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A pair of construction companies overlooked safety concerns, causing a “completely preventable” outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in New York City that’s killed at least five people and sickened dozens more, according to lawsuits filed Wednesday. The Harlem outbreak has been traced back to July 26 with clusters in Upper Manhattan ZIP codes 10027, 10030, 10035, 10037 and 10039, officials said. …

A sweeping new report from MIT’s Project NANDA, State of AI in Business 2025, has uncovered a dramatic split in the landscape of enterprise artificial intelligence: While official AI adoption in companies stalls, a robust “shadow AI economy” is flourishing under the radar, powered by employees using personal AI tools for day-to-day work. The main thrust of the study is …

“Quiet cracking” is the new workplace phenomenon sweeping offices. As AI looms over jobs and promotions stall, workers’ mental health is quietly fraying. For employers, it has resulted in a staggering $438 billion loss in global productivity in the past year alone. But not all hope is lost. A career expert tells Fortune there are ways for managers and employees …

Workers are down in the dumps about a lack of career growth opportunities and emptying offices as companies slash staffers to make way for AI, all while being put under constant pressure to do more with less.  Scared of speaking out and putting their neck on the line in a dire job climate, staff are silently but massively disengaging with …

Janel Strachan, a 31-year-old New Yorker, loved her Midea air conditioner. Strachan’s techie boyfriend recommended the model, and she soon became a devotee. She liked its convenient, apartment-oriented features. She could easily use an app to turn it on, and its sleek design made it easier for her to see outside. The unit, which first hit the market in 2020, …

Topline The White House has created “dynamic scorecards” to measure U.S. companies’ loyalty and support for President Donald Trump’s agenda, a White House official confirmed to Forbes in an email Friday, revealing the grading system as it continues pressuring large firms to align with its economic and social policies. The scorecards will take into account current and future support for …

The Trump administration has launched their own ‘Manhattan Project’ amid reports one of America’s largest companies is set to be nationalized.  Intel, the largest chip fabricator in the US, has been in talks with Donald Trump over a potential government stake in the company. While the percentage stake the government is asking for has not been made public, nationalizing a company is …

C.E.O.s Want Their Companies to Adopt A.I. But Do They Get It Themselves?  The New York Times Building an AI-first company: What these two business leaders learned from top experts  GeekWire CEOs want their companies to adopt AI. But do they get it themselves?  StartupNews.fyi Source link

Venture capitalist Peter Thiel will give you $200,000. He only asks that you have a great idea and fully commit to it—and the $26 billion tech entrepreneur thinks the only way for young, aspiring entrepreneurs to go all-in is by dropping out of college. Since 2011, the Thiel Fellowship has been equipping young people with money and an influential business …

Some experts say his interventionist approach to the affairs of investor-owned corporations represents something new — at least in American government, though academics say it has echoes in approaches seen in China, post-war Europe and Singapore. “In a U.S. context, it’s unprecedented in modern history,” said Ryan Bourne, a chair at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. While Trump …