WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is planning to offer an aid package to soybean farmers to help them survive China’s boycott of American beans in response to his new tariffs even as the president says he is still seeking a soybean deal with Beijing. Farmers are worried, however, that time is quickly running out [...]
Semiconductor maker AMD will supply its chips to artificial-intelligence company OpenAI as part of an agreement to team up on building AI infrastructure, the companies announced earlier this week. OpenAI will also get the option to buy as much as a 10 percent stake in AMD, according to a joint statement announcing the deal. It’s [...]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Federal officials in the coming days are set to hold the government’s biggest coal sales in more than a decade, offering 600 million tons from publicly owned reserves next to strip mines in Montana and Wyoming. The sales are a piece of President Donald Trump’s ambitions for companies to dig more [...]
The state Department of Development has announced that more than $40 million worth of motion picture tax credits are now available. The program offers a 30 percent refundable tax credit on cast and crew wages plus other eligible in-state spending, according to state officials. The $40 million in tax credits includes $34 million for film [...]
The value of OpenAI has grown to about $500 billion following the sale of $6.6 billion worth of its shares to a group of investors. Analysts say that OpenAI could now be the world’s most valuable startup, ahead of Elon Musk’s SpaceX and TikTok’s parent company ByteDance, following a secondary stock sale designed to retain [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is cancelling $7.6 billion in grants were expected to support hundreds of clean-energy projects in 16 states. The Energy Department said in a statement last week that 223 projects were terminated after a review determined they did not adequately advance the nation’s energy needs or were not economically viable. [...]
One of the hottest markets in the artificial intelligence industry is selling chatbots that write computer code. Some call it “vibe-coding” because it encourages an AI coding assistant to do the grunt work as human software developers work through big ideas. Others dislike that term, but analysts say there’s no question that those tools are [...]
Gov. Mike DeWine last week signed an executive order to suspend the normal rulemaking process to allow the Ohio Board of Pharmacy to adopt a rule allowing expanded access to tools to prevent drug overdoses. The rule makes test strips and reagent kits that test for the presence of certain drugs legal to distribute in [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is asking nine major universities to commit to President Donald Trump’s political priorities in exchange for more favorable access to federal money. A document sent to the universities encourages them to adopt the White House’s vision for America’s campuses, with commitments to accept the government’s priorities on admissions, women’s [...]