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Elon Musk said Tuesday that independent directors at Tesla and SpaceX have formed special committees to explore combining the two companies—a deal that, at current market values, would create a roughly $3.5 trillion giant.

Just two years ago, ahead of the 2024 presidential election, the use of AI in political ads was nearly unheard of.

Starting on Sept. 25, a hacker set loose an army of AI agents that attempted to break into over 1,200 websites over the next few weeks—autonomously, with no additional work required of the human hacker after sending them off on their task.

Across the global energy sector, a quiet but significant shift is underway.

Some of Formula 1’s most populat drivers are already serious about photography.

Just over a decade after Elizabeth Holmes threatened him with lawsuits and tried to kill his reporting, author John Carreyrou has become a perhaps unlikely fan of “You Can See Everything,” a new documentary exploring the disgraced founder’s home life as s…

Tesla and SpaceX are officially talking.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX said Tuesday that third quarter revenue rose 161% to $14.6 billion year-over-year, cruising past the $12.86 billion analysts expected, according to Visible Alpha consensus from S&P Global Market Intelligence.

At a time when every company is warning employees not to blindly trust in anything—even corporate emails, lest they be from fraudsters trying to manipulate and socially engineer—trust has become more challenging to engender and maintain.

United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby earned $32.3 million last year, roughly 334 times the compensation of his company’s median employee.

Investors are watching how the New York Knicks perform today on two very different courts: the hardwood at Madison Square Garden, and the floor of the New York Stock Exchange farther downtown.

Ask the executives who run AI inside some of the world’s leading companies whether the technology is going to kill us, and you get an answer that looks vastly different from some recent headlines.

Payers’ yearslong pullback from Medicare Advantage (MA) will continue in 2027.

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Steven Bartlett started his podcast with just a laptop and a sock pulled over a $100 microphone.

More than 95% of American mortgage borrowers pay less than today’s market rate, and 65% pay at least 2 percentage points less, a legacy of the mass refinancing of 2020 and 2021, when rates hit record lows.

Millions of Americans are getting a raise from Social Security next year.

Asha Sharma returns from one of her walking meetings around Microsoft’s sprawling campus in Redmond, Wash., to her relatively new office in the Xbox building, reached via a 1,100-foot-long bridge from the main offices.

California is home to dozens of entrepreneurs who have made billions off their companies.

When Ted Lasso took over AFC Richmond, the fictional England soccer team at the center of Apple TV’s hit series, his relentlessly positive attitude and folksy charm made him an unlikely leader.

The European Union laid out a plan on Tuesday to increase its footprint in the Arctic as global warming, conflict and competition for energy resources and critical minerals pose fresh challenges.

President Donald Trump is hoping that $5,000 checks can juice Republican turnout in November’s midterm elections — but even some of his devoted fans are doubting that government payouts would arrive.

President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance are set Tuesday to announce a $25 million program to encourage the public to blow the whistle on suspected fraud in the federal government as they ramp up an existing effort to end the abuse of federal pr…

It takes a fortune far bigger than any sports team to buy one—and that fortune rarely sits still.

Most arcades in the 1980s and ’90s had one.

A once-commanding CEO now looks broken.

The stablecoin boom has promised to make global commerce faster and cheaper by easing cross-border money transfers.

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Voters in Canada’s oil-rich Alberta province overwhelmingly backed remaining in Canada, with early referendum results Tuesday delivering a boost to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s push for national unity amid U.S.

When two large companies agree to merge, they typically promise to use “reasonable best efforts” to win regulatory approval.

Rising fuel costs, discontent with the state of schools, declining public services and a housing crisis are fueling an autumn of protests in Europe.

China hit back Tuesday at a U.S. ban on Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek’s products for federal civilian agencies, highlighting friction in the two AI powers’ heated technology race.

There are many—none particularly surprising—reasons politicians and policymakers push central banks for a lower base interest rate.

The General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Mich., still looks the way Eero Saarinen drew it in the 1950s: low glass-and-steel boxes set on a grid, end walls of glazed brick in saturated colors, massive man-made lakes, everything in its right place.

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Gray Swan, an AI security startup that helps frontier AI companies including Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind stress-test their models before release, is overhauling its public red-teaming platform to keep it relevant for the era of AI agents.

AI agents need somewhere to work—and Ivan Burazin thinks the existing cloud providers aren’t the right answer.

“Look at this sweatshirt,” Thomas Frank says over a video interview from his study in Bethesda, Md.

It started with a steam-powered car.

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S&P 500 futures were marginally down before the New York open after a tough day for markets in Asia and Europe.

AI pilots that can fly military aircraft when GPS and communications are jammed.

In today’s CEO Daily: The fine print behind the billionaire generosity sweepstakes.

Nearly two decades after the first iPhone, most smartphones still follow Apple’s template.

Mark Zuckerberg says he knew he was taking an enormous risk when he green-lit Meta’s AI build-out—a commitment he pegged at as much as $200 billion—before there was any proof it would work.

Mass protests and rioting swept France over the weekend as the eurozone’s second-largest economy grapples with stagflation.

Matt Robb wanted to sell his computer keyboard.

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