WASHINGTON — In a detailed comment on the Federal Motor Carrier Association’s (FMCSA) proposed rulemaking on broker transparency submitted Jan. 21, the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) urged the agency to take action and help protect the livelihood of small carriers and owner-operators. “The deck is stacked against carriers in numerous ways, yet truckers persevere and […]
Life, eternal. getty By now, we’ve all heard of Bryan Johnson, the tech entrepreneur who spends $2 million annually in his quest for immortality. For many of us, such an investment is well out of reach, but it taps into a primal instinct we all share: the desire to cheat death. While most New Year’s […]
FAIRBURY, Neb. (News Channel Nebraska) – This weekend, the Fairbury Veterans of Foreign Wars/American Legion center opened its doors to host a new indoor market, bringing into one place more than a dozen craftspeople, vendors and small business owners from across eastern Nebraska. It’s a way for local vendors to get together in the winter […]
Getty Images Tumbling stock market values and wild claims have accompanied the release of a new AI chatbot by a small Chinese company. What makes it so different? The reason behind this tumult? The “large language model” (LLM) that powers the app has reasoning capabilities that are comparable to US models such as OpenAI’s o1, […]
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Faisal Bashir | Lightrocket | Getty Images China’s DeepSeek became the biggest topic in tech this week, with many in the industry and on Wall Street focused on a single number: $6 million. In DeepSeek’s paper about its newest artificial intelligence model, the company said that its total training costs amounted to $5.576 million, based […]
Small businesses in western North Carolina impacted by Hurricane Helene can now apply for grants under a new $30 million partnership, Gov. Josh Stein announced Friday. Grants of up to $50,000 will be available for businesses who make up to $2.5 million annually. The program is a joint effort between the state and Dogwood Health […]
An AI model from the Chinese start-up sent America’s tech industry into a full-on panic. Illustration by The Atlantic January 30, 2025, 1:13 PM ET This is Atlantic Intelligence, a newsletter in which our writers help you wrap your mind around artificial intelligence and a new machine age. Sign up here. Earlier this week, almost […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Jan. 30, 2025) – The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), the nation’s leading small business advocacy organization, sent letters to Sen. Steve Daines (MT) and Rep. Lloyd Smucker (PA-11) in strong support of their legislation, the Main Street Tax Certainty Act. This legislation would make the 20% Small Business Deduction permanent and […]
An uncomfortable truth for startup founders is that the majority of their peers will fail. Real success stories, the household names that produce multibillion-dollar outcomes, are quite literally exceptional. As a consequence, it’s difficult to build a curriculum around these examples. Strategies that worked in one market, for one business model, may never again be […]