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Fangxianuo/Getty Images Shopping for a good brand of tires can be tough, especially if you’re doing the research yourself. Digging through endless websites is exhausting, but you don’t want to get stuck with a tire brand that has the lowest customer satisfaction rating. The same goes for the retailer you buy those tires from, which is why you…

President Donald Trump joked that he might sue his newly selected Federal Reserve chair nominee, Kevin Warsh, over lowering interest rates in a speech to an elite group of Washington’s power set on Saturday night, according to a person who attended the dinner. The speech, delivered to an audience that included a bipartisan mix of…

Xi Jinping has long sought a greater role for China’s currency in international markets © Evgenia Novozhenina/AP Xi Jinping has called for the renminbi to become a global reserve currency, in some of his clearest comments on his ambitions for China’s currency as Beijing seeks to play a greater role in the international monetary system….

French IT company Capgemini will sell its U.S. subsidiary Capgemini Government Solutions, it said on Sunday, after coming under pressure to explain a contract the latter signed with U.S immigration enforcement agency ICE. French lawmakers, including Finance Minister Roland Lescure, had asked the company to shed light on the contract amid concern over the tactics…

A range of non-AI drivers is weakening labour markets, such as increased payroll taxes, central bank interest rate rises and excessive hiring during the pandemic years © Jason Alden/Bloomberg Welcome back. Fears of an AI jobs apocalypse are growing. At Davos, IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva said the technology would hit labour markets like a…

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CERT Polska, the Polish computer emergency response team, revealed that coordinated cyber attacks targeted more than 30 wind and photovoltaic farms, a private company from the manufacturing sector, and a large combined heat and power plant (CHP) supplying heat to almost half a million customers in the country. The incident took place on December 29,…

Kckate16/Getty Images Filling up your car with gas is one of those daily routine things that many people put almost no thought into. While a small portion of drivers put effort into researching the various tiers of gasoline and which brands offer them, many others just stop at whichever gas station has the lowest price…

The recent share price drop in Microsoft stock looks like an overreaction. The share price of Microsoft (MSFT 0.83%) sank despite the tech giant reporting strong quarterly results for its fiscal 2026 second quarter. The drop appears to be largely attributed to higher operating expense guidance and its dependence on OpenAI. The stock is now…

Sensor equipment on the top of a Waymo Robotaxi during a preview event in London, UK, on January 28. © Bloomberg Waymo is close to finalising a $16bn funding round that will more than double the value of Google’s self-driving car business to $110bn, bringing in several new investors as it prepares to expand globally…

President Donald Trump welcomed the dollar’s recent decline, but a former Federal Reserve president said the astronomical size of U.S. debt requires more stability for the currency. The U.S. dollar index has plunged 10% over the last year and 1.2% this month alone. That’s after Trump shocked global market last spring with his “Liberation Day”…

Waymo has nearly finalized a new $16 billion funding round that will value the robotaxi company at $110 billion, according to the Financial Times. More than three-fourths of that funding will reportedly come from a source close to home — Alphabet, where Waymo is a subsidiary. (The company was incubated as part of Alphabet’s “moonshot…

Bitcoin slid sharply on Saturday, dropping below $80,000 for the first time since April 2025 as persistent selling pressure and a lack of new capital weighed on crypto markets. The world’s largest cryptocurrency fell as much as 10% to $75,709.88 during New York afternoon trading hours on Saturday, extending a drawdown that has now wiped…

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A passerby called first responders after hearing a male juvenile “screaming for help,” according to the police report. The officer who responded overheard the passenger saying the Waymo “told him to get out of the vehicle, even though it was in the middle of the street.” A Waymo spokesperson told the Washington Post the teen…

About 50 residents of a community outside Chile’s capital spent Saturday trying their best to power an entirely human-operated chatbot that could answer questions and make silly pictures on command, in a message to highlight the environmental toll of artificial intelligence data centers in the region. Organizers say the 12-hour project fielded more than 25,000…

SpaceX has filed a request with the Federal Communications Commission to launch a constellation of up to 1 million solar-powered satellites that it said will serve as data centers for artificial intelligence. The company’s filing lays out a grandiose vision, not just describing these planned satellites as “the most efficient way to meet the accelerating…

He says the company still plans to make a “huge” investment in the ChatGPT maker. He says the company still plans to make a “huge” investment in the ChatGPT maker. Jan 31, 2026, 11:37 PM UTC Terrence O’Brien is the Verge’s weekend editor. He has over 18 years of experience, including 10 years as managing…

Moltbook is a “social media” site for AI agents that’s captured the public’s imagination over the last few days. Billed as the “front page of the agent internet,” Moltbook is a place where AI agents interact independently of human control, and whose posts have repeatedly gone viral because a certain set of AI users have…

After months of speculation, US President Donald Trump confirmed he will be nominating Kevin Warsh as the next chair of the US Federal Reserve. The appointment has been closely watched in the context of Trump’s ongoing conflict with the Fed and its current chairman Jerome Powell. The immediate reaction to the announcement was a significant…

Bob Iger appears poised to hand over Disney’s top job sooner than expected, according to people familiar with his plans. The longtime chief executive has told associates he intends to step back from the CEO role and day-to-day operations ahead of his Dec. 31 contract end date, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing unnamed sources….

These monster dividend stocks yielding up to 7.7% are solid buys to generate steady income in 2026. While growth stocks often steal the headlines, ultra-high-yield dividend stocks with a strong track record of dividend stability and growth are among the most powerful tools for building real wealth. If your goal is to build a secure…

These chip designers have been great investment options. In the artificial intelligence (AI) realm, there have been few better investments in recent years than chip stocks. Specifically, I’m a huge fan of Nvidia (NVDA 0.72%), AMD (AMD 6.09%), and Broadcom (AVGO +0.15%) because they are fabless chip companies. This means they design chips, but outsource…

The company claims it’s a cheaper and more environmentally-friendly alternative to land-based centers. The company claims it’s a cheaper and more environmentally-friendly alternative to land-based centers. Jan 31, 2026, 7:38 PM UTC Terrence O’Brien is the Verge’s weekend editor. He has over 18 years of experience, including 10 years as managing editor at Engadget. SpaceX…