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France’s finance minister has warned that US moves to seize Greenland could damage trade relations with the European Union, as one analyst told CNBC that tariffs and sanctions could lead to a “trade war.”US President Donald Trump has stepped up his talk this month of annexing Greenland, and has not ruled out the possibility of an armed occupation. Talks between the United States, Denmark and Greenland over the future of the world’s largest island ended on Wednesday without any diplomatic progress.French Finance Minister Laurent Lescure told the Financial Times on Friday that economic ties between the United States and Europe…

Runpod, an AI app hosting platform launched four years ago, has reached an annual revenue run rate of $120 million, founders Zhen Lu and Pardeep Singh told TechCrunch. Their startup journey is a wild example that if you build well and your timing is lucky, they will come. This story includes our journey to over $1 million in revenue. VC Radhika Malik, a partner at Dell Technologies Capital, raised a $20 million seed round after seeing some posts on Reddit. The company acquired another major angel investor, Hugging Face co-founder Julien Chaumont, because he used the product and reached out…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai during a press conference after meeting with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk at the Warsaw Google for Startups Campus on February 13, 2025 in Warsaw, Poland.Jakub Porzycki | Null Photo | Getty Imagesgoogle filed an appeal Friday against a federal judge’s ruling that the company had an illegal monopoly in the core market of Internet search.The appeal could delay relief for the Alphabet-owned company while the legal process progresses. Lee Ann Mulholland, Google’s vice president of regulation, said in a blog post Friday that the 2024 ruling “ignores the reality that people use Google because they…

Drake reveals shocking $125 million in gambling losses in one monthsay, drakeit seems a$ap rocky We also have beef. After rappers share children RZA3, and riot2, and rockyfor 4 months rihanna— dropped don’t make fun of mehis first album since 2018, he almost admitted that his track “Stole Ya Flow” was a diss towards the “One Dance” singer. “I think everybody knows,” A$AP said during a Jan. 16 appearance on the show. new york times’ pop cast podcast when asked about the nod to Drake in the track. “I don’t know, I just started seeing people who were friends at…

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. new york stock exchangeU.S. Treasury yields rose on Friday as investors focused on the economic outlook and geopolitical concerns.The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield rose more than 6 basis points to 4.227%. The two-year government bond yield rose 3 basis points to 3.594%. The yield on the 30-year US Treasury note also rose by more than 5 basis points to 4.836%.One basis point equals 0.01%, and yields and prices move in opposite directions.Investors have been concerned about geopolitical uncertainty throughout this week, with President Donald Trump insisting on taking ownership…

We are always looking for comfort at lower prices. And no one knows that better than Gap. People are currently obsessed with the brand’s ultra-soft fabrics, chic designs, and practical constructions for the winter season. Gap’s cropped hoodie is currently trending on TikTok! So as soon as we heard about Gap’s crazy sale going on this weekend, we loaded up our carts full of cozy styles. There are some notable sales going on right now, including up to 60% off on select styles. But the additional discounts in the sale section are what caught our attention. Now through January 24th,…

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on January 12, 2026.Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty ImagesFor the first two weeks of 2026, President Donald Trump’s administration detained Venezuela’s president, threatened to counter Iran’s violent crackdown on protests, and mooted the possibility of using force to seize Greenland. So why are stock prices rising?The headlines triggered price movements in the following asset classes: gold, silver and oil Traders sought safe haven as they weighed the impact of US intervention in the Middle East on oil supplies.However, the stock market seems to be ignoring this news. of…

The Trump administration wants to add $15 billion worth of new power generation to the largest power grids and wants tech companies to pay for it, even if they don’t need that capacity. The White House and the governors of several states in the region are calling on grid operator PJM to hold an auction for a 15-year contract for new generation capacity. The administration has said it wants tech companies to bid on contracts, even if the data centers ultimately don’t need the power. Demand from data centers is expected to nearly triple over the next decade. PJM said…

Open AI CEO Sam Altman speaks during a talk session with SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son at an event titled “Transforming Business with AI” held in Tokyo on February 3, 2025.Tomohiro Osumi | Getty ImagesIn November, following Nvidia’s latest earnings release, CEO Jensen Huang touted his company’s position in artificial intelligence to investors, saying of the sector’s hottest startup, “Everything OpenAI does today runs on Nvidia.”While it’s true that Nvidia maintains its dominant position in AI chips and is currently the world’s most valuable company, competition is emerging and OpenAI is committed to diversification as it pursues historically aggressive expansion…

Reuters — Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine’s party said on Friday that he was taken from his home by the military and taken to an unknown location as President Yoweri Museveni was on the brink of a landslide re-election. Mr Wine’s National Unity Platform party said in a post on X on Friday night that a military helicopter had landed at his compound in the capital Kampala and he was “forcibly taken to an unknown destination”. Reuters could not immediately confirm the claims, and some party officials said they were unconfirmed. Spokespeople for the Ugandan government and military did not…