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His state Democratic Party is still divided but Michigan’s El Sayed gets it, he says: ‘losing is hard’
El-Sayed, who would be the first Muslim senator, has denounced antisemitism while fiercely criticizing Israel for its military operations in Gaza.
Dolly Parton loved her Tennessee county so much that her foundation cut its dropout rate to 6%
“If you and your buddy made it through high school, The Dollywood Foundation would give money to those high school graduates."
Nvidia CFO says about half of its data center business comes from customers beyond hyperscalers
Other customer segments are growing faster than the cloud giants that once dominated Nvidia's sales.
Meta will be happy with its $18bn US settlement – but the costs of child online safety will keep rising for big tech | Chris Stokel-Walker
This week’s settlement without liability was pragmatic, but it doesn’t change the inevitability of further lawsuits around the world Not many people would count paying $18bn they …
Bernie Sanders has a fix for ‘Social Security’s solvency for generations to come’: make the rich pay
“We’ve been at this six years, eight years. It’s incredible how long I’ve been at it,” outgoing Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy said.
RFK told Congress he didn’t go to Samoa in 2019 to study measles vaccines — so why does his old letter mention it eight times?
The discrepancy could prompt congressional action, but legal experts consider that unlikely under the Republican-led Congress
Extreme weather has cost California farmers over $800 million this year
Legacy farming practices depend on predictable weather patterns, but today's extreme weather requires effective, real-time interventions.
UK airports operator hit by cyber-attack and customer data accessed
Company that runs Manchester, Stansted and East Midlands airports says passenger safety is unaffectedBusiness live – latest updatesThree UK airports have been hit by a “cybersecur…
You don’t have to agree with AOC’s politics to support the public conversation she started for American women
Two fertility doctors say AOC has sparked a conversation women need to have much earlier about their reproductive futures.
Current price of oil as of August 27, 2026
When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why.
David Tisch has always been a collector. His firm’s biggest prize is a $1 billion return on Cursor
How BoxGroup and David Tisch hit it big with a once-unlikely bet.
Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, reports
The AI chip giant is in advanced talks to acquire the open-source AI hub, a move that would help to cement its grip on the open-source AI ecosystem.
Wilbur Ross led trade talks with Canada in Trump’s first term—he says it’s more difficult now because Canadians simply don’t like the U.S. as much
"The Canadians have adopted a very negative attitude toward the U.S. in general, and we can argue, is that justified? Is it not? It doesn't matter."
Youth unemployment in UK falls below 1 million
Number of Neets is 30,000 higher than a year ago but figures boost efforts to reverse rise in economic inactivity The number of young people not in education, employment or traini…
If MPs want to take on Nigel Farage over his dodgy finances, they need to clean up their own act | Frances Ryan
It’s hard to beat back charges that MPs are ‘all the same’ when they have accepted £400k in freebies this year – £100k up on last yearHow has your summer been? Done anything nice?…
Meta’s $18 billion settlement won’t be enough to escape its trust problem
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Nvidia stock up 7.63% overnight after blockbuster earnings call: ‘I think the whole market was like, ‘Whoa,’ analyst says
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Firm fined for hounding elderly people with nuisance calls claiming to stop … nuisance calls
Elderly Aids Ltd, which sells call-blocking devices, made 758,053 cold calls between May 2024 and February 2025A company that made its money promising to protect elderly people fr…
There are a record 3,795 billionaires in the world right now—and just like Jeff Bezos, their favorite investments are sports and philanthropy
Billionaires from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to businessman Robert Kraft are spending their fortunes buying sports teams and funding charitable causes.
Political powerbroker George Norcross is giving $100 million to the hospital where he was born—which will now carry his name
The New Jersey Democratic kingmaker's gift to Cooper University Health Care is the system's largest ever.
City firms race to prepare for FCA crackdown on bullying and harassment
Rules will require hedge funds, insurers and pension firms to report all non-financial wrongdoing The City’s largest hedge funds, insurers and pension funds are racing to prepare …
SpaceX says it’s building its largest spaceport yet, committing $100 billion for a Louisiana site—adding to its list of billion-dollar expansion plans
Louisiana is getting a taste of Musk’s big ideas as they get a part of the CEO’s billions-of-dollar-plans to bring humanity to space.
Google DeepMind is losing its grip on elite AI talent, new data shows
New data shared exclusively with Fortune shows the lab’s share of top research and engineering hires in Europe has fallen sharply as OpenAI, Anthropic, and a new generation of riv…
Without local languages, ‘AI is essentially useless’: Hong Kong’s Votee AI is taking on English and Mandarin’s AI dominance with a Cantonese model
Votee is one of a growing number of companies that are trying to tackle AI’s neglect of "low-resource" languages.