FAA says Musk DOGE team will help engineer solutions on airspace reforms

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Personnel from Elon Musk’s government downsizing team DOGE will make additional visits to Federal Aviation Administration facilities as they assist in efforts to modernize U.S. national airspace, the acting head of the agency said on Wednesday. Acting FAA Administrator Chris Rocheleau said the DOGE team — which visited the Air…

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Potential impact of Trump policies stoked inflation concerns at Fed, minutes show

By Howard Schneider and Ann Saphir WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s initial policy proposals raised concern at the Federal Reserve about higher inflation, with firms telling the U.S. central bank they generally expected to raise prices to pass through the cost of import tariffs, policymakers said at a meeting held about a week after Trump’s…

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Former OpenAI technology chief Mira Murati’s AI startup taps top researchers from competitors

(Reuters) – Thinking Machines Lab, an AI startup founded by former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati, has tapped about 30 leading researchers and engineers from competitors such as OpenAI, Meta and Mistral, it said in a blog post on Tuesday. The startup said it would also focus on making artificial intelligence systems and products…

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Tax enforcers, rocket scientists, bank regulators fired as Trump slashes federal workforce

By Pete Schroeder, Nathan Layne and Joey Roulette WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s administration targeted bank regulators, rocket scientists and tax enforcers on Tuesday as it sought to fire thousands more federal employees in an unprecedented assault on the U.S. civil service. With tax-filing season underway, senior officials at the Internal Revenue Service identified 7,500…

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OPEC+ is not considering delay to April oil supply hike, Novak says

MOSCOW (Reuters) – OPEC+ producers are not considering delaying a series of monthly oil supply increases that is scheduled to begin in April, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Monday, Russia’s RIA state news agency reported. Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing delegates, that OPEC+, which groups the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting…

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