In December, Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, donated $1 million to President-elect Donald J. Trump’s inaugural fund, joining a number of other tech executives who
The Biden administration issued sweeping rules on Monday governing how A.I. chips and models can be shared with foreign countries, in an attempt to set
A devastating toll More of the Los Angeles area is ablaze on Thursday, after a new wildfire in the Hollywood Hills broke out as firefighters
In a striking sign of the Chinese economy’s stagnation, the central bank said on Friday that it had temporarily stopped buying government bonds. The central
The Social Security Administration receives billions in free money each year from an unexpected source: undocumented immigrants. This group paid an estimated $25.7 billion in
China announced on Monday that its trade surplus reached almost $1 trillion last year as its exports swamped the globe, while the country’s own businesses
When the Federal Reserve began lowering interest rates in September, inflation was cooling and the job market was showing some troubling signs of weakness. Three
Sean Karaman, a freshman at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, hadn’t always paid close attention to his credit card spending. But after taking a
Each of the homes burned in the Los Angeles fires is its own individual calamity. Collectively, the losses — whether in the hundreds or, as
The United States ambassador to China, R. Nicholas Burns, said the Biden administration is making a last push to try to persuade China to stop
