Those of us who get health care insurance from our employers — some 160 million Americans — may be breathing a sigh of relief ...

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Ho-hum! The Federal Reserve’s policy-setting Open Market Committee met for its eighth and final time this year. It decided to ...

Productivity has increased, largely because more jobs are being automated — and AI is expected to speed that transformation.

Everyone is gloomy about America’s jobs market. Investors talk of a “K-shaped” economy, in which growth is buoyed by an exuberant stockmarket and artificial-intelligence investment, while ordinary ...

While demand for AI computing remains high, the economics are deteriorating for Amazon and Microsoft, which now must spend six times more capital to generate the same value as before, according to one ...

Sales of Nvidia’s most advanced chips “are off the charts”, said Jensen Huang on November 19th, while reporting his firm’s highest-ever quarterly revenues. The boss of the world’s most valuable ...

Linda Nordling is a freelance journalist in Cape Town, South Africa. When Calvin Santiago Lee decided to look beyond his home in the United States for a PhD position, finances played a decisive part. ...

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