Tencent raises $5.7 billion in debt sale as demand defies AI scrutiny
Tencent Holdings has raised about $5.7 billion through US dollar and offshore yuan debt offerings on Tuesday, drawing combined
October 13, 2026Tencent Holdings has raised about $5.7 billion through US dollar and offshore yuan debt offerings on Tuesday, drawing combined
October 13, 2026US chipmaker Nvidia has agreed to buy stakes in French technology startups Doctolib and Genesis AI, the two French companies said on Tuesday.
October 13, 2026World stocks edged lower on Tuesday as concerns about AI spending weighed on chipmakers and investors looked ahead to more US corporate
October 13, 2026The head of MI5 says Iran is trying to hit military sites in the U.K. and the suspected plot to attack a U.S.-run military air base in September is not unique
October 13, 2026Grocery store chain Kroger says it will lay off 3,000 corporate employees over the next three years as it ramps up its use of artificial intelligence to streamline operations
October 13, 2026Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev says drones struck two ships in the Black Sea, sinking one and prompting emergency rescue operations
October 13, 2026The Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments in a watchdog’s lawsuit seeking public records about billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency
October 13, 2026A selloff in AI supplier shares on Tuesday is the strongest sign to date that the mood on the trade of the decade is shifting, with growing worries that
October 13, 2026Cyberattacks have disrupted European supermarket chains, causing refrigeration systems to overheat at hundreds of stores in France
October 13, 2026French investigators on Tuesday were hunting the hackers who seized control of cooling units at hundreds of supermarkets in a
October 13, 2026Europe's STOXX 600 ended marginally lower on Tuesday, retreating from a one-week high, after a sharp selloff in chip stocks overshadowed optimism from
October 13, 2026Boeing said on Tuesday it delivered 57 jets in September, up from 51 in August and 55 a year earlier as the US plane maker works to ramp up production of
October 13, 2026CVS Pharmacy Inc. and various subsidiaries have agreed to pay $315 million to resolve a Justice Department case alleging it unlawfully dispensed medically unnecessary prescriptions of highly addictive opioids
October 13, 2026Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee said on Tuesday that inflation is starting to feel like "aggregate overheating" fueled by spillovers from the artificial
October 13, 2026Shares of US chipmakers dropped on Tuesday, with memory-related companies leading losses as reports of a technology advance by China's CXMT stoked competition fears and added to
October 13, 2026Martin Shkreli has violated a lifetime ban from the pharmaceutical industry by trading stocks and discussing his opinions about companies in the industry, federal and
October 13, 2026MI5 spy chief Ken McCallum delivered his annual speech on Tuesday outlining his view of the threats to Britain, from hostile states such as Iran and Russia to the
October 13, 2026The dollar slipped from an 18-month high on Tuesday as oil prices retreated and investors reassessed the AI-fueled rally that has supported demand for US
October 13, 2026Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said on Tuesday it would be interesting to watch for political volatility around AI centers ahead of
October 13, 2026A new warning about artificial intelligence from Anthropic caused a stir in cybersecurity circles on Tuesday, a day after the company
October 13, 2026President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the United States continues to share intelligence with Ukraine and is working with both Kyiv
October 13, 2026Character.ai files for bankruptcy following lawsuits alleging ties to teen suicides
October 13, 2026Why billions spent on defense haven’t shielded Saudi Arabia from Houthi attacks
October 13, 2026An influential Hindu nationalist group close to India's ruling party urged the government on Tuesday to block Elon Musk's Starlink from launching
October 13, 2026The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq opened lower on Tuesday as chip stocks came under selling pressure again, while investors assessed a mixed set of quarterly results, including reports
October 13, 2026Bumble is set to go private in a $1.3 billion deal with Ithaca Holdings after struggling for years to revive growth, as a prolonged decline in users and
October 13, 2026Iran is stepping up attempts to hit harder targets such as military sites in Britain and Russia is increasing its hybrid warfare against Ukraine's allies,
October 13, 2026Apple just announced a new gadget that could be key to its AI push
October 13, 2026Sexual enhancement supplements often contain unlisted prescription drugs that pose serious health risks.
October 13, 2026European automakers urged policymakers on Tuesday to do more to help them cope with Chinese competition and the shift to electric
October 13, 2026UK in ‘new era of national security’ as AI supercharges rising threats, security chief warns
October 13, 2026President Donald Trump said on Monday he did not believe that China and Russia were helping Iran "at all," even as US
October 13, 2026Opposition to data centers is widespread across the US, uniting people despite other differences on political and environmental issues.
October 13, 2026The Paramount merger may make good business sense, but research shows putting more media power in fewer hands can come at a cost to the common good of citizens.
October 13, 2026Climate activists in South Africa have picketed outside the African Energy Week conference, demanding an end to new oil and gas exploration across the continent
October 13, 2026Chinese automakers are expanding in Europe, betting on their competitive pricing and advanced technology to break into a market traditionally dominated by European and American
June 02, 2026Formula 1 has confirmed Rwanda will host a race from “the early 2030s” when the series returns to Africa after about 40 years
October 13, 2026India's "cockroach" youth movement leaders were detained on Tuesday after they jumped barricades to enter a historic Delhi site popular for protests, demanding that the
October 13, 2026Could GLP-1 drugs be anti-aging medications?
October 13, 2026Poland blames Russia for an arson attack on a Starlink satellite station in September and two Turkish citizens have been arrested in connection with the sabotage
October 13, 2026Brian Eno, the multi-hyphenate artist, producer, sound designer and political activist best known for his pioneering work in ambient and electronic music, relaunches his transformative label Opal Records on Friday
October 13, 2026The US auto market will eventually embrace electrification despite a slow uptake of electric vehicles so far, Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa said on Tuesday, predicting the
October 13, 2026Police have detained two more people in connection with a fire at a Starlink station in Poland last month, private broadcaster RMF FM reported on Tuesday, citing anonymous
October 13, 2026Hedge funds are drawing in new fans and a rush of capital from Asia, as pensions, family offices and other investors look to alternative
October 13, 2026The BlackRock Investment Institute said it had downgraded its view on US stocks to neutral, citing volatility around AI, and upgraded Treasuries, preferring short-term
October 13, 2026Visa has received approval to prepare for a bank card clearing business in China, allowing it to compete in the country's payments market
October 13, 2026US payments firm Visa has received approval from China's central bank to begin preparations for a domestic bank card clearing institution in the country, ending years of waiting to
October 13, 2026Russia's invasion of Ukraine is reshaping NATO's defence technology priorities, with counter-drone systems and space-based surveillance emerging as
October 13, 2026While no person has ever set foot on Mars, humankind has managed to conduct extensive explorations of the surface of Earth's planetary neighbor using
October 13, 2026Banking regulators are stepping up efforts to contain growing AI risks, six people familiar with the matter
October 13, 2026Franco-Italian automaker Stellantis said on Tuesday its global third-quarter shipments fell 1% from a year ago to an estimated 1.3 million vehicles, hit by a summer production
October 13, 2026The International Monetary Fund warned on Tuesday against "complacency" in global financial markets, citing risks from an
October 13, 2026A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Ankur Banerjee A steep rout in AI stocks on signs that China is swiftly closing the tech gap has cast a shadow over
October 13, 2026As Chinese electric vehicle makers challenge Europe's auto industry with cheaper cars and increasingly sophisticated technology,
October 13, 2026Officials in Pakistan say a passenger train has derailed, killing four people and injuring 30 others
October 13, 2026Nvidia's share of China's market for data-centre AI chips fell to 34% in the first half of 2026, as US export controls restricted supplies of its products and domestic
October 13, 2026The Trump administration opposes "coercion and aggression" by China against countries for exercising their sovereign rights, the US State Department said,
October 13, 2026Japan's NTT Data Group, a unit of telecommunications giant NTT, is in the final stages of talks to build a data centre in Osaka, western Japan, for US AI company Anthropic,
October 13, 2026Anthropic said on Monday new measures designed to prevent rivals from copying the capabilities of its Claude AI models have reduced data harvested in so-called distillation attacks
October 13, 2026Japanese manufacturer Omron will buy US industrial PC firm Onlogic and its parent company, Interlogic, for $675 million, the company said on Tuesday.
October 13, 2026The global economy will still manage to top 3% real GDP growth this year as strong AI investment offsets the energy shock from the war in the Middle East,
October 13, 2026The International Monetary Fund trimmed its growth forecasts for Latin America and the Caribbean for this year and next and said most of the region was getting little lift
October 13, 2026Oil and fuel prices rose on Monday following weekend attacks on a Saudi airport, which had a varied impact on global stocks.
October 13, 2026Kroger plans to cut roughly 3,000 corporate roles over the next three years, CEO Greg Foran told staff in a memo, seen by Reuters on Monday, as the grocer integrates AI into its
October 13, 2026North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles toward the sea off its east coast on Monday, South Korea's military said, marking Pyongyang's fourth
October 12, 2026President Donald Trump's administration is planning to move three senior officials from the Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence (CAISSI) to the
October 13, 2026A 14-year-old Israeli boy was killed and 24 people were injured when what was most likely an unexploded ordnance went off during a school hiking trip near the border with
October 12, 2026British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Monday that a suspected plot targeting the RAF Fairford air base in Britain was "highly likely" to have been
October 12, 2026Europe's car industry fought back against rising Chinese competition at the Paris car show on Monday with a wave of new model launches and
October 12, 2026Meta on Monday launched Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, calling them its most capable AI models yet, as the social media firm looks to compete more forcefully with OpenAI and
October 13, 2026Hackers raised the temperature of refrigerators and freezers at hundreds of French supermarkets to as high as 50 degrees Celsius (
October 12, 2026The archbishop who oversees Catholic pastoral services for the U.S. military is condemning the proposed livestream of Nidal Hasan's firing squad execution
October 13, 2026Marijuana on the ballot for the final time in Idaho? Voters to decide if lawmakers have sole power to legalize
October 13, 2026Global smartphone shipments fell 20% on-year to their lowest third-quarter level since 2012, as soaring memory chip costs and supply shortages pressured manufacturers and pushed up
October 12, 2026The sharp rise in long-term US Treasury yields has spurred mortgage-related hedging that adds selling pressure to an already
October 12, 2026Batters have been more successful with robot umpire challenges in the playoffs than during the regular season
October 12, 2026Conflict and drought are worsening food insecurity in Sudan’s Darfur and Kordofan regions, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification
October 12, 2026Elon Musk emerges as the top booster for Republicans with $276 million in donations
October 12, 2026US academics Robert Hall and Michael Woodford won the 2026 Nobel economics prize on Monday for decades of work developing ground-up
October 12, 2026Lithium startup EnergyX said on Monday it has signed a $2 billion binding offtake to supply commodities trader Trafigura with the battery metal from Chile and the
October 12, 2026By Stephen Nellis and Max A.
October 12, 2026China's passenger car exports have surged 64% in September compared to the same month in 2025, according to an industry association
October 12, 2026General Motors plans to launch an advanced iteration of its driver assist technology on the 2028 Cadillac Escalade IQ electric vehicle
October 12, 2026Storms big and small can produce a lot of rain. What matters most is how fast they’re moving, as an atmospheric scientist and educator explains.
October 12, 2026For more than a century, scientists have treated Antarctica’s environments as windows into worlds beyond Earth.
October 12, 2026New genomic tools let scientists dig into the family trees of crops like rice, corn and adzuki beans to learn more about how they transitioned from wild plants to domesticated crops.
October 12, 2026NASA may already have proof life once existed on another planet. Scientists might never get to find out
October 12, 2026Nikon revokes first prize in Small World in Motion video competition over AI use
October 12, 2026When AI goes rogue, who should get sued?
October 12, 2026Artificial Intelligence needs urgent global regulation with independent evaluators able to vet new developments, the president of Microsoft said, warning that AI currently
October 12, 2026Airbus has carried out the first test flight in Europe of a US-built drone that it hopes to team with Eurofighter jets, but without yet incorporating its
October 12, 2026The US is in the middle of a historic and costly technological revolution, with the artificial intelligence buildout driving a level of investment
October 12, 2026By Nolan D.
October 12, 2026Strong investment in AI infrastructure is keeping global growth at around 3% with major benefits for Asia, but also foreshadows a "slow-moving
October 12, 2026Broadcom CEO Hock Tan said on Monday that capital will be the biggest constraint facing the company as AI development continues and likened some of the investment flow
October 12, 2026Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan said on Monday that the token costs of Chinese frontier AI models have been lower and adoption has been "very fast".
October 12, 2026Artificial intelligence could help offset Asia's shrinking workforce as some countries' populations age, provided its adoption is scaled evenly across the region
October 12, 2026German automaker Volkswagen reported a 14.3% decline in global deliveries in the third quarter on Monday, its sharpest drop in more than four years, as weakness in China, its
October 12, 2026South Korea’s military says North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters, adding to a recent streak in weapons demonstrations
October 12, 2026Hurricane Simon pounds Mexico’s Pacific coast as a Category 3 storm
October 11, 2026U.S. President Donald Trump says Russia and Ukraine had agreed to an “energy ceasefire” in the 4 1/2-year-old war, but he offered no details on it and Kyiv reported continued attacks by Moscow on energy sites after his statement
October 11, 2026Defense tech firm Anduril unveiled on Monday its Steelfin family of configurable and scalable surface-to-air interceptor missiles designed to tackle diverse aerial threats, as the
October 12, 2026TSMC, the world's largest manufacturer of advanced AI chips, will likely report a sixth consecutive quarter of record earnings, driven by
October 12, 2026American AI developers can give the British government early access to AI models for safety testing
October 12, 2026Top executives of Chinese AI startup Moonshot are in talks ahead of its planned Hong Kong listing to settle a legal dispute with a shareholder demanding compensation for their
October 12, 2026Amazon is in talks to acquire AI startup Decart in a deal valued at around $7 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter.
October 12, 2026Man injured after being struck by ICE vehicle while fleeing on foot during enforcement operation, officials say
October 11, 2026Stellantis heads into Paris Motor Show with a message it hopes customers, investors and dealers are ready to hear: after
October 11, 2026A bipartisan group of six senators are calling on President Donald Trump’s administration to “immediately reverse course” on a plan to purchase diesel from Russia as part of an effort to lower high fuel prices
October 11, 2026A US-based team of marine archaeologists has set sail for a tiny island in the far western Pacific seeking to examine the latest tantalizing clue to one
October 10, 2026AM radio is disappearing from cars. Congress wants to stop that
October 11, 2026Think you can’t live without a smartphone? Why a flip phone might be an upgrade
October 11, 2026Trump says Ukraine should get a new leader as he spars with Zelensky over US-Russia diesel deal
October 10, 2026Elon Musk said he would price Starlink's satellite internet service affordably in India to take on Mukesh Ambani's low-cost Reliance Jio, escalating
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October 11, 2026The US military said on Saturday it had disabled a commercial cargo vessel in the Gulf of Oman after the ship's crew ignored warnings and attempted to run a naval blockade against
October 11, 2026At least 12 people were killed and more than 300 wounded in an attack on Riyadh's international airport on Saturday, the deadliest in the
October 10, 2026AI is among 17 potentially ‘catastrophic threats’ that researchers say require targeted action
October 11, 2026Nvidia is in talks to deepen its investment in open-source startup Reflection AI or acquire it, the Financial Times reported on Saturday, citing people with direct knowledge of the
October 11, 2026Panama's government has declared a state of emergency following two powerful earthquakes that shook the country
October 10, 2026At least 4 dead as Isaias pushes further inland across Southeast
October 10, 2026Infosys, India's second-largest IT firm, said on Saturday that it does not anticipate a material impact from the Permanent Labor Certification (PERM) application suspension
October 10, 2026Jaguar reveals a $130,000 all-electric vehicle. Why?
October 10, 2026Since OpenAI disclosed this summer that its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company in what is now referred to as the Hugging Face incident, other AI companies have jumped on the bandwagon with their own concerning events, such as hacking or runaway bots seemingly evading human control
October 10, 20265 men died after being injured along a Michigan trail. Their deaths have raised questions about a possible serial killer
October 10, 2026An Anthropic artificial intelligence model submitted a false tip to Philadelphia police about an unsolved homicide case, authorities and Anthropic said
October 10, 2026Stopping men from raping women starts long before they’re adults
October 10, 2026A drone strike blamed on Sudan's paramilitaries has killed 41 displaced people near the Ethiopian border
October 10, 2026Isaias has crashed into the U.S. Gulf Coast as a Category 2 hurricane, bringing damaging winds and heavy rain to Alabama and the Florida Panhandle
October 09, 2026An atmospheric scientist explains what’s been going on in the atmosphere, and how El Niño and the jet stream both play important roles.
October 09, 2026A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake has struck Panama, collapsing buildings and prompting evacuations
October 10, 2026Hurricane Isaias makes landfall on Florida Panhandle with destructive winds and storm surge
October 09, 2026Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodriguez has authorized Starlink, the satellite internet service operated by Elon Musk's SpaceX, to operate in the Latin American
October 10, 2026Hurricane Isaias has been downgraded to a Category 2 hurricane, which still includes extremely dangerous winds and extensive damage
October 09, 2026By Max A.
October 10, 2026A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck southern Panama on Friday, damaging buildings and sending thousands into the streets, but the country
October 10, 2026A contractor linked to Super Micro Computer has pleaded guilty in a scheme to illegally export computer servers containing advanced
October 10, 2026President Donald Trump asked the US Supreme Court on Friday to revive his dismissed lawsuit against his 2016 Democratic rival Hillary Clinton accusing her of
October 10, 2026Amazon on Friday confirmed it was shuffling leadership in its Alexa division, a day after the company announced its first tablet computers featuring
October 10, 2026Lockheed Martin on Friday unveiled PAC-3 Edge, a missile interceptor designed to defend against hypersonic and advanced missile threats, as the US military looks to strengthen its
October 10, 2026An Anthropic artificial intelligence model submitted a false homicide tip to a Philadelphia police website, among a string of incidents the AI company disclosed on Friday detailing
October 10, 2026President Donald Trump has announced that Katie Zacharia, a communications adviser for his media company, will succeed Karoline Leavitt as White House press secretary
October 10, 2026The Justice Department has moved to allow more people to purchase firearm suppressors — known as silencers — short-barreled rifles and other certain guns without registering them with the federal government following a court ruling that struck down provisions of a key law
October 10, 2026The U.S. stock market finished its record-setting week with gains, even as other financial markets remained indecisive
October 09, 2026Wall Street ended higher on Friday as investors shifted their focus to next week, with third-quarter earnings season set to start and
October 09, 2026Moldova's pro-European government intends to press for changes in legislation to allow for the production of weapons, but needs them for its own defence
October 10, 2026GSK will invest more than $800 million to expand its Upper Merion, Pennsylvania site into a new biopharmaceutical manufacturing and research hub, creating more than 300 jobs over the
October 10, 2026European Union rules setting guardrails on AI use adopted by the bloc two years ago are more than capable of tackling rogue agents, EU tech chief Henna
October 09, 2026Republican nominees for Senate, the U.S. House and governor’s offices across the country are sidestepping President Trump or openly distancing themselves as they debate Democratic opponents before Election Day
October 09, 2026China and the European Union have reached a broad initial agreement to ease trade tensions
October 09, 2026EV-maker Tesla has started calling its "Full Self-Driving" feature "Tesla Assisted Driving" on its European websites, dropping a name regulators have said was misleading, as CEO Elon
October 09, 2026A friend of the suspected thief of a massive cache of personal data from the FBI says he begged the teenager not to do it.
October 09, 2026The US government said on Thursday it is suspending some major global tech and IT firms including Microsoft and Cognizant from a key green
October 09, 2026The FBI has arrested an accused co-conspirator of the hacking group ShinyHunters
October 09, 2026Netflix is planning to cut about 5% of its workforce, with an announcement expected as early as next week, Puck News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.
October 09, 2026Delta Air Lines said on Friday that the industry may need to curb flight growth further next year to protect profitability, as
October 09, 2026FBI Director Kash Patel said on Friday the bureau has arrested another person tied to the ShinyHunters hacking group.
October 09, 2026India's telecom minister said on Friday the country does not allow monopolies in any sector, pushing back after Elon Musk suggested billionaire Mukesh Ambani was using
October 09, 2026The shadowing of a Western satellite supporting Ukraine by a cluster of Russian military satellites earlier this year demonstrates
October 09, 2026Ukraine struck and partly disabled a major data centre operated by Russian technology company Yandex on Friday in the second such action
October 09, 2026Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa said on Friday the automaker's partnership with British startup Wayve could help slash development times and costs for advanced driver-assistance
October 09, 2026Germany on Friday dismissed remarks by the head of the French armed forces who said Berlin had decided to quit a troubled Franco-German tank project.
October 09, 2026China's leading AI developers have publicly disclosed model-specific safety-test results for only a small fraction of their releases, a report by
October 09, 2026SpaceX has agreed to acquire a nationwide portfolio of licenses in the low-band spectrum in a deal reportedly valued at $8 billion, as it looks to expand
October 09, 2026Global leasing giant Avolon said on Friday it had agreed to order 140 aircraft from Boeing and 110 from Airbus, with an option to buy a further 100 jets from the European
October 09, 2026The Trump administration is pushing forward with a $46 billion border wall from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico
October 09, 2026A supersized El Niño’s decapitating winds and the Gulf of Mexico’s hot storm-fueling waters are battling for the core and future of land-approaching Hurricane Isaias and the storm’s tilt and eye show who’s winning
October 09, 2026Rocks deep underground can be used to hold heat until it’s needed.
October 09, 2026Engineers are using a unique test facility called the Wall of Wind to develop housing that’s both affordable and disaster-resistant. Their tests show the magnitude of the challenge.
October 09, 2026Bets on midterm endorsements, rallies, debates and dropouts raise insider trading concerns
October 09, 2026South African judge Navanethem "Navi" Pillay, who was awarded the Nobel peace prize on Friday, has been a judge on several international courts,
October 09, 2026Baltimore anti-violence official advocated for early release of man charged in child's killing
October 09, 2026OpenAI has fired three safety researchers for a "breach of trust," defending the decision after the trio accused the company of prioritizing corporate interests over safety
October 09, 2026The US bull market is going strong as it nears its four-year anniversary, driven by an AI spending engine that is propelling corporate profits and
October 09, 2026