Six weeks after Spain and Portugal suffered a massive power outage, authorities in Madrid issued an official report Tuesday saying April’s cascading blackout that left tens of millions disconnected in seconds was caused by technical and planning errors that led to the grid’s failure. Spain’s Ecological Transition Minister Sara Aagesen, who manages the nation’s energy … Read more
Why aren’t people having more kids? What we should actually be asking, according to a new global report, is why so many people feel like they can’t. It’s often assumed that low fertility rates are due to people simply not wanting to have children, or more than one or two, but a report released Tuesday from the United … Read more
From left, former Fox Corp Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch and Larry Ellison, Oracle’s co-founder, chief technology officer and executive chairman, listen as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Feb. 3, 2025. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images News | Getty Images Oracle shares rose … Read more
Consumer prices rose less than expected in May as President Donald Trump‘s tariffs had yet to show significant impact on inflation, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday. The consumer price index, a broad-based measure of goods and services across the sprawling U.S. economy, increased 0.1% for the month, putting the annual inflation rate at … Read more
Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, arrives for a meeting with international investors in IA at the Elysee Palace as part of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit in Paris, France, Feb. 10, 2025. Gonzalo Fuentes | Reuters Meta is forming a new artificial intelligence research lab and bringing on Alexandr Wang, the founder and … Read more