A ‘no-brainer’: Senate unanimously bans members and staff from using prediction markets

The Senate has approved a bipartisan resolution to prevent its own members from using prediction markets, banning…

Wind energy exec says company ‘must adapt’ as Trump offers $2 billion to kill offshore wind projects

As the Trump administration considers shelling out billions to shutter offshore wind projects, energy executives are…

House approves bill to fund DHS after warnings of the TSA running out of funds, but leaves out ICE

After weeks of delay, the House voted Thursday to fund much of the Department of Homeland Security,…

Big Tech’s $700 billion AI spending spree has no clear end in sight

Welcome to Eye on AI, with AI reporter Sharon Goldman. In this edition: SoftBank plans to…

Your laundry bill is about to get more expensive—and Unilever says the Iran war is partly to blame

Consumers may be feeling the effects of global energy disruptions not only at the pump but…

‘The national debt is now larger than the economy’: Watchdog marks milestone for $39 trillion burden

The United States has crossed a grim threshold: the national debt now exceeds the size of…

Jamie Dimon: Greatest threats to the economy are geopolitics and cyber.

When Jamie Dimon is asked about the greatest risk he sees to the global economy, his…

57% of Americans between 13 and 17 years old get news from social media at least once a day

Teenagers are more inclined than their elders to get news from nontraditional sources such as social…

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…