Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Europe panel will release a report on Tuesday laying the groundwork for oversight of the Trump administration’s Balkans policy should their party win a majority.
Activist investor Oasis Capital Management is considering mounting a proxy fight at Vail Resorts that would seek to shake up the company’s board and explore selling off Vail’s mountains, according to people familiar with the matter.
Senior Trump administration officials had weighed how to structure potential government equity stakes in major AI companies before the government’s export controls on Anthropic further roiled the industry.
The politics of AI are getting strange: Last week in Dallas, I listened to a conservative anti-AI activist compare data centers (unfavorably) to mosques for an anti-Muslim audience — and then warn that “algorithmic immigrants” pose a bigger threat than humans.
Raphael Warnock and Mike Johnson sat down one-on-one this month for a reason that was bigger than their stated topic.
The 10-year US Treasury yield topped 5% Monday for the first time since 2023 as the widening Middle East conflict pushed oil prices up, cementing policymakers’ shift to a more hawkish posture.
Global AI stocks fell Monday after top AI leaders endorsed slowing down the development of frontier models.
Kyiv contradicted US President Donald Trump’s claim Monday that Ukraine and Russia had agreed to pause strikes against energy infrastructure, but signaled it would be open to a truce while casting doubt on Moscow’s willingness.
American healthcare has never held greater promise for patients. Breakthrough therapies and AI-enabled care are transforming how diseases are diagnosed, treated, and managed. Yet rising costs, bureaucracy, and uneven access continue to keep quality care out of reach for too many ...
Beijing warned that AI advancements threatened China’s political, economic, and social stability even as it dismissed US calls to slow the technology’s development. China’s minister of state security wrote in a weekend essay that AI posed six principal risks from his perspective,...
Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote tapped the opening gong this morning on the floor of the Lagos exchange to open Africa’s largest initial public offer.
Opposition to US tariffs formed a point of consensus among the otherwise divergent interests at the BRICS summit, as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi touted the bloc’s “coming of age.”
South Africa’s oil importation bill could have been $4.7 billion lower if it had not closed a number of refineries, the country’s central bank said. Refining capacity in Africa’s largest economy has halved over the past decade and imported refined fuel now supplies more than half...
House Democrats are circulating a letter imploring President Donald Trump to lead an international effort to set global AI rules, according to a copy shared with Semafor.
Uber was paying Nigerian drivers more than it charged passengers for some short trips, an unsustainable subsidy that played a leading role in the US ride-hailing giant’s abrupt exit this month, according to a new report based on thousands of Uber trips.
President Donald Trump said on Sunday that the US should have the world’s lowest interest rates, piling pressure on Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh days before the bank is expected to raise them amid an increasingly hawkish global outlook.
The UAE is considering moving parts of two of its largest infrastructure projects underground to guard against future attacks. One is the 5-gigawatt AI data center project underway with US technology partners, Reuters reported. Originally planned as a 10-square-mile campus in Abu...
On an otherwise quiet Wednesday evening at Riyadh Boulevard, a sort of Times Square-meets-seaside-funfair, a bizarre experiment in the future of Gen Alpha entertainment was underway.