M
MercyNews
Home

Search

245 results for "Afghanistan war"

Sort by:
RelevanceDateImpact

Here's where Costco gas savings can pay for your membership the fastest

Costco has been selling gas at bargain prices since 1995. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images Costco sells gas for around $0.20 per gallon, less than what typical fuel stations charge. In many case...

7hBusiness InsidereconomicsImpact

Will AI replace human jobs and make universal basic income necessary? Here's what AI leaders have said about UBI.

Universal basic income provides recurring cash payments, no strings attached. Wong Yu Liang AI advances could widen wealth gaps, which has prompted calls for a universal basic income . UBI offers recu...

5dBusiness InsiderTechnology

French PM Lecornu inches closer to passing budget bill without vote

France’s government is set to meet Monday to discuss a highly controversial budget bill that has left Prime Minister Sebastian Lecornu and political parties at an impasse. Lecornu is moving closer to ...

5dFrance 24Politics

David Ellison's Paramount suffers a setback in its legal fight with Warner Bros. Discovery

David Zaslav is chief of Warner Bros. Discovery, left, which just rejected Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison's latest bid for Warners. JC Olivera/Variety via Getty Images; Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via...

Jan 15Business Insidereconomics

Warren Buffett said he would have spent $100 billion without blinking — and cash is like 'oxygen' but 'not a good asset'

Warren Buffett is the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. Nati Harnik/AP Warren Buffett didn't like Berkshire having so much cash and would have happily spent $100 billion. He compared cash to "oxygen"...

Jan 14Business InsidereconomicsImpact

'Big Short' investor Michael Burry sounds alarm on AI bubble that's 'too big to save'

Michael Burry Jim Spellman/WireImage Michael Burry says AI is a bubble so big that it will tank the market and economy when it pops. The "Big Short" investor said the government will try to he...

3dBusiness InsidereconomicsImpact

Walmart's head of AI reveals the key difference between its shopping deals with Google Gemini and ChatGPT

AI chatbots are increasingly able to buy things on users' behalf, a concept known as agentic commerce. Philip Dulian/picture alliance via Getty Images OpenAI broke new ground when it enabled shopping ...

Jan 14Business InsiderTechnology

China-focused hedge funds surged in 2025. Here's who won big.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping and his ruling party have pushed to stimulate China's economy. Xie Huanchi/Xinhua via Getty Images Hedge funds betting big on China generated strong returns last year. Manage...

6dBusiness InsidereconomicsImpact

Boston Dynamics CEO told us how the humanoid robot revolution begins

Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter talked to Business Insider about how humanoid robots will transform the factory workplace. Sophia Tung Boston Dynamics revealed the latest iteration of Atlas, a 200-...

6dBusiness InsiderTechnologyImpact

One thing that might get workers to embrace AI? The 4-day workweek.

Working fewer days might help create buy-in among workers for adopting AI, authors of a book on the four-day workweek suggest. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Adopting a four-day workweek could boost employ...

Jan 14Business InsiderTechnologyImpact

A look at the EU's 'Anti-Coercion Instrument' amid Greenland dispute with US

Trump on Saturday threatened to impose more tariffs on eight European nations until the US is allowed to buy Greenland, citing US national security concerns. EU governments are drawing up retaliatory ...

5dFrance 24PoliticsImpact

As Vietnam’s US trade surplus overtakes China, Trump replaces envoy to fix ‘imbalance’

The Trump administration plans to ‌replace the US ambassador to Vietnam with a nominee set on addressing “imbalanced” trade relations, as Hanoi’s goods trade surplus ‍with Washington surpassed China’s...

Jan 13South China Morning PostPoliticsImpact

Bumble's chief product officer is out. Read CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd's memo about the 'need to sharpen our focus'

Bumble is restructuring to centralize its product, engineering, and design under one leader. As a result, chief product officer Michael Affronti has left the company after holding the role for a year....

2dBusiness InsiderTechnologyImpact

Why Wall Street's most data-obsessed investors are taking it slowly with generative AI

Quant asset managers haven't adopted AI en masse yet. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images A new Bloomberg survey of quant investors found that 54% of respondents do not use generative AI for investing. A...

2dBusiness InsidereconomicsImpact

Trump hits Macron with tariff threats, underscores tense US-France relations

Donald Trump posted a private message from France’s leader and threatened hefty tariffs on French wine and champagne, targeting an ally who has taken a firm stance against US pressure over Greenland. ...

4dFrance 24PoliticsImpact

Zhipu AI breaks US chip reliance with first major model trained on Huawei stack

Chinese artificial intelligence firm Zhipu AI said its new image generation model was trained on chips from Huawei Technologies, making it the first powerful open-source model to be developed on an en...

Jan 14South China Morning PostTechnologyImpact

Powell criminal probe upends Trump's search for a new Fed chair

White House economic advisor Kevin Hassett (left) and former Fed Gov. Kevin Warsh are leading prediction market odds for the likehood of becoming President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Federal Rese...

Jan 13Business InsiderPoliticsImpact

It's shaping up to be the 'prove it' year for workers in Silicon Valley

Across tech, pressure on workers to perform comes as leaders wait for AI bets to pay off. Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI Big Tech firms like Amazon and Meta are doubling down on worker oversight and p...

Jan 15Business InsiderTechnologyImpact

The 8 fastest-growing jobs in New York City

AI engineers ranked No. 1 in LinkedIn's list of fastest-growing jobs in New York City. Bim/Getty Images LinkedIn published rankings of the fastest-growing jobs, including for New York City. AI enginee...

1dBusiness InsiderTechnologyImpact

France PM survives no-confidence vote over forced budget

The French ​government survived two votes of no-confidence in parliament on ​January 23 that had been ​called over its decision ​to ram through the income part of the 2026 budget without giving the Na...

1dFrance 24PoliticsImpact
←6 / 13→

Categories

economics245Technology91Politics72lifestyle29society19cryptocurrency15world_news13automotive9
Clear filter

Sources

Business Insider148
IGN23
Financial Times13
France 2412
South China Morning Post11
Decrypt10