One of the main themes of this year’s World Economic Forum is how industries, regions and countries prepare for disruption, from geopolitical tensions and economic uncertainty to climate-related risks...
OpenAI executives including CEO Sam Altman (left) published a blog post containing emails that suggest Elon Musk (right) believed the AI company should have attached itself to Tesla for funding. Getty...
As the Lunar New Year approaches, a production error at a toy factory has led to the creation of a viral 'crying horse' plush toy. Intended to celebrate the Year of the Horse, the toy's upside-down mo...
While markets appeared barely fazed by the fate of Venezuela's oil industry, they are considerably more nervous about the potential impact of internal unrest and foreign escalation when it comes to Ir...
Geoffrey Lauprete is the head of Cubist Systematic Strategies. Jeff Yass founded proprietary trading firm Susquehanna International Group. Cubist; Susquehanna Competition for top quant talent has neve...
Frontier research lab MiroMind, a subsidiary of the China-founded multinational firm Shanda Group, has asked some of its staff in Shanghai to relocate to Singapore, according to people with knowledge ...
US President Donald Trump has announced an agreement with Venezuela's interim government to transfer millions of barrels of oil to the US. DW explores how the plan could be a blow to China, Russia, Ir...
China's trade surplus surged to a record of almost $1.2 trillion in 2025, the government said Wednesday, as exports to other countries made up for slowing shipments to the U.S. under President Donald ...
OpenAI plans to focus on "practical adoption" of AI in 2026, according to a blog post from CFO Sarah Friar . As the company spends a huge amount of money on infrastructure, OpenAI is working on "closi...
Donald Trump has warned of steep tariffs on French wine and champagne as he presses France's president Emmanuel Macron to join a US-led "Board of Peace." Paris has signalled that it does not plan to j...
The French government survived two votes of no-confidence in parliament on January 23 that had been called over its decision to ram through the income part of the 2026 budget without giving the Na...
Cheng Xin/Getty Images Vimeo is laying off staffers globally in a new round of cuts. The job cuts arrived a few months after tech holding company Bending Spoons bought Vimeo. It's Vimeo's second round...
Verizon was down for tens of thousands of customers for most of the day on January 14, 2026. Paul Squire/Business Insider Over 170,000 Verizon customers reported a service outage on Wednesday. The out...
A star that may have ripped apart a planet, according to researchers REUTERS/NASA/Handout A version of this story originally appeared in the BI Tech Memo newsletter. Sign up for the weekly Tech Memo n...
David Ellison's Paramount Skydance is putting data and insights front and center. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images David Ellison is making data a key pillar of Paramount Skydance. Paramount is b...
Some student-loan borrowers are at risk of having their tax refunds seized this year. Allison Robbert/For The Washington Post via Getty Images The Education Department temporarily paused seizure of ta...
Alibaba Group Holding’s artificial intelligence strategy is defined by a commitment to open-source models, the company said on Tuesday, following a year of soaring adoption for its suite of AI service...
US President Donald Trump ramped up economic pressure on the Iranian regime on Monday by announcing he was imposing import duties on the goods of any country that trades with Tehran. The move could fu...
Working fewer days might help create buy-in among workers for adopting AI, authors of a book on the four-day workweek suggest. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Adopting a four-day workweek could boost employ...
Trump is arriving for the World Economic Forum at Davos on the heels of threatening tariffs on Denmark and seven other allies unless they negotiate a transfer of the semi-autonomous territory — a conc...