As top artificial intelligence labs call for a slowdown in the development of the technology, Microsoft released a code of conduct for how it plans to clamp down on its own AI models.

“At Microsoft AI, we begin with a simple premise: people matter more than AI,” the company said in a Monday blog post.

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman told...Read more

A push by the cryptocurrency industry to pass a monumental piece of federal legislation has run into a small, but loud, foe: an army of rural community banks.

Randy Dorn, who leads My Kind of Bank in the small northwest Minnesota town of Battle Lake, is among them and said the legislation as written will create unfair competition for banks like...Read more

For Mark Carney, walking away from trade talks with U.S. President Donald Trump was politically popular. Now Canada’s leader has to contend with a more difficult economic reality.

The new 50% tariffs on $20 billion of Canadian goods will hammer many small- and medium-sized businesses, including family firms, that up to this point have been ...Read more

Summit Brewing Company’s lender has begun foreclosure action against the brewery.

BMO Bank has requested the appointment of a general receiver over the St. Paul, Minnesota, business and its assets.

According to Ramsey County Court documents, Summit took out loans that totaled more than $8 million in 2024 as the craft brewing bubble began to ...Read more

Los Angeles renters are looking for a way out, while few outsiders are looking for a way in.

According to a recent Zillow report, L.A. residents are the most likely to be checking out rentals in Las Vegas. They also make up the largest out-of-town demographic window shopping for rentals in Phoenix, Salt Lake City and San Diego.

For L.A. ...Read more

NORTH MANKATO, MINN. — Shantelle Colum, a 33-year-old artist, loved supporting small local businesses, especially Seoul Foods, the newly opened Asian grocery store near her.

Then this summer, Colum noticed Seoul Foods’ ads on Facebook weren’t showing real pictures of delicious dumplings or spicy ramen noodles. Instead, she saw computer-...Read more

Qualcomm debuted two new processors this month, its latest step toward integrating intelligence into seemingly everything.

The Q-2390 and IQ-2390, which were unveiled Sept. 1, fall under the company’s Internet of Things, or IoT, business — one of Qualcomm’s fastest-growing sectors — building hardware and software that make things like ...Read more

Boeing has made a second contract offer to its white-collar engineering and technicians union, hoping again to avoid a costly strike after union members rejected the company’s first offer in August.

The new offer comes just days after Boeing and the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace, or SPEEA, returned to the ...Read more

Leaders of the world’s biggest artificial intelligence platforms said it’s time to slow the development pace of their most advanced — and most lucrative — models, citing escalating risks of the technology.

Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei issued a lengthy blog post Saturday saying his company would implement new safety...Read more

Leaders of the world’s biggest artificial intelligence platforms said it’s time to slow the development pace of their most advanced — and most lucrative — models, citing escalating risks of the technology.

Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei issued a lengthy blog post Saturday saying his company would implement new safety...Read more

Leaders of the world’s biggest artificial intelligence platforms said it’s time to slow the development pace of their most advanced — and most lucrative — models, citing escalating risks of the technology.

Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei issued a lengthy blog post Saturday saying his company would implement new safety...Read more

Stellantis NV said it has a tentative deal to sell its shuttered Brampton Assembly Plant in Canada to defense manufacturer Roshel — a development that quickly drew criticism from the Unifor autoworkers union that has urged the company to reopen and invest in the facility.

Unifor said in a Sept. 11 statement that it was at an impasse in ...Read more

Kalshi Inc. is filing for regulatory approval to offer the first single-stock perpetual futures in the U.S. and is looking to expand the contracts in commodities to include agriculture, said Tarek Mansour, the company’s co-founder.

The move represents one of the most ambitious attempts by a new breed of trading platforms to challenge the ...Read more

Paramount Skydance Corp. and a group of state attorneys general challenging its $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. were ordered to find dates to meet in late October to negotiate a possible settlement to the state’s lawsuit, according to a brief court order on Friday afternoon.

The exact dates have yet to be set, but the two...Read more

The federal budget deficit hit $1.97 trillion for the first 11 months of the fiscal year, one of the highest such figures on record and leaving the debt burden heading within a few years to levels unseen in U.S. history.

For the 11 months through August, the deficit edged down 5% from the same period of 2025, after accounting for calendar-year ...Read more

In late August, Kalshi announced brand partnerships with the San Diego Padres and four other Major League Baseball clubs. The company will serve as the prediction market partner for the teams, with collaborations said to include in-stadium signage alongside social media and fan activations.

Founded in 2018, Kalshi is a financial exchange, ...Read more

Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh faces intense pressure to raise interest rates at next week’s policy meeting after a highly anticipated inflation report showed U.S. consumer prices marched higher last month.

Underlying inflation rose more than expected in August, as the core consumer price index, which excludes food and energy costs, ...Read more

California regulators certified a union representing Uber and Lyft drivers, marking a milestone in a years-long fight by gig workers in the state.

The California Gig Workers Union will give drivers a seat at the table to negotiate pay, working conditions and benefits, union organizers said. California is the third state to allow ride-hailing ...Read more