Restaurant owners are divided: some are hiring aggressively while others are holding off, hoping the crowds materialize before they commit to new staff.
Plus, the White House's new executive order on AI and Florida's lawsuit against OpenAI. Liz Lopatto, senior reporter at The Verge, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino for this week’s “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”
“When you're scrolling, chances are most of the things you're seeing are actually stealth paid advertisements,” said Lane Brown at New York Magazine. “You have no idea they are ads, but they are.”
Investors having been putting money into private credit since the 2008 financial crisis. With time, the problems with those investments are starting to show.
A slowly growing number of workers in the U.S. work part time, either because they haven’t been able to find full-time jobs, or they’ve had their hours cut.
Maryland Governor Wes Moore explains his administration’s decisions to ban certain kinds of dynamic pricing, integrating AI into government systems, balanced data center policy and more.
Utah is drawing attention for piloting an AI program that promises faster and cheaper prescription renewals, while raising questions about patient safety and liability.
So far, solar geoengineering on a global scale has only been pulled off in science fiction. We asked author Neal Stephenson what it could look like in the real world.
Team USA's gold medal performance at the Milan Cortina Olympics has sent figure-skating tour attendance to record highs, and landed skaters like Ilia Malinin and Alysa Liu major corporate sponsorship deals.
Until the start of the Iran war, most central banks were comfortable holding interest rates steady, or even cutting them. But things are different now.
Oil well operators are required by law to plug wells once they’re finished using them, in order to prevent leaks. But yet, there are likely millions nationwide that haven’t been plugged.
The unconventional, 10,000-square-foot salon operates with roughly 400 independent contractors and serves hundreds of customers a day with round-the-clock service.
Investors are showing interest in a new market that would track and trade the future value of AI computing power, according to Liz Hoffman, business and finance editor at Semafor.
Rufina Gutierrez comes from a long line of Mexican weavers. She and her daughter, who live in southern California, started a business to sell textiles made by their family in Oaxaca for purchase in the U.S.
Production, new orders, imports and exports all increased, according to the latest Purchasing Managers Report from ISM. But according to the Labor Department, the economy has shed 66,000 manufacturing jobs over the past year.
Companies like Starship, which operates close to 80 delivery robots at Oregon State University, are turning college grounds into real-world training grounds for students studying robotics.
In the April jobs report, inflation outstripped wage growth for the first time in three years. When the May jobs report comes out on Friday, we'll find out if that's a trend.
