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A merchant ship spotted off the coast of Dubai on April 20, 2026. – | AFP | Getty Images Hello, my name is Hui Jie from Singapore. Welcome to another edition of CNBC’s Daily Open.In theory, a ceasefire has one purpose: to stop hostilities. The version being rolled out in the Middle East is testing that definition.But whether the ceasefire is shaky or not, the market continues to rise, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq setting new records. Separately, CNBC’s CONVERGE LIVE event will enter its second day in Singapore, with key participants including former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman during a media tour of the Stargate AI Data Center in Abilene, Texas, September 23, 2025.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesOpenAI on Thursday announced its latest artificial intelligence model, GPT-5.5. The company says this model is excellent for coding, using computers, and pursuing deeper research skills.This release comes less than two months after OpenAI released GPT 5.4, the latest sign of the breakneck pace of development driving the AI sector.”What’s really special about this model is how much it can do with so little guidance,” OpenAI President Greg Brockman said at a press conference Thursday. “You…
WASHINGTON, DC – The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Amnesty International, along with more than 120 civil society organizations, have issued a “travel advisory” for foreign nationals attending the 2026 FIFA World Cup in the United States.The warning, issued Thursday, points to “the deteriorating human rights situation in the United States and the lack of meaningful action or concrete assurances from FIFA, the host city, and the U.S. government.”Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe move comes as some international organizations and fans have raised concerns about how this year’s World Cup, which begins in June and includes…
(CNN) Weather sensors at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, France’s busiest airport, have been tampered with, leading the French Meteorological Association to suspect gambling fraud. France’s national meteorological agency, Météo France, said in a statement to CNN on Thursday that it had filed a formal complaint regarding “tampering with the automatic data processing system” at Charles de Gaulle Airport, which is used to measure Paris’ daily temperatures. Twice in April, users of American gambling platform Polymarket successfully bet on an unexpected rise in temperatures in the French capital, CNN affiliate BFMTV reported. Polymarket, launched in 2020, allows users to bet on…
Manchester City are in pole position to sign Nottingham Forest’s Elliot Anderson this summer, Sky Sports News understands.City are one of a number of big clubs wanting to sign him, including Manchester United and Arsenal, and leading sources believe he is destined for the Etihad. The 23-year-old England international has attracted the attention of many of their Premier League rivals since joining Forest from Newcastle United in July 2024 for a fee of £35m. image: Elliott Anderson is expected to play a key role in England’s midfield at this summer’s World Cup It remains to be seen whether a deal…
Surviving the early stages as an AI startup is about more than just making the technology work: it’s about hiring the right people, avoiding costly mistakes, and standing out in a crowded market. This week on Build Mode, Isabelle Johannesen speaks with Jasper Carmichael Jack, founder and CEO of Artisan, a fast-growing AI startup building an AI workforce for sales. Best known for its viral “Stop Hiring Humans” campaign, Artisan is leveraging AI to reimagine outbound sales while still betting on hiring great talent. In this episode, we dive into what it really takes to build and scale a venture-backed…
Former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with Mandy Drury at CNBC CONVERGE LIVE held in Singapore on April 23, 2026.CNBCFormer Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on CNBC’s CONVERGE LIVE that international institutions are “stunningly ill-adapted” to respond to modern challenges, but argued that middle powers should form new alliances in the face of pressure from great powers. “If you look at different parts of the world, whether it’s the WTO or the IMF or other institutions, you’ll see that these institutions, whether it’s the WTO or the IMF or other institutions, aren’t necessarily aligned with the objectives that…
Habib Ilan, president and CEO of Texas Instruments (TI), speaks at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the grand opening of Texas Instruments’ (TI) new semiconductor wafer fab in Sherman, Texas, USA, Wednesday, December 17, 2025. Desiree Rios | Bloomberg | Getty Imagestexas instruments The company had its best day on Wall Street since 2000 after the chipmaker reported better-than-expected quarterly results and offered a positive outlook, driven by high demand for analog chips essential to building AI data centers.Shares of Texas Instruments soared 18% on Thursday and are trading at record levels, up about 60% since the beginning of the year.…
The Trump administration on Thursday accused Chinese companies of waging an “industrial-scale campaign” to steal U.S. artificial intelligence systems and said it would consider ways to hold foreign companies accountable.”There is nothing innovative about systematically extracting and imitating the innovations of American industry,” Michael Crasios, President Donald Trump’s top science and technology adviser, said in a memo about China’s alleged “distillation” operation to train smaller AI models from larger ones.The U.S. government has previously accused China of targeting U.S. AI technology and intellectual property.Kratsios warned that as large-scale “distillation” operations become easier to detect and prevent, companies “building their AI…
Monterrey, Mexico – In July 2024, after the arrest of cartel leader Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada in Texas, activist María Isabel Cruz and her colleagues began to notice an alarming trend.Zambada was a co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel, one of Mexico’s most powerful criminal networks. U.S. authorities hailed his arrest as a “direct attack” on the campaign to dismantle the cartel.But for Cruz and her fellow activists from Sabuesos Guerreras, an organization that searches for missing people in Culiacán, Sinaloa, it marked the beginning of a gradual increase in the number of missing persons.On September 9th, the trend accelerated even…