President Donald Trump points his finger as he signs an executive order on AI next to Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, left, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Dec. 11, 2025. Al Drago | Reuters The Trump administration has taken new steps to assert…
Kansas Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt announced a Sedgwick county man has been sentenced to 12 months of probation for insurance fraud. Lance Given, age 64, pleaded no contest and was sentenced on July 8, 2026, in Sedgwick County District Court to two misdemeanor counts of fraudulent insurance acts. Given gave false information about the location…
Middle-market technology investor Eterna Growth Partners has appointed software industry veteran Brett Eddy as AI Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Advisor, strengthening its efforts to deploy artificial intelligence across its portfolio companies as private equity firms increasingly look to AI as a driver of operational value creation. Based in Boston, Eterna said Eddy will work closely…
A breakfast nook is the new must-have kitchen design feature that everyone is talking about! These cozy, inviting corners bring the perfect blend of comfort and style, giving you a special spot that feels connected to the heart of the home without being totally separate. Whether you’re looking to make the most of an unused…
What’s left is an industrial systems competition. This week, Beijing-based Moonshot AI made history with the release of its latest model, Kimi K3. At 2.8 trillion parameters, K3 is the largest open-weight model ever released—and by early accounts, it is not only competitive with America’s best closed systems, but trades blows with Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 on mainstream benchmarks. For…
We study how residential-commercial zoning affects the allocation of urban space. Using property-level data from Taipei and 34 U.S. metropolitan areas, we infer neighborhood-level zoning wedges from the allocation of residents, workers, and floor space. We find substantially greater dispersion in these wedges in U.S. cities than in Taipei, where mixed-use development is pervasive. The…
Global insurers are continuing to increase their exposure to private credit, even as concerns grow over underwriting standards, default rates and valuations within the asset class, according to a report by Bloomberg citing new research from Marsh McLennan. A survey of 123 insurers found that 57% of respondents worldwide expect to increase allocations to private…
A BDU-56 “bomb” is loaded onto an F-15 EX Eagle II aircraft assigned to the Oregon Air National Guard’s 142nd Wing during a training mission at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, May 2026. (U.S. Air Force photo) Boeing F-15EX Eagle II aircraft from Oregon Air National Guard’s 123d Fighter Squadron, 142nd Fighter Wing, based…
One of the foundational rules of color theory is that opposite shades on the color wheel intensify one another. While this bold contrast works beautifully on a canvas, it can easily overwhelm a home interior. Because of this, design purists often warn that yellow and purple ‘should never be seen together’. However, Pamela Shamshiri –…
Customers enter a Taco Bell restaurant on July 14, 2026 in La Cañada Flintridge, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images Taco Bell has removed lettuce linked to a cyclosporiasis outbreak from restaurants, it said Friday. The outbreak has currently affected more than 1,600 people across five states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and…