A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn

A group of industry leaders is planning to warn on Tuesday that the artificial intelligence technology they are building may one day pose an existential threat to humanity and should be considered a societal risk on par with pandemics and nuclear wars. “Mitigating the risk of extinction from A.I. should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale More...

Here’s What’s in the Debt Limit Deal
The full legislative text of Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s agreement in principle with President Biden to suspend the nation’s borrowing limit revealed new and important details about the deal, which House lawmakers More...

Why the Debt Limit Spending Cuts Likely Won’t Shake the Economy
The last time the United States came perilously close to defaulting on its debt, a Democratic president and a Republican speaker of the House cut a deal to raise the nation’s borrowing limit and tightly restrain More...

How Geena Davis Continues to Tackle Gender Bias in Hollywood
“Transforming Spaces” is a series about women driving change in sometimes unexpected places. Geena Davis and her family were returning from dinner in their small Massachusetts town when her great-uncle More...

From Jacksonville, Florida, Salt Life is Coming to a Beach Near You
In the coming years, Mr. Stillwell added, Delta Apparel plans to open as many as 20 new Salt Life stores across the country, in Georgia, Texas, California and other states. A Brand Grows in Florida The store More...

Yellen’s Debt Limit Warnings Went Unheeded, Leaving Her to Face Fallout
In the days after November’s midterm elections, Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen was feeling upbeat about the fact that Democrats had performed better than expected and maintained control of the Senate. But More...

Why Do Almost Half of Americans Leave Paid Time Off on the Table?
Summer vacation season is here. But if you’re like a surprising number of Americans, you’re probably leaving some paid time off on the table. Among workers whose employer offers paid vacation or leave, More...

Billionaires Worth More Than the United States’ Cash Balance
Just how empty is the Treasury cash coffer? For comparison, $38.8 billion is on par with the gross domestic product of Bahrain and Paraguay and lower than the net worth of more than two dozen of the wealthiest More...

Jamie Dimon to Be Deposed as JPMorgan Faces Reckoning for Epstein Ties
Jeffrey Epstein was many things: a sexual predator, a friend to the rich and powerful and, for many years, a lucrative customer of the nation’s largest bank. Now the bank, JPMorgan Chase, faces a reckoning More...

White House and GOP Close In on Deal to Raise Debt Ceiling
Top White House officials and Republican lawmakers were closing in on Thursday on a deal that would raise the debt limit for two years while capping federal spending on everything but the military and veterans More...