Tuesday brought an unusual calm to currency markets as the Canadian dollar traded sideways, with investors bracing for what could reshape monetary policy in the months ahead. The Bank of Canada interest rate decision drops Wednesday, and nobody’s quite sure…
Americans’ trust in the economy has taken a real beating. We’re talking negative 30 in November—the lowest level recorded since July 2024, based on the latest Gallup poll. And honestly? If your gut’s been telling you something’s off with the…
Google’s Gemini 3 has launched into the AI race with a striking comeback that’s left OpenAI blindsided after the company dominated since 2022. The tech giant’s most advanced model represents three years of working to regain footing after ChatGPT initially…
Hundreds of people dead as Sri Lanka faces worst floods in decades. That’s not a headline anyone wanted to wake up to, but it’s the reality right now. Cyclone Ditwah smashed into the island nation on Nov. 28, and honestly,…
Sen. Jon Ossoff, the Georgia D-Ga. senator, got himself into hot water with a campaign ad that used AI generated video to put words in his Republican opponent’s mouth. The attack ad sparked headlines and ethical questions, but here’s the…
Brent crude oil stayed flat on Friday as traders kept one eye on Russia-Ukraine peace talks and another on Sunday’s OPEC+ meeting. The big story? U.S. WTI crude futures completely froze when CME Group suffered a massive system outage at…
A top VC investor warns the AI boom will create massive giants while leaving a brutal trail of failed startups in its wake. Mel Williams, partner at TrueBridge Capital Partners, predicts we’ll witness unprecedented carnage as overhyped companies commanding sky-high…
George Washington made Thanksgiving official back in 1789 with a proclamation declaring it a national day of public thanksgiving and prayer. Then Abraham Lincoln, during the chaos of 1863, made his appeal to a war-torn nation to set apart and…
Wang Fuk Court housing complex, Tai Po district, northern Hong Kong, Wednesday afternoon, eight blocks, 2,000 apartments, 4,600 people, residential high-rise towers, flames, blaze erupted, fire began, intense heat, thick smoke, upper floors, 32-storey towers, green construction mesh, bamboo scaffolding,…
OpenAI launched GPT-5.1 on Wednesday, introducing seven new ChatGPT personality presets for users to toggle through, following intense backlash after the company replaced GPT-4o with GPT-5. The update offers personalization options including professional, friendly, candid, quirky, efficient, nerdy, and cynical…
Companies are hiring new types of managers who can train and oversee AI agents, rather than supervise humans. Vercel, a $9.3 billion cloud-based developer platform founded in 2015, recently trained an AI agent on its best-performing sales representative and cut…
PepsiCo dropped a bombshell Thursday: your favorite orange snacks are getting a makeover. Doritos and Cheetos will hit store shelves without artificial dyes starting Dec. 1, and they won’t look quite the same. The company is rolling out what it…
Tesla’s AI chief Ashok Elluswamy pulled no punches during an all-hands meeting last month. He told staff straight up: 2026 will be the “hardest year” they’ve ever experienced at work. The vice president running AI software gathered employees from Tesla’s…
You’ve probably seen the video. A massive man, veins bulging, face crimson, pulling what seems like an impossible weight off the ground. But what you saw was just the tip of the iceberg. Eddie “The Beast” Hall’s 500kg (1,102 lbs)…
Ahmad al-Sharaa, once an Al-Qaeda-backed rebel army fighter, will meet US President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday in the first ever visit by a Syrian head of state—marking an extraordinary transformation from jihadist to global statesman less…
