Stocks nosedived, bond prices tumbled and Treasury yields jumped as investors panicked over heated geopolitical tensions and a potential retreat among European investors in US government bonds.
Alex Karp issued the warning after being asked if AI will “create jobs or destroy jobs overall” during a wide-ranging discussion at the World Economic Forum.
Universal Music Group’s $775 million acquisition of the music-services giant Downtown Music Holdings is likely to be approved by the European Commission in the coming weeks, according to a new report in Reuters citing sources with “direct knowledge of the matter.” The deal was
“Most technologies are like guns. They tend to get aggregated and captured by those who already have a lot. Technology, in other words, generally exhibits preferential attachment to power .”
Thousands of kilometers of Balkan rivers have been damaged in recent years, a study published Wednesday found, as hydropower development, dams and sediment extraction drive a "steady erosion" of some of Europe's last pristine waterways.
Long walks in eerie woods and sessions with a trusted collaborator led the Irish singer-songwriter to his third album, The Weight of the Woods, out March 27
The mission followed a jail break earlier this week amid an advance by Syrian government forces into parts of the country long held by U.S. partners.
Hollywood is feeling nostalgic as Sundance prepares for its final hurrah in Park City. If distributors really want to give the indie film festival a proper sendoff, they’ll engage in a few of the all-night bidding wars that gave the mountain resort its storied electricity. This
The Yellow Affair has come on board as the sales agent for “Shame and Money,” the new feature by writer-director Visar Morina, which is set to have its world premiere in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival. A first-look clip debuts here. “Shame
Warm Arctic waters and cold continental land are combining to stretch the dreaded polar vortex in a way that will send much of the United States a devastating dose of winter weather later this week with swaths of painful subzero temperatures, heavy snow and powerline-toppling
[Namibian] Young people in Namibia are among the least interested in starting their own businesses compared to their peers across Africa.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will depose longtime Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell on Feb. 9, Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) said on Wednesday. Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2022 for her role in procuring abuse victims
Even before taking office last Saturday, new Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat, demanded and received the resignations of several of her Republican predecessor Glenn Youngkin’s appointees to the board that oversees the University of Virginia. In a similar vein,
The cave art dates back at least 67,800 years.
We now have direct images of two supermassive black holes: M87* and Sag A*. The fact that we can capture such images is remarkable, but they might be the only black holes we can observe. That is, unless we take radio astronomy to a whole new level.
A team of researchers led by the University of Warwick has developed the first unified framework for detecting "spacetime fluctuations"—tiny, random distortions in the fabric of spacetime that appear in many attempts to unite quantum physics and gravity.
Can a small lump of metal be in a quantum state that extends over distant locations? A research team at the University of Vienna answers this question with a resounding yes. In the journal Nature, physicists from the University of Vienna and the University of Duisburg-Essen
AARP on Wednesday called for staffers at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to be held accountable for sharing Social Security data with an advocacy group seeking to “overturn election results” and for storing private information on Cloudflare. “SSA is entrusted
It's one of astronomy's great mysteries: how did black holes get so big, so massive, so quickly. An answer to this cosmic conundrum has now been provided by researchers at Ireland's Maynooth University (MU) and reported today in Nature Astronomy.
President Trump’s bid to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook faced a hesitant Supreme Court on Wednesday at a blockbuster oral argument over the central bank’s removal protections. A majority of the justices appeared reluctant to sign off on Trump’s argument that he could
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said Wednesday he received positive feedback from world leaders after he criticized them a day earlier for caving to President Trump on foreign policy. “I heard a surprising number say: ‘I’m glad you made those comments,’” Newsom told reporters
KARACHI, Pakistan, Jan 21 - Pakistani firefighters on Wednesday retrieved the bodies of up to 25 people from the debris of a shopping mall fire in Karachi, taking the death toll to around 50.
Screen tearing issues are marring 2XKO 's console debut The post League Of Legends Fighting Game Finally Hits Consoles But PS5 Players Say It Needs More Work appeared first on Kotaku .
One conservative justice warned that the White House interpretation of the law could "shatter" Federal Reserve independence.
The first trailer for Masters of the Universe arrives Thursday, but a new teaser for the live-action film reveals the movie's heroes.
Baby pictures are some of a family's most cherished artifacts. The same thing can be said of the Hubble Space Telescope and the infant stars it immortalizes in its scientific portraits. But while we know how babies are conceived and how they form in great detail, the same can't
Israel launched fresh strikes on what it said were Hezbollah targets in south Lebanon after raids earlier Wednesday killed two people, the latest violence despite a year-old ceasefire with the militant group. The state-run National News Agency said Israeli warplanes launched
This year's Apex Legends Global Series Championship was more dramatic than ever
The ultimate zombie-killing crossover is on the horizon as “World War Z” has announced the release date for its upcoming collaboration with AMC’s “The Walking Dead.” Based on Paramount’s “World War Z” film, the co-op zombie shooter video game will launch its “TWD”-themed DLC
The U.S. should deepen its cooperation with Mexico to reduce drug demand and cut off the southbound gun pipeline, rather than taking military action against Mexico, which would be counter-productive and jeopardize the progress made in reducing drug flows.
Director William David Caballero and his mother bring loved ones back to – audio and visual – life via a range of tools, "discovering that every act of creation is also an act of letting go."
Endemol Shine North America (ESNA), a Banijay Americas company, has named two new executive vice presidents. Variety has learned exclusively that Michael Heyerman has been promoted to the role of EVP of unscripted series, while Sean Loughlin has been promoted to EVP of
At 3.3 billion light-years across, the ring may challenge the “cosmological principle” that the universe looks uniform at sufficiently large scales.
House Democrats introduced a discharge petition Wednesday to force action on a bill banning members of Congress, the president, the vice president and their immediate families from owning, holding and trading stocks. The petition so far has been signed by seven Democrats,
Andy Muschietti remains involved as director as the studio takes a measured approach in its development.
When an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good in south Minneapolis on Jan. 7, 2026, what happened next looked familiar, at least on the surface. Within hours, cellphone footage spread online and eyewitness accounts contradicted official
In 2019, Vampire Weekend bassist and occasional solo artist Chris Baio got together with Mike Greene, the dance producer better known as Fort Romeau. They formed a duo called C.Y.M. and released a self-titled EP. Last year, C.Y.M. released their debut album, which is also
You never have to question which country Men At Work are from because they put it right in the chorus of their biggest hit: "I come from a land down under." That song, the chart-topping early '80s smash " Down Under ," has apparently been played at recent events organized by
Do President Trump’s advisers actively want him to act like a dictator? At the very least, there’s plainly a deep split inside Trumpworld on this question. As deranged as it seems, one faction clearly believes Trump absolutely should project unconstrained tyrannical power, to
In a week filled with news about President Donald Trump's aggressive moves to take control of Greenland, the world got a window into his thinking about the concept of "peace."
Rifaat al-Assad became infamous for violently suppressing an Islamist uprising in 1982, an operation in which the Syrian Network for Human Rights later estimated that 30,000 to 40,000 civilians were killed – an episode often cited as a blueprint for how former president Bashar
The UK government has launched a consultation on introducing an Australian-style ban on social media for under-16s. The proposal is framed as a bold response to rising concerns about young people's mental health, online abuse and exposure to harmful content.
The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a court decision that blocked the implementation of two memos issued last year, which threatened to pull school funding over certain actions around diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). The appeal upholds a ruling by the federal
Joe Yates , Prof Philip J Landrigan , Prof Jennifer Kirwan and Prof Jamie Davies respond to an article on doubts raised about studies on microplastics in the human body While it may be a belated Christmas present for the petrochemical industry, your article ( ‘A bombshell’:
Addressing the World Economic Forum, US President Donald Trump attacked Europe’s energy policies and alleged the US “returned” Greenland to Denmark following World War Two. The Cube looks at where facts back his claims.
The rapid growth of artificial intelligence has sharply increased electricity and water consumption, raising concerns about the technology's environmental footprint and carbon emissions. But the story is more complicated than that.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called Denmark “irrelevant” on Tuesday amid tensions between the U.S. and the Scandinavian country over Greenland. “Denmark’s investment in U.S. Treasury bonds — like Denmark itself — is irrelevant,” Bessent said at a press conference Tuesday.
