A sign at a NYS Department Of Labor job fair at the Downtown Central Library in Buffalo, New York, US, on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025. Lauren Petracca | Bloomberg | Getty Images Announced job cuts from U.S. employers moved further ahead of 1 million for the year in November as corporate restructuring, artificial intelligence and…
The FBI on Thursday morning arrested a suspect accused of planting pipe bombs outside the Republican and Democratic party headquarters in Washington, D.C., prior to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, the Trump administration said. The suspect, Brian Cole Jr., a 30-year-old resident of Woodbridge, Virginia, is charged with “use of an explosive device,” U.S….
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) — A Waymo self-driving taxi drove a passenger through the scene of a police standoff in downtown Los Angeles last week, according to a viral video posted online Monday. The Waymo taxi came across a street blocked by police vehicles early Friday before turning into an area that was not blocked…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met separately with President Donald Trump and Republican senators Wednesday as tech executives work to secure favorable federal policies for the artificial intelligence industry, including the limited sale of Nvidia’s highly valued computer chips to U.S. rivals like China. Huang’s closed-door meeting with Republicans on the Senate Banking…
United States President Donald Trump has said he has decided on his pick for the next chair of the Federal Reserve. While Trump has yet to confirm his nominee, one name stands out as the overwhelming favourite: Kevin Hassett, the director of the White House’s National Economic Council. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list…
A maximum-severity flaw in the widely used JavaScript library React, and several React-based frameworks including Next.js allows unauthenticated, remote attackers to execute malicious code on vulnerable instances. The flaw is easy to abuse, and mass exploitation is “imminent,” according to security researchers. The React team disclosed the unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in React…
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 S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite rose slightly on Thursday as investors prepared for next week’s interest rate decision from the Federal Reserve. The broad-based index inched up 0.11% to close…
Can any company, big or small, really topple Nvidia’s AI chip dominance? Maybe not. But there are hundreds of billions of dollars of revenue for those who can even peel off a chunk of it for themselves, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said this week. As expected, the company revealed at the AWS re:Invent conference the…
WASHINGTON — Tracy Beth Høeg, a top lieutenant to Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary, will be the next leader of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, according to an announcement from the FDA. “CDER plays a crucial role in ensuring the medicines we rely on are both safe and effective,” Høeg said…
Aerial sunrise view of Osaka city in Japan Frank Lee | Moment | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets mostly rose Thursday, after Wall Street gained on hopes the Federal Reserve could cut interest rates next week following weaker-than-expected jobs data. Payroll processor ADP reported that private companies cut 32,000 workers in November, compared with 47,000 additions…
<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-125756109,imgsize-20636,width-400,resizemode-4/donald-trump-to-visit-china.jpg" alt="The 26-minute Tuesday crash, 51% wipeout that deepened Trumps’ crypto woes" title=" US president Donald Trump ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> US president Donald Trump The crash Tuesday in the crypto miner American Bitcoin Corp. was instantaneous. At 9.31am on Wall Street, just one minute after trading started, its shares were down 33%. Five minutes…
Adidas has fended off an appeal from shareholders who accused it of hiding misconduct by rapper-entrepreneur Kanye West – otherwise known as Ye – before their partnership broke down in 2022. A San Francisco court said the sportswear giant did not mislead investors, who claimed they had lost money after Adidas shares plunged when it…
Rosamar/Shutterstock It seems like Christmas has come early for Olive Garden fans as the restaurant has announced the return of two of its most iconic pasta dishes: the Braised Beef Tortelloni and Ravioli di Portobello. The Italian chain, known for its generous portions and hearty menu options, made the announcement on Instagram, where the team…
Billionaire Michael Saylor has been in tight spots before but nothing like this. The share price of Saylor’s firm, Strategy, which owns over 3% of the world’s Bitcoin, is down dramatically. Worse, the company faces twin headwinds in the form of a bearish crypto market and an impending rule change that will likely trigger a…
Amazon Web Services’ annual tech conference AWS re:Invent has wrapped. And the singular message, amid a deluge of product news and keynotes, was AI for the enterprise. This year it was all about upgrades that give customers greater control to customize AI agents, including one that AWS claims can learn from you and then work…
For Immediate Release: December 03, 2025 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced that Tracy Beth Høeg, M.D., Ph.D., has been appointed acting director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). A physician and epidemiologist, Dr. Høeg was a Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management…
On Friday, Vinay Prasad—the Food and Drug Administration’s chief medical and scientific officer and its top vaccine regulator—emailed a stunning memo to staff that quickly leaked to the press. Without evidence, Prasad claimed COVID-19 vaccines have killed 10 children in the US, and, as such, he announced unilateral, sweeping changes to the way the agency regulates…
Donald Trump granted Tim Leiweke a pardon, just five months after the administration’s Justice Department charged the live entertainment executive in a scheme to rig the bidding process for a public arena in Texas. The pardon was signed by the president on Tuesday. In July, Leiweke, a longtime executive in live sports and entertainment who…
Right on the heels of announcing Nova Forge, a service to train custom Nova AI models, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced more tools for enterprise customers to create their own frontier models. AWS announced new capabilities in Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker AI at its AWS re:Invent conference on Wednesday. These new capabilities are designed…
At the DealBook Summit hosted by the New York Times’ Andrew Ross Sorkin, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent criticized the Giving Pledge, calling it “very amorphous,” while at the same time hailing the “incredible gift” from Michael and Susan Dell, who donated $6.25 billion of their fortune to fund “Trump Accounts” for young children. Bessent, who…
Dario Amodei appears to take shots at OpenAI’s ‘YOLOing’ and big, circular deals. Dario Amodei appears to take shots at OpenAI’s ‘YOLOing’ and big, circular deals. Dec 3, 2025, 9:45 PM UTC Alex Heath is a contributing writer and author of the Sources newsletter. This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter…
Private employers in the United States shed 32,000 jobs in November, payroll processor ADP said Wednesday. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been expecting to see an increase of 40,000. ADP chief economist Nela Richardson described November’s jobs data as a “slowdown” that was “broad-based.” The drop was “led by a pullback among small businesses,”…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A dozen prior leaders of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration — appointed by Republicans and Democrats alike — issued a scathing denunciation of new FDA assertions casting doubt on vaccine safety. The former officials say the agency’s plans to revamp how life-saving vaccines for flu, COVID-19 and other respiratory diseases are…
The longstanding provider of consumer memory is winding down as prices spike, and Micron shifts its focus to AI. The longstanding provider of consumer memory is winding down as prices spike, and Micron shifts its focus to AI. Dec 3, 2025, 7:01 PM UTC Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars,…
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From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! The self-driving car company Waymo says it is here to stay in Philadelphia, and has recently started tests where human drivers do not take the wheel. Earlier this summer, the company did tests…
The city of San Francisco filed a lawsuit against some of the nation’s top food manufacturers on Tuesday, arguing that ultraprocessed food from the likes of Coca-Cola and Nestle are responsible for a public health crisis. City Attorney David Chiu named 10 companies in the lawsuit, including the makers of such popular foods as Oreo…
American flags flutter outside a Hyundai automobile dealership in Irvine, California, U.S., March 27, 2025. Mike Blake | Reuters DETROIT — Hyundai Motor and General Motors are set to be two of the greatest beneficiaries of lower U.S. tariffs on imports, including vehicles, from South Korea. The South Korean-based automaker is the largest U.S. importer…
Another startup focused on a buzzy derivative popular among crypto traders has attracted serious cash. Ostium, a decentralized exchange founded by two Harvard graduates, has raised a $20 million Series A round led by marquee venture outfit General Catalyst and the crypto arm of the quantitative trading firm Jump Trading, Kaledora Kiernan-Linn, cofounder and CEO,…
The fully autonomous ride-hailing service Waymo is coming to Baltimore, the company announced Wednesday.Baltimore is among four cities in the company’s latest expansion. The other cities include St. Louis, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.Waymo posted a statement online Wednesday that it will work with state officials to create a regulatory path for deployment.”Maryland has a long, proud…
The first test flight of Landspace’s Zhuque-3 rocket ended in a fiery explosion after successfully reaching orbit. Chinese company Landspace launched its 216-foot (66-meter) stainless steel Zhuque-3 rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert in northern China on Tuesday (Dec. 2). The reusable, methane-liquid-oxygen-powered rocket successfully placed its expendable second stage…
There is a recall for more than 260,000 cases of shredded cheese sold in 31 states and Puerto Rico because of the potential for metal fragment contamination, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The FDA said that the various shredded cheeses were recalled by Great Lakes Cheese Co. The cheese products are sold…
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