Category: Business

Slack wants to drag AI coding out of the terminal and into the group chat. The Salesforce-owned messaging platform today announced Slack Code, a new product that embeds AI coding agents — including Anthropic's Claude Code, Cognition's Devin, GitHub Copilot, and Vercel's agent — directly into dedicated Slack channels where entire teams can watch, steer, […]

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is finding out the hard way that calming the bond market requires more than just adjusting a few levers at the Treasury Department. Despite a surprise announcement to double the size of the government’s bond buyback program to four billion dollars per operation, interest rates quickly rebounded on Thursday. The yield […]

Moderna experienced a sharp correction on Thursday, erasing more than 18 billion dollars in market valuation just one day after its stock had skyrocketed to record heights. The plunge saw shares drop over 25 percent to around 129 dollars, effectively cooling off the euphoria that gripped investors on Wednesday when the biotech giant announced breakthrough […]

Amazon plans to expand its Prime Air drone delivery service to nearly 500 cities and towns across the US by the end of 2026. That build-out amounts to six times the number of locations Prime Air serves today, extending the option to communities with tens of millions of customers, according to Amazon. Reaching that many […]

A bombshell testimony from a former Meta safety engineer has cast a harsh light on the company’s internal approach to youth protection, suggesting that Mark Zuckerberg knowingly misled the public about his commitment to child safety. Arturo Béjar, who spent eight years at the tech giant across two different tenures, told a federal court this […]

Federal Reserve officials signaled a readiness to pull the trigger on interest rate hikes if inflation fails to trend downward, according to detailed minutes from their late July meeting released Wednesday. While the majority of the Federal Open Market Committee opted to keep the federal funds rate steady between 3.5 percent and 3.75 percent, several […]

NVIDIA has released TensorRT Model Connect (TRTMC) in public preview, an open-source project that takes a supported Hugging Face or local checkpoint to end-to-end TensorRT inference in two commands. There is no intermediate ONNX export step. The build produces a versioned .bundle artifact that runs through native C++ task APIs, so inference can execute in […]

Homeowners are rethinking their renovation plans as skyrocketing property values and stubborn mortgage rates make large scale remodeling too expensive for many. According to recent financial reports from Home Depot, shoppers are shifting their focus toward smaller, more manageable projects rather than major overhauls. This trend helped the retail giant beat expectations for the second […]

California regulators have officially greenlit a series of new rules that will limit the types of replacement tires available for purchase throughout the state. Approved unanimously by the California Energy Commission, these regulations focus on reducing rolling resistance, which is essentially the amount of energy required for a tire to move down the road. By […]

Innovation is a concept that has become mythologized in the modern era: what it is, how to manage it, how to teach it, and how to get it to work for us. Despite these explorations, it remains fundamentally misunderstood, writes Eugene Fitzgerald, the Merton C. Flemings SMA Professor in MIT’s Department of Materials Science and […]