OpenAI is launching a Codex App, a desktop experience for managing the company’s AI coding tools, as competitive pressure to deploy autonomous AI agents heats up.The desktop app is designed to be more intuitive than earlier versions of Codex, potentially...
Tether, the world’s largest stablecoin issuer, is storing gold in a Cold War-era nuclear bunker in Switzerland. The company is stockpiling more than a ton of the precious metal every week in the Swiss mountains to back its gold-pegged XAUT...
News that a unit of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would be part of the security detail for the U.S. delegation during the upcoming Winter Games has set off concern and confusion in Italy, where people have expressed outrage at the inclusion...
Federal officers shot another person in Minneapolis amid the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, Gov. Tim Walz said Saturday. Walz, a Democrat, said in a social media post that he had been in contact with the White House after the shooting....
Nathan’s Famous, which opened as a 5-cent hot dog stand in Coney Island more than a century ago, has been sold to packaged meat giant Smithfield Foods in a $450 million all-cash deal, the companies announced Wednesday. Smithfield, which has...
As the European Union weighs options to retaliate against President Donald Trump’s latest tariffs, its most potent weapon may be in financial markets. France is already urging the EU to deploy its “anti-coercion instrument,” which can target foreign direct investment...
Miles Brundage, a well-known former policy researcher at OpenAI, is launching an institute dedicated to a simple idea: AI companies shouldn’t be allowed to grade their own homework. Today Brundage formally announced the AI Verification and Evaluation Research Institute (AVERI),...
The U.S. economy is a slightly steadier ship than many had expected heading into 2026, but with the labor market looking increasingly shaky, even one of the most optimistic demographics of the past year is starting to feel down. U.S....
Following the United States’ capture of Nicolás Maduro over the weekend, a report came out claiming that Venezuela had $60 billion stored in Bitcoin—leading to speculation that the U.S. could lay claim to cryptocurrency as well as oil. Despite numerous...
President Donald Trump implored Republicans to turn around their political fortunes ahead of November’s midterm elections, warning that if Democrats retake control of Congress, he would be impeached for a third time. “You got to win the midterms,” Trump said...
