U.S. futures are falling Friday as technology companies such as Amazon, Intel and Alphabet all tumble lower, pressuring Wall Street. Futures for the S&P 500 dropped 1% on Friday, while those for the Nasdaq declined 2.3%. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average were unchanged. Bitcoin dropped about 3% to $77,695 after a major $6.36…
Data centers require enormous investments: land, buildings, computer equipment and power infrastructure. Yet, once they’re up and running, they tend to employ no more than a few dozen people in occupations such as IT technicians, engineers and security guards. With billions of dollars flowing into new data centers across the United States, communities are asking…
In France, the bill for a riot could soon be paid from a family’s housing aid. Some people in a violent crowd could be made to pay for windows they never broke. France’s Senate approved the measure 229-105 this week, less than two weeks after cost-of-living protests spiraled into the country’s worst unrest in years,…
More than 50% of the nearly 330 spaceflights to low Earth orbit in 2025 were done on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Falcon 9 is much smaller than SpaceX’s flashy Starship rocket, but for the past 16 years it has been a reliable choice for launching satellites to orbit. It has carried payloads ranging from…
Few companies have spent as long warning about the risks of their own product as Anthropic. Its preliminary prospectus, filed Oct. 26, builds on that caution to make its pitch. It opens with a founders’ letter recounting how the company refrained from releasing its most capable model until it built satisfactory safeguards, “forgoing substantial revenue…
About 35 million Americans live below the poverty line. In 2024, that meant a family of four struggling to get by on roughly $32,000 a year. But that figure doesn’t capture the full extent of economic hardship. When we expand the definition to include families earning up to twice the poverty threshold, or about $64,000…
I grew up on a farm near Ashland, Nebraska. My family dealt with plenty of things outside our control, from the weather and crop prices to the costs of seed and fertilizer. Farmers learn to plan around uncertainty. But there’s a difference between not knowing what the weather will bring and not knowing what the…
Fortune’s Morgan Chittum here. Like death and taxes, one thing is inevitable: Wall Street will take every chance it gets to look for cracks—or signs of strength—in the AI return on investment. At least, that’s how it’s been since ChatGPT took off in 2022 and AI became one of the biggest investment themes in recent…
Sushiro brings its affordable, tech-driven conveyor-belt sushi model to Times Square, testing whether Japan’s leading chain can thrive in New York’s costly market.
The New York Yankees suffered a quick playoff exit as they made some notable blunders and errors.