Messenger leader Richard Beckman exits news site amid layoffs
The president of embattled news startup the Messenger said Tuesday he is leaving the company as it begins a fresh wave of layoffs. Richard Beckman,...
Anti-aging guru Bryan Johnson picks fight with Elon Musk
Millionaire biohacker Bryan Johnson — the middle-aged tech mogul who used his son as a blood boy in a bid to reverse aging — took...
ChatGPT declined to make Muslim joke despite mocking Jews, Christians
OpenAI has come under fire after its popular generative AI tool ChatGPT spit out jokes about Jews and Christians — while resisting to offer up...
Apple stock downgraded by Barclays over iPhone sales slowdown
Apple started the new year on a sour note Tuesday after analysts at Barclays cut the company’s stock rating over concerns about softening sales demand...
New York’s minimum-wage bump goes into effect — here’s how much Big Apple workers will be making
New York’s minimum-wage workers had more than just a new year to celebrate on Monday — as the ball drop ushered in a series of...
Chinese EV giant BYD posts 62% jump in 2023 vehicle sales
China’s BYD Co, the world’s biggest seller of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrids, sold about 3.02 million vehicles in 2023, an increase of...
ExxonMobil hands over operations at West Qurna 1 oilfield to PetroChina
U.S. energy giant ExxonMobil Corp has formally exited the West Qurna 1 oilfield in southern Iraq and handed over its operations to PetroChina as lead...
Why 2024 will be good — and possibly great — for investors
Happy New Year! It should be. After 2023’s 26.6% return, 2024 holds more in store. Fortunately, few are lampshade-on-head gleeful. Most investors remain skeptically timid, fretting about...
Gazing at new year’s ball
There’s a general feeling among Wall Street’s top players that 2024 is going to be a really insane year — far eclipsing 2023 in terms...
Toyota subsidiary shuts down production after decades of safety test ‘irregularities’
A Japanese car manufacturer has temporarily shut down production after admitting to decades of fraudulent safety test results. “We recognize the extreme gravity of these...