Is AI finally closing in on human intelligence?
The company OpenAI has developed an extremely powerful machine-learning system that can rapidly generate text with minimal human input. The system is known as GPT-3 and it does everything from craftin...
27 Nov 20209min
Brexit financial services woes, Salesforce eyes Slack, Facebook’s ad troubles
Europe’s financial sector has reached “peak uncertainty” as regulators and banks rush to stave off the harshest effects of Brexit, cloud software company Salesforce is in talks to buy Slack, and Faceb...
26 Nov 20208min
Markets rise on White House transition, France taxes US tech giants, bank dividends
US stocks surged to new highs on Tuesday, alongside global equities, as the path for a smooth transition of power in the US cleared, French tax authorities have begun demanding millions of euros in ex...
25 Nov 20209min
Yellen likely choice for US Treasury, Peru’s century bonds, Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine
US president-elect Joe Biden is poised to choose former Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen as his Treasury secretary, Peru joins a select group of countries that has issued century bonds, and the numb...
24 Nov 202010min
Europe eases lockdowns for holidays, G20 on Covid-19 vaccines, China’s crackdown on misconduct
European policymakers are preparing to relax Covid-19 lockdowns and “save Christmas”, G20 leaders pledged to “spare no effort” to ensure global access to Covid-19 vaccines, and Beijing has warned it w...
23 Nov 20208min
WHO cautions against remdesivir, wildfires and wine, Venezuelan oil as a stranded asset
The World Health Organization has recommended that doctors do not prescribe Gilead's remdesivir to patients in hospital with coronavirus, US Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin has decided against exten...
20 Nov 202010min
EU auditor: Brussels too slow to tame Big Tech, FAA clears Boeing 737 Max, Johnson’s green economy
A new report from the EU’s external auditor has found Brussels failed to tame Big Tech because it moved too slowly, the US Federal Aviation Administration issues an order on Wednesday allowing Boeing’...
19 Nov 202010min
G20 nears funding boost for low-income countries, Amazon online pharmacy, FSB report
Saudi Arabia’s finance minister says the world’s richest countries are close to unlocking additional IMF funds for low-income nations, Amazon has launched an online delivery service offering big disco...
18 Nov 20209min
