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Federal forecasters put the odds of a strong El Niño this winter at roughly two in three, and the odds of one matching or exceeding the record 2015 event at better than one in three. That forecast is worth taking seriously....

SpaceX just set a record for the largest-ever IPO, raising $75 billion at a $1.77 trillion valuation. OpenAI and Anthropic are soon to follow to the public markets. And with these three mega-IPOs will come a generation of brand-new...

Nuclear startup firm Antares successfully flipped the switch on its Mark-0 microreactor in June, first to the finish line in the Trump administration’s pilot program race—with a July 4 deadline—for the next generation of reactors to achieve criticality.With the...

AI shopping agents are coming. But no one is ready.While plenty of people are using AI models to help discover products they might want to buy, a customer cannot easily get an AI agent to complete a purchase on...

Much of the marketing world is handing over creative tasks to AI with fairly mixed results. But Dan Murphy, who leads marketing at canned beverage brand Liquid Death, said AI models can’t get close to the unique original concepts...

For two months, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul have been building the infrastructure FIFA wouldn’t. Mamdani negotiated 1,000 World Cup tickets at $50 each with free roundtrip transportation for working-class New Yorkers, after N.J....

“I know homelessness can be solved,” Gov. Gavin Newsom declared in his 2020 state of the state address. “This is our cause. This is our calling.”But six years later, his state is spending just a small sliver of its...

Catapulted by the market debut of his rocket company SpaceX, Elon Musk could become the world’s first trillionaire by the end of the day.That level of wealth, all owned by just one person, was once unfathomable. Before Friday, the trillion dollar mark was...

Few city planning concepts are as sacrosanct as the idea that growth is good and decline is bad.For cities and counties, population growth is universally seen as a metric that defines success. Even stable...

With software platforms racing to roll out AI features, Notion—the all-in-one productivity and workplace platform that gained a global cult following during the COVID pandemic—is betting that restraint will be a more successful design strategy.“You can’t have every new...