Category: Business

California Attorney General Rob Bonta abruptly canceled a planned meeting with Paramount Skydance on Monday, accusing the media giant of playing games during ongoing negotiations. The clash follows a series of settlement talks intended to resolve an antitrust lawsuit aimed at blocking the massive 110 billion dollar takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. Bonta stated that […]

Anthropic is making a calculated bet that the biggest bottleneck in enterprise AI isn't model intelligence — it's the fact that most people still use AI alone. In an exclusive interview with VentureBeat, Scott White, Anthropic's head of product for enterprise, laid out the company's thesis for what it calls "multiplayer AI": a shift away […]

As the United States national debt climbs toward a staggering 40 trillion dollars, observers are beginning to worry that the government is treating the symptoms of its fiscal crisis rather than curing the disease. Recent maneuvers by the Treasury Department suggest a strategic pivot toward what analysts call soft form financial repression, a set of […]

Lawyers for Paramount and representatives from California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office are expected to sit down this Monday to explore a potential resolution regarding the massive one hundred ten billion dollar acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. The meeting follows months of legal tension and arrives as both sides weigh whether a compromise can be […]

Frontier open-weight models are shipping faster than the hardware assumptions around them. Kimi-K3, GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek-V4-Flash are closing the capability gap with proprietary systems, but releasing parameters only determines who can obtain a model — not who can afford to run it. Serving them still assumes datacenter-class GPU clusters, and as agentic workloads push inference […]

For decades, the United States Treasury market functioned as the default destination for the world’s largest investors. Because other countries offered negligible returns, pension funds and insurance companies essentially had no choice but to park their trillions of dollars in U.S. government debt. However, that era of undisputed dominance is fading as international bonds become […]

Representatives from Paramount and Skydance are expected to sit down with the California attorney general’s office this Monday to explore a possible settlement regarding an antitrust lawsuit. This move comes amid mounting pressure from high profile figures including Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who have joined the Directors Guild of America […]

Ammonia is one of the most important chemicals produced in the world, ranking second only to sulfuric acid in the total volume produced each year. It is used mostly to make fertilizer, which is essential to feeding the world’s population. Yet its production accounts for up to 2 percent of the world’s energy consumption and […]

Health officials are issuing an urgent warning to consumers across fifteen states following a rare and concerning outbreak linked to contaminated alfalfa sprouts. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, at least 55 people have fallen ill after consuming products from Everything Sprouts, a Minnesota based grower. What makes this case particularly unusual […]

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent attempted to soothe a jittery government debt market this week, but his strategy appears to have backfired, triggering fresh anxiety over inflation. In a bid to improve liquidity, the Treasury announced it would at least double the size of its typical two billion dollar debt buyback program. While Bessent maintained that […]