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New fuel efficiency standards for cars are coming soon from the Trump administration
The Trump administration on Monday plans to release new fuel economy standards that would relax regulatory requirements for automakers to control pollution from gasoline-powered cars and light trucks.President Donald Trump said on his Truth Social media account Saturday that the less stringent mileage requirements would “take the waste out of
Airlines say ticket prices could stay high even if jet fuel costs fall. Here’s why
Travelers could be stuck paying high airfares even if oil and jet fuel prices fall, major U.S. airlines and industry analysts say.The price of jet fuel shot up after the Iran war began and retreated sharply in the spring before surging again as the summer went on. Such fluctuations make it harder for airlines to plan ahead and give them a rea
Starbucks store closures: See a list of locations that have shuttered across the country in latest coffeehouse cull
Last week, Starbucks Coffee Company announced it would close around 250 stores in North America. That’s a cull of 1% of its roughly 18,000 locations in the region. However, the coffee giant did not disclose a list of which specific locations would close. But thanks to some media reports and Reddit sleuths, we now have a much clearer idea
Employees’ confidence in their own employers just hit a 10-year low
Employee confidence has hit a 10-year low. According to a new report for September from the Glassdoor Employee Confidence Index, just 42.9% of employees surveyed had a positive six-month outlook for their employer’s business, down from 44.5% last month. The data comes from a Glassdoor survey question that asks employees to rate their co
The $170 billion lesson data center developers keep learning the hard way
Maura Healey, the governor of Massachusetts, recently laid down a new rule on the contentious question of whether to build data centers in her state: “Unless a community says yes to a data center, we are saying no.” Pennsylvania’s governor, Josh Shapiro, took it a step further, requiring developers to “[c]ommit to open, transparent engage
Purpose is your organization’s antidote to AI skepticism
Rightfully, general trust in AI continues to fall. With AI models breaking rules and hacking companies, recent polling from Just Capital captures the broad consumer sentiment well: 78% of daily AI users think development should slow or pause so that AI companies can ensure safety and ethics. At the same time, companies are investing in AI tec
The AI boom’s biggest payoff could be better medicines
The AI boom has rapidly expanded from the digital to the physical. Chips, data centers, cloud infrastructure, and new sources of power are being built at extraordinary speed. But what valuable work will this capacity enable? At the World Economic Forum’s 2026 Annual Meeting in Davos, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang described AI as a five-layer sta
AI’s real potential: Orchestrating the technology around us
Many of America’s defining innovations have been things you could point to: the telephone, television, personal computer, and smartphone. Each expanded what people could do by putting a powerful new capability in their hands. Artificial intelligence is following a different pattern. It is appearing across the technology people already use