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Yellow lights are flashing in the most important market on the planet: The US bond market.
The turmoil is being driven by a confluence of separate but related forces. The US war with Iran is heating up again, driving up US defense spending and the cost of oil, gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. READ MORE
Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk on Tuesday stressed the need for more AI data centers and the electric power needed to support them at a meeting of G20 technology ministers focused on the disruptions and opportunity brought by artificial intelligence.
The US tech bosses spoke virtually at a G20 meeting in Chapel Hill, North Carolina organized by the White House, which is dedicated to keeping the AI revolution largely free of government rules and scrutiny. READ MORE
You did everything you needed to do. You ensured your resume follows ATS guidelines. You completed not one, not two, but three different interviews. Don't forget the technical assessment! You alerted your references promptly, and then subsequently received your offer.
On your first day, it becomes glaringly apparent: This place stinks, and so does the role you fought tooth and nail to get. What now? Well, nobody's forcing you to stay, so you quit. READ MORE
A great manager has enough faith in their employees that they can avoid micromanaging. Only a supervisor who doubts their employees' talents ends up micromanaging them, and it almost always brings about poor results. They become the type of manager who never lets their team go un-active on Teams, or who wants to be notified every time they use the restroom or take a snack break. It's inundating the manager with meaningless messages, all while treating the employees like children. READ MORE
Transmitting data through the air often comes with a key problem: under a barrage of turbulent atmospheric conditions like wind and heat, the data can become distorted and corrupted, requiring great effort to piece it back together. It's a big obstacle for long-distance internet and communications providers, yet a team of researchers think they've just solved this puzzle — and it could have massive implications for how you send data to and from your devices. READ MORE
For the past few years, at happy hours and dinner parties in San Francisco, Leopold Aschenbrenner kept confusing people by sharing his favorite outlandish idea.
He wanted to buy galaxies. READ MORE
While some privacy advocates are content to saw down camera towers, one artist is pushing back against the panopticon with an unconventional tool: the ugliest aloha shirt you’ve ever seen.
Freshly reported by Dezeen, German designer Simon Weckert designed the hideous shirt to be untraceable to AI-integrated surveillance systems. Using a dizzying blend of colors and patterns, the shirt is ugly precisely because it’s designed to confuse surveillance algorithms — as Weckert explained, it’s the “interplay” of ghastly colors and shapes that hide its wearer from detection. READ MORE
The intensifying late-summer backlash against data centers is inspiring panic among some corners of the tech sector — amid fears that the industry is mishandling a political crisis that will stretch into 2028 and beyond.
Those worries have deepened in recent weeks as politicians across the political spectrum embraced various curbs on data center construction, with Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, potential Democratic White House hopeful Josh Shapiro and Michigan GOP Senate nominee Mike Rogers being among the latest to sign on. READ MORE
When OpenAI hired Denise Dresser from Slack to be its chief revenue officer in December, Fidji Simo, a top-ranking executive, said in a blog post that Dresser’s “experience will help us make AI useful, reliable, and accessible for businesses everywhere.”
Four months later, Dresser took on added responsibilities when operating chief Brad Lightcap left that position for a new role focused on “special projects.” READ MORE
Young workers are increasingly bringing a dating-era habit into the workplace: ghosting.
As employers navigate a slower hiring market, some hiring managers say candidates are accepting job offers, failing to complete paperwork or simply never showing up for their first day, raising new concerns about professionalism. READ MORE
Employers may have an incentive to help workers build emergency savings as financial strain increasingly spills into attendance, productivity and retention, according to new research from workplace emergency savings provider SecureSave.
More than one-third of workers (38%) said financial challenges caused them to miss work during the previous six months, according to SecureSave’s 2026 Financial Stress Survey. Another 28% said a financial emergency negatively affected their job performance. READ MORE
No generation has entered the workforce more squarely in AI’s crossfire than Gen Z. As companies across industries have pulled back on entry-level hiring, leaders have made it clear they’re now more than ever looking for highly-skilled and ambitious young workers. And many aspiring professionals appear to have begun taking that message to heart. READ MORE
New research has claimed that "a new era of workplace sabotage" is seeing workers fight back against unfair policies, particularly when it comes to return to office (RTO) mandates.
The report from Enhancv found nearly three-quarters (72%) of workers suspect RTO as being a way to bring in stealth layoffs via attrition of those employees unwilling to compromise on their working arrangements. READ MORE
Joe Allen wants to know what the robot’s name is. At first, I think the double whiskey we downed at the hotel bar must be getting to him, as he sprints like a kid at recess toward a delivery vehicle. I’m anxious about the time: I’m supposed to be driving Allen to the airport, my Hail Mary effort to get him alone for a proper conversation before he leaves Atlanta. READ MORE
The tech overlords pushing the AI boom are quickly wearing out what little welcome they had.
You may have noticed big-name AI labs pushing new commercials lately. Meta's new 60-second ad spot insists that the "future is for everyone," even as CEO Mark Zuckerberg's personal net worth eclipses the GDP of Hungary. Anthropic's new commercial for Claude assures viewers that there's "hope in hard questions," seemingly embracing the discomfort that comes when your software is used to bomb elementary schools in Iran. READ MORE
Elon Musk has just had the worst month of his financial life. His net worth fell from a peak of roughly $1.32 trillion to about $832 billion over the course of a month, a decline of roughly 37%, or about $500 billion, according to Benzinga’s tracking. While the Bloomberg Billionaires Index ticks backward at the fastest pace ever recorded for a single individual, Musk is quietly raising money for the company almost no one talks about. READ MORE
"We are 1,000% going to go bankrupt as a country and fail as a country, without AI and robots," he said. "Nothing else will solve the national debt."
According to the Treasury Department, U.S. national debt now stands at roughly $39.6 trillion — and it continues to grow as federal spending outpaces revenue. Through the first nine months of fiscal year 2026, the federal deficit has climbed to around $1.37 trillion. READ MORE
Google reportedly expanded its office presence in Miami this year after two of its co-founders purchased houses in South Florida.
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, signed a lease expanding its existing 10,000-square-foot satellite office in Miami's financial district by an additional 45,000 square feet, two people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg News. READ MORE
Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta and more than 20 other technology companies are urging U.S. policymakers not to broadly restrict open-weight artificial intelligence (AI) models, saying the technology is critical to maintaining America's leadership in the global AI race.
In a joint letter released Friday, the companies argued that open AI models accelerate innovation, strengthen cybersecurity and help ensure the U.S. remains competitive as countries race to develop increasingly powerful AI systems. READ MORE
Artificial intelligence is reshaping the hiring process, but for many recent graduates, it is also creating new frustrations. As employers increasingly rely on automated screening tools to sort through thousands of applications, job seekers say they worry qualified candidates are being filtered out before a hiring manager ever sees their resume.
Marist graduate Samantha Kehler joined FOX Business’ Maria Bartiromo on "Mornings with Maria" to discuss how AI has changed her search for work and why she believes automated hiring systems have made breaking into today’s job market even more difficult. READ MORE
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