Today: September 12, 2026
Today: September 12, 2026

Artificial Intelligence

Arts|Business|Europe|World

South Korea's President Lee to visit France for summit, film discussion with Macron

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung will pay a state visit to France from September 6 to 9 for a summit with French President Emmanuel ​Macron and for a joint

Arts|Business|Economy|Finance|Technology

Trading Day: Waller cools Fed hike hoopla

Remarks from Fed Governor Christopher Waller that he is inclined to hold interest rates steady later this month sparked a strong stock market

Business|Economy|Finance|Stock Markets

Tech stocks lead a rally on Wall Street as bond yields ease some more

Stocks rose on Wall Street as bond yields eased further and a rally in big technology companies helped the market recoup its losses from earlier in the week

Science|Technology

OpenAI launches new Astra model amid growing scrutiny over agents' safety

OpenAI on Thursday unveiled a new artificial intelligence model it calls its best yet but cautioned that it also sometimes attempts to evade human

Finance

Bond selloff is likely amplified by obscure economic rate

A recent rise in Treasury yields in part reflects growing investor bets that an obscure, theoretical rate consistent with stable growth and

Business|Science|Technology

Nvidia bets $13 billion on open AI models with Hugging Face deal

Nvidia will buy popular developer platform Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, using its growing AI war chest to expand its

Arts|Business|Economy|Finance|Science|Stock Markets|Technology

Nvidia to spend $13 billion on Hugging Face, which will remain an open source platform

Nvidia is buying artificial intelligence software platform Hugging Face for $13 billion

Environment|Science|Technology

EPA proposal could leave the public in the dark on data center plans

A plan by the Environmental Protection Agency could make it harder for the public to learn about and comment on proposed AI data centers that have sparked a backlash in communities across the country and become a key election issue

Science|Technology

Anthropic still flagged as risk to defense industrial base, US official says

Anthropic is still considered a "Supply Chain Risk" by the U.S. defense department and defense industry, the under secretary of defense for research and

Business|Economy

US trade deficit widens in July; capital goods imports hit record high

The U.S. trade deficit widened sharply in July as strong domestic demand boosted imports, positioning trade to exert another drag on economic growth in the third quarter

Business|Science|Technology

Nvidia inks $13 billion deal to buy the AI startup that was hacked by OpenAI

Nvidia inks $13 billion deal to buy the AI startup that was hacked by OpenAI

Business|Economy|Finance

US second-quarter productivity growth unrevised

U.S. worker productivity growth picked up in the second quarter, the government confirmed on Thursday, helping to keep labor costs in check.

Health|Science|Technology

AI skin cancer detection tools are getting better – but only for people with light skin

These apps and software programs could provide access to lifesaving screening – if researchers can find a way to remove the baked-in bias.

Business|Finance|Science|Technology

Nscale touts $103 billion contracted revenue ahead of potential IPO, The Information reports

Nscale is telling prospective investors it has about $103 billion of total contracted revenue ahead of an initial public offering that could come as soon as this month, The

Business|Economy|Technology

Snowflake lifts annual revenue forecast on cloud and AI demand, shares soar

Snowflake on Wednesday beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly results and raised its full-year product revenue forecast as demand rises for its cloud data platform

Science|Technology

OpenAI is building 'automated shutdown' capabilities for AI tools, letter to lawmakers says 

OpenAI told two House Democrats that its engineers are developing “automated shutdown capabilities” for AI systems, according to a company letter

Business|Economy|Science|Technology

Trump administration backs OpenAI in New York Times' copyright case over training of chatbots

The Trump administration is backing OpenAI over the New York Times in a closely watched case over how it builds its AI technology using millions of news articles

Political|Science|Technology

US Commerce chief says Anthropic back on 'right side' with Trump, Axios reports

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Business|Science|Technology

Anthropic launches AI agent blueprints for retailers ahead of holiday shopping season 

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic is giving retailers blueprints to build shopping and merchant agents on Claude, it announced on Wednesday, as

Science|Technology

US government backs OpenAI in New York Times copyright case

The Trump administration has filed a brief supporting OpenAI in its dispute with the New York Times and other newspapers over the company's use of their work to

Election|Science|Technology

Brazil’s electoral court sets new standards for AI deepfakes after case involving Sen. Bolsonaro

Brazil’s top electoral court has set new standards for identifying AI-generated deepfakes in political ads

Education|Science|Technology

This university built an AI curriculum before ChatGPT. Now it wants to help other schools do the same

This university built an AI curriculum before ChatGPT. Now it wants to help other schools do the same

Business|Economy|Science|Technology

Not just Nvidia: these power and cooling firms are riding the trillion-dollar data centre boom

While Nvidia is synonymous with the AI boom, a lesser-known group of power and cooling equipment suppliers is cashing in on a global data centre construction

Entertainment|Interview|Opinion|Technology

Vance talks about the end times and the attempted assassination of Trump in Christian podcast

Vice President JD Vance says that if a 2024 assassination attempt had killed Donald Trump, he would have always wondered if it was part of a conspiracy and might not have accepted even another Republican as the next president

Business|Economy|Science|Technology

US urges hands-off approach to AI regulation at G20 tech meeting

The U.S. pressed G20 members on Tuesday to take a hands-off approach to AI regulation and avoid creating rules for

Business|Finance|Technology

Palo Alto Networks beats quarterly earnings estimates, acquires AI platform Console

Palo Alto Networks beat fourth-quarter earnings estimates on Tuesday and announced the acquisition of AI-native platform Console, saying advances in artificial intelligence are

Business|Economy|Technology

Adobe to offer free access to AI tools in Saudi Arabia in $4 billion deal

Adobe said on Monday it has expanded its tie-up with Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and Saudi government-backed AI firm Humain to provide

Science|Technology

OpenAI says upcoming model is so capable it requires stronger guardrails

OpenAI has determined that one of its upcoming models is so capable it requires additional safety measures before it can be launched. 

Science|Technology

Many space missions are searching for life beyond Earth – but are we prepared for the fallout if they succeed?

Historical events hold lessons about collaboration and competition in space that could inform how experts plan for the discovery of life beyond Earth.

Business|Economy|Technology

Apple's new CEO, John Ternus, takes over from Tim Cook after 15 years

Apple’s new CEO John Ternus takes the helm of the iconic tech giant on Tuesday, ending Tim Cook’s 15-year tenure that saw the company’s value skyrocket to $4.6 trillion thanks to the iPhone’s enormous popularity

Election|Science|Technology

Brazil races to rein in AI weeks before election

Brazilian authorities are grappling with how to keep AI from undermining the country's hotly contested election, as AI-generated content floods voters'

Business|Finance|Technology

Anthropic signs $35 billion cloud deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda, source says

Anthropic has signed a cloud-computing deal worth $35 billion with Lambda, a cloud provider backed by Nvidia, for a Texas data center, a

Arts|Economy|Europe

UK retailers raise prices by most since 2024, BRC data shows

British retailers raised prices by the most in more than two years last month, as higher energy prices pushed up the cost of some processed food and the artificial

Business|Economy|Finance

Peru seeks to lead UN labour body amid funding shortfall

Peru has entered the race to lead the International Labour Organization, its website showed on Monday, as the body grapples with a financial shortfall that may

Business|Economy|Finance|Science|Technology

At Jackson Hole,  global central bankers glimpse dystopian AI future

Imagine a world where AI-powered trading is so prevalent, fast and effective that the Federal Reserve must give two news conferences, one for

Economy|Finance|Science|Technology

AI-driven cyber risk is top concern for global financial stability, watchdog says

Financial Stability Board Chair Andrew Bailey said on Monday that the impact of AI on cyber risk was the most immediate concern for the global financial

Science|Technology

‘It feels like early Covid’: The messy scramble to regulate AI

‘It feels like early Covid’: The messy scramble to regulate AI

Business|Economy|Finance|Stock Markets|Technology|US

The bond market prepares for a hike to interest rates, while US stocks drift lower

The bond market swung as investors built bets that the Federal Reserve may hike interest rates soon to get the nation’s high inflation under control

Finance|Technology

US equity funds post biggest weekly outflow since March ahead of Nvidia earnings, Fed event

U.S. equity funds recorded their largest weekly outflow in five months in the week to August 26, as investors reassessed the outlook for artificial intelligence ahead of Nvidia's