Nine months after founding Meta Superintelligence Labs, Zuckerberg is ready to show his cards. By Chance Townsend Chance Townsend Editor, General Assignments Chance Townsend is the General Assignments Editor at Mashable, covering tech, video games, dating apps, digital culture, and whatever else comes his way. He has a Master’s in Journalism from the University of…
Does David Zaslav deserve to receive more than half a billion dollars in connection with the sale of Warner Bros. Discovery to David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance? Influential shareholder advisory services firm ISS believes the WBD CEO’s “golden parachute” payout package is unwarranted — because it includes “problematic” tax reimbursements and accelerated stock vesting for the…
The U.S. Postal Service said Thursday it has informed federal budget officials it will temporarily suspend its employer contributions to Federal Employees Retirement System annuities, allowing it to keep making payroll, paying suppliers and delivering the mail. The Postal Service also wants to increase postage rates, including raising the price of a First-Class Mail Forever…
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Anthropic said this week that it limited the release of its newest model, dubbed Mythos, because it is too capable of finding security exploits in software relied upon by users around the world. Instead of unleashing Mythos on the public, the frontier lab will share it with a group of large companies and organizations that…
In this article DIS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT People gather at the Magic Kingdom theme park before the “Festival of Fantasy” parade at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, U.S. July 30, 2022. Octavio Jones | Reuters Disney is planning to begin its next phase of cost cutting, which will include as many…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The American economy, slowed by last fall’s 43-day government shutdown, grew at a sluggish 0.5% annual pace from October through December, the Commerce Department reported Thursday in downgrade of its previous estimate. U.S. gross domestic product — the nation’s output of goods and services — decelerated in the fourth quarter after registering…
American Airlines is raising its checked bag fees, a move that was hardly surprising after most of its competitors in the airline industry just did the same. But American’s shake-up announced Thursday goes even further — and well beyond bags. The Fort Worth-based carrier is also tightening its basic economy policies. Starting later this spring,…
In this article STLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Kia Tasman Courtesy Kia Kia plans to release a pickup truck for American consumers in the coming years, as the South Korean automaker plots continued growth domestically and globally. The company said Thursday it will add a pickup truck that includes hybrid variants by 2030…
Mortgage rates fell for the first time in over a month, bringing some relief for homebuyers as the busy spring season heats up. The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rate was 6.37% through Wednesday, according to Freddie Mac data, down from 6.46% a week earlier. The drop came largely after the U.S. entered a ceasefire with…
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada’s largest utility says it will need three times the electricity required to power Las Vegas just to handle proposed data centers — and it probably can’t do that without fossil fuels. That means the utility could miss Nevada’s clean energy targets requiring 50% renewable power by 2030. “I can’t remember…
There was a moment, not long ago, when “shadow AI” felt like a good-news story. Workers were sneaking ChatGPT and Claude past the IT department, using personal accounts to do what used to take hours in minutes. An MIT study published last year found that employees at more than 90% of companies were using personal…
Inside Big Software’s fight for its life The cofounder shakeup at xAI is vintage Elon Musk Everyone now has the keys to the side hustle kingdom. Now comes the great differentiator: Creativity. Inside the data center financing boom — and the teams Wall Street is building to win it Business Insider tells the innovative stories…
AWS followed lots of squiggly lines, too. The original vision included storage, compute, payments, and human intelligence. Some of those (e.g. storage and compute) became lynchpins in AWS. Others didn’t succeed. We didn’t initially plan a database service; and when we built one, our first attempt failed to get traction. We went back to the…
In this article NVDA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT OpenAI’s Stargate project in the U.K. is being paused, with the company pointing towards the cost of energy and the country’s regulatory environment. The U.S. AI startup announced plans for the major infrastructure project in September, saying it would deploy up to 8,000 GPUs in…
Dwayne Schnell | 500px Plus | Getty Images A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox. The Iran war has propelled oil prices to above $94 a barrel, up about 30%…
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rose Thursday, even though oil prices did too, as financial markets moved more modestly a day after surging on optimism about a ceasefire in the war with Iran. The morning began with moderate losses for Wall Street following drops for Asian and European stocks. But the S&P 500 erased…
Core inflation held above the Federal Reserve’s target before the recent surge in energy prices, according to a key gauge released Thursday that offers the central bank a snapshot of conditions leading into the Iran war. The core personal consumption expenditures price index, which excludes food and energy, rose a seasonally adjusted 3% in February,…
Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 0.5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2025 (October, November, and December), according to the third estimate released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the third quarter of 2025, real GDP increased 4.4 percent. The third report for the fourth quarter…
There is no measurable correlation between increasing electricity demand due to the rapidly increasing construction of new artificial intelligence (AI) data centers in multiple states and the rising costs in some regions of the United States of consumer energy, a new deep-dive analysis by the Institute for Energy Research (IER) finds. “There is no statistically significant correlation…
Do you have an Android phone? If so, you may be entitled to a payout as part of a $135 million Google settlement, but whether or not you could get money will depend on several factors. The settlement, Taylor v. Google LLC, filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California,…
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The U.S. Department of Labor has proposed a rule designed to make it harder to sue retirement plan fiduciaries that invest in risky, more volatile assets. The rule is also President Donald Trump’s administration’s latest giveaway to the Trump family’s favorite industry: Cryptocurrency. Drawing on Trump’s August 2025 executive order titled, in part, “Democratizing Access…
Although an eleventh-hour truce between the U.S. and Iran immediately eased tensions between the warring countries, it could take some time for Americans to see relief from the soaring fuel costs that have pushed gasoline prices to their highest level in years, energy experts and economists said. Patrick De Haan, a petroleum expert at GasBuddy,…
April 8 (Reuters) – OpenAI plans to reserve a portion of its shares from an initial public offering for individual investors, CFO Sarah Friar told CNBC on Wednesday, as the ChatGPT maker gears up for a highly anticipated U.S. stock market listing. The AI startup is laying the groundwork for an IPO that could value…
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Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways A suit alleges Google transmitted user data without permission. If you have used an Android device since 2017, you may be eligible. You will need a notice ID and confirmation code to file. Have you used an Android phone to…
Abstract The development of glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP1) receptor agonists, including semaglutide and tirzepatide, has transformed the clinical management of overweight and obesity. However, substantial inter-person variability exists in both weight loss efficacy and the incidence of side effects1. To investigate the genetic basis of this variability, here we conduct a genome-wide association study of self-reported weight loss and…
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Protests in Venezuela highlight a persistent struggle as workers demand better wages and dignified pensions amid a challenging economic landscape. This outcry for change comes on the heels of political transitions, pointing to broader themes of economic resilience and social justice in the country. The recent marches in Caracas, mobilized by unions and citizens alike,…
President Donald Trump again stepped back from the brink, and traders are cashing in on what they called “TACO Tuesday.” After threatening that “a whole civilization will die tonight” early Tuesday, just two hours before his 8 p.m. deadline, Trump announced a two-week ceasefire on the condition that Iran reopen the Strait of Hormuz and…
Experts have long said that artificial intelligence (AI) would change the face of cybersecurity. While many industry leaders have already deployed AI tools to prevent hacks, data breaches, and cyberattacks, the potential for sophisticated intrusions just took a giant leap forward. AI start-up Anthropic unveiled the Claude Mythos Preview, its latest frontier AI model. This…
In this article STZ Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Modelo beer is displayed on a shelf at a Safeway store on Oct. 6, 2025 in San Anselmo, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Constellation Brands, U.S. maker of Modelo and Corona, withdrew its previously issued fiscal 2028 outlook on Wednesday and reported slightly weaker…