 |  | | December’s inflation report offered mixed news for consumers. While core inflation cooled slightly and headline CPI met expectations, grocery prices continued to climb across most categories, keeping day-to-day costs elevated. The result: inflation is easing on paper, but still very real at the checkout line. | | | |
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| More From The Newsroom | A “no hire, no fire” economy.
December’s payroll growth showed that hiring is narrow, retail is shedding workers, and long-term joblessness is growing — a jobs market that’s still standing, but increasingly doing so on one leg.
| | Meta is going nuclear for AI scale. It signed long-term contracts for more than six gigawatts of output, turning clean baseload power into a strategic moat and making “compute” look like an energy business in a hoodie.
| | CES put AI on everything — and showed the seams.
Among robots freezing mid-demo, AI assistants “helping,” and products such as a $4,000 AI oven, CES made one thing clear: AI is everywhere, but it’s not there yet.
| The future arrived at CES wearing a novelty hat.
A pet-stalking robot, bone-conduction candy, and an AI “soulmate” screen joined the annual parade of gadgets that feel weird, pricey, and oddly irresistible.
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