New York has made history as the first state to issue a moratorium on data centers.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has repeatedly suggested that AI adoption would not drive widespread layoffs at the bank. But on Tuesday, he disclosed that JPMorgan had made significant cuts to a number of departments due to AI.

Microsoft’s total emissions increased 25% in 2025, according to its latest sustainability report, adding to the trend of tech companies polluting more heavily as they ramp up AI data centers.

In mid-June, the Norwegian government announced that primary school students would essentially stop using generative AI starting this fall. A few months earlier, in Syracuse, New York, the law firm Barclay Damon adopted an internal rule: For their first three years, junior lawyers must produce their work without AI, and only then check it against the tool.

If you want to understand why so many of our industrial giants are in trouble, you could do worse than study what is happening right now in Wolfsburg, Germany. Per The Wall Street Journal, Volkswagen’s leadership is reportedly weighing the most drastic restructuring in the company’s 89-year history: eliminating up to 100,000 jobs (roughly one in six global employees), winding down production at four German plants, and slashing investment by 15%.

Total social media bans for young people are popping up around the world, but a new policy out of the U.K. is taking a different approach for older teenagers.

There will be no turning back the clock if the House has its way.The House passed a bill Tuesday that would make daylight saving time permanent. Proponents, including the White House, argued the change would provide more daylight during the times that Americans are most active. The vote was 308-117.Daylight saving time is that period between spring and fall when clocks in most parts of the United States are set one hour ahead of standard time.

On July 10, after allegations of sexual assault and mistreatment of women, former nominee Graham Platner formally withdrew from the U.S. Senate race in Maine. To pick a last-minute replacement, Maine Democrats are holding a nominating convention on July 25 in time for a state deadline to put forward a new candidate who will face off against Republican Senator Susan Collins in November. With no time to spare, would-be nominees are retrofitting old logos for the new campaign.

The Federal Communications Commission has given a California startup permission to launch and test a satellite that would use a giant mirror to reflect sunlight back to Earth after sunset, despite objections from astronomers, wildlife experts and others who say the plan could disrupt scientific research and interfere with the sleep patterns of living organisms.

Many renters will continue to see more affordable rentals on the market through 2026, though that depends entirely on where you live—and whether a lot of construction is happening nearby.

It’s a familiar rhythm. Just like many employees around the world, they go through a detailed interview process, taking weeks to find the perfect match through vetting and being vetted. Once they accept the offer, there’s a sense of hope and anticipation as they meet their new boss and colleagues.

Cubic zirconia looks like a diamond, but jewelers call it a simulant: an imitation that plays the part at a glance but does not survive close inspection. A lab-grown diamond, by contrast, has the same carbon structure, the same hardness, and cuts glass just as effectively as a mined one. These diamonds, sometimes called synthetic diamonds, aren’t imitations of diamonds; they simply are diamonds—just manufactured, rather than pulled out of the ground.

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You’ve probably noticed: The weather is becoming increasingly unpredictable. And you don’t have to look far to see the effects, considering the massive heat wave now hitting much of the United States and Europe.

Walk onto the cutting floor of almost any garment factory in the world and you’ll see rolls of fabric laid out in stacks. A technician arranges a pattern on the cloth to cut out the building blocks for the garment: sleeves, pockets, bodice.

I used to think burnout was a scheduling problem.If I could just restructure my calendar, protect my mornings, say no to one more meeting—I’d find my way back. I was a VP, then a COO. I knew how to optimize. I was good at it.