U.S. Spirits exports reached a record $2.4 billion in 2024 driven in large part by tariff fears.... Read more

The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage fell this week to 6.81%, according to the latest Freddie Mac data released on Thursday. That's up from last week's reading of 6.83%.... Read more

TikTok is rolling out support for ALT text for photo posts to make content more accessible for users with visual and cognitive impairments. The company says creators can now provide descriptive text for photos to help users with screen readers understand the visual content through spoken descriptions. TikTok told TechCrunch... Read more

Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week here. Coming soon: The one-person, billion-dollar startup We’re beginning to see a new kind of lean startup company, enabled in large part by... Read more

Could future AIs be “conscious,” and experience the world similarly to the way humans do? There’s no strong evidence that they will, but Anthropic isn’t ruling out the possibility. On Thursday, the AI lab announced that it has started a research program to investigate — and prepare to navigate —... Read more

Home sales dropped 5.9% last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.02 million units, the National Association of Realtors said on Thursday morning.... Read more

People were swindled out of $16.6 billion by online bad actors in 2024, according to a recently released report from the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center.... Read more

California's GDP now exceeds that of Japan, making it the fourth largest economy in the world, according to the International Monetary Fund.... Read more

Spotify announced on Thursday that it expanded the availability of its AI Playlist feature to over 40 additional markets, including countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Caribbean.  The AI-powered tool, currently in beta on Android and iOS devices, lets listeners create personalized playlists based on written prompts, such as... Read more

“Things went from really good to not as good,” CBRE chairman and chief executive Bob Sulentic said in an earnings call Thursday.... Read more

ChatGPT can act as a personal stylist and shopping assistant, something far beyond what a Google search offers.... Read more

If vaccination rates don't pick up, says study, measles and other diseases "could become household names again."... Read more

The majority of the school's 443 students were Latino and received special education or health services.... Read more

Corcoran Group founder and "Shark Tank" star Barbara Corcoran says market "uncertainty, hesitation" means "it's a good time to buy" real estate in America.... Read more

OpenAI’s ChatGPT boss said Google would not share its search index information with the company.... Read more