IF Insights: Sam Altman’s safety sermon meets OpenAI’s silent summer
Sam Altman is leading calls for AI safety, but OpenAI's silence over rogue agent attacks on Hugging Face and RubyGems tests his moral authority...
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Son Howard takes over Berkshire’s chairmanship as Warren Buffett retires
International Finance revisits Warren Buffett's six-decade career, investment philosophy, while discussing the future of Berkshire Hathaway...
ECB expands blockchain push, bringing central bank money to tokenised finance
The ECB has launched Pontes, the first initiative under the Eurosystem’s strategic programme to make central bank money fit for a tokenised future...
New York-London listing, Swiss banking licence: Revolut steps up global expansion
The fintech’s reported plan would give it access to deeper US capital markets while retaining a presence in its UK home market...
217 VLCCs and counting: Iran war fuels supertanker boom
Record VLCC orders in 2026 reflect longer oil routes, soaring freight rates and fleet renewal as the Iran war disrupts Gulf crude shipping...
Chips, AI and critical minerals: The world is building two economies
As the US-China divide hardens, the question for middle powers is no longer about picking a side, but whether they can resist choosing at all...
Uber’s 825 million euro fine is a warning to every company that lets software fire people
Brussels has given the American ride-hailing business until December 2027 to comply with its AI rules on employee hiring and dismissal...
Bank of Japan raises interest rates to 31-year high, signals more hikes ahead
The BOJ raised its policy rate to 1.25% from 1% by a 7-2 vote, with dovish board members Toichiro Asada and Ayano Sato dissenting to the move...
Remove Commerzbank leadership, asks UniCredit as Orcel meets German minister
Bettina Orlopp, the Commerzbank CEO, grabbed the headline for leading the months-long ownership battle over Germany's second-largest bank...
Malaysia engages rival airlines as rising jet fuel prices hammer AirAsia
AirAsia has been hit by soaring jet fuel costs, with the latter surging 66% in the Q2 from the prior quarter to an average of USD 183 a barrel...