Supreme Court Justice Alito will not participate in big climate change case next week
Environmental groups had called for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito to recuse himself from the case involving ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy.
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The Takeaway Day 6: General Debate ends with call to turn words into action
After six days of speeches from the UN General Assembly podium, one word rose above all others: peace. This final edition of The Takeaway distils the messages he said reverberated through the Assembly Hall and looks at...
Meta-Led Anti-Terrorism Group Faces Mass Resignation of Expert Advisers
Meta and other tech giants are pushing through structural changes at the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism that outside researchers allege will weaken oversight of an already embattled consortium.
OpenAI sparked Hugging Face bids with early investment offer ahead of Nvidia's $13 billion deal
Hugging Face saw a flurry of deal interest before Nvidia agreed to buy the open-source platform for roughly $13 billion, CNBC has learned.
Coffee Break: AI Credit and Credibility Collapsing or Will the AI Booster/Doomers Power Through? | naked capitalism
Wall Street seems to be noticing that the data center boom rest on a bed of hype while the claims of AI boosters are getting more extreme by the day.
Anthropic launches cheaper AI model, its second release since CEO's call for a slowdown
The company said Sonnet 5.5 doesn't advance the frontier, but that it is better at coding and knowledge work tasks than its predecessor.
Nearly half the stocks in the S&P 500 are at cross purposes with the rest of the market
Almost half of the stocks in the S&P 500 have a negative beta, evidence of a chasm between the entire index and its individual components.
UN leaders renew push to defeat racism, 25 years after Durban
“No country is free of racism.” That warning from US youth activist Marley Dias set the tone on Monday as UN Member States reinvigorated global efforts against racism, discrimination and xenophobia with a new declaration...
DPR Korea tells UN its nuclear status is ‘irreversible’, rejects outside pressure
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) told the UN General Assembly on Monday that its status as a nuclear-armed State was irreversible, arguing that its military capabilities were necessary to safeguard the co...
‘Ballot must replace the bullets’, South Sudan tells General Assembly ahead of elections
South Sudan remains committed to holding general elections in December to conclude its transition period, the country’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Cecilia Adout Majok Adeng, told the General Assembly...
Trump announces plan for $15 billion steel plant, would be largest in U.S. history
Trump's announcement with Mesabi Metallics comes as Americans' souring views of the economy are poised to shape the upcoming midterm election.
Daily Memo: On US Sanctions on Iran and Withdrawal From Iraq
Ripple effect. A senior U.S. Treasury Department official visited several countries in the Middle East this month to push for stricter restrictions on