According to the 2024 World Air Quality Report by IQAir, a Swiss air-quality technology company, 74 of the 100 most polluted cities in the world are in India, including three of the top four. (HT) ...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Tuesday he will push for a moratorium on AI data center construction in an effort to “give democracy a chance to catch up” amid concerns about the “unregulated sprint” ...

Salesforce is expanding its Data 360 portfolio, integrating with Informatica to enhance the quality of core business data and enrich MuleSoft with real-time signals. Officials said the collaboration ...

In October, the Fed cut interest rates for the second time this year, although Chair Jerome Powell said a third cut is ‘not a foregone conclusion.’ WSJ’s Nick Timiraos explained the central bank’s ...

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During a press Q&A at Confluent's Current 2025 conference this week in New Orleans, I asked CEO Jay Kreps whether it's useful to think about Confluent as establishing a "system of record for context" ...

In the food and grocery sector, a persistent “data accuracy gap” creates significant daily challenges. This gap shows up as shrinking profit margins due to food waste, increased labor strain from ...

The U.S. military has killed at least 21 people in recent strikes on small boats that it says were smuggling drugs off the coast of Venezuela. President Trump justified the attacks by saying the ...

Merchants are no strangers to rising payment-processing costs. Merchant-processing fees often feel unavoidable, driven by interchange rates and card-network rules that are beyond a merchant’s control.

Employers across the U.S. cut nearly 950,000 jobs this year through September, the largest number of layoffs since 2020, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Job cuts could ...

New data from AI startup Anthropic may stoke Gen Z’s fears about their future careers: Companies are using the technology primarily to automate tasks, potentially jeopardizing the quality and quantity ...

Context switching carries hidden costs that drain productivity and slow business growth. Continuous improvement — not perfection — keeps businesses efficient, resilient and competitive. After decades ...