Ford just opened a sign-up list for the Fathom, an electric pickup starting under $30,000 — its first EV after scrapping the F-150 Lightning and absorbing nearly $20 billion in charges. No specs, no guaranteed reservation, and public preorders don't open until early 2027, but it's the clearest sign yet of where Ford's rebuilt EV strategy is headed.

Wall Street is having an identity crisis — AI enthusiasm that once lifted all boats is now sinking tech stocks, as investors worry companies are borrowing too much to fund the boom. CoreWeave's extended slide, chipmaker selloffs across Asia and the U.S., and hotter-than-expected inflation are forcing traders to rethink how much AI spending is actually sustainable.

Iambic Therapeutics raised $150M in its IPO and immediately jumped 16%, a rare bright spot as many AI-driven biotech stocks have stumbled since going public. With Nvidia, ARK Invest, and Stanley Druckenmiller's family office all in the mix, the market is paying close attention to whether AI can actually deliver in drug development.

Meet five of the smartest cat breeds, from curious Abyssinians to clever Siamese cats, and discover the playful personalities that make them stand out

Tips have little to do with how good the service is. Diners give more to waiters they like, and in many states that money counts as part of their wage

Nscale is racing toward a $3 billion IPO on the New York Stock Exchange, but its showpiece Norway data center is badly behind schedule — plagued by coolant leaks, safety violations, and a transformer fire. The delays triggered millions in penalties and raise real questions about execution risk, especially with Anthropic termination clauses and $44.6 billion in unfinanced commitments on the table.

With 30% of icemaker-equipped refrigerators breaking down within five years, picking the right brand matters more than most shoppers realize. Consumer Reports combed through 85,000+ owner reviews to find the models that earn top marks for both reliability and satisfaction — from a $695 budget pick to a $6,499 built-in.

Old superstitions are keeping some of the most charming, personality-packed cats from finding homes. From the panther-like Bombay to the fluffy Maine Coon, black cat breeds offer way more variety than most people realize.

Brad Smith pointed out the awkward irony — the White House honored immigrants who built companies worth a quarter of the S&P 500, then suspended Microsoft from the green card program the same day. His warning: America's tech edge was built by foreign-born talent, and cutting off that pipeline isn't just a hiring issue — it's a decades-long risk.

Mike Lyons has only been CEO since September, but he's already overhauling leadership of Truist's $420 billion consumer bank — bringing in three Bank of America and PNC veterans while pushing out a 30-year company executive. The moves signal a clear mandate: discipline, accountability, and a push to become a top-performing bank.

Not all cats are created equal when it comes to curiosity and cleverness — some breeds are wired to solve puzzles, learn your routine, and outsmart you before breakfast. From the relentlessly inquisitive Abyssinian to the talkative, trick-learning Siamese, these five breeds prove that feline intelligence is anything but one-size-fits-all. If you're thinking about adopting, knowing a cat's mental needs can be just as important as its personality.

Barclays analysts warn the clock is ticking: a Tesla-SpaceX merger announcement may need to happen before Tesla's annual meeting in early December to secure shareholder approval. The real prize isn't just financial synergies — it's combining both companies' AI technology into one vertical powerhouse, with Musk potentially controlling ~37% of the merged entity.

Federal prosecutors say the OpenAI engineer accused of hiding a recording device in an executive conference room had booked one-way tickets to Saudi Arabia for himself and two family members — just days after his arrest. The detail, revealed in a newly unsealed filing, was central to prosecutors' argument that he posed a serious flight risk.

PNC Financial posted 11% revenue growth and a big jump in net income, but still came in shy of Wall Street's top-line expectations. Strong loan growth and the FirstBank acquisition are fueling momentum, even as capital markets activity cooled sharply from a record-breaking Q2.

J.B. Hunt hauled in $3.68 billion last quarter, but skyrocketing fuel, insurance, and transportation costs kept profit growth to just 3%. With diesel now topping $6 a gallon — up from $3.65 a year ago — the trucking giant is feeling the squeeze that's straining the entire freight industry.

The $1,999 iPhone Duo is Apple's first foldable, and demand is already crushing supply: shipping dates slipped to late January within half an hour of preorders opening. If you didn't move fast, you're in for a long wait.

After Ukraine reported SpaceX restricted its military-grade satellite service without warning, investors are betting European alternatives like Eutelsat could fill the gap — pushing its stock up 25% in a week. Experts caution the switch isn't simple: new terminals, new infrastructure, and no direct substitute for Starlink's scale.

A hotter-than-expected inflation report pushed Fed rate-hike odds higher, while a brutal AI selloff — fueled partly by a Broadcom CEO's swipe at clueless investors — dragged the Nasdaq down nearly 2%. It's a one-two punch reminding markets that the easy money era isn't fully back yet.

A firmware update left Ray-Ban Meta glasses capturing voice recordings without the 'Hey Meta' trigger — and some users had even disabled that feature. Meta says it's fixed, but hasn't explained what went wrong or how long it lasted.

Goldman and Morgan Stanley topped estimates, Citigroup's profit jumped 40%, yet shares across Wall Street slid anyway. Analysts say investors are less focused on last quarter's wins and more spooked by what's coming: sticky inflation, rising rates, and a $1.2B penalty that dragged Bank of America into the red zone.

Nvidia's CEO says CoreWeave is getting stronger every day — but credit markets just hit a record high for default risk on the AI firm's debt, with traders pricing in 60%+ odds of default within five years. With Nvidia holding 10% of CoreWeave stock and serving as a major supplier, the cozy relationship is raising bigger questions about whether AI infrastructure demand is as real as it looks.

The highest-paid quarterbacks in 2026 aren't necessarily the best players right now — they're the ones whose teams moved first before the next deal reset the market. Dak Prescott's $60M-per-year extension sits at the top, but the real story is how quarterback salaries quietly shape every roster decision across the league.

Wildfires no longer follow a summer calendar — Colorado burned on Dec. 30, Texas set its acreage record in February, and California's worst fires now strike in January. The states carrying the highest risk share expanding suburbs, drier landscapes, and fire seasons that have quietly swallowed the whole year.

Ericsson crushed earnings expectations by a wide margin, sending shares surging 11% in its biggest single-day jump since January. The telecom giant's network sales drove the beat — though its CEO is already flagging flat markets, geopolitical headwinds, and rising component costs as challenges for 2025.

Ukraine says a sudden Starshield speed cap is grounding its interceptor drones and costing civilian lives — but Musk insists the U.S. military, not SpaceX, calls the shots. With the White House and Pentagon staying silent, no one is claiming responsibility for a decision with life-or-death consequences on the battlefield.

Taiwan's courts have blocked two major U.S. platforms, citing laws that ban profiting from election gambling — and raising concerns about potential Chinese financial influence on upcoming local votes. It's the latest sign that prediction markets are running into regulatory walls worldwide.

For decades, the Sight and Sound poll's top spots went almost exclusively to films by men — then 2022 rewrote the canon. Here's a guide to the highest-ranked films by women directors and why critics say they've always belonged at the top.

The American Film Institute asked 1,500 directors, critics, and Hollywood veterans to rank the funniest U.S. films by cultural impact and lasting influence — not ticket sales. The top 10 spans a Marx Brothers war satire, a nuclear apocalypse comedy, and a 1959 cross-dressing farce that still holds up. See if your favorite made the cut.

Skytrax has spent decades tracking which airports actually maintain their standards — and the results reveal that top-rated cleanliness is really a proxy for how well an entire operation runs. From Tokyo Haneda's bidet-standard restrooms to Singapore Changi's real-time feedback panels, the world's cleanest hubs treat hygiene as infrastructure, not housekeeping.

A large Lancet Psychiatry study found that people with schizophrenia and diabetes on GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic had 24% fewer psychiatric hospitalizations — but experts say better healthcare access among GLP-1 users could explain the gap. The findings are intriguing, but clinical trials are needed before these drugs are considered a mental health treatment.

Seven years, six delays, and zero deliveries later, Tesla is hosting a launch event for the Roadster 2.0 on Thursday night. The demo involves SpaceX cold gas thrusters promising a sub-one-second 0-60 — though the car can't legally drive on a street and Musk himself joked it might literally explode.

Ledger is launching a new $899 dual-OS security device called Atom — complete with tamper-detecting sensors — even as it investigates a supply chain attack that may have cost crypto users $90 million. The timing is striking: the very vulnerabilities Atom is designed to prevent are the ones currently unfolding in Ledger's own reseller network.

J.D. Power's hotel satisfaction scores are more useful than the marketing built on top of them — but only if you understand how the system actually works. Brands compete within their own price tier, fees are reshaping scores across the board, and the hotels that win quietly are often more telling than the ones shouting about it.

When it comes to family cruises, the itinerary is almost beside the point — what actually makes or breaks the trip is what's on the ship. From Royal Caribbean's Icon of the Seas water park to Disney's age-segmented kids' clubs, these 10 vessels were purpose-built for families, not just marketed to them.

Fresh off a $1.2 billion regulatory penalty and a stock drop, Bank of America is seeking at least $6 billion in a rare Friday bond sale — its first since April. The move comes as Wall Street peers JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley just pulled in $10 billion combined, and signals BofA is playing catch-up after sitting out the bond market all last quarter.

Gilead is partnering with Vir Biotechnology to develop T-cell engager drugs that could finally crack solid tumors — a frontier where existing treatments have fallen short due to toxicity. Vir's AI platform and masking technology aim to keep the therapy dormant until it reaches the tumor, a key hurdle the field has long struggled to clear.

U.S. retail sales jumped 0.8% in September — but strip out gasoline and motor vehicles, and the gain shrinks to just 0.2%. It's a reminder that headline numbers don't always tell the full story, especially when pump prices are doing the heavy lifting.

Starting Oct. 20, McDonald's Happy Meals will come with Disney Villains-themed Boo Buckets featuring Ursula, Maleficent, Scar, Jafar, and Cruella De Vil. It's the first time an outside franchise has appeared on the buckets in the promotion's nearly 40-year history — and supplies are limited.

Blue Origin wants to produce up to 150 New Glenn upper stages a year and launch multiple times a week by 2030 — a bold push to compete with SpaceX for a growing slice of the commercial and government launch market. The expansion comes even as the company recovers from a launchpad explosion and closes its first outside funding round.

Time Out's annual ranking skips the monuments and luxury hotels — the streets that make the list are the ones where cheap eats, independent shops, and street art coexist without a tourism board pulling the strings. From Marseille's mural-covered Cours Julien to Barcelona's pintxos-packed Carrer de Blai, these blocks reveal what their cities are quietly becoming.

No shuttle buses, no industrial ports — river ships dock right in the heart of historic towns, and that changes everything. From the Danube's Christmas markets to the Mekong's floating villages, 2026's best river cruises offer a smarter, more immersive way to travel. Here's how to pick the right one.

Charles Schwab posted record Q3 revenue of $7.2 billion, beat analyst expectations, and pulled in a record $190 billion in new client assets — yet shares still fell 2.4% premarket. It's the second straight quarter where blockbuster numbers weren't enough to impress Wall Street.

Rocket Lab has pushed the debut of its Neutron reusable rocket to 2027, citing production challenges with carbon composite components. It's the latest in a string of delays for a rocket originally set to launch in late 2025 — a reminder that scaling up in the space industry rarely goes to plan.

After a 10-year wait, Chick-fil-A is finally expanding its legendary sauce lineup — and it's bringing the heat. The Spicy Chick-fil-A Sauce hits menus nationwide on Nov. 16 as a permanent item, no test markets needed.

Time Out's 2026 ranking skips the obvious tourist icons — no Trastevere, no Shibuya — and lands on places like Seoul's late-night pocha alleys and Osaka's converted shipyard art district. The pattern is consistent: neighborhoods that work for residents first and visitors second are winning. This is where urban culture is actually heading.

For the sixth time in Skytrax history, Singapore Airlines topped the rankings — and this time it won for economy class too, not just the front of the plane. Eight of the top 10 airlines come from Asia or the Middle East, a dominance that's reshaping what passengers expect from air travel worldwide.

DHL bumped its 2026 operating profit target to over €7 billion, up from €6.5 billion, as its Express division surges and peak shipping season shapes up to be a big one. Q3 revenue jumped 12% year-over-year to €22.6 billion, with Express profit soaring nearly 50% — a signal that global logistics demand is holding firm.

Jio Platforms, backed by Meta and Google, is set to go public at a valuation of ~$108 billion — a milestone that puts it squarely in the crosshairs of Elon Musk, who accuses Reliance of using its political clout to keep Starlink out of India. The IPO opens October 21, and neither Meta nor Google plans to sell a single share.

Tech and finance feel like the obvious paths to big money, but BLS data tells a different story: doctors, surgeons, and anesthesiologists consistently out-earn nearly every other profession in the country. The catch is a decade-plus of school, licensing, and residency before the first full paycheck arrives.

A new Prudential survey finds 86% of Americans 50+ don't feel free to spend their savings on things they enjoy — even those sitting on half a million dollars or more. Social Security fears, inflation, and guilt are keeping people from actually living in retirement.