Environment
MP Materials selects Texas for rare earth magnet manufacturing site
Key Points MP Materials has chosen Northlake, Texas, for its new $1.25 billion rare earth magnet manufacturing campus. The facility, dubbed “10X,” will use rare earth raw materials that have been sourced and processed at MP Materials’ Mountain Pass mine in California. Mountain Pass is the only commercial-scale rare earths mine in the U.S. The […]
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Governments are rushing to hoard critical minerals as the ‘resource nationalism’ era arrives
A wheel loader operator fills a truck with ore at the MP Materials rare earth mine in Mountain Pass, California, U.S. January 30, 2020. Steve Marcus | Reuters A new race to secure critical minerals is unfolding across the global economy. From Washington’s proposed $12 billion Project Vault stockpile to expanding buffers in Asia and […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves after hours: Workday, Cava, Lucid Group and more
Check out the companies making headlines in after-hours trading. Lucid Group — Shares of the electric vehicle maker fell more than 4%. In the fourth quarter, Lucid posted a wider-than-expected loss of $3.62 per share, despite revenue growth that topped estimates. Lucid also recently cut its U.S. workforce by 12%. Workday — Workday shares dropped […]
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Head of Amazon’s AGI lab is leaving the company
Amazon logo on brick office building facade with windows, San Francisco, California, Aug. 29, 2025. Smith Collection | Gado | Archive Photos | Getty Images The head of Amazon’s artificial general intelligence lab is leaving the company less than two years after joining through a so-called acqui-hire deal of his startup Adept. David Luan announced […]
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State of the Union live updates: Trump to talk economy amid rising disapproval ratings
President Donald Trump is hours away from delivering his State of the Union address in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday at 9 P.M. ET. He’ll speak during a time in his presidency where his approval ratings are waning and he is eager to show results on his economic promises. This address comes at a perilous […]
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Google to build data center in Minnesota with new solar, wind power and battery storage
Signage at the Google Midlothian Data Center in Midlothian, Texas, US, on Friday, Nov. 14, 2025. Jonathan Johnson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Alphabet‘s Google will build its first data center in Minnesota and deploy a significant amount of new renewable energy in the state under an agreement with utility Xcel, the companies announced Tuesday. […]
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Amazon to spend $12 billion in Louisiana on AI data centers
An aerial view of an Amazon Web Services Data Center known as US East 1 in Ashburn, Virginia, U.S., October 20, 2025. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters Amazon said Monday it plans to spend $12 billion on new data center campuses in Louisiana and the infrastructure to power artificial intelligence and cloud computing. The campuses will […]
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Google spinout Aalyria valued at $1.3 billion as investors pour into space-based communications
Aalyria CTO and founder Brian Barritt Courtesy Aalyria In 2022, Google spun out a project focused on high-speed communications networks into a startup called Aalyria. Less than four years later, Aalyria is being valued by investors at $1.3 billion in a new funding round, reflecting soaring demand for reliable, speedy telecommunications. Aalyria’s software helps networks […]
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Sam Altman defends AI resource usage: Water concerns ‘fake,’ and ‘humans use energy too’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Friday defended the resource demands of artificial intelligence, calling concerns about data centers’ water use “fake” and comparing the energy used by AI systems to that of humans. Altman was speaking on the sidelines of the India AI Impact summit in an interview with The Indian Express when he was […]
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Trump approves disaster assistance to D.C. to help with sewage spill into Potomac River
A notice alerting of a sewage overflow area is posted along the Potomac River on Feb. 19, 2026, in Cabin John, Maryland. This week District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser declared a public emergency for the sewage spill in the Potomac River, 30 days after a section of a major pipe collapsed, unleashing millions of […]
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