These Are the Top 10 Franchises in Every Industry in 2026
Looking to buy one of the best franchises? This list makes your search easy.
The Download: AI-generated lawsuits and virtual power plants for data centers
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How courts are coping with a flood of AI-generated lawsuits Most days in her chambers, Judge Maritza Braswell, a federal magistrate judge in Colorado, sifts through stacks of documents written by…
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Walmart, Target and Dollar General Are Pouring Billions of Dollars Into One Surprising Aspect of Their Businesses
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Your Employees Use This Hidden ‘Flexible Work’ Trend — And It’s Costing Your Business More Than You Realize
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Former Tesla exec and Heron Power CEO Drew Baglino has founded a heat pump startup
Sadi Thermal Machines is Drew Baglino’s second startup since leaving Tesla in 2024.
Musk mulled handing OpenAI to his children, Altman testifies
OpenAI’s CEO recalls a “particularly hair-raising” conversation with the SpaceX founder.
Anthropic warns investors against secondary platforms offering access to its shares
The company named Open Doors Partners, Unicorns Exchange, Pachamama Capital, Lionheart Ventures, Hiive, Forge Global, Sydecar and Upmarket as companies that are not authorized to provide access to buy or sell its shares.
Potholes cost cities millions. This company is using AI and trucks to fix them.
Fleet management company Samsara has developed an AI model to detect different kinds of potholes and gauge how fast they’re deteriorating.
Report: Google and SpaceX in talks to put data centers into orbit
Google and SpaceX are in talks to build data centers in orbit, pitching space as the future home for AI compute, even as costs today remain far higher than on the ground.