Small businesses are struggling to keep prices affordable without landing in the red. Plus: AI accessibility, oat farmers, and the Netflix-Warner Bros merger.
Keeping prices affordable can come at a cost for small business owners. Many are trying to find a balance between keeping prices affordable and keeping the lights on.
A group of farmers in northern Iowa and southern Minnesota have started growing more oats. A new mill provides them with hope for the entrance of a new market.
Grocers pay a lower rate than other businesses and they tend to have more recurring customers, making them less likely to implement credit card surcharges.
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Rockwell Automation recently announced the construction of a new factory in Wisconsin, while some other manufacturers are hesitant to build new facilities amid uncertainty.
Christina Guidi of The Aerospace Corporation discusses what it would take to build structures and infrastructure that could help a lunar economy lift off.
From the BBC World Service: European antitrust regulators have launched an investigation into Meta over its rollout of AI features on WhatsApp for European users.
Rohan Grover, a professor of media and AI at American University, believes public discourse around data privacy has waned, despite privacy being a more urgent issue than ever.
A group of states on the East Coast has been operating a cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions for years. But the compact made headlines this fall as some states weighed whether to join the effort.
When analysts want to know how Americans are feeling about the economy, they look to consumer surveys from The Conference Board and the University of Michigan. But they each paint a slightly different picture of people under age 35.
Journalist Evan Ratliff, host of the “Shell Game” podcast, says he launched his own startup with only AI bots as employees. His experience underlined the complicated benefits and limits of artificial intelligence.
Dollar Tree, Dollar General and Five Below will all report quarterly earnings this week, after a year of tariffs, a government shutdown and an increasingly K-shaped economy.
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“The government's been encouraging companies that help provide the public services in space to also develop commercial customers on the side,” said Harvard’s Matt Weinzierl.
Corporate bond spreads have been relatively tight this year, implying that investors aren’t demanding much extra compensation to account for credit risk.
Ken Goldberg, professor of engineering at UC Berkeley and co-founder of the AI robotics company Ambi Robotics, says home chores are that are easy for humans are often hard for robots to master.
As the holiday shopping season kicks into high gear, logistics strategist Weston Labar explains how a wild year in tariff policy has impacted companies servicing U.S. ports.
Zillow is no longer including flood, fire and other climate risk scores on home listings. Research shows that the data is a major factor in whether or not potential buyers will make an offer.
Marketplace's Matt Levin visits a couple in suburban Sacramento who both use an AI-enabled pendant that acts as a personal assistant — and sometimes, a relationship therapist.
