A bunch of billionaires are trying to build a city out in a rural area near San Francisco. The project, run by an entity called “California Forever” and dubbed the “East Solano Plan,” aims to construct a 20,000-home community in Solano County that would eventually be home to 50,000 people. CalMatters reports that…Read more...

The Biden Administration is taking the next step to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug under federal law, the Justice Department said in a statement on Thursday. That move prompted cannabis stocks to pop. Read more...

The German government is investigating Mercedes-Benz for union-busting an American unionization drive, the United Auto Workers (UAW) announced Thursday. The union has been campaigning to represent workers at the automaker’s Vance, Alabama plant. Employees at the location are currently voting on the matter, and their…Read more...

It’s been roughly seven weeks since Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed, but nearly two dozen sailors remain on the cargo ship responsible for the disaster. The Dali was finally unstuck on Monday from a giant piece of bridge that fell on the ship’s bow. However, the BBC reports that 21 Indian and Sri Lankan…Read more...

OpenAI launched its Superalignment team almost a year ago with the ultimate goal of controlling hypothetical super-intelligent AI systems and preventing them from turning against humans. Naturally, many people were concerned — why did a team like this need to exist in the first place? Now, something more concerning…Read more...

Hertz gambled and lost when it placed its big EV bet on Tesla a few years ago. It was a chance for the rental car company to shake up the industry, instead the company bought 30,000 Teslas, got scared away by depreciation and expensive repairs and now wants to get rid of them. While all those used Teslas looked to be…Read more...