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Laura CressTechnology reporter Bloomberg via Getty Images Technology Secretary Liz Kendall has called on Elon Musk’s X to urgently deal with its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok being used to create non-consensual sexualised images of women and girls. The BBC has seen multiple examples on X of people asking the bot to digitally undress people to…

A view of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street November 13, 2024, in New York City.  Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images A version of this article appeared in CNBC’s Inside Alts newsletter, a guide to the fast-growing world of alternative investments, from private equity and private credit to hedge funds…

Although global demand for copper is growing, many of the world’s major mines are ageing and becoming less productive © Reuters Copper soared to a record high of more than $13,000 per tonne on Tuesday, as concerns over supply disruption and tariffs extended a rally that has pushed up the price of the metal by…

7. Vintage frames “From a sustainability standpoint, we already have so many objects in the world,” says artist Booth, whose 1970s bungalow in Cornwall is crammed with vintage collectibles, stone busts, eel spears, random crockery and repurposed objects. “I love the idea that everything you could possibly need already exists somewhere, you just have to find…

In this article F Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Visitors to the OC Auto Show at the Anaheim Convention Center check out the newly unveiled Ford Expedition in Anaheim on Thursday, October 3, 2024. Leonard Ortiz | Medianews Group | Getty Images DETROIT — Ford Motor on Tuesday said its U.S. vehicle sales last…

When Ashley St. Clair asked Grok, the generative artificial intelligence reply bot built into the X platform, to stop creating sexually suggestive pictures of her, Grok said it would stop. But it didn’t. Since then, St. Clair, known as a high-profile conservative content creator who has a child with X’s owner, Elon Musk, said she…

Two thousand years before the U.S. federal government’s debt crossed the $38 trillion threshold, the Roman Empire faced a similar-looking calculus: a state with increasingly expensive obligations and a very limited appetite for taxes. To pay for this discrepancy, emperors pursued a policy known as “debasement”: gradually shaving off the silver from the coins until…

WASHINGTON — U.S. multinational corporations will be exempted from paying more corporate taxes overseas in a deal finalized by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The OECD announced Monday that nearly 150 countries have agreed on the plan, initially crafted in 2021, to stop large global companies from shifting profits to low-tax countries, no…

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. The annual Consumer Electronics Show, CES, is well underway, and we’ve seen many innovative and exciting products and devices from the world’s leading consumer electronics brands, including Samsung, LG, and Hisense. ZDNET is reporting on the ground, in-person at the show, as well as remotely, so…

▲ Visitors from around the world enter the exhibition. The First Look 2026 by Samsung Electronics unveiled a forward-looking vision for AI under the theme “Your Companion to AI Living.” Held in Samsung’s dedicated space at Wynn Las Vegas, the exhibition guided visitors through how AI can enhance everyday enjoyment and convenience while supporting health…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says that the company’s next-generation AI superchip platform, Vera Rubin, is on schedule to begin arriving to customers later this year. “Today, I can tell you that Vera Rubin is in full production,” Huang said during a press event on Monday at the annual CES technology trade show in Las Vegas….

Priti GuptaTechnology Reporter Impex “Until a few years ago, the butterfly pea flower was just another climbing plant in my village,” says Nilam Brahma who lives in Anthaigwlao, a village in the northeastern Indian state of Assam. Butterfly pea, also known as aparajita in India, grows as a vine and has a striking blue flower….

Gyasi B-HibbertBBC News Getty Images/mediaphotos When we treat ourselves to a meal out and something’s off – the food is cold or the service is slow – it can be difficult to know how to handle it. Complaining can feel confrontational so many of us find ourselves making passive aggressive remarks or silently seething and…

The Big Short investor Michael Burry says Venezuela’s recent U.S.-led regime change could weaken one of America’s biggest adversaries. Burry, who correctly predicted the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008, said Russia may face consequences after the U.S. toppled Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro early Saturday, the investor wrote in a post on his Substack newsletter, Cassandra…

WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent issued the following statement today on the non-applicability of OECD Pillar Two to U.S. Multinationals: President Trump’s Day One Executive Orders made clear that the Biden Administration’s proposed OECD Pillar Two deal would have no force or effect for the United States. Today, the Administration delivered…

23 hours ago Theo LeggettBusiness Correspondent Getty Images Industry discounts for electric vehicles are “unsustainable”, a major motoring group has warned, as the number of new cars registered in the UK exceeded two million last year for the first time since the pandemic. Nearly 500,000 of the new cars sold were electric, according to figures…

24 hours ago Archie MitchellBusiness reporter Getty Images Nestle has issued a global recall of some baby formula products over concerns they contain a toxin which can cause food poisoning. The food and drink giant said specific batches of its SMA infant formula and follow-on formula were not safe to be fed to babies. The…

19 November 2025, China, Shanghai: Boats sail past downtown Shanghai on the Huangpu River. The tallest building on the skyline is the Shanghai Tower (rear). Bernd von Jutrczenka | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Asian defense stocks rallied for a second straight session Tuesday, even as the region traded mixed, with investors assessing geopolitical risks…

Subaru of America, Inc. (SOA) today reported 57,437 vehicle sales for December 2025, a 7.2 percent decrease. Subaru ended calendar year 2025 with 643,591 vehicle sales, a 3.6 percent decrease compared with calendar year 2024. Jeff Walters, President and Chief Operating Officer, Subaru of America, Inc.: “Subaru closed out 2025 with the same dedicated focus we…

The price of the bonds collapsed in 2019 following the imposition of US sanctions on oil sales by state company PDVSA © Issac Urrutia/Reuters The price of Venezuela’s defaulted debts surged almost 30 per cent on Monday following the US apprehension of Nicolás Maduro, delivering a windfall to hedge funds and other investors who had…

As part of its community and sustainability initiatives, Hawaiian is expanding a partnership with business accelerator Mana Up through an investment in its Mana Up Capital II fund to help more local companies scale for the global market. Hawaiian has featured more than a dozen local retailers in the food, fashion, beauty and home and…

U-Haul released its annual Growth Index today which shows Americans continue to move away from high-tax states in favor of low-tax and no-income-tax states. Three of the top four states attracting movers have no personal income tax: Texas, Florida, and Tennessee. California is ranked dead last in the index and imposes the highest top personal…

Vistra Adds to its Industry-Leading Generation Portfolio with Acquisition of Cogentrix Highlights Acquisition of Cogentrix includes ~5,500 megawatts of modern natural gas generation assets at an attractive purchase price, net of expected tax benefits, of approximately $730/kW of capacity. Acquisition is expected to deliver mid-single digit Ongoing Operations AFCFbG1 per share accretion in 2027 and…

Intel ushers in the next generation of AI PCs with exceptional performance, graphics and battery life; available this month.   NEWS HIGHLIGHTS: First platform built on Intel 18A: At CES 2026, Intel launched the Intel® Core™ Ultra Series 3 processors, the first compute platform built on Intel 18A – the most advanced semiconductor process ever developed…

RADNOR TWP., Pa. (WPVI) — Three winning scratch-off tickets totaling $7.5 million were sold in Pennsylvania, lottery officials announced on Monday. One winning “MONOPOLY Own It All” ticket worth $5 million was sold in Delaware County at the GIANT on the 500 block of East Lancaster Avenue. The grocery store will receive a $10,000 bonus…

By Stephen Nellis LAS VEGAS, Jan 5 (Reuters) – Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Monday that the company’s next generation of chips is in “full production,” saying they can deliver five times the artificial-intelligence computing of the company’s previous chips when serving up chatbots and other AI apps. In a speech at the ​Consumer…

XNY/Star Max/GC Images Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi have long garnered a reputation for facilitating cheating and insider trading — allowing an athlete, for instance, to place a bet on a game they could then lose on purpose. Now there’s compelling evidence that someone with inside information about the Trump administration’s regime change plans…

By Max A. Cherney Jan 5 (Reuters) – Intel launched Panther Lake, its new AI chip for laptops, on Monday at the CES trade show in Las Vegas, as the company seeks to ​reassure investors about the first product made using its next-generation manufacturing process called 18A. Jim Johnson, ‌senior vice president and general manager…

Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on July 15, 2025. NYSE The S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average reached new heights on Tuesday as investors moved past the recent U.S. attack on Venezuela. The broad market index rose 0.62%, notching a record close of 6,944.82. It also posted a new all-time high…

Extreme Codesign Across NVIDIA Vera CPU, Rubin GPU, NVLink 6 Switch, ConnectX-9 SuperNIC, BlueField-4 DPU and Spectrum-6 Ethernet Switch Slashes Training Time and Inference Token Generation Cost News Summary: The Rubin platform harnesses extreme codesign across hardware and software to deliver up to 10x reduction in inference token cost and 4x reduction in number of…

In this article CVX VLO HAL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Monday that investors chasing the market’s reaction to Venezuela’s political upheaval are making a familiar mistake: confusing short-term trading opportunities with long-term investing. Cramer urged investors to focus on owning high-quality stocks and sticking with them, rather than jumping…