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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Regulation

Biden Wants to Tax Private Jets

The Biden administration is pushing hard to put an end to cushy tax breaks companies can accrue from private jets.

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Industrials

Airlines Are Reeling From Boeing’s Frightening Series of Near-Disasters

Southwest and Alaska said that the manufacturer’s uncertain status makes it hard to forecast the year ahead.

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Industrials

Deep-Sea DNA Is Becoming the World’s Buried Treasure

Bioprospecting for genes of new species in the world’s oceans has become complex and extremely lucrative.

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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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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

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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