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For decades, U.S. Treasury securities sat atop the global financial order — the bedrock of central bank reserves, the ultimate safe haven, the instrument that underwrote American economic supremacy. That era isn’t ending overnight. But it is ending. By 2026, gold is projected to surpass U.S. Treasuries as the single largest reserve asset held by

A federal class-action lawsuit filed in the Northern District of California is taking direct aim at three of the most powerful names in artificial intelligence — Google, Meta, and Perplexity AI — accusing them of systematically scraping copyrighted content from thousands of websites to train their large language models without permission, compensation, or even acknowledgment.

A California billionaire has proposed what may be the most unusual tax idea in Silicon Valley history: charge a fee on every token processed by artificial intelligence systems and use the revenue to create a sovereign wealth fund for the American people. The proposal comes from Vinod Khosla, the venture capitalist and Sun Microsystems co-founder

A federal judge in Washington has refused to lift a temporary restraining order blocking congressional subpoenas aimed at Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and other senior government officials, setting the stage for what promises to be a consequential appellate fight over the boundaries of legislative power and executive independence. The ruling, issued by U.S. District

President Donald Trump declared this week that the United States has “plenty of jet engines” and doesn’t need to buy them from Europe, a statement that sent ripples through the global aerospace industry and raised pointed questions about whether American manufacturing capacity can actually back up the rhetoric. The comments, made to reporters aboard Air

Twenty-three years ago, Apple convinced the music industry to let customers buy individual songs for 99 cents. It was, at the time, a radical proposition — one that cannibalized album sales, enraged record labels, and fundamentally altered how consumers thought about paying for digital content. It also became the template for everything Apple has done

Every organization has one. The manager who drains morale, drives out talent, and somehow survives performance review after performance review. The one whose team fantasizes about quitting in unison. The one whose name triggers a collective sigh in Slack channels. Ethan Evans spent more than two decades at Amazon, rising to the rank of vice

Somewhere between the atmosphere and the void, a new front in the data center arms race is taking shape. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos — the two richest men on the planet, perpetual rivals in rocketry and ego — are now racing to plant computing infrastructure in orbit. The pitch is seductive: unlimited solar power,

At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this year, a theme emerged that would have sounded like science fiction a decade ago: the next generation of wireless connectivity isn’t being built primarily for smartphones. It’s being built for machines. Specifically, robots. The relationship between wireless technology and robotics has always been constrained by a

Simon Willison hasn’t taken a proper break in three years. The co-creator of the Django web framework — one of the most widely deployed tools in modern software development — recently admitted something that surprised even his most devoted followers: he’s exhausted. Not the normal kind of tired that comes from shipping code on deadline.