timef 08/04/2025

President Trump is using an “Art of the Deal” approach to get trading partners to hand over cash to lower their tariffs.

A mysterious epidemic has wiped out billions of sea stars in recent years. A new study finally identifies the bacterium responsible.

Lyft and Baidu plan to start service early next year, joining Uber and Momenta in using electric cars from China, which are the least expensive even with tariffs.

Tesla has awarded its chief executive a “first step payment worth roughly $29 billion to replace a plan blocked by a Delaware judge..

The “interim” package announced on Monday was intended to help retain Elon Musk, whose previous pay plan was invalidated by a judge. The car maker’s chief has hinted that he needed a larger stake in the company.

Joby Aviation, which is developing electric aircraft, will acquire the passenger business of Blade, a New York helicopter operator, for $125 million.

The frozen treat was inescapable a decade ago, then seemed to vanish. But one C.E.O., with help from the YouTuber Danny Duncan, is firing up the fro-yo time machine.

Ty Haney, the “queen of athleisure,” has returned to Outdoor Voices. But the world of leggings has evolved.

Brandon Riegg pushed the streaming service to invest in live shows and sports, transforming Netflix into something more like a traditional TV network.

Some dropped out of M.I.T., Georgetown and Stanford. Others decided not to go to college. They all say they could not afford to wait to build their own artificial intelligence start-ups.

Take this quiz to test how fluent you are in the lingo of today’s tech industry.

The city is the tech industry’s hub for artificial intelligence, 30 miles north of the home of companies like Meta and Google.

In a major shift, Google, OpenAI, Meta and venture capitalists — many of whom had once forsworn involvement in war — have embraced the military industrial complex.

It’s the shut up and grind era, tech workers said, as Apple, Google, Meta and other giants age into large bureaucracies.

The Rationalists, a community focused on the risks of artificial intelligence, regularly gather with tech figures and other like-minded people in a complex that covers much of a city block.

Goodbye to the age of consumer websites and mobile apps. Artificial intelligence has ushered in an era of what insiders in the nation’s innovation capital call “hard tech.”

Once a cog in the Malaysian economy, the solar industry profited from Chinese investment. Now it’s becoming a case study of what happens when the United States closes its markets.

About 3,200 workers who build Boeing fighter jets are poised to walk off the job after failing to reach an agreement on wages and retirement benefits.

The tariffs are a substantial new source of revenue for the federal government. The budget may start to depend on it.

Eight producers, led by Saudi Arabia, will continue boosting production despite forecasts that supply will soon exceed demand.