Pockets of fuel shortages worldwide, continuing price spikes, and rising inflationary pressure are now more imminent amid the ongoing Iran war escalation and the continuing decline of global energy supplies, analysts said. On Wednesday, the global benchmark for crude oil topped $101 per barrel for the first time since July and the U.S. standard for
Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on keeping AI systems aligned with human interests and under human control, is joining the OpenAI Foundation board, the frontier lab said Wednesday. “I now believe there is a meaningful risk that rapid acceleration in AI capabilities leads to catastrophic and irreversible loss of control in the very
President Donald Trump promised every adult US citizen a $5,000 payment if Republicans win both chambers of Congress in November, dangling a cash incentive as he urged supporters to treat the midterm elections like another presidential race. Speaking at the Republican Party’s midterm convention in Dallas on Wednesday, Trump unveiled what he called the “Trump
LG on Wednesday denied that its TVs eavesdrop on customers after a gaming site appeared to show that the TVs can be used to listen to conversations in real time. Also read: You’ve Heard About Smart Home Hacking: Here’s How It Works and How Likely It Is “The claims made in the recently published video
When U.S. supermarket chain Walmart opened its first Chinese outlet in Shenzhen in 1996—five years before China joined the World Trade Organization—the retail landscape in the country looked vastly different. With no large-scale hypermarts, shoppers rose at dawn to snag the freshest produce at local wet markets. Yet, in the last 30 years, China’s rising
Apple has seen reason: It has a black model in the iPhone Pro lineup again. Last year, Apple went bold with its colors for the iPhone 17 Pro, offering a flashy orange, a shiny silver, and a dark blue. Don’t get me wrong, they looked nice. But there was no black (or dark gray) for
