A Chinese chip firm surged 180% in its stock-market debut, spotlighting the growing list of challengers to Nvidia’s dominance. Shanghai Enflame Technology’s IPO was 6,000 times oversubscribed, Nikkei reported, and its stock price surged despite declines across Asian markets.
Growing fears over AI’s threat to humanity have galvanized calls for regulation, though little consensus exists on how to best control the technology. Anthropic’s recent admission that “threat actors” used their models to try to develop bioweapons — after a researcher left the fi...
Top AI pioneers backed an Anthropic researcher’s warning of potential human extinction. Paul Christiano — author of an influential 2016 paper on AI safety with future Anthropic founder Dario Amodei and a longstanding believer that the technology would take off relatively graduall...
One lesson from the return of crude oil prices back above $100 per barrel is that US President Donald Trump seems to be hastening the end of the oil age.
California Democratic Rep. Jimmy Gomez faces increasing turbulence heading into his general election, according to new polling shared first with Semafor showing him statistically tied with Democrat Angela Gonzales-Torres.
Activist investor Oasis Capital Management has nominated a slate of directors at Vail Resorts and is preparing to launch a proxy fight, according to people familiar with the matter.
Pennsylvania Democrats, including potential 2028 Senate candidates, are ramping up their criticism of Sen. John Fetterman after he appeared by video at the Republican midterm convention this week.
A global bond sell-off pushed 10-year Treasury yields close to the significant 5% mark, approaching their highest level in almost two decades as the Iran War and US trade policies combined to stoke inflationary fears. The increase in Treasury yields triggered a sell-off of Asian ...
Anthropic said in a report that a UAE-linked influence operation used Claude AI to target the Muslim Brotherhood. The operation used around 300 fake social-media accounts, created a front NGO, ghost-wrote testimony to be used at the UN, and compiled files on European lawmakers, j...
On Sept. 10, Algiers severed diplomatic relations with the UAE and closed its airspace to Emirati aircraft, surprising few who had watched relations between the two countries deteriorate.
Nigerian healthcare investors are positioning to take advantage of untapped commercial opportunities in a sector that new research says will generate more than $50 billion in sales by the end of the decade.
Russia’s president landed in India for a BRICS summit that looks set to underline a broader reordering of global alliances. The talks in Delhi — also set to be attended by China’s leader — point to India’s attempt to balance ties with global powers: It has long sought to deepen r...
Hollywood’s dirty little secret is that filmmakers do like AI, and they use it to save money.
As Congress faces a reckoning over sexual misconduct, House and Senate lawmakers are looking to overhaul the rules in both chambers.
Robinhood landed its first IPO underwriting assignment, a sign that retail investors — long an afterthought for companies going public — are a fan base worth courting. Robinhood, which launched its bookrunning business in June, is among 18 banks working on smart-ring maker Oura’s...
France and Canada joined the UK in announcing trade sanctions on Israel’s West Bank settlements Tuesday, as rising settler violence in the occupied territory widened a geopolitical rift between Israel and its allies.
Bankers for OpenAI and Anthropic — both of which are barreling towards IPOs — are reportedly pressing for the AI giants to quickly win investment-grade credit ratings, underlining the huge and growing role of debt in the tech infrastructure buildout.
DALLAS – Republicans arrived at their first midterm convention ready to sell their wins for “working class” Americans, including hundreds of billions of dollars for tax cuts, refunds, and savings accounts.They left it ready to spend another trillion dollars in direct payments to ...