Nvidia’s Huang projects chip sales to double in 2027

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang projected Thursday that the chipmaker expects to sell twice as many chips in 2027…

WTO chief warns AI trade boom is masking tariff damage

The World Trade Organization's 2026 World Trade Report, published on Tuesday, September 15, describes what the organization calls…

World Bank mobilizes record $112B in private capital

The World Bank Group announced Thursday that it mobilized a record $112 billion in private capital for developing…

BlackRock amasses $1.5B in Ethereum via ETFs in 20 days

BlackRock has accumulated roughly $1.5 billion worth of Ethereum through its spot ETF products over a 20-day stretch…

Eurozone finance ministers to meet in Dublin amid deepening energy crisis

Eurozone finance ministers are preparing for a high-stakes meeting in Dublin on Friday, where the bloc's worsening energy…

Mastercard, Visa launch tools to govern AI shopping agents

Mastercard is introducing an autonomous payment feature this week in collaboration with startup Alchemy, which enables users to…

Mastercard launches Wallet Pay to link digital wallets globally

Mastercard has introduced Wallet Pay, a global suite of solutions designed to bridge digital wallets across contactless, QR…

Fed’s first rate hike in 3 years hammers emerging Asian currencies

The U.S. Federal Reserve's first interest rate increase in more than three years sent the dollar surging to…

WMO reports 2025 river flows among driest in 35 years

The World Meteorological Organization said on Thursday that rivers worldwide experienced one of their driest years in decades…

China presses Iran to rein in Houthis after Saudi appeal

Iran-backed Houthi fighters have swept down Yemen's Red Sea coast in a two-week offensive that has reshaped the…

BYD says it will need four factories in Europe

BYD, the world's largest electric vehicle maker, will need three vehicle assembly plants and one battery factory in…

Bank of England holds rates as Fed hikes, central banks diverge

The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points on Wednesday to a target range…

Mistral AI inks Mozilla, TotalEnergies deals after €3B raise

Mistral AI, France's flagship artificial intelligence startup, closed a €3 billion Series D funding round on September 8,…

Raiffeisen shares tumble after short-seller alleges Russia sanctions evasion

Shares of Raiffeisen Bank International fell as much as 9% in Vienna on Thursday after U.S. short-seller Grizzly…

Bill Skarsgård cast as lead in Kojima’s PHYSINT

Hideo Kojima revealed during the Xbox Microsoft Corporation Tokyo Game Show 2026 broadcast on Thursday that Swedish actor…

European shares rise as Saudi pipeline repair eases oil fears

European stock markets climbed on Thursday as crude oil prices retreated for a second session, offering relief to…

Five Gulf central banks raise rates after Fed’s first hike since 2023

Five Gulf Cooperation Council central banks raised their key interest rates on Wednesday, moving in lockstep with the…

OpenAI leaves Justin Sun’s $1M math prize unclaimed

OpenAI has declined to claim a $1 million prize awarded to it by crypto billionaire Justin Sun for…

Anthropic priced above $2 trillion as markets await IPO filing

Traders are pricing Anthropic above $2 trillion in pre-IPO derivative markets, more than double the $965 billion valuation…

Apollo in talks to nearly double SoftBank loan to $9B

Apollo Global Management is in talks with SoftBank Group to nearly double the size of a loan backing…

Oil prices fall as Saudi Arabia reroutes crude through Oman

Oil prices extended their retreat on Thursday as Saudi Arabia moved to ease global supply concerns by offering…

China’s US Treasury holdings hit 18-year low in July

The world's two largest foreign holders of US government debt both reduced their positions in July, according to…

Astronomers confirm youngest known exoplanet, less than a million years old

A team of astronomers has confirmed the youngest exoplanet ever detected, a Jupiter-mass world less than one million…

Asian LNG demand set to fall for second year as war lifts prices

Asian demand for liquefied natural gas is on track to fall for a second consecutive year in 2026,…

Euro area inflation confirmed at 3.2% in August

Eurostat Euronext N.V. confirmed Wednesday that annual inflation across the euro area rose to 3.2% in August 2026,…

Electric cars top 30% of new sales in Europe for first time

Battery-electric vehicle registrations across 16 key European markets jumped 54.2% year-on-year in August to 202,833 units, pushing fully…

ChatGPT users file class action over Project Lily chat reviews

OpenAI has been paying hundreds of contractors more than $50 an hour to read, summarize, and score real…

UN mission says US strikes on Iran school constitute war crimes

A United Nations fact-finding mission said Thursday it had found "reasonable grounds" to believe the United States was…

Fed’s first rate hike since 2023 raises stakes for BOJ decision Friday

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday approved a unanimous 25-basis-point interest rate increase — its first since July 2023…

King Charles hosts AI safety summit with tech leaders in Scotland

King Charles III is meeting Thursday with executives from major artificial intelligence companies at Dumfries House in Ayrshire,…