Fried chicken dining chains were the leading subsector of the fast-food industry in 2025 as traffic to chicken concepts rose 3% in the year ending September 2025, while all concepts dropped 1% compared to the previous year, according to market research firm Circana, as reported by Fast Company…
Bank of America (BAC) just sent a clear message to Washington following renewed talk of capping credit-card interest rates at 10%. CEO Brian Moynihan didn’t mince words, saying that although the idea may sound consumer-friendly, a hard cap will likely compel banks to limit credit, especially for …
In Brief Posted: 4:49 PM PST · January 15, 2026 Image Credits:Drew Angerer/Bloomberg / Getty Images Newsrooms have been experimenting with AI for several years now but, for the most part, those efforts have been just that: experiments. A relatively unknown startup, Symbolic.ai, wants to change that, and it just signed a major deal with…
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Image Credits:Higgsfield 11:28 AM PST · January 15, 2026 Through an extension to its previous $50 million Series A round that closed in September, AI video generation startup Higgsfield has sold another $80 million worth of stock, bringing its total Series A to $130 million. The company says it has now hit a $1.3 billion…
A couple of economic and policy factors are currently influencing real estate industry opinion leaders’ predictions for the near future — especially regarding mortage rate changes. For one, President Donald Trump recently announced that he has instructed the federal government to purchase an …
The debate over when the Federal Reserve will finally start cutting rates just picked up a new and unnerving variable: a criminal investigation into the sitting Fed chair. Federal prosecutors have opened a criminal inquiry into Jerome Powell over the roughly $2.5 billion renovation of the Federal …
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Former OpenAI exec Mira Murati’s startup, Thinking Machines Lab, is saying goodbye to two of its co-founders, both of whom are headed back to OpenAI. Another former OpenAI staffer who went to work for Murati’s startup is also headed back to the company. On social media on Wednesday, Murati announced the departure of Barret Zoph,…
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