US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said her department needs more money to stop China from catching up on cutting-edge semiconductors. “We cannot let China get these chips. Period,” she said at the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, California, on Saturday. “We’re going to deny them our...
A mother and her 14-year-old daughter are advocating for better protections for victims after AI-generated nude images of the teen and other female classmates were circulated at a high school in New Jersey. Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, officials are investigating an incident...
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk have a long history of trolling each other, particularly about the space business. According to an investor lawsuit filed a few months ago, the billionaire rivalry played a role in Amazon not choosing Musk’s SpaceX to launch satellites for its...
Charlie Munger, who passed away this week at age 99, could have afforded a mega-mansion—or several of them. Instead, the billionaire investor stayed put in the same modest home in Los Angeles for seven decades. One reason, explained the longtime business partner to Warren Buffett, was...
When Life at Sea Cruises abruptly cancelled a heavily promoted three-year trip around the world a few weeks ago, would-be passengers were naturally let down. But some were more disappointed than others. Keri Witman, founder and president of a digital marketing agency in Cincinnati called Clever...
The European Union’s drugs regulator has asked pharma companies including Novo Nordisk A/S and Eli Lilly & Co. for more information as it reviews the potential risk of suicidal thoughts associated with a new class of weight-loss medicines. The European Medicines Agency started investigating the issue...
Few would deny that Tesla’s Cybertruck catches the eye, though whether it does so in a good way is up for debate. But aside from the striking new vehicle—which Tesla CEO Elon Musk handed over to early customers in person on Thursday at the company’s Austin headquarters—the EV maker...
As the streaming wars rage, some of the industry’s biggest players are seeking to join forces. Apple and Paramount are considering bundling their streaming services and offering them to subscribers at a discount, according to the Wall Street Journal. The possible partnership comes as media and...
COVID will likely reach levels in December not yet seen this year, combining with surges of flu, RSV, and other pathogens for a winter not so different from last year’s “tripledemic,” experts say. Raj Rajnarayanan, assistant dean of research and associate professor at the New York...
