Major Cloudflare outage took down ChatGPT, X, and Spotify Tuesday – here’s what happened – ZDNET

Petrochemical price spikes and shortages from the Iran war likely will cause inflationary effects at least through the end of the year on construction materials, consumer goods, the automative and aerospace industries, and much more, the CEO of chemical manufacturing giantDow said. While much of the global supply-shock focus is on oil, natural gas, fertilizers,…

WASHINGTON — U.S. employers posted far fewer jobs in November than the previous month, a sign that employers aren’t yet ramping up hiring even as growth has picked up. Businesses and government agencies posted 7.1 million open jobs at the end of November, the Labor Department said Wednesday, down from 7.4 million in October. Layoffs…

A technician works on chip processing equipment at a semiconductor manufacturing plant in Suqian, in eastern China’s Jiangsu province © AFP via Getty Images The Trump administration has accused China of using unfair trade practices to try to dominate the global chip industry but said it would not increase tariffs on Chinese imports until mid-2027….

Paramount emerged as the victor in the months-long battle for Warner Bros. Discovery after Netflix backed out of the bidding war Thursday, leaving Paramount poised to acquire Warner’s vast media empire, including CNN. Netflix said it has “declined to raise its offer for Warner Bros.” after the Warner Bros. Discovery board determined that Paramount has…

Anthropic announced on Friday that it’s launching Claude Design, a new experimental product that lets users create visuals like prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more using Claude. The company says Claude Design is intended to help people like founders and product managers without a design background share their ideas more easily.  With Claude Design, users describe…