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Omar Marquez | Light Rocket | Getty ImagesCryptocurrency trading platform Crypto.com announced Thursday that it will lay off 12% of its staff as it integrates artificial intelligence.”We join the growing list of companies integrating enterprise-wide AI. Companies that don’t make this pivot soon will fail,” CEO Chris Marszalek wrote in a post on X. “As part of this step, we have reduced our workforce by up to 12% with the goal of reducing headcount in roles that cannot adapt to the new world,” he added, noting that the new structure will set the company up for “continued success.”A Crypto.com spokesperson…
The market impact of the Iran conflict has rippled through all major asset classes, leaving little safe space for global investors. Analysis conducted by MSCI’s research team reveals how war risk is currently flowing into equity portfolios and which markets are more at risk. MSCI found that emerging markets in Asia are most vulnerable to oil supply disruptions due to the Strait. Analysts said the stock markets of China, South Korea, India and Taiwan, each of which is highly dependent on oil via Hormuz, were hit hardest among major stock exchanges by news of the de facto shutdown. Research director…
Meta announced Thursday that it will begin deploying a more advanced AI system to handle content enforcement as it plans to cut back on third-party vendors. Tasks related to content enforcement include capturing and removing content related to terrorism, child exploitation, drugs, fraud, and fraud. The company says that once these more advanced AI systems can consistently outperform current content application methods, it will roll them out across its apps. At the same time, it reduces reliance on third-party vendors for content enforcement. “There will still be people reviewing content, but these systems will be able to take on tasks…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks at the BlackRock Infrastructure Summit in Washington, DC on March 11, 2026. Anna Moneymaker | Getty ImagesOpenAI announced Thursday that it will acquire Astral, a small startup that makes popular open source tools for software developers. Astral’s team will join OpenAI to help build an artificial intelligence coding assistant called Codex. The companies did not disclose financial terms of the acquisition. “Through it all, though, our goal is the same: to make programming more productive. To build tools that fundamentally change the way it feels to build software,” Astral founder and CEO Charlie Marsh wrote…
Meghan Markle shares some of her favorite thingsThe series showcases Meghan’s love of hospitality, cooking, gardening, and decorating, but also highlights her other interests. For example, in one episode she hosted a game night for her friends. “In the last few months, we all started learning mahjong together,” she said. “Mahjong originated in China in the 1800s, and we play a version called American Mahjong. What I really loved about Mahjong was that the game itself was so much fun, but what was best of all was the idea of learning something new with your friends and realizing that Mahjong…
Published March 19, 2026March 19, 2026The Senegalese Football Federation has instructed its lawyers to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after the national team was stripped of its African Cup of Nations (AFCON) title.The Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Tuesday reversed Senegal’s victory and awarded the title to Morocco, two months after the final.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of list”Senegal will continue to stand and duly defend this victory won on the field by the talent of our players,” federation president Abdoulaye Fall told a news conference.”We have authorized our lawyers to proceed with this…
Wall Street analysts liked Micron’s big gains, and several companies raised their price targets following the report. The memory and storage solutions company on Wednesday reported fiscal second-quarter earnings per share of $12.20, with revenue nearly tripling to $23.86 billion. Both of these results significantly exceeded consensus estimates. The outlook for the current quarter also exceeded the expectations of analysts surveyed by LSEG. A surge in demand for memory due to the build-out of artificial intelligence continues to support Micron’s business, particularly from Nvidia, which uses the company’s products in its graphics processing units. Revenue from Micron’s cloud memory business…
Editorial images show the interior of the new Tesla Model 3 with full self-driving enabled.Null Photo | Getty ImagesThe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration teslaThe company’s “fully autonomous” system, according to a filing posted on the agency’s website Thursday.The investigation into Tesla’s FSD looks into possible safety flaws that could make it unsafe for drivers to use in fog, bright sun or other “reduced road visibility conditions.”The investigation began last year and includes 3.2 million Tesla vehicles, including Model S, X, 3, Y and Cybertruck EVs, that are available with the company’s FSD brand of driver assistance systems, according to…
melbourne, australia AP — A fluffy possum stands out among the crowded shelves of stuffed native animals in an Australian airport gift shop. Its big brown eyes were moving. A passenger browsing a display shelf in a departure terminal store at Tasmania’s Hobart Airport first spotted a live Australian brushtail possum peeking out among the kangaroos, airport retail manager Liam Bloomfield announced on Thursday. Above the possum were a bilby, a marsupial with long rabbit-like ears, and a dingo, a native Australian dog. Next to the possum in the kangaroo section was the Tasmanian devil, the growling carnivore that was…
Morgan Stanley said Carnival’s sharp decline since the outbreak of the U.S.-Iran war has made the stock even more attractive. The bank upgraded the cruise operator from equal weight to overweight, while lowering its price target slightly to $31 from $33, implying an upside of more than 28% from Wednesday’s closing price. Despite the upgrade, Morgan Stanley lowered Carnival’s net earnings yield forecast, believing European demand would be depressed due to the Middle East war and its impact on oil prices. But analyst Jamie Rollo said demand shocks are usually the best time to buy stocks. Since the war began,…