For months, a chorus of economic doomsayers warned that the American labor market was teetering on the edge of collapse. Trade tensions, federal workforce reductions, and persistent inflation fears had fueled a narrative of imminent recession. Then came the January 2026 jobs report — and it landed like a thunderclap, blowing past even the most […]

For years, cybersecurity researchers warned that Microsoft Outlook’s add-in architecture represented a potent but underexploited attack vector. That theoretical risk has now become reality. A sophisticated threat campaign has been identified leveraging a malicious Outlook add-in — believed to be the first of its kind observed in the wild — to establish persistent access to

The artificial intelligence arms race has entered a new and consequential phase — one measured not in parameters or benchmark scores, but in megawatts. Anthropic, the San Francisco–based AI safety company behind the Claude chatbot, has joined a growing roster of technology firms whose massive data center commitments are raising hard questions about energy costs,

For decades, the cost of regulatory compliance has been treated as a fixed overhead expense — an unavoidable line item buried deep in corporate budgets. But a growing body of academic research is now quantifying just how profoundly compliance obligations are distorting corporate decision-making, capital allocation, and competitive dynamics across industries. A new working paper

In a move that signals both strategic adaptation and a deeper entrenchment into the American digital ecosystem, TikTok has begun rolling out a new “Local” feed to users across the United States. The feature, which surfaces short-form video content tied to a user’s geographic location, represents one of the most significant product shifts the embattled

The Walt Disney Company, one of the most fiercely protective intellectual property holders on the planet, has quietly but decisively moved to block artificial intelligence platforms from generating images of its iconic characters — a step that industry observers say could signal the beginning of the end for the freewheeling, largely unregulated era of AI-generated

For months, the competitive dynamics among leading artificial intelligence companies have resembled a high-stakes poker game, with each player carefully calibrating how much capability to give away for free versus how much to reserve for paying customers. Now, Anthropic — the San Francisco–based AI safety startup valued at roughly $60 billion — is making a

The promise of AI-powered desktop assistants that can read your files, manage your calendar, and execute tasks on your behalf has long been Silicon Valley’s vision of the future. But a newly disclosed vulnerability in Anthropic’s Claude Desktop application reveals a deeply unsettling reality: a simple Google Calendar event — the kind that lands in

The Space Coast of Florida is gearing up for what promises to be one of the most consequential rocket launches of 2024 — the second flight of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur rocket. Scheduled for launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, the mission carries enormous stakes not just for ULA, but for the broader

The Federal Trade Commission, under the leadership of Chairman Andrew Ferguson, has taken an extraordinary step into the fraught territory of media curation, issuing a formal request to Apple Inc. to stop what it characterizes as the preferential promotion of left-leaning news outlets through its Apple News platform. The move, rooted in a study that