AI, Tariffs, Rare Minerals: What to Expect From Trump’s Upcoming Summit With Xi Jinping
Washington and Beijing have grown ever more linked in the AI boom, making hardware exports and technological restrictions hefty bargaining chips in negotiations.
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Kairos Power gets up to $100M from Samsung group to build nuclear reactor for Google
Future Google supplier Kairos Power inked a deal with Samsung C&T to help build its first 50-megawatt nuclear power plant.
Read the memo that Paramount CEO David Ellison sent to staffers after 2 settlements that clear the way for his WBD deal
Paramount Skydance's CEO confirmed to employees that the company had settled the lawsuits that were holding up its deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery.
Global diesel shortage from Iran, Ukraine wars to last into 2027
Ram, GM, and Ford are keeping the V8 alive
Car companies signaled they were discontinuing V8 engines a few years ago. Now, they're making a big U-turn — and Detroit is leading the way.
Trump says there are ways to 'rein' in AI 'if we have to'
President Donald Trump stressed the US will "be careful" in how it handles AI.
Meta’s AI agent has been blocked from using Amazon.com
Amazon has its own cohort of foundation models, along with one of the most popular inference platforms on the internet. As long as they're under no legal obligation to open the doors to Muse, why would they?
The 20 richest women in the world, ranked
From Alice Walton to MacKenzie Scott, the richest women in the world are all heiresses who own stakes in some of the biggest companies.
State control of the US economy, or socialism, expanded sharply in 2025 under a Republican White House and Congress
The United States took a big step toward greater state ownership or control of the economy—a form of socialism—in 2025. This change is occurring under unified Republican domination of the US government, not under a Democ...
Dyson Won’t Say What’s Wrong With Its CameraJet Toothbrush
Despite admitting to a “component issue,” the company refuses to say what went wrong, how many units are affected in how many countries, and why it won’t recall its $500 AI toothbrush.
UN condemns attempted Houthi strike on Riyadh as Yemen displacement surges past 130,000
The UN has condemned continued cross‑border attacks by Houthi forces against Saudi Arabia, including an attempted strike on the capital Riyadh, as fighting inside Yemen drives one of the country’s fastest displacement su...
Daily Memo: AfD-Moscow Connections, France-Canada Dialogue
Russian collaboration. Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev suggested Moscow could work with Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party