Amazon Web Services is preparing to pour approximately $12 billion into a sprawling new data center campus in northeast Louisiana, a move that underscores the staggering capital demands of the artificial intelligence era and signals a dramatic reshaping of the economic geography of the American South. The investment, among the largest single corporate commitments in […]

In the rolling cornfields of Iowa, a quiet insurgency has been brewing—not over commodity prices or trade policy, but over the right to fix a tractor. For years, farmers across the heartland have waged a campaign against the digital locks that manufacturers embed in modern agricultural equipment, and their fight is now reshaping the national

For more than a decade, the freemium model has been the economic backbone of the mobile app economy. Small developers built simple utility apps—unit converters, habit trackers, weather widgets, QR code scanners—and offered them for free with ads or limited features, hoping that a fraction of users would pay to upgrade. It was a reliable

A new open-source benchmark called OpenClaw is delivering a sobering wake-up call to the artificial intelligence industry, and the results should give pause to every executive, engineer, and investor betting billions on the promise of autonomous AI agents. The tool, designed to test how well AI agents handle real-world computer tasks, reveals that even the

Oracle Corporation saw its shares slide after a report raised questions about the company’s actual role in the Stargate AI infrastructure project — the ambitious $500 billion joint venture announced with great fanfare by President Donald Trump earlier this year. The sell-off underscores a growing tension between Wall Street’s sky-high expectations for AI-related spending and

Fairphone, the Dutch company that has spent over a decade trying to prove that consumer electronics can be produced responsibly, is preparing to launch its sixth-generation smartphone later this year — and this time, it appears to be making its most aggressive push yet toward mainstream relevance. The device, internally referred to as the Fairphone

For decades, the conventional wisdom held firm: when recessions hit, it was the office workers who trembled while plumbers, electricians, and warehouse hands kept their livelihoods intact. Physical labor, the thinking went, was insulated from the forces of automation and economic downturns in ways that knowledge work was not. A viral new report is now

Jamie Dimon has never been one to mince words. The JPMorgan Chase chief executive, who steered the largest U.S. bank through the 2008 financial crisis with fewer scars than most of his peers, is once again warning that the seeds of the next banking disaster are already being planted — and that the industry’s collective

For decades, Taiwan has occupied a peculiar position in global affairs — a self-governing island of 23 million people that most nations refuse to formally recognize as a sovereign state, yet one that holds the world’s most powerful economies hostage through its near-monopoly on advanced semiconductor manufacturing. That tension has never been more acute than

Anthropic, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company behind the Claude chatbot, has publicly accused several Chinese AI firms of using its proprietary model outputs to train and refine their own competing systems — a practice known in the industry as “distillation.” The allegations, which surfaced in a detailed policy filing, have reignited a fierce debate