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The Trump administration imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court hours after one of its former judges won the Nobel Prize, underscoring direct friction between US sovereignty priorities and international legal mechanisms.
The IMF highlights real demand for tokenized equities' round-the-clock trading, noting over half of activity occurs outside regular hours and enables...
Student protests over crumbling schools and teacher shortages have escalated into a nationwide challenge, hitting Macron's government at its weakest...
Global economic growth is set to ease to 2.6% in 2026 from 2.9% last year, while trade in goods and services expands 4% in constant prices. This divergence points to a fragile phase where commerce continues to advance even as broader output weakens.
AI tools are moving beyond digital influence operations into direct interference with public systems. An Iranian campaign used ChatGPT to plant...
Washington's Genesis Mission fuses $2.4B in industry compute pledges with federal expansion to 14+ agencies, targeting AI breakthroughs in energy,...
This week's largest deals show capital flowing heavily into AI infrastructure, foundational models, and supporting energy tech.
Diplomatic signals from Trump—ruling out strikes on Iran and securing Russian diesel releases—pushed global stocks higher, easing immediate supply...
Countries most exposed to US policy shifts include Mexico (48% of GDP) and Vietnam (44%), far above the 6.5% global average, with Canada at 31%....
Google is shifting Gemini from conversational AI to agentic systems that execute tasks on users' behalf, connecting to tools like Workspace, Slack,...
The $1.8 billion Biohub initiative reveals AI's next frontier in biology depends on open experimental datasets, not larger models. Language models...
Olli Rehn stresses that prevention remains Europe's best defence after 15 years of the ESRB, yet resilience alone cannot solve structural weakness.
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US consumer sentiment remains far below levels predicted by healthy labor markets, spending, and GDP growth. The gap has widened across all groups...
Anthropic's updated policy now explicitly bans prolonged verbal abuse of Claude, election interference, and deceptive campaigns, extending prior training to end abusive chats into user-level prohibitions that apply only in extreme cases.
Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims and warn their abrupt dismissals signal a chilling effect that discourages collaboration...
US stocks and bonds appear highly stretched on several key measures, pointing to caution for investors and raising questions around broader financial stability.
Waymo's first-ever $5 billion term loan, backed by PIMCO, Blackstone and Sixth Street, marks the move of autonomous driving from venture-backed experiments toward large-scale debt-funded infrastructure investment.
AI drove a record 75% of Europe's Q3 funding, totaling $18.8 billion and lifting overall totals to $25 billion.
A German search engine has ditched Mistral for Chinese open-source AI, underscoring Europe's core tension between technological autonomy, cost pressures, capability gaps, and geopolitical alignment.
