Anthropic, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company behind the Claude model family, is in talks to acquire Israeli AI startup Decart for approximately $6 billion,
The U.S. economy shed 23,000 jobs in July, the Labor Department’s Friday jobs report showed, a contraction economists had not expected after months of modest
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration upgraded a nationwide egg recall to Class I this week, its highest-risk classification, after linking nearly 19 million recalled eggs to a multistate Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak that has sickened 98 people across 17 states and hospitalized 26. The classification means the FDA has determined there is a reasonable probability that exposure to the recalled product could cause serious health consequences or death. No fatalities have been reported. The escalation came three weeks after Midwest Poultry Services, a family-owned Indiana company operating farms in Texas, voluntarily recalled 1,589,577 dozen shell eggs on July 22.
Taylor Farms, one of North America’s largest producers of packaged salads and fresh-cut vegetables, is now at the center of two simultaneous foodborne illness investigations
A Staten Island state court judge granted a temporary restraining order on August 10 pausing enforcement of New York City’s new pied-à-terre tax on high-value
Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation on August 5 requiring building owners in New York City to certify twice a year that their cooling towers have
The New Jersey legislature passed the New Jersey Kids Code Act on June 30, sending one of the most comprehensive state-level online child safety frameworks
U.S. employers cut 23,000 jobs in July, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said on August 7, missing consensus forecasts that called for gains of roughly 83,000 positions. The unemployment rate
Manhattan’s office market posted 3.87 million square feet of leasing activity in July 2026, a 22 percent increase over June and a 28.4 percent jump
Working remotely across state lines creates tax filing obligations in multiple states, and the rules determining where someone owes income tax differ sharply depending on
Labor shortages, supply chain gaps, and policy uncertainty block American manufacturers from relocating production despite tariffs and government incentives pushing them to reshore from China.
A new round of U.S. tariffs covering imports from 60 economies — accounting for 99.4 percent of all goods entering the country — took effect
The only total solar eclipse of 2026 swept across the Northern Hemisphere on Wednesday, August 12, plunging parts of Greenland, Iceland, and northern Spain into darkness for up to 2 minutes and 18 seconds while delivering a partial eclipse visible from Alaska to the mid-Atlantic coast. The event marked the first time a total solar eclipse has been visible from mainland Europe since August 11, 1999, and produced what astronomers described as a rare “sunset eclipse” over Spain, where the sun sat low on the western horizon at the moment of totality. For tens of millions of Americans in
Gene-modified pancreatic islet cells transplanted into a patient with long-standing type 1 diabetes have survived and continued producing insulin for more than 14 months without any immunosuppressive drugs, according to peer-reviewed data published on July 13, 2026, in The New England Journal of Medicine. The follow-on publication, authored by clinicians at Uppsala University Hospital in
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are investigating a multistate infant botulism outbreak linked to Nara Organics Whole Milk Organic Powdered Infant Formula, which was sold at Target stores nationwide. Three infants in California, Washington, and Pennsylvania were hospitalized, and Nara Organics issued a voluntary recall of
A team of researchers at Stanford Medicine has identified a single protein that, when blocked, reverses age-related cartilage loss in joints and prevents osteoarthritis from developing after injury. The discovery, published in the journal Science, could fundamentally change how arthritis is treated and may one day make knee and hip replacements unnecessary for many patients.
The generation gap. It’s a phrase tossed around like a worn frisbee, but what does it really mean? Why do Baby Boomers and Gen Z seem to speak different languages (even if they’re technically texting each other)? This article dives into the generational divide, exploring the stereotypes, the social shifts that shaped these age groups,
Moving your body regularly is one of the ways to protect your long-term health. It is not just about aesthetics or fitting into a certain clothing size. Staying active directly influences your longevity and your daily quality of life. Whether it is a brisk walk, a session at the gym, or playing with your family,
USA Baseball announced a 36-player roster on June 21, 2026, for the 12U National Team Training Camp set to begin June 22 in Cary, North
As the 2026 FIFA World Cup looms, many are wondering what’s next for Cristiano Ronaldo, one of the most iconic footballers in history. With the
In professional tennis, setbacks are a given. Whether it’s a tough defeat or a debilitating injury, overcoming these challenges can be one of the most
The sports tech industry is experiencing a rapid evolution, fueled by startups that are transforming how athletes train, perform, and recover. Companies like Dfyne, Coros,
Emergency dispatch centers across the United States are deploying artificial intelligence systems that move beyond answering calls to predicting where emergencies will occur before they
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is calling on the United States to establish a federally overseen standards body that would test frontier artificial intelligence models
NTT DATA and Hyster-Yale Materials Handling announced on July 7 that they have deployed a physical AI system directly into the assembly workflow at Hyster-Yale’s
NASA opened its checkbook this week for what the agency is calling the foundation of a permanent American presence on the Moon. At a Tuesday
Delta Air Lines handles more than 100,000 bags on a busy day at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the world’s busiest airport by passenger volume. Three-quarters
The AI industry’s talent war reached a new inflection point on Tuesday. Andrej Karpathy, one of the most prominent researchers in artificial intelligence and a
In a category defined by extremes, few names command the kind of reverence that Koenigsegg does. The Swedish manufacturer, founded in 1994 by Christian von
NVIDIA and Corning Incorporated announced a multiyear commercial and technology partnership on Wednesday, May 6, 2026, aimed at significantly expanding U.S.-based manufacturing of the advanced