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Oil drilling rises in longest U.S. streak since 2022 on price bump thumbnail
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Oil drilling rises in longest U.S. streak since 2022 on price bump

US oil drilling has expanded for six straight weeks, the longest uptrend in almost four years, after the Iran war pushed crude prices...

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Trump says he supports salary cap for Major League Baseball

President Donald Trump sided with Major League Baseball owners who are proposing a hard salary cap as part of the next collective bargaining agreement, adding...

The Strait of Hormuz is more open than previously thought as the U.S. shoots down Iranian drones threatening ships and provides ‘naval overwatch’ thumbnail
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The Strait of Hormuz is more open than previously thought as the U.S. shoots down Iranian drones threatening ships and provides ‘naval overwatch’

Talks to extend the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran are dead in the water, but traffic through the Strait of Hormuz is...

Here’s where U.S. debt may become unsustainable with interest payments triggering a default crisis that even steep tax hikes can’t fix thumbnail
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Here’s where U.S. debt may become unsustainable with interest payments triggering a default crisis that even steep tax hikes can’t fix

Soaring U.S. debt and projections that put it at astronomical levels in the coming years have set off increasing panic, though the precise...

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Illinois joins Ohio in ordering pause on data center tax credits

Governor JB Pritzker issued an order pausing state tax incentives for data centers in Illinois after the state legislature stalled his plan to keep data-center...

The ‘godfather of AI’ says we’re not just creating new beings — they’ll be much smarter than us, and soon thumbnail
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The ‘godfather of AI’ says we’re not just creating new beings — they’ll be much smarter than us, and soon

Geoffrey Hinton almost didn’t believe he’d won the Nobel Prize. When the committee called in 2024, the 77-year-old computer scientist ran a quick...

Grey rhinos, black swans, and the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie: What Corporate America still gets wrong about risk thumbnail
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Grey rhinos, black swans, and the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie: What Corporate America still gets wrong about risk

When Savannah Guthrie’s 84-year-old mother was abducted in Arizona earlier this year, the FBI issued an unusual warning: in the age of AI,...

The automation illusion: Why AI is making COOs’ jobs harder, not easier thumbnail
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The automation illusion: Why AI is making COOs’ jobs harder, not easier

When the COO of Nike, the chief of operations at an $84 billion food distributor, and the CEO of a major tech media...

Cognizant CEO is swimming against the tide on AI: he’s hiring over 20,000 graduates this year and says AI tokenmaxxing is a ‘vanity metric’ thumbnail
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Cognizant CEO is swimming against the tide on AI: he’s hiring over 20,000 graduates this year and says AI tokenmaxxing is a ‘vanity metric’

For months, the loudest voices in artificial intelligence—including OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei—warned that entry-level white-collar jobs were headed for extinction....

6 years of jersey design, 4 years of prep, 4 weeks of games: Execs at U.S. Soccer and Nike know how much this World Cup means thumbnail
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6 years of jersey design, 4 years of prep, 4 weeks of games: Execs at U.S. Soccer and Nike know how much this World Cup means

With less than two weeks until kickoff, the 2026 World Cup—co-hosted by the U.S., Canada, and Mexico—has not been without some headaches, including...