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On Sept. 9, the four-member board of Automattic—the company that owns WordPress.com, Tumblr, and other web-based apps—voted to put its CEO, Matt Mullenweg, on leave.

For almost a decade, I led a company whose products people swallowed.

It’s rare these days for a star college basketball player to stay in school for more than a year, let alone return to finish a degree after turning pro.

At 7:45 a.m.

When Rick Smith founded Taser International in an Arizona garage in 1993, his original vision involved taking a device that was originally created by a NASA scientist and redesigning it in a way that would make it palatable to law enforcement agencies.

Olivia Walton of the Walmart founding family is pledging a part of her family’s multibillion-dollar fortune to tackle the maternal health crisis affecting women across the U.S.

In 2026, Hans Tung and I are talking about 19th-century ships.

To hear Silicon Valley tell it, artificial intelligence will usher in a glorious new era of abundance.

The message from the Trump administration has been clear: It is moving ahead with a $46 billion border wall project stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico.

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On September 14, at a Barclays conference, Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan put a number on the bank’s AI program: 130 to 140 projects in place “at a cost of $400 million, generating a benefit of $800 million.”

Sam Altman doesn’t understand history.

In August, AI agents made 257 million requests to documentation sites running on Mintlify, compared with 131 million page loads from people.

Somewhere today, someone will call a corporate help desk and say they are locked out.

At the time, artificial intelligence anxieties were running high.

In the White House Situation Room, the hardest calls were never the obvious emergencies.

At 6:45 a.m.

Finance editor Jeff John Roberts here.

Good morning.

In today’s CEO Daily: CEOs should ask who’s on the hook in AI financing deals.

When China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, that one move set off the largest capital spending boom the world had ever seen.

Britain’s financial regulator has banned a former HSBC banker from the industry over a train-fare fraud that cost a railway operator £5,911, or about $7,800.

In a new type of philanthropy, billionaire SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell has pledged to give more than 2 million American kids a piece of her company through Trump Accounts.

Your first few weeks at work probably look something like this: figuring out who’s who on Slack, which floor has the best snacks, and navigating the hundreds of emails piling up in the inbox.

Becoming an overnight millionaire is every teenager’s dream.

How long can a country punch above its weight before someone needs to check the scales?

Anthropic is setting up a “presidential engagement” program ahead of the 2028 elections, building an in-house team that will work directly with U.S. presidential candidates from both parties on AI issues, help Anthropic’s leadership set political strategy,

Four astronauts returned to Earth from the International Space Station on Thursday after hurrying there eight months ago to replace an ailing colleague and his crew.

Golden hash browns, gravy-smothered biscuits and crispy waffles with a hearty helping of syrup are among the classic Southern comfort foods.

President Donald Trump celebrated tech billionaires for their contributions to America on Thursday only hours after a company run by one of them, Microsoft, was accused by his vice president of abusing the visa system to bring in more foreign workers.

The National Football League has picked a side in the fight over prediction markets.

President Donald Trump’s administration announced Thursday it was suspending Microsoft and several other firms from a program allowing foreign workers to apply for green cards as it also lashed out at universities that bring international students to the…

The FBI has seized scanning and phishing tools used by a group of hackers that officials say is associated with the Chinese government and responsible for disruptive cyber operations in the United States and abroad, including against the power industry, a…

PepsiCo plans to raise prices on some snacks and drinks and slash corporate costs after a disappointing performance in North America during the third quarter.

South Korea flight-tested on Thursday its first domestically developed hypersonic weapon, designed to fly at least five times the speed of sound and evade missile defense systems, bringing Seoul closer to what it says could be game-changing weapons capabi…

Billionaire Mark Cuban says skyrocketing healthcare costs, not AI, are the biggest threat to jobs.

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Jev, an AI model built for quick decisions, went viral among AI developers and Silicon Valley cognoscenti when the startup TypeSafe AI released it in September.

Alex Karp says one of his top executives once told him to stop talking about how big Foundry would get.

Diesel fuel prices are hovering at record highs above $6 per gallon amid the ongoing Iran war, but both energy analysts and trucking industry groups say the Trump administration’s new strategy is less a viable solution—and more of an act of political post…

Long before “influencer” was a job title, Martha Stewart was getting paid like one.

Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been charged by U.S. authorities with torture and other crimes in a new indictment unsealed Thursday that adds pressure on the ousted authoritarian leader already fighting drug trafficking offenses.

Foreign workers building the vast new U.S. consulate compound in Milan signed agreements at a Milan hotel Wednesday securing payouts averaging 45,000 euros ($50,400) each for alleged labor abuses while working for an American construction company.

Brian Chesky, the cofounder and CEO of short-term rental giant Airbnb, once thanked his lucky stars for building his business at an opportune moment; When he was a 26-year-old scaling his business back in 2008, Silicon Valley was teeming with opportunity:…

Nvidia’s rise from an idea hatched over a booth at Denny’s to the world’s most valuable company is one of the defining business stories of the AI boom.

Across the country, millions of students are heading back to college for a new school year.

The USS Abraham Lincoln is returning home to San Diego Thursday after supporting the Iran war during a record long deployment of 265 uninterrupted days at sea that included reports of deteriorating conditions among its crew.

Millions of Americans who buy cheap drugs from Canada could soon lose access when a customs rule goes into effect later this month, a change that has sparked opposition from Democrats and some Republicans with the cost of living a top issue for voters ahe…

The European Union is bracing for a confrontation with China as a trade deficit exceeding $1 billion a day heightens anxiety over potential job losses and pushes the bloc’s political leaders to take a more aggressive approach toward its second-largest tra…

Worries around artificial intelligence cross party lines, with the vast majority of Americans saying the U.S. government should prioritize keeping AI under human control and protecting workers.