Fed Raises Rates as Business Borrowing Costs Climb
The central bank’s first increase since 2023 lifts the target range to 3.75%–4%, putting financing, demand and pricing decisions under renewed pressure.
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The central bank’s first increase since 2023 lifts the target range to 3.75%–4%, putting financing, demand and pricing decisions under renewed pressure.
Ursula von der Leyen proposed a new EU relationship with Canada spanning trade, defense, technology and critical supply chains.
A 49-50 procedural defeat stalls Congress's attempt to create a durable national framework for digital assets.
The technology company’s largest disclosed superpollutant-credit purchase will support new irrigation practices across Indian rice farms.
A personal reflection on Sept. 11, the friends we searched for, the silence that followed and what it means to remember 25 years later.
California is moving beyond warning labels, restricting addictive social-media features for children under 16 while imposing new safety and audit requirements on AI chatbots used by minors.
The Justice Department is examining whether Nvidia structured its Groq licensing deal to avoid the antitrust review that a conventional acquisition would face.
Andrew Tulloch is leaving Meta for Anthropic less than a year after joining the company amid an extraordinary bidding war for frontier AI talent.
The reported investigation tests whether a common venture-capital practice has become an illegal board interlock as Databricks and Fivetran move into overlapping data markets.
Denise Dresser will leave OpenAI after a transition period, and former Wiz president and COO Dali Rajic will take over the company’s global revenue organization.