In the blogs: Hoisting the FIFA trophy

Mitsubishi officially became one of the largest natural gas producers in the U.S. on Wednesday, following a $7.5 billion deal that positions the Japanese giant to benefit from the surge in gas exports—especially to Japan—as well as from the AI data center boom that increasingly thirsts for more gas-fired power. Mitsubishi closed on its largest…

Rivian’s stock falls 18% as Wall Street frets about the EV maker’s cash troubles.

When the FIFA delegation flew into Kansas City to evaluate its World Cup bid, local organizers left nothing to chance. They mapped the delegation’s routes to avoid traffic, stationed volunteers at the airport, and pulled roughly two dozen children from Kansas City’s Guadalupe Centers out of school to play a scrimmage outside the downtown Loews…

Are you ready to join the AI leaders? AI is everywhere. But ROI isn’t. PwC’s new AI performance study reveals that a small set of top-performing companies–the AI leaders–are already translating AI into real ROI.

The share price of Oracle (ORCL +2.83%) has plunged more than 60% from its 52-week high, and the stock currently trades at $136. This reflects investor concerns around the heavy capital spending to support the company’s data center build-out, but it’s difficult to overlook the level of demand in Oracle’s cloud business. Cloud revenue growth…

Jonathan Korbecki was relaxing at home on the Thornapple River one rainy February night when the fire marshal knocked on his door, warning the nearby Labarge Dam may fail and send a wall of water his way. Hundreds of yards of trucked-in sand prevented disaster that 2018 night at the high-hazard dam, where a failure…