The 27 leaders of the European Union are gathering in Brussels to take stock of the recent European election results and begin the fraught process of dividing up the bloc’s top jobs. The June 6-9 elections saw the European Parliament shift to the right and dealt major blows to pro-European governing parties in Paris and […]
When Carly Bouch’s 9-year-old daughter Lillie goes back to school in the fall, it’ll be with a new principal. The change isn’t sitting right with the incoming fourth grader. Lillie addressed school board members and the superintendent during a meeting Monday night. “We don’t deserve this,” she said. “This is simply heartbreaking. You are making […]
Removing a long-time defense minister from his post is nothing out of the ordinary. Arresting five of his senior staff, however, is clearly more than just a search for fresh blood — especially in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. After the shock ouster, two weeks ago, of Sergei Shoigu as the minister for defense, a wave of […]
After smashing targets, Nvidia (NVDA) sparked a new gap-up that propelled NVDA stock past the 1,000 mark and onto a record high. Now the artificial intelligence giant is challenging Apple (AAPL) for the No. 2 ranking among Magnificent Seven stocks in terms of market cap weighting on the Nasdaq. While Nvidia CEO Jensen Juang says […]
Whatever happens in the first debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, it’s guaranteed to be among the most consequential moments of this campaign. And depending on the performance or one or both, holding that early debate in June could be the most consequential decision of this campaign. To claim we are […]
A series of high-profile departures at OpenAI has raised questions as to whether the team responsible for AI safety is gradually being hollowed out. Immediately following the announcement by chief scientist Ilya Sutskever that he was leaving the company after almost a decade, his team partner and one of Time’s 100 most important AI figures, Jan Leike, also […]
A second senior Russian defence official has been arrested on bribery charges, officials said on Tuesday, days after President Vladimir Putin replaced the defence minister in a Cabinet shake-up that fuelled expectations of more such purges. Lt Gen Yury Kuznetsov, the 55-year-old chief of the Defence Ministry’s main personnel directorate, was arrested in a raid […]
FILE – Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, talks with Russian Chief of General Staff Gen. Valery Gerasimov, left, and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu after a meeting with military leaders in Moscow, Russia, on Dec. 19, 2023. The Kremlin says Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree appointing Sergei Shoigu as secretary of Russia’s […]
icon Semafor Signals Supported by Microsoft logo Insights from the Financial Times, BBC, and Phillips O’Brien Arrow Down Title icon The News Russian President Vladimir Putin reshuffled his defense team in Moscow, a move that caught some observers by surprise, even as Russian troops made significant battlefield progress in Ukraine. On Sunday Putin replaced his […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday replaced Sergei Shoigu as defense minister in a Cabinet shakeup that comes as he begins his fifth term in office. In line with Russian law, the entire Russian Cabinet resigned Tuesday following Putin’s glittering inauguration in the Kremlin, and most members have been widely expected to keep their jobs, […]
(Bloomberg) — South Africa is heading into unchartered political terrain and investors are growing increasingly anxious. Most Read from Bloomberg The rand slumped 0.9% against the dollar on Wednesday immediately after an opinion poll by the Social Research Foundation showed support for the ruling African National Congress falling to just 37% before next month’s election, […]
Dive Brief: Joydeep Goswami is leaving Illumina 14 months after becoming its permanent CFO, the company said Tuesday. Ankur Dhingra, who worked with Illumina CEO Jacob Thaysen at Agilent Technologies, is joining the genome sequencing company to replace Goswami. Illumina also disclosed the appointment of Jakob Wedel as chief strategy and corporate development officer. Evercore […]