Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

John Steinbach was shocked to receive a $281 electricity bill in January 2026—a huge spike from the roughly $100 he’d paid the previous month. “It’s just so far beyond any bill that I’ve ever had,” he ...

As we drove through southwest Memphis, KeShaun Pearson told me to keep my window down—our destination was best tasted, not viewed. Along the way, we passed an abandoned coal plant to our right, then ...

Shares of Caterpillar, the maker of mining and construction machinery, are up more than 30% since year-end, making it the biggest contributor to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. WSJ’s Jonathan Weil ...

Americans receive fewer paid vacation days than workers in most other industrialized nations. Strategically requesting paid time off around federal holidays can maximize vacation time. Planning ahead ...

Investment in AI has not just outstripped government-led initiatives like the Manhattan Project and the Apollo program. It has also exceeded the capital put into other, more recent, market-driven ...

Counterpoint warns that DDR5 RDIMM costs may surge 100% amid manufacturers’ pivot to AI chips and Nvidia’s memory-intensive AI server platforms, leaving enterprises with limited procurement leverage.

Using data analytics – and, ironically, some artificial intelligence – a team at Cornell University has mapped the environmental impact of AI by state. They published their results in the journal ...

With agentic AI, the database must evolve from a passive ledger to an active reasoning engine that informs, guides, and enables autonomous action. For decades, the database has been the silent partner ...

Three questions to shape your strategy. by Suraj Srinivasan, Robin Seibert and Mohammed Aaser What if you were responsible for analyzing album, fan, social media, and merchandise data for more than a ...

AI companies are regularly announcing large data center deals that are fueling a rally in the utility sector. But the utilities on the frontline of the AI boom are struggling to figure out how much of ...

Data centers are proliferating in Virginia and a blind man in Baltimore is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills. The Maryland city is well over an hour’s drive from the northern ...