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The word of the year is ‘slop,’ Merriam-Webster says

“Slop” was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud, but it evolved more generally to mean something of little value.

By Anna Furman and The Associated Press

December 15, 2025

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Health workers move a woman on a stretcher to an ambulance after a shooting incident at Bondi Beach in Sydney on December 14, 2025. Australian police said two people were in custody following reports of multiple gunshots on December 14 at Sydney’s famed Bondi Beach, urging the public to take shelter. (Photo by Saeed KHAN / AFP via Getty Images)

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JetBlue flight near Venezuela avoids midair collision with U.S. Air Force tanker. ‘They passed directly in our flight path’

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Jin Liqun, president of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), during a Bloomberg Television interview on the sidelines of the Bund Summit in Shanghai, China, on Friday, Sept. 6, 2024. The summit runs through Sept. 7. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s first president defends China’s role as ‘responsible stakeholder’ in a less multilateral world

By Nicholas Gordon

WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 08: U.S. President Donald Trump participates in a roundtable discussion with farmers in the Cabinet Room of the White House on December 08, 2025 in Washington, DC. President Trump is expected to announce a $12 billion farm aid package, which includes one-time payments to those affected by the administration’s trade policies. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Trump admits he can’t tell if the GOP will control the House after next year’s elections. ‘I don’t know when all of this money is going to kick in’

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Dr. Fei-Fei Li during a reception for the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, at St James' Palace November 5, 2025 in London, England.

She ran her parents’ dry-cleaning business at 18. Today, the ‘godmother of AI’ is advising world leaders and running a billion-dollar startup

By Eva Roytburg

November 24, 2025

As Google eyes exponential surge in serving capacity, analyst says we’re entering ‘stage two of AI’ where bottlenecks are physical constraints

As Google eyes exponential surge in serving capacity, analyst says we’re entering ‘stage two of AI’ where bottlenecks are physical constraints

By Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

November 23, 2025

AI rivals like OpenAI, Nvidia, and Oracle are collaborating to build ‘Stargate’—but a Yale expert says it violates 135 years of antitrust law

AI rivals like OpenAI, Nvidia, and Oracle are collaborating to build ‘Stargate’—but a Yale expert says it violates 135 years of antitrust law

November 23, 2025

Jensen Huang

Nvidia CEO says AI will actually make everyone a lot busier: ‘Everybody’s jobs will be different’

By Jessica Coacci

November 21, 2025

Jensen Huang looking dejected

The stock market’s ‘fear gauge’ spiked to its highest level since Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs caused a global selloff

November 21, 2025

GLP-1s could end up being ‘the first true longevity drug’ as the world battles a rising obesity crisis

GLP-1s could end up being ‘the first true longevity drug’ as the world battles a rising obesity crisis

By Angelica Ang

November 21, 2025

an Nvidia graphics processing unit illustration

Four accused in black-market scheme to smuggle hundreds of Nvidia GPUs to China—while raking in millions

By Amanda Gerut

November 21, 2025

Intrinsic, an Alphabet company, and Nvidia supplier Foxconn will join forces to deploy AI robots in the latter’s U.S. factories

Intrinsic, an Alphabet company, and Nvidia supplier Foxconn will join forces to deploy AI robots in the latter’s U.S. factories

By Nicholas Gordon

November 20, 2025

Johor is building a 7,300-acre innovation hub on the Singapore border, offering ‘land and scale’ for its neighbor’s ‘capital and speed’

Johor is building a 7,300-acre innovation hub on the Singapore border, offering ‘land and scale’ for its neighbor’s ‘capital and speed’

By Jonathan Gan

November 20, 2025

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum in Washington, DC.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang earnings call namechecked Saudi AI company Humain three times. Here’s why

November 20, 2025

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.

Jensen Huang pours cold water on an AI bubble, and says ‘Nvidia is unlike any other accelerator’ in the boom

By Amanda Gerut

November 20, 2025

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang reacts during a meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Gyeongju on October 31, 2025 in Gyeongju, South Korea.

Nvidia blows past revenue targets and forecasts trillions in AI infrastructure spending by end of decade

By Sharon Goldman

November 19, 2025

Sundar Pichai holds his hands together and smiles

Gemini 3 and Antigravity, explained: Why Google’s latest AI releases are a big deal

November 19, 2025

Photo: Theau Peronnin

Quantum computers could be powerful enough to crack Bitcoin a few years after 2030, CEO of Nvidia’s quantum partner says

November 19, 2025

iPhone Air models on display in an Apple Store

The iPhone Air can’t catch a break: The key designer behind the struggling ultrathin phone just left Apple for an AI startup

November 18, 2025

Prime Minister of Australia Anthony Albanese (L) and U.S. President Donald Trump shake hands after signing a $8.5 billion rare earth minerals agreement during a bilateral meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on October 20, 2025 in Washington, DC.

How America fell behind in the rare-earth race—and how it hopes to come back

By Eva Roytburg

November 18, 2025

Trump, Xi

‘China was playing chess while the rest of us were playing checkers’: Bombshell study finds $200 billion of secret loans to U.S. businesses over 25 years

By Didi Tang, Bernard Condon and The Associated Press

November 18, 2025

Exclusive: Bitfury, known for its Bitcoin mining, launches $1 billion initiative to invest in ethical tech and AI

Exclusive: Bitfury, known for its Bitcoin mining, launches $1 billion initiative to invest in ethical tech and AI

By Carlos Garcia

November 18, 2025

Drone tracking startup SkySafe will pay you crypto to buy and install its sensor

Drone tracking startup SkySafe will pay you crypto to buy and install its sensor

By Jeff John Roberts

November 18, 2025

Tom Ryan

One man is responsible for the McDonald’s Dollar Menu, Pizza Hut’s stuffed crust, and Smashburger. Meet Tom Ryan

November 18, 2025

Nvidia looked invincible. Now it’s showing cracks

Nvidia looked invincible. Now it’s showing cracks

November 18, 2025

Inside billionaire Gabe Newell’s new $500 million superyacht, which has a submarine garage and its own hospital

Inside billionaire Gabe Newell’s new $500 million superyacht, which has a submarine garage and its own hospital

November 17, 2025

Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos is reportedly becoming a CEO again—and it’s for a $6.2 billion AI startup called ‘Project Prometheus’

By Nick Lichtenberg

November 17, 2025

There is ‘zero likelihood’ self-driving cars will replace human drivers in any reasonable timeframe, Lyft’s CEO says

There is ‘zero likelihood’ self-driving cars will replace human drivers in any reasonable timeframe, Lyft’s CEO says

November 17, 2025

Mining equipment sits inside the pit at the Mountain Pass mine, operated by MP Materials, in Mountain Pass, California, U.S. America's top rare earths producer, MP Materials, is expanding its vertical integration of mining and magnets production in the U.S. after years of shipping its output to China because there was no refining capacity available to handle its production. Photographer: Joe Buglewicz/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The U.S. aims to breathe easy amid China’s chokehold on rare earths, but loosening the grip takes years of concerted effort

November 17, 2025

AI-powered cameras mounted on cars and street sweepers are spotting road hazards and deciding what to fix first

AI-powered cameras mounted on cars and street sweepers are spotting road hazards and deciding what to fix first

By Jeff McMurray and The Associated Press

November 15, 2025

Anthropic says it ‘disrupted’ what it calls ‘the first documented case of a large-scale AI cyberattack executed without substantial human intervention’

Anthropic says it ‘disrupted’ what it calls ‘the first documented case of a large-scale AI cyberattack executed without substantial human intervention’

November 14, 2025

Vladimir Putin hides his face

Russia’s first AI-powered robot walked on stage to triumphant music, took a few steps, and then immediately faceplanted

November 13, 2025

CEO Dario Amodei's Anthropic announced a new $50 billion investment on Wednesday as AI companies build out data center infrastructure.

Anthropic says new $50B investment in data centers will create about 800 permanent jobs and 2,400 construction jobs

By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press

November 12, 2025

Sam Altman looking glum

OpenAI says it plans to report stunning annual losses through 2028—and then turn wildly profitable just two years later

November 12, 2025

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