Oprah’s Latest Book Club Pick

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Here are the biggest headlines from last week. Oprah Winfrey Names Maria Semple’s Go Gentle as Her Latest […]


Oracle cutting thousands in latest layoff round as AI spending booms

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A trader works as a screen shows the logo and trading information for Oracle on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., March 9, 2026. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Software maker Oracle has started telling employees that it’s conducting a round of layoffs, two people familiar with the […]


Uber ex-CEO Kalanick rebrands latest venture Atoms, move into robotics

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Travis Kalanick, chief executive officer of City Storage Systems, during the Future Investment Initiative Institute Priority conference in Miami, Florida, Feb. 21, 2025. Zak Bennett | Bloomberg | Getty Images Uber founder and ex-CEO Travis Kalanick has renamed his latest venture as Atoms and said on Friday that he’s expanding beyond food and into mining […]


Wall Street executives say Morgan Stanley’s latest layoffs caused by AI: sources

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Morgan Stanley’s surprise round of layoffs this past week was the result of “shifting business and location priorities,” and “individual job performance” issues here and abroad, according to the firm’s flacks. But insiders close to the Wall Street giant say the real culprit can be summed up in two letters: “A” and “I.” No doubt, […]


Futuristic flying EV maker is latest jobs bloodbath to hit California — as it lays off 80% of staff

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Hyundai has slashed 80% of staff from its futuristic flying EV company in California — in yet another blow for business in the Golden State. Supernal, which makes vertical take-off prototypes, revealed last week it was axing 296 jobs at plants in Orange County and Fremont and at a test site in Mojave. The $1.7 […]


IBM is the latest AI casualty. Shares are tanking 13% on Anthropic programming language threat

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International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Monday, Dec. 8, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images International Business Machines stock is getting slammed Monday, becoming the latest perceived victim of rapidly developing AI technology, after Anthropic said its Claude […]


Amazon’s latest round of sweeping layoffs hit hundreds in New York

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Amazon’s latest round of brutal layoffs included several hundred employees in New York, The Post has learned. Some 135 corporate Amazon employees who worked at 1140 Broadway received pink slips in January, according to a state Department of Labor filing this week.  Another 165 Amazon workers in New York were axed, with the government records […]


Capital One buys startup Brex for $5.15 billion in firm’s latest deal

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Brex co-founders Pedro Franceschi and Henrique Dubugras. Brex Capital One said Thursday that it was acquiring payments startup Brex for $5.15 billion, the latest splashy deal undertaken by the bank’s CEO, Richard Fairbank. The firm, which disclosed the deal in its fourth-quarter earnings statement, said the deal is made up of 50% cash and 50% […]


Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang calls AI titan’s latest chips ‘gigantic step up in performance’

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Monday that the company’s next generation of chips is in “full production,” saying they can deliver five times the artificial-intelligence computing of the company’s previous chips when serving up chatbots and other AI apps. In a speech at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the leader of the world’s most valuable […]


HP to slash up to 6,000 jobs — latest tech company to pivot to AI

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HP said Tuesday it expects to cut between 4,000 and 6,000 jobs globally by fiscal 2028 as part of a plan to streamline operations and adopt artificial intelligence to speed up product development, improve customer satisfaction and boost productivity. Shares of the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company fell more than 5% in extended trading. HP’s teams focused […]