When the Bank of England warned this week that food inflation could reach 7% by the end of the year, it revealed how little stands between a geopolitical jolt and a domestic crisis in Britain. A shock wave in the Gulf feeds through energy, fertiliser and supermarket prices into falling incomes, weak growth and job…
India has emerged as the largest user base for ChatGPT Images 2.0 since its launch last week, OpenAI said on Thursday. However, third-party data reviewed by TechCrunch points to a more measured global response, with limited overall growth alongside sharp spikes in select emerging markets. ChatGPT Images 2.0, OpenAI’s latest image-generation upgrade, is designed to…
Apple reported a record quarter on Thursday. Yet outgoing CEO Tim Cook warned of some gathering storm clouds in the form of memory chip supply issues that could impact business in the near future. “Today Apple is proud to report our best March quarter ever, with revenue of $111.2 billion and double-digit growth across every…
For many New Yorkers, popping from the Financial District midday to Harlem in the afternoon to an evening out in Midtown would be a lot. When you’re British royalty making your first trip to the United States as heads of state, it’s protocol. King Charles III and Queen Camilla capped their whirlwind trip to New…
The American economy extended a streak of resilience and expanded at an annual rate of 2 percent in the first three months of the year, even as global energy prices surged in the first weeks of war with Iran. The data from the Commerce Department offered the first official snapshot of how the U.S. economy…
Martina Hefter’s Hey, Good Morning, How Are You? has caused much argument in German literary circles. It won the country’s most influential fiction award in 2024, and quickly sold 80,000 copies. But critics were divided: Die Zeit compared the book’s seductive power to the love scammers it depicts, while Deutschlandfunk Kultur criticised its shallow characters…
Stephan Lewandowsky, a cognitive scientist at the University of Bristol in Britain, wrote by email: My research has shown that A.I. can be used to tailor political messages to people with different personalities, and that tailored messages have a slight persuasive edge over untailored messages. So on that basis alone I think A.I. will be…
A Ukrainian attack on the captured Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant kills a worker, according to the site’s Russia-installed authorities. Published On 27 Apr 202627 Apr 2026 Ukrainian officials say Russian drones have again attacked the southern port city of Odesa, injuring at least 11 people, including two children, and damaging homes and important infrastructure. Odesa Governor…
Bill McDermott, CEO of ServiceNow Inc., during the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, July 10, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images ServiceNow reported first-quarter results on Wednesday that narrowly beat Wall Street’s estimates as the software company said the conflict in the Middle East dragged on…
Shorouk Express Another Congressional lawmaker announces he won’t run again in 2026 Washington Rep. Dan Newhouse, one of two Republicans left in Congress who voted to impeach Trump after the January 6 Capitol riot, announced he will not seek re-election. In a statement Wednesday, Newhouse said the decision “comes with no reservations or remorse, only…
