. Sinclair disclosed the takeover bid Monday in an SEC filing and also said it has acquired a 9.9% stake in Scripps….

But it’s only for businesses this year. But it’s only for businesses this year. Nov 24, 2025, 6:08 PM UTC Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI. On Monday, Amazon announced Leo Ultra, the first antenna…

Claude Opus 4.5 is out today. Claude Opus 4.5 is out today. Nov 24, 2025, 8:20 PM UTC Hayden Field is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. The AI labs never sleep…