Banned mercury skin creams still sold on Amazon, Temu, TikTok Shop

More than 20 banned skin-bleaching products containing mercury remain available for purchase on third-party marketplaces operated by Amazon…

Oil prices drop sharply as U.S. says Saudi pipeline could reopen within days

Oil prices dropped sharply on Wednesday as Washington moved to reassure markets that Saudi Arabia's damaged East-West pipeline…

Stanford transplants lab-grown human brain tissue into mice

Scientists at Stanford University have transplanted lab-grown human brain tissue into mice engineered to lack most of their…

Saudi Aramco seeks to restore half of pipeline capacity within days

Saudi Aramco is working to bypass a damaged section of its East-West Pipeline and restore roughly half of…

Anthropic folds Cowork into Claude, launches Docs and Slides

Anthropic announced Wednesday that it is folding its Claude Cowork product into the standard Claude chat interface, eliminating…

Google signs record carbon-removal deal with Terradot in Brazil

Google Alphabet Inc. announced on Wednesday its largest carbon removal purchase to date: a partnership with climate developer…

Microsoft AI chief says Anthropic’s Claude training could be ‘disastrous’

Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman published an essay on Wednesday arguing that Anthropic's approach to training its Claude…

New simulation links early black holes to Webb’s ‘little red dots’

A wave of new research is converging on an answer to one of the James Webb Space Telescope's…

Gartner forecasts global AI spending to hit $2.7T in 2026

Worldwide spending on artificial intelligence is forecast to total $2.7 trillion in 2026, a 49.5% increase from the…

Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign merger as $20B fundraise nears

Cohere made a string of announcements on Wednesday at the ALL IN AI conference in Montreal, signing a…

Nadella warns AI agents could ‘fake my books’

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned this week that AI agents handling business tasks could "fake my books," calling…

People’s Daily warns of countermeasures over US AI theft claims

Mozilla published version 1.1 of its State of Open Source AI report on Monday, finding that the best…

Polar ice sheets lost 11.3 trillion metric tons since 1979, study finds

About 12.5 trillion tons — or 11.3 trillion metric tons — of ice from Greenland and Antarctica has…

Russian drone found on Polish beach carried live warhead, prosecutors confirm

A Russian Gerbera-2 drone recovered from the Baltic Sea near the Polish resort town of Jarosławiec was armed…

France and South Korea reject AI slowdown as U.S. ploy

Senior officials in France and South Korea on Wednesday rejected calls from American AI executives to slow the…

Shell and Equinor warn energy market buffers are running out

Senior executives from Shell and Equinor warned on Wednesday that the global energy market's ability to absorb supply…

Standard Chartered warns markets now pricing in prolonged US-Iran conflict

Standard Chartered Bank's energy research head Emily Ashford warned on Tuesday that market expectations are shifting toward a…

DeepMind co-founder launches AGI institute with safety warning

Shane Legg, one of the three co-founders of Google Alphabet Inc. DeepMind, warned on Wednesday that rapidly advancing…

Kosovo ex-President Thaci sentenced to 25 years for war crimes

Former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci was convicted of four counts of war crimes on Wednesday and sentenced to…

OpenAI launches sponsored agents and new ad tools for ChatGPT

OpenAI on Wednesday introduced Sponsored Agents for ChatGPT, a new advertising format that lets users open a branded…

US held secret talks with Houthis in Oman after Red Sea seizure

American officials held a previously undisclosed meeting with representatives of Yemen's Houthi movement at the U.S. Embassy in…

Apollo, KKR close €3B deal for stake in Bayer unit

Apollo announced on Wednesday that its managed funds have closed a €3 billion capital solution for Bayer, completing…

Apple explores return to server market with Nvidia tech

Apple is developing an enterprise AI server powered by its in-house M8 Ultra chips and has held discussions…

Global investors grow wary of US as gold overtakes Treasurys in reserves

As the United States grapples with a national debt that surpassed $40 trillion in August, the global financial…

Meta to unveil lightweight headset, hologram calls at Connect next week

Meta is preparing to unveil Project Phoenix, its next-generation mixed reality headset, at the company's annual Connect developer…

Houthis claim missile, drone strikes on Aramco and Saudi air base

Yemen's Houthi forces claimed on Wednesday that they carried out two large-scale military operations against Saudi Arabia, targeting…

Saudi Aramco cancels European oil shipments after pipeline attack

Saudi Aramco has canceled or delayed crude oil deliveries to European refiners after a drone attack on September…

Goldman Sachs says global bond sell-off is fundamental, not technical

Government bond yields across the world's largest economies have climbed to multi-decade highs, driven by a convergence of…

Palantir faces growing backlash over hospital AI and NHS data expansion

Palantir Technologies is facing a wave of opposition on both sides of the Atlantic as nurses, patients, and…

Novo Nordisk partners with Anthropic to speed drug discovery

Novo Nordisk and Anthropic announced a collaboration on Wednesday to use artificial intelligence in drug discovery and development,…