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The Trump administration’s new AI policy blueprint seeks to make American technology the standard for artificial intelligence globally by making it easier for U.S. allies to acquire crucial hardware ...
Capital Region private companies are powering ahead—and the numbers speak for themselves.  According to Business Report’s ...
Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport has announced the addition of nonstop flights from Baton Rouge for four LSU games this ...
New home sales in the U.S. remained sluggish in June despite builders offering aggressive incentives to counter high prices and borrowing costs, Bloomberg reports.  Sales ticked up just 0.6% to an ...
The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage eased this week, but offering little relief for prospective homebuyers facing record-high home prices. The long-term rate slipped to 6.74% from 6.75% last ...
Thomas “Tom” Sawyer, who led the Baton Rouge General Hospital system as CEO for 16 years until 1997, died Sunday at the age ...
Creating workspaces built for an aging workforce stands to benefit companies, as the number of workers age 65 and older in the U.S. continues to rise, Fast Company writes.  Most companies are ...
Louisiana collected more than $81 million in severance taxes during the quarter ending June 30, with oil and gas revenues nearly evenly split, The Center Square reports. Since Jan. 1, the state has ...
The number of Americans filing for jobless aid fell for the sixth straight week, hitting the lowest level since mid-April. The Labor Department reported Thursday that jobless claims for the week ...
A hospital specializing in complex breast cancer and reconstructive surgery has opened in Baton Rouge. Construction of the approximately 43,000-square-foot ReCenter Hospital, located on Mourning Dove ...
Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern acknowledged Thursday that they were in merger talks that would create a single U.S railroad with rails stretching service from East to West Coasts. The Associated ...
AI may be hailed as the ultimate productivity tool, but for many small and midsize businesses, that promise has not been delivered, Fast Company writes.  While large companies with dedicated AI teams ...