Talk Fuse

Topic: Business

Business covers the companies, markets and economic forces shaping everyday life. From technology and energy to retail, finance and employment, it follows the decisions that influence investment, prices and growth.

The topic also examines the people behind major firms, the policies affecting trade and industry, and the changing relationship between business and society. It helps readers understand how commercial developments can affect consumers, workers and communities.

Nothing Ear 3A earbuds add onboard recording for calls and audio

July 7, 2026

Nothing announced a new pair of budget-friendly wireless earbuds, but not as part of the company’s affordability-focused sub-brand, CMF. The new Nothing Ear 3A are available starting today through the company’s online store for $99, which is the same price as Nothing’s original Ear (a). That’s good news in a time when price increases are…
Nothing launches Ear (3a) earbuds with active noise cancellation for $99

July 7, 2026

Nothing’s Ear (3a) are ANC-equipped earbuds that cost less than $100.
Xbox cuts strike id Software, roughly half of staff lost amid Doom expansion

July 7, 2026

Xbox is cutting 3200 jobs between now and the end of financial year 2027, with studios like Undead Labs and Compulsion Games going independent as others also try to navigate an uncertain future. Moreover, ZeniMax’s entire division – which includes all of Bethesda’s big studios – is facing major layoffs, even if no studios are…
Thames Water creditors vow takeover bid even under temporary nationalisation

July 7, 2026

Thames Water’s creditors have signalled they will press ahead with a bid to take over the heavily indebted utility even if it is temporarily nationalised by the likely incoming prime minister, Andy Burnham. The group of 100 institutional investors, holding roughly £14bn of the company’s senior debt, is continuing to discuss a £10bn rescue proposal…
Manual controls give way to automated machines, eroding human touch

July 7, 2026

In an excerpt from his book *The Small Stuff*, writer Ian Bogost argues that people have gradually lost direct, physical control over the machines and objects in their lives. He contends that unseen choices in design, business and technology have automated away everyday tasks — replacing buttons, levers and manual effort with computers — so…
Pete Holmes keeps screen time low and ignores 55,000 unread emails

July 7, 2026

Comedian Pete Holmes, star of HBO’s Crashing, spoke to WIRED for its “User Behavior” series about how he keeps his phone use unusually low and why he believes we are all on the verge of “slowly walking away” from our devices. He argues that much of modern digital life amounts to “manufactured urgency” that people…
Suno recruits Atlantic and YouTube executives to court music industry

July 7, 2026

Suno, the artificial-intelligence music generation company, has hired two experienced music-industry executives into vice-president roles as it seeks to position itself as a partner to the sector rather than an adversary. Grace James, formerly of Atlantic Records, joins as vice-president and head of artist marketing and editorial, while Christian Bowne, previously YouTube’s head of major…
777, a genre-fusing debut single from ONE OK ROCK supergroup YAO

July 7, 2026

YAO, a new collaborative project uniting Japanese band ONE OK ROCK with artists Awich, Paledusk and Chico Carlito, has released its debut single, ‘777’. The venture matters as an experiment in fusing acts from different musical backgrounds into a single unit, with its name drawn from the Japanese concept of “Yaoyorozu no Kami”, meaning Eight…
Mass Balance sends autonomous chemistry lab into orbit to study disease proteins

July 7, 2026

British startup Mass Balance has launched an autonomous, self-run chemical laboratory into orbit, aiming to gather data on hard-to-study, disease-causing proteins in the near-absence of gravity. The grapefruit-sized apparatus lifted off aboard a SpaceX transporter on Tuesday morning and matters because it represents an early step towards using space as a routine research environment for…
Elder Scrolls Online roadmap shifts two days before Season One launch after Xbox cuts

July 7, 2026

Yesterday brought the news that Microsoft were cutting 1600 staff, spinning out four studios, and finding a further 1600 jobs to cut in the year to come. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma said in an email to staff that she was “making reductions” and “shifting investment to focus on higher priority projects”.Today, we’re starting to learn…