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Kurt Rathmann told his big-name investors he had developed groundbreaking AI to do the books for small businesses. In reality, humans did most of the work.

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One editor explores what money dysmorphia is, how to know if you have it, and tips for downsizing the feeling so you can be happier with where you are in life.

Harvard’s tuition currently averages $56,650 per year for undergrads.

Rising temperatures, erratic rainfall, and other climate impacts are throttling cocoa production and driving up chocolate prices.

A first-of-its-kind policy allows Chinese firms to treat data as an asset, but compliance hurdles are keeping many companies on the sidelines.

Fiverr is building AI into its platform.

In a place with scant formal pension support, gold necklaces and bangles often take the place of social security.

The war in Ukraine served as a wakeup call for Europe, and defense tech went from a sector that most European VCs didn't touch to one of the top

Clean-energy technologies made up more than 10% of China’s economy in 2024 for the first...

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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is quitting a major climate group for banks, as increasingly complex regulations and US political attacks lead some of the financial industry’s biggest firms to rethink such affiliations.

‘Tight correlation’ between premium rises and counties deemed most at risk from climate crisis, experts say

How fast will it take over, how fast are costs shrinking, why is it so cheap, what industries will it birth, how much surface will it take up, where will it appear first?

As new offerings for advertisers arrive, Google’s share of the U.S. search ad market is projected by one research firm to drop below 50% next year.

The long-duration energy storage startup has raised a total of $1.2 billion. Form is expanding its West Virginia factory and working on its first…

Blockchain evidence points to users carrying out market manipulation to inflate trading volumes on the popular political betting platform.

AI training costs are growing exponentially year after year.

In this report, GIC and S&P Global Sustainable1 analyses the escalating risk that physical climate hazards will bring, and explores investment opportunities in climate adaptation.

The State of AI Report aims to provide a comprehensive overview of everything you need to know across AI research, industry, politics, and safety.

Speaking Saturday at the UN Summit of the Future, Google CEO Sundar Pichai described AI as “the most transformative technology yet” and announced a new

The Tax Justice Network said trillions could be raised with a ‘featherlight’ tax on the 0.5% of richest households, copying a current Spanish tax

AI, growth, inflation and geopolitics were all more important to CEOs in a recent survey.

Last Energy just raised a $40 million Series B.

Data from tangential flow filtration experiments using cell culture medium without animal products are used to estimate the costs of scaled-up, continuous cultivated chicken manufacturing.

The US Justice Department sent subpoenas to Nvidia Corp. and other companies as it seeks evidence that the chipmaker violated antitrust laws, an escalation of its investigation into the dominant provider of AI processors.

The sale price of 135 West 50th Street in Midtown, which is only 35 percent full, was a sign of how much the pandemic upended the market for office buildings in New York City.

The asset management unit of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has walked away from the world’s biggest climate alliance for investors, marking the latest in a string of similar defections amid continued Republican Party attacks on green finance.

Nvidia’s yearly AI chip refresh may not start this year.

Tech firms have been spending historic amounts of money on AI—but will it pay off?