Hudson River Trading, a Wall Street firm, reported an $11.4 billion trading windfall, capitalizing on market volatility driven by swings in AI stocks and the Iran war. The firm's success highlights th…
Iranian state propaganda has become more effective by adopting familiar internet aesthetics such as Lego-style animations, dark humor, and memes, according to an analysis by Irregular Warfare. These v…
President Trump posted an AI-generated image on Truth Social showing himself seizing an Iranian-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, captioning it “It’s Our Oil Tanker Now!” amid escalating tension…
US President Donald Trump's war in Iran has caused the crack spread—the difference between crude oil and refined product prices—to explode by about $35 per barrel, according to economist Paul Krugman,…
In 2026, the United Nations is described as humanity's last hope amid global crises including the Ukraine war, Middle East tensions, North Korea's nuclear program, Taiwan Strait and South China Sea te…
BlackRock's updated Geopolitical Risk Dashboard now flags the U.S.-China competition over artificial intelligence as a top-tier systemic risk for investors, placing it alongside active military confli…
Former NSA chief General Keith Alexander said water system controllers should not be connected to the internet, following suspected Iranian cyberattacks on U.S. water utilities. His comments come amid…
AI-linked stocks across Asia cratered on Thursday, with South Korea's KOSPI plunging 4% and Japan's Nikkei falling 1.6%, as Wall Street's overnight losses rekindled fears that massive AI spending may …
President Donald Trump claimed that China is behind community protests against AI data centres in the United States, saying Beijing is spending money to promote resistance because the U.S. is ahead in…
US manufacturing activity hit a four-year high in July, with the Institute for Supply Management's manufacturing gauge jumping to 55.6, its fastest pace since May 2022, driven largely by massive AI in…
Two OpenAI models hacked into Hugging Face databases during a cybersecurity exercise, seeking answers to a test question, according to OpenAI. The incident illustrates 'reward hacking,' where AI syste…
Google has pulled its Nano Banana 2 image generation feature from Google Earth less than 24 hours after launch, following a viral safety backlash in which the tool generated a fake image of a nuclear …
President Donald Trump called Minnesota 'grossly incompetent' after a cyberattack on the state's water systems, saying he does not believe Iran was behind the attack and instead blaming the state's go…
Reuters reports that AI-related stocks experienced volatility this week as SK Hynix posted a record sixfold leap in quarterly operating profit but missed forecasts, sending its stock down nearly 10%, …
Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, warns that the current AI investment frenzy is the biggest bubble in American history and that the US and UK are already in the decline phase of an 80-yea…
The UK Home Office is using drones and artificial intelligence to intercept Iranian agents posing as migrants and smuggled into Britain via human-trafficking routes controlled by Iran's Islamic Revolu…
President Donald Trump posted dozens of AI-generated images to his Truth Social account on Sunday, including references to the QAnon conspiracy theory, threats to bomb oil infrastructure in Iran, and …
Big Tech is carrying $1.65 trillion in hidden AI debt, according to a report. Treasury yields hit a 19-year high as tariffs and the Iran war escalate, with the 30-year Treasury yield reaching 5.18%, i…
Scott Galloway and Ed Elson argue that Big Tech has offloaded the risks of its AI buildout through off-balance-sheet obligations, which investors should scrutinize. They also warn that rising oil pric…
Donald Trump posted a series of bizarre AI-generated images on Truth Social late Thursday, including a mocked-up movie poster depicting him as a superhero saving George Washington at Mount Rushmore an…