HOUSTON — Doris Brown was nearly asleep when a neighbor knocked on her door, telling her to look outside. “There were no lights, nowhere,” said Brown, recalling the power outage that summer night in 2023. “I didn’t even know it.” Brown’s solar panel and battery system was keeping her power on. She’d prepared for a … Read more
Some banks are offering a pause on payments on certain loans, waiving late fees and providing no-interest loans. Source link
OpenAI has acquired yet another company – this time, a startup called Software Applications Inc, known for building an AI-powered user interface for Mac computers. Although OpenAI has acquired several companies over the past few months, the acquisition of Software Applications comes at a time when the company is making its ChatGPT AI bot into … Read more
India plans to send its vast work force abroad to countries with labor shortages, like Germany and Japan. Source link
In a message to employees on Wednesday, Alexandr Wang, Meta’s chief artificial intelligence officer, said the company would be laying off 600 people in its AI division. The cuts, he said, would help Meta build new products faster. “By reducing the size of our team, fewer conversations will be required to make a decision,” Wang … Read more
The president said his move, which again throws relations with one of the United States’ closest trading partners into turmoil, was motivated by an advertisement he deemed fraudulent. Source link
It is early morning, and I am lying by the seashore listening to the chirping birds and the pulse of waves lashing the beach. As my body is tempted to sink into a meditative slumber, I try to remind myself that I’m still in Noida, trying to meditate on my hard apartment floor, with the … Read more
Federal immigration agents were greeted by protests Thursday in the San Francisco Bay Area on their way out to a century-old, government-owned artificial island that houses a U.S. Coast Guard base. U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents began arriving at Coast Guard Island to support federal efforts to track down immigrants in the country illegally. … Read more
Ford said a fire at an aluminum factory will lower profits in the last three months of the year. The company also said it has stopped making an electric version of its popular F-150 pickup. Source link
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is going to Japan and South Korea next week to promote an epic financial windfall — at least $900 billion in investments for U.S. factories, a natural gas pipeline and other projects. Japan and South Korea made those financial commitments in August to try to get Trump to ratchet down … Read more