Industries

Industries

Elon Musk’s Boring Company Gets Bite at Major Amtrak Contract

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Elon Musk’s Boring Company has held talks with the Federal Railroad Administration about building a multi-billion dollar Amtrak tunnel.

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Autos

GM Pitches Tariff Contingency Plan to Skeptical Investors

The stakes could hardly be larger for General Motors, which pitched a simple message to investors: We have a plan and the future is bright.

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Healthcare

LinkedIn Cofounder Hoffman’s New AI Oncology Startup Raises $25 Million

Behind the blinding white light of Monday’s trillion–dollar AI wipeout that was a spot of unabashedly good AI news.

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Healthcare

Novo Nordisk May Have Another Blockbuster on its Hands

On Friday, the Danish pharma giant released the stellar results from a phase 1/2 trial for a once-weekly jab in its pipeline.

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Healthcare

UnitedHealth CEO Replaced by Predecessor as Stock Plummets

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UnitedHealth Group has called in its CEO to deal with a Medicare Advantage program that’s crunching margins.

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Healthcare

Trump Prescribes Deep Discounts for Big Pharma

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The Trump administration promised to drastically cut prescription drugs prices in the US, where the industry makes most of its money.

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Industries

KPMG Wants to Open Up its Very Own Law Firm

Rest assured, competitors Deloitte, Ernst & Young, and PricewaterhouseCoopers are likely to follow in KPMG’s tracks.

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Energy

What Does It Mean to Live Under a National Energy Emergency?

President Donald Trump used the first hours of his second term in office Monday to make the emergency declaration.

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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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International Economics

UK-US Strike Trade Deal Affirming ‘Special Relationship’

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The UK and US announced a “historic” trade deal Thursday that does little to reduce Washington’s overall global trade war.

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