President Trump ragged on several mainstream news outlets, including the Washington Post, New York Times and MS NOW, at a dinner he hosted Tuesday for News Corp. executives, including Rupert Murdoch, a source familiar with the event told Axios.
Why it matters: The dinner, which the source described as cordial, comes amid a prolonged legal battle between the president and the Wall Street Journal.
The U.S. healthcare workforce shortage is already straining access to care, and the Covista Healthcare Workforce Index, the latest in an ongoing series of research by Covista on the healthcare workforce, projects that the shortfall is on track to nearly double by 2040 without action.
Exclusive new data from Indeed Hiring Lab shows that communications and PR job postings in the U.S. are down about 31% since July 2023, compared with a 26% decline in all U.S. job postings.
Why it matters: Comms leaders are building teams while the work itself is changing, forcing new decisions about which roles, skills and levels of experience they actually need.
Tesla and Rivian topped expectations on electric vehicle deliveries over the past three months, an early sign that elevated gas prices may be giving EV demand a lift.
Why it matters: EVs had been down in the dumps for an extended period, but with gas now far above $4 per gallon, some consumers appear to be giving them a second look.
Change.org was founded as a venture-backed organization, before a 2021 restructuring that saw investors like Reid Hoffman and Sam Altman donate their shares to a nonprofit structure.
Now the group tells Axios that it's investing around $100 million of its own money to rebuild its core petitions platform via AI.
Novartis on Friday signed a drug licensing deal with China's Abogen Biosciences that could be worth up to $7.8 billion.
Why it matters: This is the latest example of a Western pharma giant partnering with a Chinese biotech — a trend that could presage China rivaling America as the world's top drugmaker.
A small cadre of elite AI researchers is wielding extraordinary influence inside OpenAI and other leading companies, challenging executives, shaping policy and complicating negotiations with Washington.
Why it matters: As a safety crisis has unfolded across the industry, it's an open question who is doing more to shape the national AI debate — top researchers or the executives they report to.
Wikipedia is starting to feel the effects of the AI-driven shift in how people find information, with page views falling 8% in the latest year, new Wikimedia Foundation CEO Bernadette Meehan told Axios.
Why it matters: Wikipedia is a crucial source of information for AI models, but those same models increasingly allow people to get Wikipedia-derived information without ever visiting the site — potentially threatening the ecosystem that keeps the online encyclopedia running.
