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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…
Pope Leo The Pope’s remarks to reporters on the papal plane returning from a visit to Africa came after President Donald Trump criticized the pope’s stance on the Middle East conflict. During the in-flight press conference, the pope also addressed the issue of immigration, saying that in some cases immigrants are treated “worse than pets.” America’s first pope told CNN last month that he hoped President Trump would find a “way out” to end the Iran war, and expressed opposition to justifying the conflict on religious grounds. But hours before the Pope departed for Africa on April 13, the US…
OpenAI on Thursday released its latest AI model, GPT-5.5, which the company calls its “smartest and most intuitive model” to date. The algorithm has enhancements in a number of areas, and OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman claims it also brings the company one step closer to creating OpenAI “super apps.” In a call with journalists, Brockman said the new model is a major step forward “toward more agentic and intuitive computing.” “This model is a real step toward the kind of computing we expect in the future. But it’s one step, and we expect to see many more in…
A stock trader stares at a monitor in the trading room of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Concerns about a new coronavirus variant in southern Africa are hitting the German stock market hard. Arne Dedert | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesLONDON — European stock markets rose on Thursday as regional market sentiment remained subdued.pan-european Stocks 600 ended the day up 0.1%, with the region’s major stock exchanges and sectors showing mixed performance.Stocks of major cosmetics companies loreal After the company reported its best quarterly growth in two years on Thursday, it closed at 9%, marking its best day since November 2008.nokia…
The steps are the latest example of a shift away from heavy penalties that have been replaced by broader legalization efforts.by Reuters and Associated PressPublished April 23, 2026April 23, 2026The United States has announced that it will reclassify state-approved medical marijuana as a less dangerous drug. This is in line with the growing trend away from penalties for possession.The Justice Department clarified Thursday that the changes do not legalize recreational or medical marijuana under federal law.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of listHowever, it would move certain marijuana products from the Schedule I category of the federal government’s five-tier drug…
Celtic winger James Forrest has agreed a new contract that will keep him at the club next season.The 34-year-old, the club’s most decorated player, has penned a one-year contract extension with the current Scottish Premiership champions. Forest won 26 major honors with the Hoops, including 13 league titles, seven Scottish Cup titles and six League Cup titles. image: Forest won 26 major trophies with Celtic He has scored 110 goals in 564 appearances for the club, having scored in all 17 seasons he played for Celtic.”I’m really happy, I’ve spent my entire career here and I’ve loved every minute of…
Former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with Mandy Drury at CNBC CONVERGE LIVE held in Singapore on April 23, 2026.CNBC Hello, Leonie Kidd is writing from Singapore. It’s day 2 of the CONVERGE LIVE event.Today’s headline story is former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, commenting for the first time on the Middle East conflict and the difficult road to peace. The fragility of extending the ceasefire has also kept markets on edge, with volatile trading in Asia weighing on demands from Europe and the United States to begin.What are the key takeaways from this trip? Uncertainty is uncertainty, and…