The pandemic loan was for a tire shop. Prosecutors say it helped elect a mayor

Accounting is not a very physical job, but tell that to the KPMG gnomes who just spent weeks lugging around...

Wispr talks its way to a $2 billion valuation. The company says dictation’s only the beginning

Tanay Kothari saw Iron Man when he was 10 years old. It was 2008 and he wasn’t entranced with Tony...

Current price of oil as of August 17, 2026

As of 6 a.m. Eastern Time today, oil sold for $91.53 per barrel (using Brent as the benchmark, which we’ll...

The U.S. government wants allies to pick a side in the AI race

Good morning, It was another tough week to be Phoebe Gates. Bloomberg’s latest investigation found Gates and cofounder Sophia Kianni...

Inside Japan’s climate-adaptation playbook

In today’s CEO Daily: What Japan teaches us about climate change reaction. The big leadership story: Is there more than...

Billionaire founder agrees with Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Jeff Bezos: We will live and work in space—and could be commuting to the moon by 2030

Some of the world’s most powerful tech billionaires think your next job posting could come from another planet. Elon Musk,...

Blanche defends reflecting pool prosecutor who angered Trump

US Attorney General Todd Blanche defended Jeanine Pirro for dismissing a federal vandalism case in a decision that angered President...

U.S. to trim military exercises with South Korea after Trump says Seoul declined to help on Iran while the North is ‘unthreatening and respectful’

President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon on Sunday to scale back planned joint military exercises with South Korea after the...

Skyrocketing beef prices finally have Americans reaching their spending limit

Aaron Kaufman used to meet his lofty daily protein goals — a gram for each pound he weighs — with...

US probe on Mark Walter focused on four intermediaries, WSJ says

US federal investigators probing Mark Walter are focused on four entities that acted as intermediaries for loans issued by the...

BBC asks U.S. court to help get testimony from Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and Don Jr., saying they have ‘personal knowledge’ on defamation claims

The BBC asked a U.S. court for help in getting documents and testimony from members of U.S. President Donald Trump...

Stripe clinches over $7 billion deal to buy AI firm OpenRouter

Stripe Inc. has finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter Inc., a startup that helps companies switch between artificial intelligence models,...

Dimon warns UK’s Healey against raising taxes on banks, FT says

JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Jamie Dimon warned UK Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey in a call last week against...

Dario Amodei admits AI suffers from a crisis of trust, saying people worry companies or governments are ‘cooking up some new way to screw them over’