Around 2 a.m. local time in Caracas, Venezuela, American helicopters flew overhead as explosions rang out below. A few hours later, US President Donald Trump… Read More »The US invaded Venezuela and captured Nicolás Maduro. ChatGPT disagrees
The year 2025 ended with more than 14,000 active satellites from all countries zooming around the Earth. A third of them will soon move to… Read More »SpaceX begins “significant reconfiguration” of the Starlink satellite constellation
Here are the biggest unknowns the DealBook team will look at this year as we discuss business and the economy.
Stiff tariffs have pushed up prices and hit U.S. businesses, but not as badly as expected. A new report offers some reasons.
Most of the exoplanets we discovered were in relatively tight orbits around their host stars, allowing us to track them as they circled repeatedly. But… Read More »Researchers discover planet the size of Saturn in the 'Einstein Desert'
The gray market drugs flooding Silicon Valley reveal a community that believes it can move faster than the FDA
OpenAI, the company that developed the models and products related to ChatGPT, plans to announce a new audio language model in the first quarter of… Read More »OpenAI is reorganizing a number of teams to build audio-based AI hardware products
After spending nearly $50 billion to expand the country's Tengiz oil field, Chevron and its partners face more uncertainty.
In 2022, CDC researchers discovered an unexpected pattern. Since 1997, seven cases of infection have emerged Bacillus group of bacteria that produce the anthrax toxin… Read More »A healthy 18-year-old welder almost died from anthrax – the ninth puzzling case
Problems with a 25-year-old landmark document on the safety of Roundup's active ingredient, glyphosate, have led to calls for the EPA to reassess the widely… Read More »A study is withdrawn, renewing concerns about the weedkiller raid
Saks Global executive chairman Richard Baker will take over the luxury retailer he founded with the acquisitions of Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman in 2024.
Despite reports to the contrary, there is evidence that Grok is not at all remorseful about reports that it generated non-consensual sexual images of minors.… Read More »No, Grok can't really “apologize” for posting non-consensual sexual images
The boutique chain's co-founder Candace Nelson said the company had ceased operations at the end of the year. It was sold to a private equity… Read More »Sprinkles Cupcakes, the bakery that was sold through ATMs, is suddenly closing
“When we came into the studio last year to record our New Year's resolutions, I had the best intentions.”
He was one of the founders of More, which exposed the weaknesses of the press in the 1970s and later wrote a critical biography of… Read More »Richard Pollak, 91, deceased; Edited magazine that criticized the media
