项目概况 - 白宫东翼被拆除以建造一个9万平方英尺的新宴会厅[1] - 项目成本从最初估计的2亿美元增至3亿美元以上[1][13] - 项目资金由企业捐赠支付而非政府拨款[1] 捐赠企业信息 - 超过20家企业被要求披露捐赠信息包括金额和是否获得回报承诺[2] - 捐赠企业名单包括亚马逊、苹果、谷歌、Coinbase、康卡斯特、洛克希德·马丁、Meta、微软、Palantir等知名公司[10] - 部分公司如Meta和亚马逊曾向特朗普2024年就职基金捐赠100万美元[10] - 谷歌母公司Alphabet因法律和解向该项目捐赠超过2000万美元[11] 监管与程序争议 - 该项目被指绕过《1966年国家历史保护法》规定的程序未向委员会提交计划也未举行历史学家和专家参与的论坛[3] - 密西西比州众议员汤普森要求企业在11月7日前回应其质询包括列出当前持有的联邦合同[4] - 汤普森强调涉及白宫这一民主象征的项目的流程必须是公开的[14]

General Motors is cutting hundreds of workers as it restructures its design engineering team. The vehicle company's layoffs mostly affected its tech center in Warren, Michigan, a representative confirmed to Business Insider. The layoffs were in the "low hundreds," and were announced Friday morning."We're restructuring our design engineering team to strengthen our core architectural design engineering capabilities," a GM spokesperson wrote in a statement to Business Insider. "As a result, a number of CAD ex ...

Trade tensions between the US and Canada have intensified after Ontario's government released an ad featuring former President Ronald Reagan speaking about the dangers of tariffs. The minute-long video, posted by Ontario Premier Doug Ford on X on October 16, uses excerpts from Reagan's 1987 "Radio Address to the Nation on Free and Fair Trade."The ad highlights Reagan's warning that while tariffs may seem "patriotic" for protecting American jobs, they ultimately "hurt every American worker and consumer" and ...

Elon Musk is betting Tesla's future on autonomy. So far, its customers aren't fully buying it. Vaibhav Taneja, Tesla's CFO, said during Wednesday's earnings call that while the company had made "decent progress" in boosting adoption of its Full Self-Driving (FSD) software, only a fraction of Tesla drivers were paying for the service."Total paid FSD customer base is still small, around 12% of our current fleet," Taneja told investors. Tesla also reported that revenue from Full Self-Driving in the third qua ...

Ford is ramping up production of its top-selling pickup truck, the F-150 series, and moving staff over from its EV unit to keep manufacturing rolling. The auto company said in a press release on Thursday that it will increase the production of its best-selling trucks, the F-150 and F-Series Super Duty series, by more than 50,000 units in 2026."We are adding up to 1,000 new jobs to increase F-Series production to recover lost volume and fulfill strong customer demand," Ford's CEO, James Farley, said in a Th ...

事件概述 - 阿拉斯加航空公司因技术故障导致全美航班停飞 [1] - 公司为旗下子公司地平线航空申请了超过两小时的停飞指令 [1] - 此次事件是公司在7月因IT故障停飞后的又一次运营中断 [1] 公司应对与影响 - 公司通过社交媒体声明IT故障影响运营并实施临时停飞 为此带来的不便致歉 [2] - 公司主要枢纽位于西海岸 业务覆盖37个州的140多个目的地及12个国家 [2] - 事件为动态发展 公司代表未立即回应置评请求 [2]

Walmart is shaking up its approach to reviews and raises for frontline hourly workers at its US stores. The retail giant is moving to a new performance-based plan that accounts for factors like attendance, teamwork, and overall store performance, EVP of store operations Cedric Clark said in a memo to managers last week that was shared with Business Insider.The new approach marks a shift from the across-the-board raises that were based on years of service with the company, which Clark said rewarded loyalty ...

公司裁员计划 - 塔吉特公司宣布将裁减约1,000名企业员工 [1] - 公司同时取消另外800个空缺职位 [1]

公司裁员与组织调整 - 计划裁员超过600个岗位，约占其15,000名员工总数的45% [1] - 裁员是公司为应对运营背景变化、实现盈利性扩张而进行的结构性调整的一部分 [10][11] - 组织调整重点包括整合车辆运营工作流至服务部门，以及整合交付和移动运营至销售部门，以简化客户旅程 [12] - 将组建单一的市场营销组织，目前由首席执行官兼任临时首席营销官 [12][13] 公司运营与产品战略 - 公司正为推出目标价格为45,000美元的最便宜SUV车型R2做准备 [3] - 首席执行官将R2的推出称为公司迈向年产数百万辆汽车规模的拐点 [4] - 公司近期报告第二季度车辆交付量为13,200辆，同比增长32% [9] - 公司收窄了2025年交付指引至41,500-43,500辆 [9] 行业环境与挑战 - 此次裁员发生在电动汽车行业面临行政变革之际 [1] - 尽管美国电动汽车销量在2025年第三季度创下历史新高，但制造商正面临特朗普政府取消7,500美元联邦税收抵免的政策冲击 [2] - 税收抵免政策于9月30日结束，对特斯拉和Rivian等公司产生影响 [2]

The recent failures of auto lender Tricolor and auto-parts manufacturer First Brands, which JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon dubbed "cockroaches," had the biggest names on Wall Street pointing fingers last week. Blackstone has been paying attention too, but on its third-quarter earnings call on Thursday, the company had a clear message: any attempts to tie these bankruptcies to private credit are fake news."These events have been erroneously linked to the traditional private credit market as a result of misunderst ...