Trump bans Canadian dairy, alcohol, vehicle imports starting Sept. 29

President Trump on Tuesday signed proclamations banning the import of certain Canadian dairy products, alcoholic beverages and motorcycles,…

Bitcoin slides below $78K as Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia roil markets

Bitcoin slipped below $78,000 on Tuesday for the first time since September 3, as a spike in crude…

Tech firms scale back AI-driven layoffs after falling short

The promise that artificial intelligence could seamlessly replace large swaths of the human workforce is running into hard…

August 2026 was the hottest, most humid month ever recorded

Last month was the hottest and most humid August ever recorded, with global average temperatures soaring to 1.65…

Broadcom CEO says AI growth capped by power, not chips

Broadcom CEO Hock Tan laid out the company's most detailed AI growth trajectory yet at the Goldman Sachs…

Tencent prepaid over $7B to lock in memory chips for AI

Tencent spent more than 50 billion yuan ($7.4 billion) in prepayments during the second quarter to secure current…

L Catterton-led group buys fitness brand Hyrox for nearly $700M

Global fitness racing brand HYROX has a new ownership group. On Tuesday, Infront Sports & Media confirmed it…

LatAm currencies lead EM gains as oil nears $100

Latin American stocks and currencies edged higher on Tuesday as oil prices climbed toward $100 a barrel and…

OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra reaches general availability on Amazon Bedrock

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, the company's most capable model to date, reached general availability on Amazon Amazon.com, Inc. Bedrock…

First adult T. rex trackway discovered in North Dakota

A high school teacher's sharp eye in the North Dakota badlands has led to a once-in-a-lifetime paleontological discovery:…

U.S. strikes more Iranian tankers after second missile attack on Navy warship

The U.S. military struck multiple Iranian oil tankers on Tuesday after Iran launched a second wave of missile…

UK to legislate forcing Apple, Google to block nude images on children’s devices

The UK government announced on Tuesday that it will introduce legislation requiring Apple and Google Alphabet Inc. to…

S&P warns all major hyperscalers burning cash as AI capex hits record levels

The five largest cloud infrastructure companies have collectively spent $1.1 trillion on capital expenditures over the past five…

Trump bars Canadian goods from U.S. government contracts

President Donald Trump on Tuesday directed the General Services Administration to work with the U.S. Trade Representative to…

LIV Golf files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, proposes player ownership model

LIV Golf filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Tuesday in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the…

US missile strikes Iranian tanker near Kharg Island

A US missile struck a small Iranian oil tanker approximately four miles from Iran's Kharg Island on Tuesday,…

Copper hits new all-time high as supply crunch deepens

Benchmark three-month copper futures on the London Metal Exchange surged to an all-time high of $14,533 per metric…

Iran fired undisclosed second wave of missiles at U.S. Navy ships, WSJ reports

Iran fired missiles at U.S. Navy ships on Monday in an attack the American military has not publicly…

Wheat futures slide after Trump-Putin phone call

Euronext wheat futures reversed early gains and settled lower on Tuesday after news broke that U.S. President Donald…

OpenAI commits $5M to study AI’s effects on teens

OpenAI on Tuesday announced a $5 million grant program to support independent research into how generative AI affects…

220M airline passenger records exposed in Vietnam-linked database leak

A misconfigured Elasticsearch database left more than 220 million airline passenger and crew records — including passport numbers,…

European gas prices hit three-year high on Hormuz risk, storage gap

European natural gas prices surged to their highest level in nearly three years on Tuesday, September 8, 2026,…

ECB, Fed and BOJ could all raise rates this week

The European Central Bank is set to announce its rate decision on Thursday, September 10, opening a week…

Meta launches Muse, a personal AI agent that acts on users’ behalf

Meta on Tuesday unveiled Muse, a personal AI agent that goes beyond chatbot-style question-and-answer interactions to autonomously handle…

Dollar slides as yen surges despite Fed rate hike bets

The U.S. economy added 162,000 jobs in August, nearly tripling the consensus forecast and reigniting expectations that the…

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.5 with faster, sharper output

OpenAI on Tuesday released ChatGPT Images 2.5, a broad upgrade to its image generation system that promises faster…

OECD debt-servicing costs top $2 trillion a year

The cost of servicing government debt across the world's advanced economies has crossed $2 trillion a year, a…

SoftBank to court investors for up to $20B junk bond sale

SoftBank Group is preparing to meet with investors in New York next week to test appetite for what…

Iran threatens US energy assets, declares Gulf exclusion zone

Iran has declared it possesses the full capability to strike US Navy vessels enforcing an economic blockade on…

Cognition AI raises $2B at $48B valuation, doubling in four months

Cognition AI, the startup behind the autonomous coding agent Devin, announced on Tuesday that it has raised over…