Ford Motor Company sold fewer vehicles in the first quarter of 2025 than it did a year ago. That much is clear from the numbers. What’s less clear — and far more consequential — is whether the Dearborn automaker’s problems are cyclical or structural, and whether a looming wall of tariffs is about to make […]

When Tim Cook was asked about Apple’s plans for smart glasses during a recent interview, he didn’t unveil a product roadmap. He didn’t tease a release date. Instead, he offered something far more telling — a carefully worded non-denial that longtime Apple watchers immediately recognized as a page from the Steve Jobs playbook. The moment,

Britain’s biggest banks are spending billions of pounds a year keeping decades-old technology alive — and the bill is getting worse, not better. While artificial intelligence promises to reshape financial services, the uncomfortable truth is that most UK lenders are still running core operations on systems built before the internet existed. The gap between ambition

For decades, American brands carried an almost magnetic allure in China. Nike sneakers, Apple iPhones, Starbucks lattes — they weren’t just products. They were status symbols, cultural currency, proof that you had arrived. That era is over. A sweeping shift in Chinese consumer sentiment is hammering U.S. companies that once treated the world’s second-largest economy

Starbucks is about to do something it hasn’t done in its 54-year history: pay its baristas every week. Starting in early 2026, the coffee giant will shift all U.S. employees from biweekly to weekly paychecks, part of a sweeping compensation overhaul that also includes new performance bonuses, expanded benefits, and a corporate acknowledgment that the

Somewhere inside IBM’s sprawling research apparatus, engineers are working on something that would have seemed improbable a decade ago: a single piece of hardware capable of executing both x86 and IBM Z (s390x) instruction sets natively. Not through emulation. Not through virtualization layers. Through actual dual-architecture silicon. A recently surfaced patent filing and associated Linux

Sam Altman admitted he got it wrong. Not about artificial intelligence itself — he still believes that’s the most consequential technology humanity will ever build — but about the people he assumed would misuse it. Speaking at a recent event, the OpenAI CEO said he had “miscalibrated” his distrust, directing too much suspicion toward the

The U.S. Department of Energy moved quickly this week to shut down speculation that the Biden administration was preparing another drawdown from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. No talks are underway. No releases are being planned. The nation’s emergency oil stockpile, already at levels not seen since the early 1980s, will remain where it is —

The two most widely held stocks in America share a vulnerability that few retail investors fully appreciate. Apple and Amazon, cornerstones of countless retirement portfolios and index funds, carry an outsized exposure to a single geopolitical risk: the U.S.-China tariff regime. And the temporary truce announced in May 2025 hasn’t defused the threat — it’s

The Internal Revenue Service is quietly reshaping how Americans can settle their tax debts, and the changes could affect millions of households that owe back taxes. Under a proposed expansion of the IRS Fresh Start Program, taxpayers would gain access to more flexible installment agreements and potentially easier paths to resolve outstanding balances. But the