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Big Tech isn’t the only big spender in the AI race. Loading audio narration… Spending on new power plants and transmission lines has reached record highs as utilities in the US try to meet the electricity demands of AI while modernizing the country’s aging electric grid. By 2030, investor-owned utilities are on track to spend $1.4 trillion on capital expenditures, according to a new report from PowerLines, a consumer education nonprofit.The projected total spend over the next five years exceeds the $1.3 trillion the industry reported spending over the last decade.Training and using AI require massive amounts of power from…

Aaron Solomon and his wife briefly considered purchasing their first home in 2022, when the national homebuying frenzy was in full swing. But they laughed at the prices, which struck them as exorbitant for even a modest house. They decided to bide their time, moving from their fourth-story walkup apartment in Brooklyn to a more spacious rental home in Madison, New Jersey, about 45 minutes outside New York City.”We were like, ‘Yeah this is crazy. It’s going to come down at some point,'” says Solomon, a 37-year-old who works in sales. “And it didn’t.”When the couple begrudgingly picked up their…

With the White House in the background, President Donald Trump speaks at a rally on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption toggle caption Jacquelyn Martin/AP WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to throw out the seditious conspiracy convictions of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders who were sentenced to prison terms for leading members of the far-right extremist groups in attacking the U.S. Capitol to keep President Donald Trump in office over five years ago. Trump commuted the prison sentences of several Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders last January in…

Bryan Johnson, a tech entrepreneur and longevity influencer, says founders in “monk mode” risk getting in their own way. Loading audio narration… Speaking to Zak Jason, the executive editor of the Discourse team, during Business Insider’s The Long Play event on Tuesday in San Francisco, Johnson pushed back on the idea that having a sex life is a distraction. The longevity enthusiast said it can actually make founders better at their jobs.”No one wants to write a shitty code base. You want healthy code. And so, what founders don’t realize is, when you’re not taking care of your health, you…

Lisa Greene-Lewis, CPA and TurboTax expert, offers some last minute tips for taxpayers filing their 2025 tax returns ahead of the midnight deadline on Tax Day. The tax filing deadline for 2025 tax returns is here, with taxpayers having until just before midnight on April 15 to file their returns or request an extension. Last-minute tax filers racing against the clock to get their return filed ahead of the IRS deadline will want to be systematic in ensuring they have everything they need to file their return accurately when they get started, according to a tax expert.”Gather all your documents…

As the April 15 tax filing deadline nears, most Americans say they believe they are paying more than their fair share — a sentiment that is strongest among the nation’s top earners, according to recent polling from the Pew Research Center.That belief has become more widespread in recent years, despite new tax cuts for everyone from seniors to tipped workers, Pew found. Many Americans are also getting bigger refunds in 2026, with the typical refund up about 11% compared with a year earlier, IRS data shows. The bigger refunds reflect new tax breaks under the “big, beautiful bill” enacted in 2025.About 68% of…

An abortion-rights protester, left, faces off against an anti-abortion protester in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022. Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/AP hide caption toggle caption Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/AP The Justice Department on Tuesday published a report accusing the Biden administration of unfairly using a federal law meant to protect reproductive health clinics from violence to target Christians who oppose abortion. The report is the first from the agency’s “Weaponization Working Group,” a taskforce created under the current Trump administration to investigate perceived wrongdoing by the Biden administration. It comes as Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche faces pressure from the president to…

A person has a conversation with a humanoid robot from AI Life, on display at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Frederic J. Brown/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Frederic J. Brown/Getty Images An Ohio man has been convicted of cybercrimes, including the publication of AI-generated images depicting abusive sexual activity, in a historic first under the federal 2025 Take It Down Act. But experts warn that prosecuting these cases is increasingly difficult. James Strahler, 37, pleaded guilty to cyberstalking, producing obscene visual representations of child sexual abuse and publication of digital forgeries – crimes that included both…

Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., right, departs the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026. Graeme Sloan | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesJPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said Tuesday that while artificial intelligence tools could eventually help companies defend themselves from cyberattacks, they are first making them more vulnerable.Dimon said that JPMorgan was testing Anthropic’s latest model — the Mythos preview announced by the AI firm last week — as part of its broader effort to reap the benefits of AI while protecting against bad actors wielding the same technology.”AI’s made it…

Nobel economist Paul Krugman sees the Iran war reshaping the energy market in a way that benefits America’s chief geopolitical rival: China. Loading audio narration… Krugman has been bearish on the economic outlook amid the Iran war, highlighting the increased risk of stagflation if the conflict persists. But more recently, he revealed on his Substack that he thinks America’s largest economic rival will benefit significantly from the conflict.”The big geopolitical winner from Trump’s hostility to the energy revolution will be China, which dominates the production of renewable-energy infrastructure,” Krugman wrote. “Furthermore, the China-led energy future will arrive ahead of schedule…