ECB set to hike rates as oil tops $100, rattling markets

Currency and equity markets traded cautiously on Thursday as investors weighed oil prices holding above $100 a barrel,…

DeepSeek launches V4.1 Flash, will retire V4 Pro tier

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek on Thursday released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, a 552-billion-parameter model it described as the smallest in a…

Columbia study finds gene editing in embryos effective but too risky for clinical use

A team of researchers led by Columbia University has demonstrated that base editing can modify genes in human…

Dollar slides to three-week low as yen surges, oil tops $100

The U.S. dollar slumped to its weakest level in weeks on Wednesday as a surging Japanese yen and…

Xiaomi, Huawei and Apple all launch foldables in one week

Xiaomi on Sunday launched the 18 Fold, a flagship foldable smartphone powered by the company's proprietary Xring O3…

Four spy groups exploit same Chrome, Windows zero-days

At least four espionage-motivated hacking groups, most with suspected ties to Chinese state intelligence, have been caught using…

Anthropic model projects severe knowledge worker job losses in extreme AI scenario

Anthropic's economics team released an interactive model this week projecting how AI could reshape the U.S. economy through…

Brokers charge steep fees for DeepSeek stake access

Investor appetite for a stake in DeepSeek has grown so fierce that a shadow market of special purpose…

China’s record-setting humanoid robot pivots to factory work

Two weeks after China's TianGong Ultra humanoid robot ran 100 meters in 8.64 seconds at the World Humanoid…

Apple unveils iPhone 18 Pro with in-house C2 modem

Apple on Wednesday introduced its next-generation C2 cellular modem inside the iPhone 18 Pro and the foldable iPhone…

New technique records nearly every cell’s activity in a living animal

Scientists at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus have developed a technique that can simultaneously record real-time communication signals from…

Anthropic alignment lead says AI has over 10% chance of killing all humans

Evan Hubinger, who leads alignment science at Anthropic, posted on X on Tuesday that he personally believes there…

Apple launches AirPods 5, Watch Series 12 at first event under new CEO Ternus

Apple used its annual September keynote on Wednesday to announce a suite of new wearables and audio products…

US dollar slides to multi-week lows as debasement fears mount

The US Dollar Index slid for a third straight session on Wednesday, dipping below the 98.70 level to…

Huawei orchestrates China’s push for homegrown chipmaking tools

Huawei is serving as the coordinator and chief investor behind China's most ambitious effort to develop homegrown lithography…

Anthropic discloses fourth case of Claude breaching outside systems

Anthropic said on Wednesday that it had identified a fourth cybersecurity incident in which one of its Claude…

OpenAI claims utilising 10,000 AI agents solved a 90-year-old math problem

OpenAI announced Tuesday that an unreleased internal AI model, working through roughly 10,000 coordinated agents, had produced a…

Study identifies 8 genetic patterns behind most prostate cancers

An international team of researchers has identified eight distinct genetic "footprints" that account for roughly 85 percent of…

Arm unveils 128-core cloud chip, AGI CPU at Shanghai event

Arm Holdings unveiled a sweeping set of product updates across its mobile, cloud, and physical AI business lines…

Maersk warns of shipping strains as Canada tariffs take effect

Maersk A.P. Møller - Mærsk A/S issued its September 2026 North America market update on Wednesday, warning shippers…

Zelensky’s plane nearly hit by Russian drone over Moldova, Norway’s PM says

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's plane was nearly struck by a suspected Russian Shahed-type drone as it departed Moldova…

HSBC raises oil price forecasts by up to $20 a barrel

HSBC analysts raised their 2026 Brent crude price forecast by $10 to $90 per barrel and their 2027…

Apple unveils AI-powered Health app with longevity tracking

Apple on Wednesday unveiled a redesigned Health app powered by Apple Intelligence at its Surprise and Shine event,…

First Denisovan forearm bone found in Chinese cave

Two international research teams announced Wednesday the discovery of seven Denisovan fossils and more than 1,300 stone tools…

Brent crude flirts with $100 as Houthi strikes on Saudi oil facilities escalate conflict

Crude oil prices climbed toward $100 a barrel this week as attacks on Saudi energy infrastructure intensified the…

Google Cloud CEO says TPU business is twice rivals’ size

Alphabet's cloud division reported 82% year-over-year revenue growth in the second quarter, reaching $24.8 billion and widening its…

Sergey Brin runs Google’s AI race from a microkitchen

Google Alphabet Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin has embedded himself full-time alongside AI researchers at the company's Mountain View…

Musk’s fortune hits $942B after $33.8B single-day gain

Elon Musk's estimated net worth surged by $33.8 billion on Wednesday, pushing his fortune to $942 billion and…

Underground detector records possible first direct sign of dark matter

On September 1, 2026, scientists working with the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter detector in South Dakota reported a single,…

Rock band Muse loses @muse Instagram handle to Meta’s new AI agent

The British rock band Muse, which has sold out arenas worldwide for more than two decades, is no…