Industrials

Enterprise AI

Battlefield AI Grapples With Risk-Tolerance Minefield

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Future battlefields will be shaped by AI weapons that defense firms and Big Tech are vying to build for the military. Guardrails are lagging.

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Industrials

Private Jets Belonging to Celebs and Execs Rack Up Years In Flight Time

Private jets belonging to a group of just 200 celebrities and executives have racked up 11 years’ worth of flight time since 2022.

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Industrials

American Airlines Is Trying to Poach All the Industry’s Pilots

To combat a crippling pilot shortage, PSA Airlines is dangling bonus packages worth $250,000 to lure pilots.

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Industrials

Sugar Shortages Loom as Supply Gets Sticky

Logistical holdups at ports in Brazil combined with poor sugar crops in other major sugar-producing nations is stretching supply of the crop.

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Industrials

Embattled Boeing Shows Surprising Signs of a Turnaround

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It was only last year that 737 felt like the number of scandals Boeing was embroiled in, rather than the name of its narrow-body aircraft.

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Industrials

Climate Change and Regulations Squeeze Alaska’s Salmon Fishers

Salmon fishers in Alaska face a cascade of challenges as state regulators implement a series of restrictions to prevent overfishing.

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Industrials

Elon Musk and the EU are Going to Space Together

The European Space Agency has contracted Elon Musk’s SpaceX to launch navigation satellites next year, The Wall Street Journal reported.

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Industrials

Blue Origin Grounds Commercial Space Station Plans

Blue Origin is expected to back out of plans to build a commercial space station in conjunction with corporate partners.

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International Economics

China Trumpets Trade War Mettle With Strategic Mineral Advantage

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China is a top global producer of 30 of the 50 minerals the US considers critical, and is sources more than half of the US annual supply.

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Industrials

US Finds Funds to Help Fix Lacking Railroad Infrastructure

While many agree US railroads desperately need refurbishing, some question why federal dollars should support a highly privatized industry.

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Industrials

Agriculture Titans Are In a Head-to-Head Battle for America’s Soy Farmers

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Industrials

Space Is No Vacuum for Lawyers

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Industrials

Manufacturing Discontent: Can Tariffs Spur Domestic Reindustrialization?

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As a share of US GDP, the manufacturing sector has decreased from a nearly 25% peak in the 1950s to about 11% today.

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Technology

The State of the Billionaire Space Race

Blue Origin is going slower than SpaceX, but it also nailed a massive rocket launch on the first try. Jeff Bezos is back in the space race.

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Industrials

Saudi Arabia Invests $100 billion in Mining

The focus will be on mining earth metals including lithium, zinc, copper and nickel, all crucial metals for battery-making.

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Industrials

Boeing Reveals Just How Bad a Year it Had

It’s basic Newtonian physics, as Boeing just learned: When the sky falls for a company, so, too, will the bottom line.

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