Amazon and Microsoft are spending $400 billion on AI—and investors are low on patience
The horse race between Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud computing businesses has gone through various phases over its nearly two-decade history,...
McKinsey: Global households got $40 trillion richer in 2025 as the paper wealth economy swelled to $1.8 quadrillion
Global households added a record $40 trillion in wealth in 2025, pushing total household net worth to $570 trillion—a 7.3%...
AI and the ‘skinny hamburger, fat bun’ problem — why the future of work needs to look more like a pizza
George Leimer recognized it immediately. On a recent call with the Yahoo Finance product chief, I pulled up a slide...
Kospi index and U.S. stock futures jump as new Hormuz talks send oil prices plunging amid Iran war pause while Wall Street awaits Fed meeting
Investors were bullish on Sunday evening as the U.S. and Iran continued to halt their attacks on each other, providing...
Conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer admits she was ‘bamboozled’ by Russian propaganda and calls podcasters’ misinformation a national security threat
Laura Loomer became infamous for spreading conspiracy theories online. Now, as she travels across Ukraine to see the damage inflicted...
U.S. appeals court upholds block on Trump’s order to create a federal list of eligible voters and limit mail-in ballots only to people on that list
A federal appeals court has upheld a ruling that in nearly half of U.S. states halted President Donald Trump’s executive...
U.S. troops killed recently were moved from the Iran war death toll to ‘overseas operations’ after the Pentagon claimed ‘temporary data disruptions’
The four American troops killed during renewed fighting between the U.S. and Iran in recent weeks are no longer listed...
China’s Moonshot, Z.AI, and DeepSeek are challenging U.S. AI labs—and beating them on cost
It was, perhaps, the worst-kept secret in the AI community. In mid-July, online sleuths who obsessively track the internet for...
Big Tech earnings slam into a market in revolt over AI spending
For years, US technology giants had a tacit agreement with investors: The companies could spend lavishly on artificial intelligence, and...
Traders are getting a new tool to wager on the biggest U.S. stocks
Investors will soon have another way to bet on the hottest stocks from Nvidia Corp. to SpaceX, without trading a...
James Cameron tried to warn us: ‘Skynet Day’ is now shorthand for OpenAI’s agent going rogue and hacking into a startup
To be fair, James Cameron did warn us. Long before OpenAI broke out of its test corral and hacked into...
Ukraine’s attack on an Iranian ship in the Caspian Sea could signal a new battlefront as U.S. seeks to form ‘a ring of economic and military pressure’
The U.S. and Iran have paused their daily attacks on each other, but the war is not on hold as...
Romania scrambles F-16 jets to shoot down a suspected Russian ‘Shahed type’ drone, marking the fourth recent violation of NATO airspace
Romania shot down a suspected Russian drone after it crossed into its airspace on Sunday — the third such incursion...
The U.S. and Iran pause attacks on each other for a second straight day while Tehran continues talks with Oman over Hormuz
The United States paused its attacks on Iran for a second straight day Sunday and Tehran said it had done...
A deal is being negotiated that centers around having Iran run vessel transit through the Strait of Hormuz with fewer restrictions on ships
The U.S. military has paused its airstrikes on Iranafter nearly two weeks of intensifying bombing, while diplomatic effortshave pushed forward...
