Most U.S. Agency for International Development direct hire will be "placed on administrative leave globally" from 11:59pm this Friday ET, per a statement posted to USAID's site. Why it matters: The announcement comes days...
By the time the day is over, you may be at your most irritable, sad, or anxious self—even if you started the day feeling bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. And it turns out, many people are likely experiencing the same pattern in their moods,...
Assassination Bombing At High-Security Area Of Moscow Kills Pro-Russian Ukrainian Separatist Another mysterious assassination of a pro-Russian official has rocked Moscow. Over the nearly three-years of the Ukraine war, there's been a...
Google plans to insert ads in its Gemini multimodal model, following the recent addition of advertisements in the AI Overviews portion of its search engine as it seeks to recoup the high cost of processing AI workloads. “We do have very...
Major stock indexes in the Asia-Pacific region traded mixed on Thursday, as investors digested data published by S&P Global showing Australia's services activity rose to 51.2 in January while Japa...
SINGAPORE/JAKARTA -- Shares in Singapore-based Grab Holdings jumped nearly 13% in trading in New York on Tuesday following media reports that the ride-hailing and food delivery group is in talks to merge with its Indonesian rival GoTo....
Waffle House, which has about 2,000 locations nationwide, is responding to an alarming situation that has frustrated consumers nationwide. Over the past few months, the poultry industry has been battling a ferocious bird flu crisis. Bird...
East Timor would prefer to work with Australia and partners Woodside Energy and Japan's Osaka Gas over Chinese firms that have expressed interest in developing the stalled Greater Sunrise natural gas field, its president said.
The fast-food restaurant sector in the last year has suffered from an array of economic issues that have forced businesses to close locations. Businesses have blamed the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, rising costs from inflation,...
Asian shares were mostly lower Wednesday as markets mulled the impact of tariffs being imposed by the United States and China. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 slipped 0.2% in early trading to 38,727.19. Australia's S&P/ASX 200...
Chinese stocks lose ground in Hong Kong and mainland amid tariff uncertainty Technology stocks outperform as the DeepSeek effect draws investors Mainland China’s markets dipped on Wednesday along with Hong Kong stocks as investors...
Who's afraid of DeepSeek's impact on AI hardware sales? Not AMD CEO Lisa Su Predicts more efficient ML architectures will drive adoption, see Instinct sales accelerate, shares dive AMD's chief exec Lisa Su has predicted the...
Saudi Arabia reaffirmed its position that it will not establish diplomatic ties with Israel unless an independent Palestinian state is created, the Saudi foreign ministry said in a statement. The sta...
Consumers are willing to pay higher prices at fast-casual restaurants if they get good portions, quality ingredients and value for the money, Chipotle executives said Tuesday (Feb. 4). Reporting the company’s results for the fourth...
TV Keeps Losing Ground Just 59 percent of people surveyed by Statista Consumer Insights in the United States in 2024 had watched linear television in the last twelve months. In contrast, 86 percent said they had watched digital videos...
TAIPEI -- Taiwan's Constitutional Court faces an unprecedented decision that could determine the survival of one of the tech power's most critical entities: itself. The opposition coalition of the Kuomintang (KMT) and Taiwan...
Oil prices were little changed on Wednesday after volatile trading in the previous session as investors shrugged off the impact of China's tariffs on U.S. energy imports though President Donald Trump's renewed push to eliminate...
Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Tuesday ordered the state-run oil company Ecopetrol to cancel a joint venture with a U.S.-owned company that was expected to produce around 90,000 barrels of oil per day, citing environmental...
Alphabet achieves first $100B annual profit ... and sees its shares sink Whaddya gotta do to impress investors these days? Maybe convince them you're not overspending on AI? Google’s parent Alphabet has achieved $100 billion in...
Donald Trump's administration is moving to exert more control over the federal government's technology, ordering that CIOs should be politically appointed.
Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”
Japan’s boom in management buyouts looks set for stricter oversight to protect minority shareholders when companies go private. The Tokyo Stock Exchange will this month consider changes to the Corporate Code of Conduct that would require...
The U.S. Postal Service said Tuesday it's temporarily suspending all inbound packages from China and Hong Kong Posts. The change is effective immediately and will remain "until further notice," according to an alert posted to...
Thieves poached about 100,000 eggs from the back of a distribution trailer, authorities in Pennsylvania said. The theft occurred around 8:40 p.m. Saturday at Pete and Gerry’s Organics LLC in Greencastle, police said in a report. The eggs...
Google Search is in the midst of a “journey” around AI, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said during the company’s earnings call on Tuesday. The start of that journey was AI overviews, a controversial and monumental shift in how Google delivers...
Enova International’s fourth quarter growth — with double-digit gains in loan originations and revenues — showed strength across small business demand and lending to consumers. The FinTech uses machine learning and digital channels to...
A hundred thousand eggs were stolen Saturday from an organic supplier in Franklin County amid skyrocketing prices stemming from an avian flu outbreak, Pennsylvania State Police said. The eggs were swiped from the back of a distribution...