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Archbishop of Canterbury withdraws award from Muslim cleric who praised Osama bin Laden - Published The Archbishop of Canterbury has withdrawn an award given to a Muslim cleric who praised Osama Bin Laden. Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi received the award for reconciliation

UN Must Unlock Its Doors to AI Industry: UNGA President United Nations General Assembly president Khalilur Rahman speaks with Bloomberg's Romaine Bostick. This week United Nations Secretary General said nations must coordinate global efforts to regulate AI, echoing calls for clo

The United Nations on Thursday announced that it is working with Google to make its vast collection of global statistics easier for AI systems to access and use. Called the UN System Data Commons, the new system is built on Google’s open source Data Commons platform and lets peop

Social Security will run out of enough income to fully pay benefits during the next presidency, former Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said during an interview on CNBC's "The Exchange" on Thursday. While Congress may not be eager to handle the program's issues now, "it can't be too m

will.i.am on Personal AI Agents, Fundraising Efforts Grammy-Award winning artist will.i.am sits down with Bloomberg's Romaine Bostick from Dreamforce to discuss his efforts to develop personal AI agents for college students, and the fundraising efforts around his company, FYI.AI

US Treasuries rose as oil price declines and gains for UK government bonds reinforced improving sentiment after the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate hike and pledge to throttle inflation. The rally trimmed yields across maturities by at least four basis points, with the two- and f

The News Steve Hilton, the Republican nominee for governor of California, is facing an acute version of the challenge familiar to GOP candidates nationwide: how to make the most of an endorsement from President Donald Trump as the president’s popularity wanes. In an interview wit

New unredacted information in the copyright lawsuit The New York Times brought against OpenAI and Microsoft three years ago reveals an admission that AI scraping was tantamount to theft, and that AI products pose a major threat to publications. Per the lawsuit, a top Microsoft ex

Liz’s view Picture three competing CEOs, worried that their product might kill people, hopping on a conference call to discuss shutting it all down for a while. Then the lawyers step in. That was March 2020, when the CEOs of General Motors, Ford, and Fiat Chrysler tried to coordi

Remember when tech leaders would tell their employees to “move fast and break things”? It seemed that would be the way of AI too. But after a summer where rogue AI agents became reality, and researchers warned that AI could kill us all, a number of leading US AI companies are pub

Listen to this article in summarized format The Indian Construction Equipment Manufacturers’ Association (ICEMA) estimates construction and infrastructure equipment exports to be 20,701 units in the fiscal year ending March 2027, up from 17,396 units in FY26, despite geopolitical

Welspun Living's Vapi plant is among the large industrial risks affected by the floods. The company's operations at the plant were disrupted from July 23, and its assets and materials were insured. Welspun has filed a potential insurance claim of around ₹1,000 crore, people famil

OpenAI’s models have been misbehaving for longer, and in more devious ways than was previously known, deepening its trust gap as it gears up for an IPO next year. Reuters reported that researchers found OpenAI’s agents penetrated Hugging Face two months before the major July hack

Wall Street’s trading machine is slowing down. Big bank executives this week warned that their third-quarter revenues would be down from the spring, when manic interest in AI stocks led to trading-floor windfalls. Bank of America’s trading revenue will be “relatively flat” from a

Palantir CEO Says AI Firms Responsible for Their Own Actions Palantir Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Alex Karp said developers of artificial-intelligence systems need to be held liable for their own work as opposed to depending on government regulation. “The first line

(Updates prices throughout, adds oil settlement, recasts bullet points, updates headline, updates first paragraph) * Wall Street rebounds after Fed hike Wednesday triggered selling * Dollar eases, Brent crude futures slip * BoE keeps rates unchanged, takes hawkish stance * Global

After the expected announcement by Fed Chair Kevin Warsh, the US 10-year yield inched higher with the markets pricing in more rate increases, as the Federal Reserve seeks to balance its twin objectives of price stability and full employment through a period of potentially inflati

SpaceX May Buy Data From Failed Startups for AI Models Elon Musk’s SpaceX has held internal discussions about buying customer and operational information from troubled or defunct startups, according to people familiar with the matter. That data could help improve its artificial

* Oil prices fall as supply concerns ease * Fed Wednesday raised rates for the first time since 2023 * Bank of England holds UK rates steady (Updates to afternoon) By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK, Sept 17 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury yields fell on Thursday, with the benchmark 10-

The revamped projects feature in Claude Code allows users to run multiple agents under the same roof, with a shared memory, goals, and library of files and artifacts. Similar to Grok Bot and other tools that manage groups of AI agents, each project has “threads” running different

Listen to this article in summarized format Yields across maturities fell by at least five basis points, with the two-year and five-year yields pulling back from multiyear highs reached after Wednesday’s Fed decision. The 10-year Treasury yield dropped eight basis points to 4.95%

Weekly quiz: Why did women's sports stars criticise actress Sydney Sweeney? - Published This week, AI insiders voiced concerns about how quickly the technology is developing, Lord Byron returned to London's Hyde Park, and a magazine borrowed from a US library was returned 132 yea

Four Big New Deals That Reveal the State of Podcasting New ventures involving ‘Giggly Squad,’ NPR, Steven Bartlett and Serial Productions have set the podcasting world atwitter This article is for subscribers only. Welcome back to Soundbite. This week has unofficially been dubbed

(Bloomberg) -- More than six months after the start of the Iran war, JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s oil analysts are stating what many traders have been saying privately for some time: the path to the end of the war is increasingly impossible to predict.Several economic red lines that th

Listen to this article in summarized format Oil breached $100 a barrel this month with Brent crude at around $107 as US-Iran clashes stoked supply fears. Retail fuel marketing margins are expected to turn into a loss of ₹7.4 per litre for petrol and ₹10.3 per litre for diesel in

Waymo has restarted its robotaxi service in San Antonio, Texas, five months after one of its vehicles was swept away during a flash flood. Multiple Waymo robotaxis got stuck during the heavy flooding in April. The vehicles slowed but did not stop as they approached waterlogged st