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, a deal that would mark the company’s largest known acquisition and arrive just months before an anticipated public offering expected later this year. Key Takeaways
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 after recalling jalapeno-containing products linked to a multistate salmonella outbreak on August 9 while still managing the fallout from a cyclospora outbreak that has sickened
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
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 second homes, but the city immediately filed a motion to appeal, a procedural step that stays the lower court order and allows the surcharge’s implementation
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 growth. The unemployment rate ticked down to 4.1%, but only because hundreds of thousands of people stopped looking for work altogether. Key Takeaways The U.S.
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 ticked down to 4.1%, but the drop came alongside a shrinking labor force rather than a hiring surge. Key Takeaways
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 been inspected, tested, cleaned, and disinfected in compliance with the NYC Administrative Code. The law, Senate Bill S08472-A, introduces faster remediation timelines, 24-hour notification requirements
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 year-over-year, according to Colliers’ latest monthly market report. Year-to-date leasing volume has now reached 26.66 million square feet, putting the borough on pace for its
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 happen. The shift from reactive to anticipatory operations is being driven by a convergence of factors: a staffing crisis that has left one in four
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 in the country to the desk of Governor Mikie Sherrill. Assembly Bill 4015 cleared the Assembly 73-5 and the Senate 36-4, establishing an Age-Appropriate Design
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 residence, physical location, and employer headquarters. A software developer living in Florida while working for a New York company faces different liabilities than a consultant
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. Manufacturing reshoring barriers have stopped the wave of factory relocations cold, leaving many firms stuck in overseas supply chains they once hoped to abandon. Policy
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 at 12:01 a.m. on July 24, 2026, imposing duties of 10 to 12.5 percent on products from virtually every significant American trading partner. The action,
The House of Representatives voted 220-205 on Tuesday to pass a continuing resolution that would fund federal agencies at existing levels through December 4, a move designed to prevent a third government shutdown ahead of the November midterm elections. The measure now heads to the Senate, where its future is
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration proposed on April 30, 2026, to permanently exclude semaglutide, tirzepatide, and liraglutide from the list of bulk drug substances that large-scale compounding facilities are legally permitted to use, finding no clinical need for outsourcing facilities to compound these drugs now that brand-name versions are
The White House has served as the residence and workplace of every United States president since John Adams moved into the still-unfinished building in November 1800. What stands at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue today is the product of more than 230 years of construction, destruction, rebuilding, and reinvention — a structure
The Great Fire of 1835 was a devastating event that forever altered the landscape of New York City. In just one night, a significant portion of Manhattan’s commercial district was reduced to ashes, leaving the city in shock. But from the ashes rose a new and improved New York, shaped
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 for national security risks before public release. The proposal, published July 14 in a Substack essay titled “A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning
The National Weather Service issued an extreme heat warning effective 10 a.m. Tuesday for much of Los Angeles County, with temperatures expected to reach as high as 110 degrees during the peak of the event on Wednesday and Thursday. The warning remains in place through 8 p.m. Thursday and covers
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
U.S. initial jobless claims dropped to 215,000 for the week ending July 4, the Department of Labor reported Thursday, falling below the 220,000 forecast by FactSet analysts and extending a months-long pattern of historically low layoff activity. The figure declined by 2,000 from the prior week’s revised 217,000, but the