Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said Tuesday that “there has to be some regulation” of artificial intelligence, pointing to several documented cases of suicide linked to the technology. “This year, you really saw something pretty horrific, which is these AI models became suicide coaches,” Benioff told CNBC’s Sarah Eisen on Tuesday at the World Economic Forum’s…
The second position goes to China, which has government debt of nearly $18.7 trillion. Even though its total debt is still a fraction of the United States’, China had the world’s fastest annual growth rate in 2025, at 13.6%, with about $2.2 trillion added there last year alone. The rise was driven by continued state-led investment, local…
AFP About 20,000 people with alleged links to IS are held in al-Hol camp Syria’s government has announced a new ceasefire with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), after the militia alliance withdrew from a camp holding thousands of people with alleged links to the jihadist group Islamic State (IS). The SDF said its forces…
Anthropic on Tuesday announced it has appointed legal and international affairs expert Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar to its Long-Term Benefit Trust, the company’s independent governance structure that selects Anthropic’s board members and advises leadership. Cuéllar has served in three U.S. presidential administrations, acted as a Justice of the Supreme Court of California and chairs the board of the…
Emmy-winning actor Timothy Busfield will appear in court on Tuesday for a hearing to determine whether he will remain in a New Mexico jail or be released pending trial on child sex abuse charges. Busfield, 68, turned himself in last week after he was charged with one count of child abuse and two counts of…
Palestine warned, on Tuesday, that Gaza is enduring relentless bombardment, coupled with a deprivation of basic necessities, accusing Israel of using starvation as a weapon of war against civilians, Anadolu Agency reports. “There is no shortage of bombs falling on Gaza, but there is an imposed shortage of everything else; starvation as a weapon of…
Imagine your washing machine breaks during harsh winters or heavy monsoons! What will you do if your engineer gives you an appointment a week after? Well, you will have to think of something to dry your clothes during tough times, without the help of a dryer. It can be tricky in winters and monsoons as…
Guy Hedgecoein Adamuz, southern Spain Reuters Spain’s King Felipe (far right) visited the crash site with Queen Letizia on Tuesday Sunday’s high-speed train crash in southern Spain, the worst in over a decade, has been a devastating tragedy for the country, with the loss of at least 42 lives. And amid the grief, many are…
Richard Teng, co-CEO of Binance, during the DC Blockchain Summit in Washington, March 26, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Ripple’s CEO predicted Binance would reenter the U.S., as the cryptocurrency exchange’s co-CEO said it would adopt a “wait-and-see” approach. Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, exited the U.S. in 2023 as part of…
WASHINGTON — Congressional negotiators in both parties released a massive bill Tuesday aimed at fully funding the government ahead of a shutdown deadline on Jan. 30. The 1,059-page bipartisan bill includes money for the Pentagon and the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Homeland Security, and reduces the chances of another funding lapse…