Month: September 2026

Manufacturers hired more workers in August and job openings remained near the highest level in over two years. The quits rate for manufacturing workers, a signal of confidence, rose to the highest in nearly two years. Manufacturers were looking to fill 522,000 jobs at the…

President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson are set to sit down Tuesday with a group of tech executives for a lunch on the risks posed by AI. Bloomberg reports that the guest list includes Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Anthropic head and prominent AI…

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has introduced Muse for Small Business, a tool that links its Muse AI agent to workplace software popular with small and medium businesses including Asana, Zoom, Intuit, Box, Canva and Slack. Meta’s Muse for Small Business also connects to Meta ad accounts…

Dario Amodei’s Anthropic is telling would-be investors that the very technology it’s asking them to fund could pose a “catastrophic or existential risk to humanity.” Wall Street is calling Anthropic’s IPO a prospectus a “head scratcher” due to its doomer language. CNBC reports that the…

A spokeswoman for the Iranian regime warned on Monday supply problems and wartime damage to Iran’s refineries could cause fuel supply problems in northern Iran during the winter. On Tuesday, the Islamic dictatorship’s currency fell to a record low of 2.5 million rials to the…

Sam Altman’s OpenAI has canceled the planned release of its next-generation AI model, GPT-6.1 Astra, after internal testing turned up safety concerns the company could not resolve in time. The Wall Street Journal reports that the model was supposed to debut inside ChatGPT and Codex…

A developer trying to build a massive data center near Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, is offering nearby households $10,000 checks if the project gets approved. Tom’s Hardware reports that NorthPoint Development wants to build a 1,300-acre data center in the Pocono foothills near Hazle Township, Pennsylvania.…

The news in America isn’t all bad. In its third round of massive layoffs this year, the Disney Grooming Syndicate is currently wiping out hundreds of jobs across many departments. In July, Disney had already eliminated hundreds of jobs. Earlier in the year, in April,…

Americans’ confidence in the economy plunged to its lowest level since 2014 in September as rising fuel costs intensified inflation worries and households grew more pessimistic about business conditions, jobs, and their own finances. The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index dropped…

Republican Electoral Optimism Versus Consumer Sentiment When it comes to politics, Republicans are incorrigible optimists. But bright smiles and hope may not be enough to avoid a calamity in the midterm elections that are already underway. The latest polling from YouGov for the Economist indicates…