Oil prices eased Thursday even though U.S. President Donald Trump said he’d lower tariffs on China. The announcement came after a meeting with President Xi Jinping in South Korea, but traders weren’t buying the optimism. There was plenty of scepticism…
Character.AI is banning minors from using open-ended chatbots on its platform starting Nov. 25, following lawsuits over child safety that include a mother claiming the company’s AI characters pushed her teenage son to kill himself. The Menlo Park, California-based company,…
Wall Street looked poised for a higher open on Wednesday morning as Nvidia inched closer to a $5 trillion valuation—a milestone that seemed impossible just months ago. Investors awaited an expected Federal Reserve rate cut and a wave of Big…
President Trump said early Wednesday the U.S. has “pretty much” reached a trade deal with South Korea. That’s how he put it to reporters — “pretty much” — which isn’t exactly the language of ironclad agreements, but here we are. The…
Australia’s sharemarket recorded its worst day since September as an economic horror story unfolded through latest inflation data showing figures came in hotter than expected, killing any potential Melbourne Cup Day interest rate cut hopes. The benchmark ASX 200 slumped…
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are meeting Thursday in South Korea, and frankly, it’s about time. The American president and China’s leader haven’t sat down face-to-face since Trump got back to the White House in January, and things have gotten…
Hurricane Melissa has grown into a terrifying category five storm, and it’s crawling toward Jamaica at a painfully slow speed that has weather experts deeply worried. The deadly hurricane is packing maximum sustained wind speeds of 165mph (270km/h), and the…
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) wants President Trump to create a special team of six senators—three Republicans and three Democrats—to solve the mess around Affordable Care Act subsidies that’s causing the government shutdown. The Kentucky Republican thinks Democrats should reopen the…
American sports faced another black eye this week after arrests of an NBA coach and a current NBA player for alleged ties to illegal sports betting and rigged poker games. Despite this latest example of players breaking rules, leagues and…
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) believes the government should break up OpenAI, warning that artificial intelligence poses threats far beyond market competition. The Vermont senator told Axios that splitting the ChatGPT maker represents just one step in addressing what he described…
President Donald Trump pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the Binance founder who served prison time for anti-money-laundering violations, sending shockwaves through financial regulatory circles. The pardon, issued Thursday, effectively erases the criminal record of a man whose crypto exchange facilitated transactions involving…
China’s desperate race to automate its manufacturing sector with over 2 million industrial robots isn’t about efficiency—it’s a last-ditch response to an impending demographic collapse that could shrink the country’s population from 1.41 billion to potentially 330 million by 2100,…
SpaceX has disabled approximately 2,500 Starlink devices being used by cyber scam syndicates in Myanmar, marking a significant crackdown on criminal operations exploiting the satellite internet service. The tech company, owned by Elon Musk, took action after identifying equipment near…
US forces have killed two people in a strike on an alleged drug boat in the Pacific Ocean, marking the first such operation in Pacific waters. The Pentagon confirmed the incident, with defence secretary Pete Hegseth stating no American personnel…
The Trump administration is weighing a sweeping plan to curb software-powered exports to China, targeting everything from laptops to jet engines as it prepares to retaliate against Beijing’s latest round of rare earth export restrictions. A U.S. official and three…
