• AI investments: Alphabet, Microsoft earnings show hefty AI bets are driving growth

    Alphabet and Microsoft ignited a rally in technology stocks on Friday with earnings that showed big AI investments were driving growth, allaying doubts that their costly bets would take time to pay off after a soft forecast from Meta Platforms. Alphabet rose 10%, crossing $2 trillion in market value with a gain of about $180 billion as it sweetened the pot for investors with its maiden dividend and a $70 billion stock buyback. The world's fourth most valuable firm flirted with the milestone on...

  • AI tools from Microsoft and Google are just streamlining middle management, leading AI expert says: WSJ

    Microsoft and Google rolled out their own AI-powered productivity tools last year, touting them as products that could revolutionize how people work.But one leading AI expert thinks otherwise.Ethan Mollick, a professor of management at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, has been tapped by the White House, JP Morgan, Google, and many others for his insights on artificial intelligence.In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Mollick said Microsoft's Copilot and...

  • Repatriation of Filipinos in Middle East

    Amid escalating tensions between Iran and Israel, the Philippine government is gearing up to ensure the safety of over two million Filipinos residing in the Middle East.

  • Labor’s Middle East folly

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  • Pope calls for dialogue in Middle East

    Shafaqna English- Following the Regina Coeli in Saint Peter’s Square on the Fourth Sunday of Easter, Pope Francis urged dialogue over conflict in the Middle East. Pope Francis once again expressed his hope that dialogue, negotiation, and diplomacy might prevail in the Middle East. He urged against succumbing to “the

  • AI A 'Fundamental Change In The News Ecosystem': Expert

    Artificial intelligence is shaking up journalism and in the short term will cause "a fundamental change in the news ecosystem", media expert David Caswell told AFP.

  • NASA Is Leveraging AI to Combat Climate Change—Here's How

    NASA is intensifying its efforts to understand and address the planet's warming with AI. Amid escalating extreme weather events fueled by climate change, NASA is intensifying its efforts to understand and address the planet's warming.

  • Australia sounds alarm over war in the Middle East

    The federal government is alarmed after Israel launched retaliatory strikes on Iran, bringing the Middle East closer to a regional war. “Australia remains extremely concerned about the potential for miscalculation and further escalation of conflict in the region,” Acting Foreign Minister Katy Gallagher said on Friday. “This is in no one’s interests. “We urge all […]

  • Europe down in premarket amid Middle East tensions

    Equities in Europe traded lower in the premarket on Friday as investors assessed the effects of Israel's reported retaliatory drone attack on Iran. They also anticipated the newest reports on Germany'

  • Biden's Middle East policy is beyond parody

    That’s right. Israel has had more than a thousand of its citizens raped, tortured, murdered and kidnapped, it’s been subjected to a massive missile attack, and it’s being told to exercise “restraint.”

  • Russian cautions over escalating conflict in the Middle East

    Moscow, Apr 13 (Prensa Latina) Russia has expressed utmost concern about another dangerous escalation in the Middle East, repeatedly warning over unresolved crises primarily in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict zone would lead to increased tension, according to a statement by its Foreign Ministry. The post Russian cautions over escalating conflict in the Middle East first appeared on Prensa Latina.

  • Middle East tension: how worried should airline passengers be?

    The Man Who Pays His Way: An obsession with risk management has made aviation astonishingly safe