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U.S. car maker wins 2025 sales race with 2.8 million vehicles sold

Car buying patterns in 2025 have been all over the place as consumers and the industry have adjusted to the automotive tariffs that dominated the conversation this year.
While the U.S. eventually got tariff burdens down to 15% for most of its trade partners, for much of the year, importers were paying 25% on autos and auto parts.
While carmakers made it clear that they would not raise prices in response to the tariffs, the threat of increased prices caused consumers to flock to car dealerships.
Ford used incentives and th

JD Vance responds to rumors about his marriage and wife's missing ring

WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance have found humor in the cottage industry of online speculation that has sprouted up around their marriage.
“I think that we kind of get a kick out of it,” Vance said Thursday in an interview with NBC News when he was asked whether he was frustrated over a recent rash of tabloid-style headlines about the second lady being spotted without her wedding ring.
“With anything in life, you take the good with the bad,” Vance added as he sat in his West Wing office,

Artificial intelligence companies are quickly expanding without the protections experts say are needed.
According to NBC News, the Winter 2025 AI Safety Index reviewed eight companies across 35 indicators and found that these companies are rolling out increasingly powerful systems while leaving gaps in oversight.
The index evaluated areas such as risk-assessment procedures, information sharing processes, governance structures, and safety-research support and documented inconsistent or absent protocols and protections across the industry. The organizations scoring lowest are racing to match o

Bitcoin mining profitability plunged to record lows in late 2025 as the hash rate dropped below $35 per petahash per second, while production costs rose to $44.8 per petahash. This forced miners into payback periods over 1,200 days and drove a major industry shift, with 70% of top mining companies now earning revenue from artificial intelligence infrastructure.
November 2025 marked a turning point for the global Bitcoin mining industry. A confluence of collapsing margins, regulatory pressure, and strategic pivots reshaped the sector's landscape. Here are the five key trends that defined the m

A new study is flipping the script on how we think about renewable energy, and it is revealing a surprising flaw in the way a major industry is funded.
UK researchers Colm O'Shea, Piers Horne, and Mark Maslin found that wind power has delivered more than $132.4 billion in total savings for consumers since 2010. Besides the work wind power has done to clean up the UK's electricity grid, this is also a major win for families and the economy.
Plus, it is a reminder that clean energy is more than just an environmental upgrade.
From 2010 to 2023, wind generation cut costs by $195.2 billion, incl

Eight more suspected swine fever cases as Spain struggles to limit export damage

MADRID, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Eight more wild boar with suspected cases of African swine fever were discovered near Barcelona, La Vanguardia newspaper reported on Sunday, as Spain struggles to limit ‌the damage to a pork export industry worth billions of euros a year.
The newspaper cited sources close ‌to the Catalan agriculture ministry. Two cases have been confirmed, and 12 others have shown signs they may also have the disease but are undergoing tests to confirm this. If confirmed, it would bring the number of

A mild uptick in bitcoin mining in China has prompted calls for Beijing to loosen its restrictions and let the power-hungry industry tap into the country's oversupply of energy, but experts said the likelihood of China ending its mining ban was low.
China's bitcoin mining market share by hash rate rose from 13.75 per cent in the first quarter of 2025 to 14.06 per cent in the current quarter, making it the third largest bitcoin mining country behind the US and Russia, according to Hashrate Index, a data platform operated by US bitcoin mining firm Luxor Technology.
The Hashrate Index did not d

Ukraine's deep-strike drone campaign targeting Russia's oil and gas production facilities has already cost its enemy 10 percent of its refining capacity, according to industry experts -- and Kyiv is committed to stepping things up.
"Ten percent, it's not an astonishing number," says Tatiana Mitrova of Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy. "But it is still something that starts to be felt with the Russian domestic fuel crisis, with reduced oil refined products exports, and general tension inside the Russian oil sector."
Ukraine has invested heavily in new long-distance drone t

HP Inc. (HPQ) is doubling down on artificial intelligence — and betting it will replace thousands of jobs in the process.
"There are many things that today we have to do using people ... that in the future AI will do better and will do faster," CEO Enrique Lores told Yahoo Finance (video above).
It's not just an HP issue, he added, but an "industrywide" shift companies must embrace to stay competitive.
That transformation is reshaping HP. The company on Tuesday unveiled a sweeping AI initiative tied to new restructuring efforts. HP expects to eliminate 4,000 to 6,000 jobs globally and gener

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As colder weather sets in, most Americans are lighting their fireplaces and turning on their electric heaters to stay warm. But there are a handful who have opted for a new, cost-effective way to heat their homes: bitcoin mining rigs.
The computing power required to mine cryptocurrency produces a lot of heat. In total, the industry generates around 100 TWh of heat annually, which is enough to heat a country the size of Finland, according to digital ****** et brokerage firm K33.
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Even by crypto standards, it’s been a rough few weeks.
Investors in digital ****** ets are accustomed to extreme volatility, but a $1 trillion wipeout over the past six weeks has tested even crypto’s diehard believers and alienated many of its newest converts.
Bitcoin, the industry bellwether, has fallen dramatically since early October, when it hit a record high of $126,000. The world’s most popular cryptocurrency dipped below $81,000 on Friday before recovering slightly over the weekend. On Monday, as the broader stock market rallied, bitcoin topped $88,000, rising nearly 2% over a 24-hour

A slew of earnings reports from some of America's biggest retailers this week showed the industry, like consumers visiting their stores, splitting into a series of winners and losers.
Retailers that are leaning into value and low prices reported strong results and were rewarded by investors as a K-shaped economy pushes consumer sentiment to near-record lows. Investors more harshly judged companies that reported flagging sales in their latest quarter.
"Higher-income households will keep spending, but middle- and lower-income shoppers are feeling the squeeze, pushing them toward discounters li

(Reuters) -Bitcoin mining is quietly staging a comeback in China despite being banned four years ago, as individual and corporate miners exploit cheap electricity and a data center boom in some energy-rich provinces, according to miners and industry data.
China had been the world's biggest crypto mining country until Beijing banned all cryptocurrency trading and mining in 2021, citing threats to the country's financial stability and energy conservation.
After having seen its global bitcoin mining market share slump to zero as a result of the ban, China crept back to third place with a 14% sh

The drone economy is taking off, and investors are getting more options to put money into the budding industry.
The recently launched REX Drone exchange-traded fund, for example, has 80% of its portfolio earmarked for companies that generate the bulk of revenues from drones, unmanned aerial vehicles (UVA) and the companies that support the industry’s technologies.
"The drones theme is exciting for a couple of reasons," REX CEO Greg King told FOX Business. "No. 1, the military applications. Ukraine and the Middle East have approved the utility there. And defense budgets are shifting over to a

If the 1980s gave us “Invasion of the Body ***** ers,” is the 2020s turning us into Pod People? It’s official: microplastics are everywhere.
So much so, the pervasive issue of microfiber pollution has evolved from a niche concern into a critical industry-wide challenge, prompting experts to move beyond simple problem identification to debate its preferred nomenclature while the apparel sector grapples with the environmental fallout—and human health implications—of its synthetic, fragmenting products.
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Key Takeaways
Bitcoin plunged to $85,000, its lowest level since April.
Its harshest critics have warned of months of chaos.
Long-term believers remain unfazed.
Bitcoin sank to $85,000 on Friday as sentiment across the crypto industry continued to deteriorate, with some harsh critics warning BTC could be heading into “months of chaos.”

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Schneider Electric seals $2.3 billion in US data centre deals to power AI boom

By Gianluca Lo Nostro
(Reuters) -Schneider Electric said on Wednesday it had signed new deals worth almost $2.3 billion with two U.S. data centre operators, as surging adoption ‌of artificial intelligence boosts infrastructure demand.
At an industry event in Las Vegas, the French industrial group ‌announced a $1.9 billion partnership with privately held tech firm Switch, covering power modules and cooling systems.
The second agreement, valued at $373 million and involving uninterruptible power supplies and swi

Middle-class shoppers are pulling back, sending alarms through the retail industry

Home Depot missed forecasts as middle-class shoppers pulled back on big projects.
Milder weather and housing pressures hit demand for home improvement supplies.
One ******* yst warned the consumer backdrop is going from "from soft to softer" heading into winter.
Home Depot just became the latest major retailer to warn that the slowdown in consumer spending is spreading.
The home improvement cut its full-year outlook on Tuesday, reporting weakening sales growth for Q3.

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The scene at the AI party right now is a confusing one. At the same moment the industry's loudest cheerleaders are insisting that the night is still young, some of the more influential partygoers are heading for the exits or have already left.

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Chinese scientists have developed a new method to directly manufacture rubber and plastic from a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide gases, an advance that could reduce industrial reliance on fossil fuels.
Olefins, or organic compounds, derived from petroleum are the building blocks for many polymers, including commonly used plastic and rubber products.
This has directly amplified the carbon footprint of the entire industry.
While alternatives exist – such as the use of a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide gases called syngas from decomposing organic matter – these have been shown

Navy secretary says it's hard to get workers to want to build warships if they get paid what they might make at Buc-ee's or Amazon

US Navy Secretary John Phelan said the service is focused on improving wages for shipbuilders.
Officials, experts, and industry figures have all said that competitive pay is needed to hire and retain skilled workers.
Some new investments in better pay have already started to yield positive results.
US Navy Secretary John Phelan said the shipbuilding industry needs to up its wages if it's going to attract and retain workers.
Phelan, like other Navy officials,

More than 300 industrial agriculture lobbyists have participated at this year’s UN climate talks taking place in the Brazilian Amazon, where the industry is the leading cause of deforestation, a new investigation has found.
The number of lobbyists representing the interests of industrial cattle farming, commodity grains and pesticides is up 14% on last year’s summit in Baku – and larger than the delegation of the world’s 10th largest economy, Canada, which brought 220 delegates to Cop30 in Belém, according to the joint investigation by DeSmog and the Guardian.
One in four of the big agricult

Mike Pompeo becomes adviser to scrutinized Ukraine defense company that's looking to boost missiles

Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has joined the advisory board of Ukraine’s leading defense company, renowned for its long-range drones capable of striking targets deep inside Russia, as a corruption investigation continues.
In an effort to enhance its international reputation, Fire Point is establishing a new factory in Denmark and bringing prominent industry figures on board. It also aims to expand its operations to produce battle-tested cruise missiles, with plans to more than d

A team of researchers may have found a groundbreaking solution to one of fashion's biggest sustainability problems. By turning farm waste into sustainable fabric, it's solving multiple problems with one solution.
Scientists from the University of Copenhagen and the Technical University of Denmark have developed a new method to make textiles from leftover crop materials. Their innovation, described in the Royal Society of Chemistry Sustainability journal, could reshape how our global fashion industry sources materials.
As Happy Eco News reported, traditional fabrics rely on water-hungry cotto

When Nigel Morris tells you he’s worried about the economy, you listen. As industry observers know, Morris co-founded Capital One and pioneered lending to subprime borrowers, building an empire on understanding exactly how much financial stress the average American can handle. Now, as an early investor in Klarna and other buy-now-pay-later companies like Aplazo in Mexico, he’s watching something that makes him deeply uncomfortable.
“To see that people are using [BNPL services] to buy something as basic and fundamental as groceries,” Morris told me on stage at Web Summit in Lisbon this week, “

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From 12 to 18 July, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out five group strikes with air-based high-precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles to hit Ukrainian defence industry enterprises, infrastructure of military airfields, facilities

There really needs to be a criminal negligence case brought against them. If we keep allowing news organizations to just lose money, this kind of thing never stops. If we start putting them in jail we can finally have some integrity returned to the industry.

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