Comment on Week Ahead: H&R Block reports quarterly results on Wednesday

Apple’s Greg Joswiak and John Ternus on the new iPad lineup, why the iPad and Mac both matter, the iPad as an ‘AI PC,’ and more. The idea that the iPad is a magical piece of glass is so Apple-esque that I’d developed a false memory of Steve Jobs describing it that way when he unveiled the first one in 2010.

The company’s new chief scientist will be Jakub Pachocki. OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever is leaving the startup at the center of today’s artificial intelligence boom.

The report’s set of figures will be scrutinized by Wall Street. It’s perhaps the biggest question swirling around the U. S. economy right now: Is inflation stuck at an elevated level — or will last year’s steady decline resume sometime soon? On Wednesday, the government will issue the latest monthly inflation report, a set of figures that will be scrutinized by economists, Wall Street traders and Federal Reserve officials for any insight into that question.

Two more retailers have said they will recall cream cheese spreads over possible contamination. More than two dozen states are now impacted. The cream cheese recall that hit the Midwest last week has now expanded to include other products from additional grocery stores in other states. The reason for the recall is the same: fears of salmonella contamination.

Quilt’s sleek new heat pump is aimed at convincing more consumers to switch from fossil fuels. When he left a job at Google, Paul Lambert knew that he wanted to work on a new challenge that would interest him for the next decade. The answer: designing a better heat pump.

A survey of 16,000 workers reveals what office design features help them work best. In the aftermath of the pandemic, office design went through a frantic stage of adjustment. The 9-to-5 workday was totally upended, and once-necessary offices became optional, if not mostly avoided. Office designers were among those tasked with figuring out how to convince people to come back to their physical office spaces.