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France, tech companies and philanthropies back $400 million foundation to support public interest AI
The initiative, called Current AI, will fund efforts around new public datasets, open source AI, and public accountability for AI ...
EU ponders how to respond to a fresh Trump onslaught
Brussels can’t do the rapid pre-emptive retaliation that Canada and Mexico threatened
Google AI chief says DeepSeek’s cost claims are ‘exaggerated’
Demis Hassabis, who runs Google’s AI unit, said that DeepSeek “seems to have only reported the cost of the final ...
UK banks to detail IT failures after Barclays outage
MPs on Treasury select committee request information from past two years
How Mastercard’s CFO views the wave of AI fraud hitting the financial sector
Companies strategically use AI, but so do cybercriminals, says Sachin Mehra. Read More
Trump says Musk’s DOGE ‘geniuses’ have found ‘very fraudulent stuff’
Elon Musk believes some $1 billion is being spent on fraudulent Treasury payments, prompting President Trump to ask if this ...
China marriages fall to record low as demographic crisis deepens
The tally for last year marks the fewest marriages since public records began in 1986 and is less than half ...
What’s a Golden Visa and where can you still get one?
Americans registered a spike in interest in the visas in late 2024 after Donald Trump won the divisive U.S. presidential election. Read ...
Kering hoped a big turnaround would save its flagship brands. With Gucci’s creative director gone, is the revival already unraveling?
Turning Gucci around is crucial to Kering as it “can no longer afford to get it wrong” an expert told ...
U.S. and China have hit each other with tit-for-tat tariffs for years. Here’s the history since Trump’s first term
The rapid-fire shots of tariffs and import curbs hearken back to Trump’s first term in office, when the U.S. and ...
Inside CEOs’ Trump tariff war rooms
Also: MicroStrategy’s market value defies logic, Ackman causes Uber stock jump. Read More
The ‘nice’ CEO is no longer en vogue as business pressures reshape leadership styles
CEOs like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are adopting aspects of Jack Welch’s high-intensity, performance-focused management style. Read More
Trump’s new executive order establishing a White House ‘Faith Office’ signals his religious advisors’ increasing sway
Donald Trump said at his inauguration that he had been “saved by God.” Now he appears to be returning the ...
What happened when Trump imposed steel tariffs in 2018
The White House responded to lobbying from carmakers with exemptions. The EU went after bourbon
Federal court blocks detained Venezuelan immigrants from being sent to Guantanamo
Trump has vowed to deport millions of the estimated 11.7 million people in the U.S. illegally. Read More
Why a performer at Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show unfurled a flag mentioning Sudan and Gaza
Security at the stadium detained the performer shortly after waving the flag atop a car used as a prop in the ...
Trump says he is really serious about Canada becoming the 51st U.S. state
Donald Trump has repeatedly suggested that Canada would be better off if it agreed to become the 51st U.S. state. Read More
Some Fortune 500 CEO’s in Europe secretly envy Trumpism—is it time to cut the red tape?
Some European business leaders are asking the question, is it possible to make a similar move towards deregulation as in ...
Trump says he told the U.S. Treasury to stop minting new pennies because each costs more than 2 cents to make
The U.S. Mint reported losing $85.3 million in the 2024 fiscal year that ended in September on the nearly 3.2 billion ...
Price of gold reaches record highs—a burden and blessing for London jewelers
Central banks are purchasing gold in big quantities amid geopolitical and economic uncertainty, with the precious metal regarded as a ...
Super Bowl commercials aim for easy laughs and nostalgia to avoid potential political missteps
Eugene Levy’s eyebrows flew off after he ate some Little Caesars. Four old ladies went on a joy ride in a ...
Deepfake videos of Emmanuel Macron dancing, rapping and acting emerge online—posted by the president himself
French president Emmanuel Macron has posted AI-generated fake videos that he features in as he promotes the upcoming Paris AI ...
Pope Francis’s lead on migration and aid criticizes USAID cuts and says people are ‘terrorized’ by migrant crackdown
Cardinal Michael Czerny, a Czech-born Canadian Jesuit, is one of the cardinals most closely associated with Francis’ pontificate. Read More
Japan’s Ishiba shows how to work with Trump in first summit
The playbook appeared to focus on what Japan can do for the U.S., and Ishiba promised to buy more energy ...
DBS, Southeast Asia’s largest bank, is setting aside $23.6 million to reward staff for another ‘record performance’
The bank, driven by its wealth management business and an increase in loans, reported a net profit of $8.4 billion ...
Apple, Coca-Cola, IBM, Berkshire Hathaway: These companies are facing a DEI shareholder showdown in 2025
A fresh crop of shareholder proposals that would have once been unremarkable are now a closely-watched battlefront in the war ...
Reform Isas to boost UK economic growth
It is high time the tax system encouraged more economically productive behaviour than parking funds in a cash account
Navigating the IRS alphabet soup: There are nearly two dozen different 1099 forms, we explain them all
Have you received a 1099 tax form that you don’t understand? Our guide describes the basics of the nearly two ...
Check out the banks offering the best CDs rates for the week of February 10, 2025
Rate cuts may be coming later this year, but it’s not too late to lock in high APYs on CDs. ...
Earn up to 4.50% APY. Here are the best CD rates today, February 10, 2025
CD rates are still looking strong despite recent rate cuts, with many yielding over 4% APY. Read More
