Category: Finance

A story has been going around about artificial intelligence for the past decade: At some point, AI advances, robots and self-driving cars will throw countless people out of work. The rich folks who control AI companies will get richer. Most other people’s fortunes will decline as their skills lose value and they fail to get […]

PARIS — French artificial intelligence champion Mistral AI has finalized an $830 million (€722 million) debt financing agreement to accelerate its transition from a software developer to a vertically integrated infrastructure provider. The deal, announced Monday, March 30, 2026, marks the company’s first foray into debt markets and provides the capital necessary to challenge the […]

TOKYO — SoftBank Group Corp. has finalized a massive $40 billion unsecured bridge loan to finance a surge in its artificial intelligence portfolio, primarily targeting a substantial stake increase in OpenAI. The deal, executed on March 27, 2026, marks the largest dollar-denominated loan in the conglomerate’s history and underscores Chairman Masayoshi Son’s aggressive pivot toward […]

There’s a well-worn debate in U.S. politics that goes something like this: Would you rather have abundant and affordable energy or a clean, healthy planet where wildlife can flourish? It sounds like an either/or choice, but it doesn’t have to be. Many corporate leaders, including those I’ve worked with, know that wildlife conservation can also […]

The organizers of the estimated 3,000 “No Kings” protests, rallies and other events planned for March 28, 2026, say they expect that the protests will be the largest such mass mobilization in U.S. history. As scholars of peace studies and social movements, we investigate how ordinary people press their governments to change their policies. An […]

U.S. companies stung by President Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs had hoped for relief when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in February 2026 in their favor. But settling on a remedy – namely, rebate checks from the government – may be an even bigger headache. Fresh wrinkles are prompting businesses to take different routes as they […]

Millie Morales believes in hard work. “I feel that as an American citizen, we all have a great opportunity to be able to improve our life,” the 58-year-old woman explained in an interview I conducted with her in 2025. “Are you willing to put in the work, or are you not?” Morales, whose name I […]

Few regions pose as much of an economic conundrum as Pittsburgh. Is the city and region – once the center of American steelmaking – a paragon of postindustrial transformation, or a left-behind region still struggling to move beyond its industrial past? I’m an economist at the University of Pittsburgh and author of the new book […]

Imagine you’re a server at a busy restaurant that requires you to wear a form-fitting, polyester shirt as part of the uniform. When a hot flash hits, you are a sweaty mess. You really wish your employer would let you wear a cotton T-shirt instead. If you live in Philadelphia, relief is on the way. […]

Your back pain gets worse as you sit through a long meeting. Your wrist pain flares when you’re typing furiously to meet a tight deadline. During a busy shift at the grocery store, you feel a migraine coming on. If that sounds familiar, you’ve got plenty of company. About 1 in 4 U.S. adults suffer […]