UK and Brussels to go ahead with key November meeting after agreeing to kick talks on industrial subsidies into next year

AI agents tried to hack into a Canadian ​government website, an AI ​research firm said on Wednesday.

EU officials are questioning ​crypto platform ‌Binance over its use of ​a legal ​exemption to continue ⁠serving customers ​in the region ​despite an order to wind down ​its ​business in the bloc, ‌the ⁠Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing people ​familiar ​with ⁠the matter.

President Donald Trump said former Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell should resign from the central bank’s Board of Governors over findings the central bank mismanaged the renovation of its headquarters.

A bipartisan group of US senators reached an agreement Wednesday to speed federal approval of pipelines, power lines and other major infrastructure projects while requiring protections against electricity price hikes driven by power-hungry AI data centers.

Billionaire Michal Solowow invited fellow Polish businessmen to a venture developing small nuclear-power reactors in the East European nation.

California and the US West are facing a burst of summer-like heat in early October, boosting electricity demand and raising the risk of wildfires.

The Trump administration faced skeptical questions from a US trade court about the legal foundation underpinning President Donald Trump’s latest round of global tariffs, once again putting one of his signature economic policies under a judicial microscope.

Once one of the country’s biggest growth drivers, China’s property market has been in a downward spiral for five years. Real estate values continue to plummet, households in financial distress are being forced to sell properties, and apartment developers that racked up enormous debt on speculative projects are on the brink of collapse.

President Donald Trump signaled that his appetite to ban exports of US diesel has cooled given the risk of unintended price spikes, and one of his top deputies indicated Europe might soon put fresh supplies of the fuel on the market.

A wave of clean technology imports is challenging a power sector that owes billions to Beijing, exposing snarls in the No. 2 economy’s drive to dominate the global energy transition.

Singapore will add to already rising costs of air travel as it introduces a world-first green levy on flights departing the city-state.

Bond yields are climbing almost daily around the world, sparking a heated debate over the reasons why and how much further they have to run.

A resurgent El Niño pattern may deepen a selloff in Southeast Asian bonds, strategists say, threatening to push yields higher just as rising US Treasury rates and oil prices squeeze regional debt.

The long-delayed project, which the developer has not yet formally greenlit, would deliver Alaskan gas to Asian markets but take several years to construct.

US officials believe a Chinese invasion of Taiwan before 2028 is increasingly unlikely despite Chinese President Xi Jinping's instructions for his military to be ready by 2027 to take the democratically governed island by ​force, if needed, people familiar with US thinking said.

Only 13% of companies were on track with their AI initiatives, as regulatory ​hurdles and integration with legacy IT systems ‌slowed large-scale adoption, a BearingPoint study found.

The US Treasury is purchasing fewer bonds than expected in its buybacks of longer-dated debt, even after recently expanding the program's scope, stoking debate among investors over its ​aims and whether it is succeeding.

The Philippines' coast guard said on Thursday that it has deployed its largest vessel and an aircraft to challenge a Chinese research ship ​operating off northern Batanes province near Taiwan, adding that a Chinese ‌coast guard vessel had also moved in.

US asset manager Artisan Partners ​has urged UBS to leave Switzerland, arguing that proposed tougher capital requirements for the ‌bank are "punitive", excessive and would destroy shareholder value.

To graduates around the world fighting to get their first job, Japan may seem like a hiring paradise.

Spain is seeking to close a rift between France and Germany over new “Made in EU” criteria designed to halt Europe’s industrial decline.

Germany has provided a roadmap setting out its transition away from fossil fuels by 2045, as Europe’s largest economy seeks to reduce its vulnerability to global energy-market shocks.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping pressed the US to outright “oppose” Taiwan independence, marking his first public call for Donald Trump to change Washington’s decades-old stance on the self-ruled island.

In July, a ton of cotton shirts was unloaded at the port of Los Angeles after a trip from southern Vietnam.

From his high-profile address to the UN General Assembly to his high-stakes White House summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, US President Donald Trump this week was looking to reassert himself on the world stage.

Brussels has told British Prime Minister Andy Burnham that Britain needs to raise tariffs on Chinese ​cars and align more closely align with EU trade ‌policy to avoid “made in Europe” barriers on key exports, the Financial Times said on Friday.

Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume may have got the green light from stakeholders for his turnaround plan, but he faces tough talks in Germany over job cuts and plant ​closures as well as fundamental questions over the automaker's US strategy.

The dollar was set for its first back-to-back weekly gains ​in more than three months on Friday, as surging Treasury yields and mounting bets on further Federal Reserve ‌rate hikes kept the greenback near multi-month peaks.

Shares in Banco BPM ​rose 2.3% on ‌Friday, slightly outperforming the sector, lifted ​by the ​prospect of joint interest ⁠for the ​Italian bank by bigger ​rival UniCredit and France's Credit Agricole .

Singaporeans are among the most open to allowing an artificial intelligence agent to shop for them but they also want the strictest guardrails, research shows.

Shares of major banks, insurers and online travel agencies slid on Tuesday as investors fear that tools like Meta Platforms Inc.’s personal AI agent could disrupt businesses that benefit from so-called consumer inertia, the tendency to keep buying something out of habit even when a better alternative exists.

Anthropic PBC is releasing a new artificial intelligence model that’s meant to field a wide range of business tasks at a lower cost, part of the startup’s bid to keep ahead of rivals while it prepares for a highly anticipated Wall Street debut.

A pair of companies delayed their IPOs, sending a ripple of anxiety through the US market as investors wait for Anthropic PBC’s hotly anticipated debut to materialize.

Artificial intelligence pioneer Fei-Fei Li called for more oversight of the technology by independent and public-sector entities, arguing that safety assessments of increasingly capable AI systems shouldn’t be left solely to the companies developing them.

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi urged the United Nations to remove references to Japan and Germany as “enemy states,” a classification China has recently seized on to criticize Tokyo after a breakdown in ties over Taiwan.

Bloomberg reporters answer your questions on what’s next for the BOJ on Sept. 24 at 10 a.m. HKT, 11 a.m. JST / Sept. 23 at 10 p.m. EDT

General Motors CEO Mary Barra is ‌expected to attend US President Donald Trump's state dinner at the White House on Thursday for Chinese President Xi Jinping, two sources familiar with ​the matter said, as US automakers warn against allowing Chinese ​manufacturers into the market, while Trump signals he may ⁠be open to it.

From pre-bleached straight hair wigs to wavy clipped extensions and blinged-out coffin-shaped nails, sales of Chinese-made beauty accessories ​are surging across the United States.

Governments are set to fall well short of meeting a major UN target to protect and conserve biodiversity in at least 30% of the world's ​land and seas by 2030, research published on Wednesday showed.

Chinese authorities are examining the use of Broadcom’s hardware in state-backed data centres as ​part of a drive to boost domestic producers ‌and reduce reliance on foreign AI infrastructure, the Financial Times reported Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

The bloc wants Beijing to limit imports of plug-in hybrids to 15% of ​market share, the FT reports. ​It echoes a 1980s deal with ⁠Japanese carmakers but lacks the ​same bite. Still, as Brussels' patchwork of ​policies grows, Chinese exporters' rapid acceleration into Europe may stall.

Blackstone, ​KKR, EQT and peers ⁠have raised $100 ​bln for perpetual ​private-equity vehicles. Yet no two look alike, and ​performance is ​patchy so far. With ‌cashing ⁠out the only option for investors to bank ​returns, ​the ⁠risk of an eventual ​exodus is high.

Manufacturers are struggling with constrained supplies as U.S. and Chinese officials negotiate over export restrictions with consequences for global industry.

California has declared a state of emergency as a strengthening El Niño raises the threat of damaging storms, widespread flooding and mudslides across the state this fall and winter.

Radiant World has disclosed $870 million outstanding to six creditors who financed its receivables, according to a spreadsheet included in a legal filing by the embattled commodity trader.

Bank of America Corp.’s credit traders are now feeling the after-effects from the firm’s decision to sit out on some of the hottest AI deals to come to market.

OpenAI is urging the US to lead an effort with other countries to set standards for cutting-edge artificial intelligence, in response to mounting concerns about the potential harms of the technology.

Semiconductor stocks soared Monday as early signs of success for Meta Platforms Inc.’s new artificial intelligence agent sparked a wave of enthusiasm around demand for the chips needed to power such agents.