timef 01/15/2026

This week, Bank of America, Citi, JPMorgan and Wells Fargo released fraught earnings reports as President Trump’s threatened cap on credit card rates loomed large.

Bowing to pressure, the company said it would restrict X users from generating explicit images of real people in jurisdictions where such content is illegal.

Legislation to establish a regulatory framework for digital tokens has been thrown into turmoil — by one of its biggest champions.

The members of Crew-11 — two American, one Russian and one Japanese — splashed down after one became ill, prompting an early return.

Google’s A.I. assistant, Gemini, can create a to-do list based on recent emails, among other new tricks. There are implications for your privacy.

History suggests that the price of oil and a wider distribution of wealth are as important as foreign investment.

Traders in companies with ties to the president’s eldest son can bet on the outcome of events the president affects.

Two Americans and astronauts from Japan and Russia are set to splash down in the Pacific Ocean after a medical issue prompted NASA to move up their return to Earth.

The tariffs will allow President Trump to take a cut of Nvidia’s chip sales to China while putting off a decision about imposing higher taxes on the chip industry.

The Justice Department and whistle-blowers accused the major health insurer of overbilling the government for about $1 billion under the private plans.

The agreement with the start-up Cerebras is the latest in a series intended to expand the A.I. company’s computing power.

President Trump revived a campaign promise to cap interest rates, but it is unclear how he would make that a reality.

Weather, supply, tariffs, labor and changing consumer habits continue to drive up the cost of groceries. Trump falsely claims prices are falling.

The state will examine whether xAI, which owns the social media platform X and created the A.I. chatbot Grok, violated state law.

The bill would allow lawmakers to keep their existing stock and continue to sell it if they provide seven to 14 days of notice. Democrats called it a “gift to insider traders.”

Four astronauts are leaving the outpost about a month earlier than scheduled because a crew member, who was not identified, has an undisclosed medical issue.

Bad weather has postponed attempts to set up camp on the Thwaites Glacier. So researchers got onto the sea ice and met a local.

A new kind of tap-in, tap-out system at gyms has some New Yorkers flustered.

A spokeswoman for Verizon said the carrier was working to resolve the issue.

Bilt, a rewards and payments start-up, has three new credit cards that can help users earn points when they pay their mortgage. You will need to do math.

Systems like OpenAI’s GPT-5 are accelerating research in math, biology and chemistry. But there is a debate over whether it can do that work on its own.

If SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic go public, they will unleash gushers of cash for Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

Scientists prepared a high-quality sequence of the giant mammal’s genome based on a specimen preserved in Siberian permafrost.

This year’s recipient of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement talks about “punk science,” microbial economics and thinking like a mycorrhizal fungus.