Short reads on business, money, AI, energy, and science, written for the public and checked against the agencies, journals, and companies that published the facts. Every figure links to where it came from.
Half of American adults now use AI chatbots. Here is what happens between pressing Enter and reading the reply, explained from the builders' own documentation and federal guidance.
A separate file, separate scores, and fewer protections than your personal credit. Here is how business credit actually works, from the bureaus' own documentation.
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Who qualifies, what the two methods are worth, and the 2025 law change that settled the question for W-2 employees. Straight from the IRS.
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Forget "90 percent fail." The Bureau of Labor Statistics has tracked every new employer establishment since 1994, and the real numbers tell a more useful story.
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Half of American adults now use AI chatbots. Here is what happens between pressing Enter and reading the reply, explained from the builders' own documentation and federal guidance.
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Controlled studies now measure what AI does to real work. The gains are real, they are uneven, and in some tasks AI made skilled people worse.
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Green, blue, gray: the molecule is identical every time. The color describes how it was made, and the International Energy Agency's latest numbers show how far the clean kinds still have to go.
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Most science headlines start from a real study. The trouble is in the translation. Six checks, drawn from the researchers and agencies who study the problem, that anyone can run in a minute.
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Americans reported more than $11 billion in cryptocurrency related losses to the FBI in 2025. Here is how the biggest schemes work, and the red flags the FBI, FTC, SEC, and FinCEN agree on.
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A short clip of someone's voice is now enough to fake a call from them. The FBI and FTC have both warned about it. The best defense costs nothing and takes a minute to set up.
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