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Credit-reporting complaints surged 3,700% to 5 million per year by 2025. The CFPB says credit-repair clinics and AI tools are abusing the system. Consumer advocates disagree.
Zoox targets 100 robotaxis a week after a design upgrade. The production ramp would push Amazon's autonomous unit toward commercial scale, pending regulatory approvals.
New home sales fell 7% in May to a 580,000 annual rate, missing forecasts. Builders face tight inventory and mortgage rates above 7%.
A magnitude 6.9 earthquake off Japan's Tohoku coast triggered no tsunami warning, no damage. Nuclear plants safe. For equity markets, this is a routine event.
SiteOne's 2026 Investor Day drew analysts from Goldman, Baird, Barclays, and UBS. The event could set the tone for the landscaping supply sector this year.
CEO Farouk expects ADES to recover its Saipem acquisition cost within seven years as Saudi offshore drilling tightens and Aramco spending rises.
A wrong taxiway turn by an Air India aircraft after landing at Ahmedabad airport on Tuesday evening triggered a ground incident that briefly disrupted aircraft ...
Meta is offering some engineers a way out of its AI task force after reassigning 7,000 employees. The internal memo signals a shift in how the company manages AI talent.
Micron Technology crushed Q3 estimates as AI-driven high-bandwidth memory demand surged, sending shares up sharply in after-hours trade. The earnings reinforce the AI demand cycle.
Anthropic named Alibaba in a letter to U.S. officials, alleging the Chinese company used 25,000 fake accounts to copy its AI model through distillation.
Micron Q3 revenue surged 81% to $6.82B, EPS more than doubled, and Q4 guidance beat street estimates by $620M. AI memory demand contracts through 2025, forcing a rating upgrade.
Danaos shares hold above $100; the diversification into bulkers and tankers introduces new risk factors. The container backlog still covers the dividend; the market is pricing uncertainty into the shift.
An analyst who shorted Amprius Technologies (AMPX) on valuation covered most of the position and upgraded to Hold. The move reflects a narrowing gap between price and prospects.
Valence AI raised $5M in seed funding led by Differential Ventures and secured two U.S. patents for real-time emotion detection from live speech using deep learning.
CDC ends hantavirus response on MV Hondius cruise ship. All 18 exposed Americans completed quarantine, none tested positive. Three died. Andes strain's human-to-human transmission raises future cruise risk.
Fast Company named Expert Radiology a 2026 World Changing Ideas winner for PrecisionPlus v3, which annotates findings on imaging and translates clinical language for referring physicians.
Design Therapeutics has two binary events in H2 2025: Phase 1 FA data and FDA discussions on the DM1 program. The stock's ~$150M market cap prices in risk.
SpaceX Starlink's direct-to-cell expansion threatens AT&T's wireless revenue and 5.5% dividend. Satellite bypasses tower costs, pressuring rural margins.
Rutte touted a $600B European defense increase. The meeting tested US-Europe unity on Iran and troop costs. The June summit is the next marker for spending plans.
Elon Musk's net worth fell to $962 billion after SpaceX secondary trades and Tesla stock declines erased the trillionaire milestone reached two weeks ago.
Allison Copeland Donnelly takes over the restaurant division at Al Copeland Investments, bringing decades of hands-on experience and a post-Katrina turnaround background.
Branding expert Walker Smith argues AI will become table stakes. The real moat is pricing power and preference, not the technology itself. INSEAD and Harvard data show AI-native firms' early edge fades fast.
Trovy raises $15M Series A from Left Lane Capital to expand home-equity-powered debt consolidation for 85M US homeowners. The fintech targets a gap in high-interest credit alternatives.
Platformr closes a new round led by Lookout Ventures as partner-driven customer growth jumps 6X. The AWS-focused CloudOps platform plans to accelerate its roadmap for MSPs.
The White House requests $87.6B in supplemental spending for the Iran war, farm aid, and Ebola response. Democrats oppose the request.
Meta is building a prediction market platform with crypto, following Polymarket's $10 billion trading volume. U.S. rules could block its rollout.
Copia Automation, backed by AE Ventures and Squadra Ventures, raises $26M to help OT teams manage and recover industrial code after cyberattacks.
Insurance agencies lose 30-40% of weekly time to manual tasks. Restructuring workflows, not adding AI tools, drives 55% faster quoting and 90% lower error rates.
GitHub's best month ever came after a billing change for Copilot, a senior executive said at an internal meeting. The usage surge may start showing up in Microsoft's cloud revenue by late October.
UK small business owners report paying £150-£300/month for bookkeeping and corporation tax filing, or £400-£600 annually for filing only. Prices vary by transaction volume and location.