Amazon’s $1 Billion Plan to Combat Data Center Backlash Sparks Even More Backlash
On Friday, Amazon pledged to donate more than $1 billion over the next five years to communities surrounding data centers. In a press release, Matt Garman, CEO of Amazon Web Services, said communities will decide how to prioritize funds between…
Security leader David Robinson resigns from OpenAI
David Robinson, head of OpenAI’s security systems team, has resigned from the company. An OpenAI spokesperson told Business Insider on Friday that Robinson left the company last week, marking another moment of upheaval in the company’s…
Cyclospora found on Mexican farm linked to lettuce outbreak, FDA says | US News
The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that its inspectors detected cyclospora on a Mexican farm, responsible for the largest outbreak of foodborne illness from the parasite in U.S. history. FDA inspectors said Friday they found cyclospora in two…
Homeowners are clinging to their sub-4% mortgages for life as mortgage rates have risen above 7%
The real estate market, destroyed by extremely low mortgage rates, will remain so for longer. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. Mortgages with rates below 4% – primarily the product of the Fed’s period of maximum interest rate suppression in…
FDA found cyclospora at Taylor Farms site in Mexico and where lettuce was grown
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday closed its investigation into the largest known outbreak of cyclosporiasis in U.S. history, saying investigators found the parasite in the environment where the lettuce involved was grown in Mexico and where it…
Amazon pledges $1 billion for data center cities, warning US ‘can’t afford to lose’ AI race
Amazon’s cloud computing division announced a new effort Friday to temper opposition to data centers in some U.S. communities, while asserting that the United States “cannot afford to lose” the race for global artificial intelligence…
Shivon Zilis says Elon Musk ‘gave up’ on their relationship
October 2, 2026, 6:15 p.m. ET Elon Musk and his partner Shivon Zilis have decided to call it quits. Zilis, 40, announced the split Oct. 2 in an X post after an X account focused on big tech said Musk was no longer following Zilis, who shares four…
September Jobs Report: Men Lose Ground in the Labor Market
From left, Everette Kerry of Life Alert speaks with Maximilian Kegley-Oyola and Dylan Flowers about job opportunities at the South Florida Mega JobNewsUSA Job Fair at Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, Florida on September 25, 2026. Joe Raedle | Getty Images…
Jim Cramer: Micron’s boom-bust cycle is ‘finally over’
Jim Cramer: Micron’s boom-bust cycle is ‘finally’ over ©Oneinchpunch and Yozayo of Getty Images Pro via Canva Key takeaways Micron reported quarterly revenue of $54.23 billion, beating the $51 billion Wall Street expected, but the stock…
French debt crisis: investors declare themselves “guilty” and factor in growing default risks
Faced with the prospect of a far-right or far-left president, the bond market does not see France reducing its rapidly growing debt anytime soon and has begun pricing in the possibility of a default by the euro zone’s second-largest economy. This…