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By Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — Craft breweries offer more than local beer. They provide a “third place” for community members and are oftentimes helmed by the very neighbor who handcrafted those brews. But even these most homegrown of American businesses aren’t insulated from policies that aim to shore up US industry and penalize other

By John Liu, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), the world’s largest producer of batteries for electric vehicles and a supplier for Tesla, has applied for a listing in Hong Kong, setting sights on one of the city’s largest stock offerings in years. The battery giant expects to raise at least

By Hadas Gold, CNN (CNN) — The Associated Press said the White House barred its reporter from Tuesday’s Oval Office executive order signing because of the AP style guidance on using the name Gulf of Mexico versus Gulf of America. The AP said in a statement it was informed Tuesday that if the news agency

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — The website that was selling Kanye West’s T-shirts embossed with swastikas has been deactivated by Shopify Tuesday. A Shopify spokesperson said in a comment to CNN that the “merchant did not engage in authentic commerce practices and violated our terms so we removed them.” Shopify is the

By Bryan Mena, CNN Washington (CNN) — America’s central bank is in no rush to slash interest rates any time soon, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told lawmakers Tuesday. Powell also faced a barrage of questions about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, tariffs and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. The dismantling of the CFPB

By David Goldman, CNN (CNN) — The battle for the future of AI just got extremely expensive and deeply personal. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spoke out against rival Elon Musk a day after rejecting a potentially seismic deal that could shape the future of artificial intelligence. He told the Elon Musk-led group of investors that

By Olesya Dmitracova, CNN London (CNN) — The United States believes that overzealous rulemaking could “kill” the artificial intelligence industry, US Vice President JD Vance said Tuesday, taking Donald Trump’s fight against curbs on AI development to a global stage. “We believe that excessive regulation of the AI sector could kill a transformative industry just

By Matt Egan, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022 with the hopes of turning it into “the everything app” that will let users zap money to each other and where they could eventually conduct their “entire financial world.” Days after Musk attended President Donald Trump’s inauguration this year, Twitter, now known as

By Rosa de Acosta, CNN (CNN) — US trade policies are under the microscope after President Donald Trump enacted tariffs on top trading partner China and teased more, broader tariffs in the coming days. With Narendra Modi, prime minister of India, expected at the White House on Thursday, CNN takes a look at the trade

By Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — Kayla Kataska began shopping for her first home last month — and she’s already had to adjust her expectations. Although Kataska and her husband recently moved from Southern California to the relatively more affordable city of Lake Mills, Wisconsin, they’ve realized their dream home may come with a heftier

By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — American buyers beware: President Donald Trump’s desire to get even on countries by matching tariffs they have on American goods could come at a steep cost. In Trump’s view, it’s unfair for other countries to charge American imports higher tariffs than what America, in turn, charges those

By John Liu and Hassan Tayir, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD has added an advanced driver-assistance system for most of its models at no additional cost, catapulting its shares to a record high. Chinese customers can now experience the carmaker’s proprietary “God’s Eye” driver-assistance system in models that cost as

By John Liu, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — DeepSeek’s advances have roiled global stock markets and AI players. Now, its influence is spreading quickly at home, with some of China’s biggest tech companies, many of which had been developing their own chatbots, racing to incorporate the open-source model into their own services. In early February