Clive Davis, a Harvard-educated lawyer, became a music industry titan by balancing progressive counterculture artists with traditional easy listening acts. His career, marked by signings like Janis Joplin, Whitney Houston, and Bruce Springsteen, demonstrated an uncanny ear for hits and a knack for strategic risk-taking, even after significant career setbacks.
SpaceX's anticipated IPO is poised to accelerate and reshape the IPO plans of China's commercial space companies, as the US firm leads in reusable rocket technology, a key strategic battleground between the two nations.
Gas prices have reached a four-year high while jet fuel costs have doubled, prompting NPR to interview industry executives and energy experts about the widespread economic impact on American consumers.
Chinese autonomous trucking companies Pony.ai and Inceptio say recent advances in large language models like Claude and DeepSeek have zero impact on self-driving vehicle deployment timelines. Pony.ai CEO James Peng stated the world's best linguistics expert doesn't make a good driver, emphasizing that language processing and driving use completely different skills. Inceptio maintains its mid-2028 commercialization target, expecting to accumulate 5 billion kilometers of driving data in China by late 2028.
