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Investing legend Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s chief lieutenant at Berkshire Hathaway, has died at 99, Berkshire Hathaway announced on Tuesday. Munger “peacefully died this morning at a California hospital,” the release said, adding: “Berkshire...

Mark Zuckerberg vetoed a proposal at Meta Platforms Inc. to ban filters that simulate the effects of plastic surgery, despite concerns that the technology could harm girls’ mental health, according to a lawsuit...

Battery giants are starting to put their money on new sodium-based technology, a sign that there could be yet another shakeup in the industry that’s crucial for the energy transition. Sodium — found in rock...

Elon Musk played a big role in persuading Ilya Sutskever to join OpenAI as chief scientist in 2015. Now the Tesla CEO wants to know what he saw there that scared him so...

Organized labor ranks among Elon Musk’s least favorite things, right up alongside Wall Street short sellers and the mainstream media. The world’s wealthiest man built Tesla into the industry’s dominant automaker despite what he...

Poppa once took me to a deli for dinner. I was a boy of about 10. We went to the cash register to pay, only for him to find he lacked exact change. “I’ll...

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — A vehicle exploded at a checkpoint on the American side of a U.S.-Canada bridge in Niagara Falls Wednesday, leaving two people dead and prompting the closing of four border...

Geoffrey Holt was unassuming as the caretaker of a mobile home park in Hinsdale, New Hampshire, where he lived a simple, but curious life. Residents would see Holt around town in threadbare clothes —...