The UN’s plastic talks failed to produce a global treaty. Here’s why
Countries negotiating a global treaty to curb plastic pollution failed to reach agreement on Monday, with more than 100 nations wanting to cap production while a handful of oil-producers were prepared...
View ArticleIntel shares rise as Pat Gelsinger unexpectedly exits CEO role
After a largely disappointing year for Intel, the company’s stock has seen a modest jump this morning in the wake of an announcement that CEO Pat Gelsinger is retiring—effective immediately. According...
View ArticleTop UN court to hear landmark climate change case on rising sea levels
The top United Nations court will take up the largest case in its history on Monday, when it opens two weeks of hearings into what countries worldwide are legally required to do to combat climate...
View ArticleEurope’s auto companies plan plant closures and layoffs
A slew of automotive companies have recently announced plant closures and big layoffs in Europe as they struggle with weak demand, high production costs, competition from Chinese rivals, and...
View ArticleCalifornia lawmakers hold a special session to combat Trump’s agenda again
California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers returned to the state Capitol on Monday to begin a special session to protect the state’s progressive policies ahead of another Trump presidency. The...
View Article‘The Mr Beast of Jails’: This influencer is bailing people out of jail for...
An influencer is bailing random people out of jail and putting them on a party bus. Why? For content. In a video posted to his YouTube channel on November 20, creator cduerk bails 10 strangers out of...
View ArticleSMCI stock price surges 34%: ‘No evidence of misconduct,’ but Super Micro...
Shares of Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI) stock surged more than 34% in midday trading on Monday after a special committee found “no evidence of misconduct” and the company announced a new...
View ArticleHow Amazon influencer Sydney Nicole Gifford’s lawsuit could change the industry
In a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, one TikTok content creator is suing another for copying her “neutral, beige, and cream aesthetic.” After a judge ruled the case should go forward last month, the matter...
View ArticleApple allegedy spied on workers’ personal devices and silenced them
Apple has been accused in a new lawsuit of illegally monitoring its workers’ personal devices and iCloud accounts while also barring them from discussing their pay and working conditions. The...
View ArticleSCOTUS to decide: Should candy-flavored vapes stay on shelves?
On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether to overturn a 2020 ban on flavored reusable e-cigarettes. The case comes after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) blocked more than a...
View ArticleThe internet is freaking out because ChatGPT won’t say the name ‘David Mayer’
ChatGPT users are getting error codes every time they type the name “David Mayer” into the generative AI chatbot, leaving many confounded on who it could be and why the platform isn’t recognizing the...
View ArticleA lawyer breaks down how Trump’s second term threatens immigrants and...
Throughout his presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised to enact the largest deportations of undocumented immigrants in history. He’s also threatened to end birthright citizenship for children of...
View ArticleThese local housing markets are shifting—just look at inventory
Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. The most recent housing inventory readings are continuing to show a shift in some...
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Jaguar’s new EV is as wild as its new logo
Jaguar has finally unveiled the car at the center of its viral campaign: an electric four-door GT concept car named Type 00 (pronounced “Type Zero-Zero”). But the car—shown in bright pink and sky blue...
View ArticleNoam Shazeer is back at Google, and this time he’s aiming for AGI
Noam Shazeer, one of the inventors of the transformer models that caused the current AI boom, is now leading the charge at Google toward artificial general intelligence (that is, AI that’s generally...
View ArticleHow LinkedIn opened the door to AI slop
LinkedIn is covered in unreadable corporate garble. AI could be to blame. A new study by AI detection startup Originality AI reveals just how thoroughly AI-assisted content has invaded LinkedIn’s...
View ArticleCatalogs are smaller this holiday shopping season as brands try to reach...
Honey, they shrunk the catalogs.While retailers hope to go big this holiday season, customers may notice that the printed gift guides arriving in their mailboxes are smaller.Many of the millions of...
View ArticleCyber Week breaks records while in-store foot traffic falters
If there were any doubts over the economy’s strength, this past Cyber Week—the five days ranging from Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday—should put them to rest. That’s because online sales tallied more...
View ArticleVolkswagen strikes across Germany draw nearly 100,000 workers
Almost 100,000 workers joined walkouts at Volkswagen’s German plants on Monday in protest at management plans to cut wages and even close sites at Europe’s biggest carmaker, the IG Metall union said,...
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One of the world’s most boring companies just got one of the year’s most...
While consumer-facing brands pay top dollar for logos that stand out in the marketplace, branding for B2B companies that sell things like cloud computing or cybersecurity tend to be reserved—and...
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