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On April 30, 2026, President Trump signed an executive order aimed at closing the retirement-savings gap for those without 401(k) plans through the creation of TrumpIRA.gov. The federal platform is designed to connect uncovered workers with low-cost individual retirement accounts and pair those accounts with the Saver’s Match, created under…
An OpenAI executive told a federal jury Wednesday how Elon Musk once called him a “jackass” during a heated clash over AI safety. Loading audio narration… Joshua Achiam, OpenAI’s chief futurist, recalled the “pretty tense exchange” during testimony in the California civil trial between Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.”He…
LinkedIn’s layoffs are coming with changes to some of the company’s operations, according to an internal memo from its chief product officer. Loading audio narration… LinkedIn on Wednesday announced in an internal memo from CEO Daniel Shapero that it would lay off employees and scale back some investments. A separate email…
Meta made some big splashes in the AI talent war, but the tech giant’s AI chief isn’t thrilled by the narrative that his team is a bunch of mercenaries. Loading audio narration… “This is one of, I think, the larger, I would say, like narrative violations or maybe like differences…
You know AI data centers have an image problem when more people say they’d rather live near a nuclear reactor. Loading audio narration… A new Gallup poll found that 71% of Americans say they don’t want a data center being built where they live, far more than the 53% who…
As of mid-May, gas hit an average of $4.50 a gallon nationally, up 28% from a year ago, according to AAA. Americans in some states have been paying around $6 per gallon, which means fueling up a truck, like the Ford F-150, can run well over $150 per tank. Those…
The 2026 spring homebuying season was supposed to mark the end of the doldrums for the U.S. housing market. Instead, American homebuyers are still sitting on their hands. Home sales dropped over the first third of the year, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), falling nearly every month…
Tensions are high in AI. Loading audio narration… The leaders of AI don’t seem to be on the best of terms. Feuds abound, from Sam Altman and Dario Amodei to Altman and Elon Musk — the latter of which is playing out in court.Meta’s chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, has…
The Pentagon is preparing to test low-cost missiles from a handful of “disruptive” defense tech companies in hopes of rapidly scaling the US military’s stockpile of affordable cruise and hypersonic missiles. Loading audio narration… The Department of Defense announced agreements Wednesday with four companies — Anduril, CoAspire, Leidos, and Zone…
Condé Nast was a money-losing magazine publisher in 2019, when Roger Lynch took over as CEO. Now it’s profitable. Loading audio narration… How’d he do that?Cuts and consolidation are part of the story. But Lynch says he’s focused on growing newish businesses, like the annual Met Gala his Vogue title…
