Business

After months of avoiding confrontation, the Trump administration has taken recent steps to call out China on Iran, artificial intelligence and spying.

By David E. Sanger and Dustin Volz

Cerebras, a Silicon Valley maker of artificial intelligence chips, began trading on the stock market on Thursday, as SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic also take steps to go public.

By Natallie Rocha

Retail sales rose 0.5 percent despite higher prices for gas, food and other goods. But there are signs consumers are under some strain.

By Sydney Ember

A pledge for more Chinese investment could face backlash given longstanding national security concerns in the United States.

By Alan Rappeport

Beginning in 2028, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will own the Neue’s Fifth Avenue home and the prestige collection of 20th-century Austrian and German art built by Ronald S. Lauder.

By Robin Pogrebin

Iranian strikes and a blockade have paralyzed Qatar’s gas engine, creating a technical bottleneck likely to stall exports for years.

By River Akira Davis

The former reality-TV star has shaken up the Los Angeles mayoral race, gaining support from deep-pocketed donors like the financier Daniel S. Loeb.

By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Niko Gallogly and Brian O’Keefe

The president is expected to urge the Chinese leader to help ease tensions in the Middle East by helping to persuade Iran to end the war.

By The New York Times

Stardust Solutions says its tiny spheres can reflect the sun’s rays without harming people or the environment. Critics say private companies have no business altering Earth’s atmosphere.

By Eric Niiler

A charity is raising money to provide security, arguing that protecting some of right-wing media’s biggest stars is a public good.

By Ken Bensinger

Low-budget, vertical and short, microdramas have exploded into a billion-dollar U.S. market, and are becoming a lifeline for Hollywood’s creative force. We take a behind-the-scenes look on set and at the industry’s first red carpet award show.

By Isabelle Niu, Ben Laffin, Rafaela Balster and Chris Orr

After a series of political victories under President Trump, firms are lobbying Congress for a sweeping framework they helped shape.

By David Yaffe-Bellany

The Japanese automaker posted its first loss since 1957 as it took a multibillion-dollar hit from scaling back its electric-vehicle plans.

By River Akira Davis

New York City’s mayor said the company’s proposed acquisition of Intermex could make it costlier for immigrants to send money abroad.

By Lauren Hirsch

Vice President JD Vance said the state had not done enough to fight fraud in the public health insurance program.

By Sarah Kliff

Here’s what to know about the biggest sources of tension in U.S.-China relations before the first summit in Beijing in nine years between the nations’ leaders.

By Alan Rappeport, Ana Swanson and Edward Wong

The incoming chair of the Fed will need to navigate a delicate economic moment, a president who wants to lower rates and an increasingly divisive leadership committee.

By Christine Zhang

President Trump’s pick to replace Jerome H. Powell takes the helm at a highly uncertain moment for the economy and with heightened concern about the Federal Reserve’s ability to operate independently.

By Colby Smith

The president’s middle son is said to be joining his father in a “personal capacity” rather than to make business deals.

By Ben Protess

The deliberations are a sign that the Trump administration may once again try to harness the power of the I.R.S. to advance its immigration agenda.

By Andrew Duehren and Zolan Kanno-Youngs