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Mark Zuckerberg says he knew he was taking an enormous risk when he green-lit Meta’s AI build-out—a commitment he pegged at as much as $200 billion—before there was any proof it would work. “We’re going to write this check for, like, I don’t know, like $100 billion, $200 billion,” Zuckerberg said on a recent episode […]Read More

One of us led the Environmental Protection Agency under President Biden. The other chaired the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission under President Trump. We disagree on plenty, but not on this: the status quo is failing America. Data centers are being developed faster than the rules meant to govern them can evolve. Communities are pushing back […]

United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby earned $32.3 million last year, roughly 334 times the compensation of his company’s median employee. Now he says America’s wealthiest people should pay more in taxes, including an inheritance tax that could approach 100%. That puts Kirby alongside other wealthy business leaders, including Bill Gates and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, […]

The federal government’s fiscal year ended last month, and the final tally offered another stark warning about the trajectory of U.S. debt. According to Treasury Department data released on Friday, the federal budget deficit widened to $1.99 trillion, 12% worse than the $1.78 trillion gap in fiscal 2025. That came as revenue increased 3% to $5.4 […]Read More

This writer has been carefully following the Senate race forecasts on Virtualtout.io, a predictions site developed by Thomas Miller, a data scientist and professor at Northwestern University. The Miller approach first captured my attention when, in January of 2021, his model posited that, contrary to the polling, Democrats would win both of the two Senate […]

“Look at this sweatshirt,” Thomas Frank says in a video interview from his study in Bethesda, Md. He pulls at his maroon hoodie, which he’d just picked up from a thrift store the other day. The badge on his chest reads, “Innovation Fitness.” “These words are everywhere now,” he says with his ever-present smile and […]

President Donald Trump on Friday told a rally for candidates in South Florida that U.S. warships returning from the Middle East could stop over in Cuba on their way back from the Iran war, his latest suggestion of taking an interventionist approach to the nearby country. Trump first floated this idea earlier this year, but has not mentioned it […]Read More

Canada is the world’s top producer of maple syrup, and the vast majority of it comes from Quebec, but the province is nearly tapped out of reserves. The Quebec Maple Syrup Producers, which oversees the strategic syrup reserve, predicted the stockpile will be completely empty by February. While new supplies will continue to be produced, […]

Just over a decade after Elizabeth Holmes threatened him with lawsuits and tried to kill his reporting, author John Carreyrou has become a perhaps unlikely fan of “You Can See Everything,” a new documentary exploring the disgraced founder’s home life as she prepares for prison—in fact, he’s seen it twice. Carreyrou is the author of […]

Neil Murray does not talk like an executive preparing to automate a workforce. As the head of Real Estate Management Services at commercial property giant JLL, Murray oversees an organization of more than 88,000 people responsible for keeping the nearly 6 billion square feet of buildings in his purview functioning daily. Yet when conversation turns […]

The Iran war continues to weigh on Americans’ wallets, and it’s costing them more in increased fuel costs than consumers in any other country in the world, new data finds. As President Donald Trump argues the cost of the war will be justified with economic prosperity, his administration may be pushing policies making the problem […]