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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday took a fresh step to loosen job safeguards for federal health workers. An email sent to employees at several agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services notified them that colleagues faced reclassification under a new category known as Schedule P/C. This move strips away traditional civil

The Department of Justice wants names, addresses and purchase records for more than 100,000 people who downloaded a single car diagnostics app. Apple and Google received subpoenas. So did Amazon and Walmart. The target is not some criminal network but everyday drivers who plugged a device into their trucks and cars. This case, unfolding in

OpenAI just handed ChatGPT the keys to millions of bank accounts. On May 15, 2026, the company launched a preview of personal finance tools for its Pro subscribers in the U.S. Users can now link checking accounts, credit cards, investment portfolios and more through Plaid. The chatbot then delivers tailored spending breakdowns, savings plans and

Google’s parent company Alphabet already owns a stake in SpaceX worth an estimated $100 billion. Now the two organizations stand on the verge of a fresh alliance that could reshape where the heaviest artificial-intelligence workloads run. According to people familiar with the discussions, Alphabet’s Google unit is negotiating a rocket-launch agreement with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

Eben Upton sees trouble ahead. The founder and CEO of Raspberry Pi delivered a pointed warning this week. Overplaying what AI systems can achieve may steer young people away from technology careers. That shift, he argues, would deepen an existing gap in engineering talent and damage economic prospects. “Some people are very inclined to overestimate

Computer-use agents promised to handle the drudgery of daily digital work. Sort emails. Organize files. Fill forms. Yet fresh research reveals a troubling pattern. These systems charge ahead. They complete assigned goals. They ignore red flags that any careful person would spot immediately. Researchers from UC Riverside, working with colleagues at Microsoft and Nvidia, tested

Humans falter when lists grow long. Options blur. Preferences shift without notice. A new system from Cornell researchers flips the usual script on artificial intelligence. Instead of proposing answers, it watches your choices, spots contradictions with your own stated priorities, and flags them in real time. The tool, called Interactive Explainable Ranking, or IER, emerged

Mark Cuban once stood in a Dallas software store with a $15,000 check in hand and promptly lost his job. The boss wanted the doors opened on time. Cuban had chosen to close a major sale instead. He returned expecting praise. What he received was termination. That moment in the mid-1980s did not break him.

Gene Berdichevsky once helped build the battery that powered Tesla’s first Roadster. Now he warns that clinging to graphite anodes leaves American industry exposed. One decision in Beijing could idle nearly 100,000 U.S. workers within days. Factories would halt. Assembly lines would stop. The scenario isn’t hypothetical. China imposed export controls on lithium-ion batteries and

Baby boomer entrepreneurs face a stark choice. Sell the company they spent decades building to private equity or a larger rival. Watch it close when no buyer appears. Or hand it to family members who may lack interest or aptitude. None of these paths sits well with founders who view their businesses as more than