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Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO, JPMorganChase, speaks during the Reagan National Defense Forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, U.S. December 6, 2025. Jonathan Alcorn | Reuters President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to sue JPMorgan Chase over allegedly “debanking” him following the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol….

OpenAI today announced the inevitable, that ChatGPT will start showing ads in your queries, and they’re pretty prominent too. Ads run the modern internet, whether you like it or not, but AI chatbots have often been mostly devoid of them. Google has explicitly said that ads aren’t coming to the Gemini chatbot experience, for example,…

Greenlandic organizations said Saturday they had mobilized thousands of demonstrators across Denmark and Greenland to protest U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to take over the Arctic island, … Jan 17 2 mins read

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump a week ago told the credit card industry it had until Jan. 20 to comply with his demand for a 10% cap on interest rates. With just days to go, consumer groups, politicians, and bankers alike remain unclear on what the White House has planned and whether Trump even…

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images What was unfathomable just a few short years ago has actually happened. After Trump flipped off a plant employee at Ford’s Dearborn truck plant this week, he addressed the media about negotiating a replacement to the USMCA (United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement), which he implemented in his first term. During that press conference, Trump…

Elon Musk wants a jaw-dropping $79 billion to $134 billion in damages from OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming the AI company defrauded him by jettisoning its nonprofit mission, Bloomberg first reported. The figure comes from expert witness C. Paul Wazzan, a financial economist whose bio says he has been deposed nearly 100 times and testified at…

President Donald Trump on Friday said he would like to keep his top economic adviser, Kevin Hassett, at the White House rather than potentially nominate him to replace Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve. “I actually want to keep you where you are, if you want to know the truth,” Trump said at a White…

Elon Musk’s xAI has been illegally operating dozens of natural gas turbines to power its Colossus data centers in Tennessee, the Environmental Protection Agency ruled Thursday. The AI company has argued that because the turbines were being used on a temporary basis, they were exempt from regulations. The EPA disagreed and issued its final rule…

In the meantime, it’s asking a court to pause remedies meant to restore competition. In the meantime, it’s asking a court to pause remedies meant to restore competition. Jan 16, 2026, 10:36 PM UTC Lauren Feiner is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent…

lev radin/Shutterstock Just a couple of weeks after taking office following his underdog victory in last year’s mayoral election, New York City mayor and noted fan of Kabab King Zohran Mamdani is wasting no time. He’s unveiled a universal childcare policy alongside New York governor Kathy Hochul, smoothed out that annoying bump on the Manhattan Bridge…

After Verizon suffered a widespread, all-day outage this week that affected potentially 2 million customers, the cause still remains elusive. The company is offering a $20 credit to impacted customers, which appears to be trickling out via text message and in the myVerizon app. Verizon hasn’t responded to a request for clarity about what happened….

Photo: Dominion Energy In a setback to Trump’s anti-offshore wind crusade, a federal judge today issued an order granting Dominion Energy’s request for a preliminary injunction allowing construction to resume on the US’s largest wind farm, the 2.6-gigawatt (GW) Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project. Judge Jamar Walker of the US District Court for the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has spent his second term bulldozing elected and appointed officials who resist him or refuse to bend to his demands. But he may have met his match in Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. As the Trump administration ramps up its pressure campaign against the central bank — now including…

Danielle KayeBusiness reporter Getty Images Credit card debt is an increasingly heavy burden for millions of Americans. Selena Cooper, 26, is among those dealing with the strain. A former paralegal at the Social Security Administration, she was left without a stable income when the US government shut down a few months ago. She lost her…

A national advocacy group and some Central New York residents filed an 11th-hour lawsuit today seeking to block Micron Technology’s development of chip fabs in the town of Clay, arguing that the environmental review of the massive project was inadequate. The lawsuit was filed the same day that state and federal officials joined Micron leaders…

President Donald Trump has spent his second term bulldozing elected and appointed officials who resist him or refuse to bend to his demands. But he may have met his match in Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. As the Trump administration ramps up its pressure campaign against the central bank — now including Justice Department subpoenas and the threat of…

Leaders at Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab confronted the startup’s cofounder and former CTO, Barret Zoph, over an alleged relationship with another employee last summer, WIRED has learned. That relationship was likely the alleged “misconduct” that has been mentioned in prior reporting, including by WIRED. To protect the privacy of the individuals involved, WIRED is…

China has been pushing tech companies to use domestic chips in a bid to achieve self-sufficiency in semiconductor production © Dado Ruvic/Reuters Suppliers of parts for Nvidia’s H200 chips, which recently gained US approval for sale in China, have paused production after local customs officials blocked shipments of the AI processors. Makers of essential H200…

FOXBOROUGH, Massachusetts, Jan 16 (Reuters) – Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman said on Friday a fragile job market that could weaken quickly means the U.S. central bank should stand ready to cut interest rates again if ​needed. “Absent a clear and sustained improvement in labor market conditions, we should remain ready to…

Hedge funds don’t need headlines to move — they need inflection points. ImmunityBio Inc (NASDAQ:IBRX) just delivered one. ImmunityBio stock has gone vertical, up nearly 96% year-to-date, but the real story isn’t the stock move. It’s the number behind it. Track IBRX stock here. On Thursday, ImmunityBio reported ~$113 million in 2025 revenue, marking a…

US President Donald Trump is set to announce a plan that would let Americans use their retirement savings for down payments on homes. National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett, who hinted at the plan on Friday, offered few details about how withdrawals from US workplace retirement accounts – known as 401(k)s – would work. “Suppose…

Stan Kroenke, the billionaire owner of the world’s most valuable portfolio of sports clubs, including the Los Angeles Rams and London’s Arsenal Football Club, can boast another title. The Colorado real-estate magnate, once dubbed “Silent Stan” for his reticence to talk to the press, is America’s largest private landowner, according to a report published this…

DETROIT (AP) — Chinese automakers have been making inroads around the world with growing sales of their high-tech, stylish and affordable electric vehicles. That has had competitors concerned even before Canada this week agreed to cut its tariffs on Chinese EVs in exchange for concessions on Canadian farm products. Experts now say an easier path…

YouTube is updating its advertiser-friendly content guidelines to allow more videos on controversial issues to earn full ad revenue, as long as they’re dramatized or discussed in a non-graphic manner. These controversial topics include self-harm, abortion, suicide, and domestic and sexual abuse. YouTube notes that content on child abuse or eating disorders will remain ineligible…

Those keeping tabs on Silicon Valley’s AI talent wars were gripped this week by news that three members of the founding team at Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup run by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, are leaving to return to OpenAI, where they all worked previously. Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s CEO of Applications, announced the…

In a provocative assessment of the current political landscape, former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci claims President Donald Trump has entered a “full nihilism mode,” evidenced by a recent proposal to cap credit-card interest rates at 10%. Speaking on his podcast, The Rest Is Politics US, Scaramucci characterized the move as a “hard-left populist”…

Clay, N.Y. — At the edge of a 1,400-acre tract of swamp, forest and former farmland just north of Syracuse, Micron Technology and public officials across the political spectrum broke ground this morning on what’s being called the largest private development in New York state history. For Micron, riding a wave of record profits and…

Financial pressures and a changing tune OpenAI’s advertising experiment reflects the enormous financial pressures facing the company. OpenAI does not expect to be profitable until 2030 and has committed to spend about $1.4 trillion on massive data centers and chips for AI. According to financial documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal in November, OpenAI…

OpenAI plans to start testing ads inside ChatGPT in the coming weeks, marking a significant shift for one of the world’s most widely used AI products. The company announced Friday that initial ad tests will roll out in the United States before expanding globally. OpenAI says ads will not influence ChatGPT’s responses, and that all…

Employees of Dominion Energy gaze at one of two wind turbines located 27 miles off of Virginia Beach in the Atlantic Ocean on July 17, 2023. The two turbines are part of a pilot program for the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Program. Kendall Warner | Virginian Pilot | Tribune News Service | Getty Images Coastal…

Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, speaks to members of the media outside the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025. Francis Chung | Bloomberg | Getty Images White House economic advisor Kevin Hassett said Friday that large U.S. banks could voluntarily provide credit cards to underserved Americans as…