Meta’s launch of Muse marks a significant shift in the company’s artificial intelligence strategy: the technology is moving from answering questions and generating content toward acting independently across the applications that contain users’ most valuable information. The new agent is designed to...

Honda is turning cost reduction into a central part of its attempt to rebuild its automobile business as Chinese manufacturers put pressure on established Japanese automakers across global markets. Internal company documents reviewed in recent reporting indicate that Honda is seeking to cut more...

Shein's long-awaited Hong Kong stock market debut is putting a much lower price on a company that was once valued as one of the world's most spectacular consumer internet growth stories. The online fashion retailer is expected to price its initial public offering at HK$48.56 a share, near the...

Apple’s decision to hold its next major iPhone event on September 9 comes at a strategically important moment for the company. The date follows Apple’s traditional September product cycle, but this year the event carries significance beyond the annual smartphone refresh. It will be the first major...

Nvidia enters its next stage of artificial intelligence growth with an unusually high burden of expectations. The company has become the biggest beneficiary of the global race to build AI infrastructure, but the conditions that produced its extraordinary expansion are now being tested. Its Vera...

Shein’s decision to launch its long-awaited Hong Kong initial public offering at a valuation of up to about $27 billion marks more than a steep reduction in the price investors are willing to place on the fast-fashion company. It signals a fundamental reassessment of the business model that once...

A personalized cancer vaccine developed by Moderna in partnership with Merck has produced positive results in a large late-stage trial for high-risk melanoma, providing further evidence that messenger RNA technology could have applications far beyond infectious diseases. The treatment, called...

Eli Lilly's decision to file six lawsuits against companies accused of selling unauthorized versions of retatrutide represents a sharp escalation in the pharmaceutical industry's effort to control the market for experimental obesity treatments before they reach patients through legitimate channels....

Meta's removal of more than 756,000 suspected underage accounts in Australia is being presented as evidence that the country's world-first social media age restrictions are working. Yet the scale of the removals also highlights a more difficult question: why have so many under-16 users remained...

Airbnb's latest results point to a broader shift taking place across the online travel industry: companies that can combine resilient consumer demand with better technology, broader supply and multiple sources of revenue are proving capable of absorbing shocks that would once have threatened...

A New Mexico court's decision ordering Meta to pay $567 million and make substantial changes to Facebook and Instagram marks a significant escalation in the legal pressure facing the technology company over the treatment of young users. The immediate financial impact is important, but the more...