The Senate is unlikely to act before the end of the year on a House-passed bill that would make daylight saving time permanent, defying President Donald Trump and dashing the hopes of Americans who don't like having to change their clocks twice a year.
Skeptics of the artificial intelligence revolution have recently had the upper hand. In July, the semiconductor sector of the U.S. stock market began to underperform; chip stocks fell precipitously, down 20% and more. Investors started to demand clear evidence that spending on AI hardware would generate sufficient financial returns to justify investing trillions of dollars. […]