How AstraZeneca’s 17,000 AI-certified employees are helping it reach an $80 billion ‘stretch goal’

Good morning. AstraZeneca’s AI strategy has moved well past the exploration phase as upskilling employees became…

Why your data infrastructure — not your AI model — will determine whether Agentic AI scales

Why your data infrastructure — not your AI model — will determine whether Agentic AI scales…

Mohammed El-Erian: Global recession could happen within a month if Strait of Hormuz stays closed

The countdown is on: The global economy has four weeks, eight at most, if it is…

The $665 billion question: Will Big Tech’s AI gamble pay off?

Good morning. And you thought the dollar figures being tossed around by the big banks this…

The Strait of Hormuz is a data problem, not just a military one

Since the first tanker pushed through it, the Strait of Hormuz has been treated as a…

The debt crisis Congress has been ignoring could cost the average U.S. household $18,000 a year

An excellent new study from the non-partisan Brookings Institution provides an ultra-sobering view of the potential…

Meet all 37 White House ballroom donors funding the $400 million build

The White House released a list of donors for the Trump administration’s new ballroom construction project…

Meta quietly rolls out stablecoin payments in Colombia and Philippines

Meta has reentered the stablecoin market. Four years after pulling the plug on an earlier attempt,…

Jamie Dimon says bureaucracy kills companies. The key is replacing ‘jerks’ who don’t want it solved

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon is fed up with managers who enable bureaucracy, which he considers a…

Cloud revenue is now 18% of Alphabet’s business. Is Google’s identity as a search company changing?

Ever since Google was founded in 1998, search has been the core of the company’s identity.…

Microsoft, Meta, and Google just announced billions more in AI spending—and only one got punished

Alphabet, Meta Platforms, and Microsoft just broke the news to investors that they’ll be spending billions…

Meta just bumped its 2026 capex forecast up to as much as $145 billion—and investors flinched

Meta Platforms is splashing some serious cash on AI infrastructure, and investors have flinched.  The company…

Exclusive: America’s largest Black-owned bank launches podcast with mission to unlock hidden shame holding back generational wealth

For more than 50 years, OneUnited Bank has operated on the belief that financial empowerment in…

‘A strategic blunder’: Democrats confront Hegseth as the Iran war’s price tag hits $25 billion

Making his first appearance before Congress since the Trump administration went to war in Iran, Defense…

Supreme Court weighs Trump administration push to end protections for migrants from Haiti and Syria

The Supreme Court on Wednesday wrestled with the Trump administration’s push to end legal protections for…

Trump spent nearly $2 billion of taxpayer money to undo wind projects already underway. Dems demand answers

The Trump administration is spending nearly $2 billion to get energy companies to walk away from U.S. offshore…

‘They left me no choice’: Powell isn’t going anywhere—blocking Trump from another Fed appointee

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell announced Wednesday he will remain on the Fed’s Board of Governors…

How JPMorgan’s CIO is reshaping work at the bank with a $19.8 billion annual tech and AI budget

Lori Beer, the global chief information officer at JPMorgan Chase & Co., has a long checklist…

Starbucks is winning customers back after investing $500 million in workers and stores

Starbucks on Tuesday reported quarterly sales growth in the U.S. that blew past Wall Street’s expectations,…

Emma Grede, who helped found the $5 billion Skims empire, rejects ‘celebrity CEO’ label: ‘I’m a CEO who’s done so well you know my name’

Emma Grede may be best known for being a founding partner for some of the Kardashian…

The AI boom is built on the backs of the world’s poorest, most exploited people, UN researchers find

In arid regions such as Chile’s Salar de Atacama, mining activities account for up to 65%…

Current price of oil as of April 29, 2026

At 9 a.m. Eastern Time today, the price of oil sits at $113.99 per barrel, using…