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It comes after executives admitted to losing the trust of employees amid the departure of renowned researcher Timnit Gebru.

At his annual December press conference, Putin encouraged Russians to take the "Sputnik V" vaccine and said he would receive it as soon as he was able to.

The U.S. Treasury added Switzerland to a list of nations it suspects of deliberately devaluing their currencies against the dollar.

Google's $2.1 billion acquisition of Fitbit has been conditionally approved by the European Commission, the executive arm of the EU.

DeepMind had a loss of £477 million ($649 million) in 2019, up from £470 million in 2018, according to documents filed with the U.K.'s Companies House.

Outgoing U.S. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette visited Abu Dhabi to discuss regional energy security with counterparts from the UAE, Bahrain and Israel.

The day after launching an attack on Apple's upcoming privacy change, Facebook is running new ads around content monetization.

Bitcoin's price is now up more than 200% since the start of the year.

The news of Macron's positive diagnosis has prompted other government officials to go into quarantine.

Cooperation between vaccine maker will increase in 2021, according to the head of Russia's sovereign wealth fund, the backer of the country's coronavirus vaccine.

As the ski industry approaches its first winter season under the pandemic, CNBC takes a look at how the industry and travelers can safely navigate the slopes.

Payments technology start-up GoCardless raised $95 million in an investment round that values it at $970 million.

Australia's unemployment rate in November was at 6.8%, according to seasonally adjusted estimates released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Thursday.

Negotiations between the U.K. and EU to reach a post-Brexit trade deal are on a knife edge, and even those in charge admit the talks could go either way.

Vivian Balakrishnan, Singapore's foreign minister, said technology such as artificial intelligence and robotics will alter jobs and economies globally.

China is only the third country in the world to retrieve lunar samples after the efforts by the U.S. in the 1960s and the Soviet Union in the 1970s.

Danke, a Chinese residential rental company, has a debt-dependent business model that is showing signs of strain.

Doses of Pfizer's vaccine were quarantined after an "anomaly" in the transportation process caused the storage temperature to get too cold.

"And that's a big but. B-U-T," New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. "But, no one knows because it is up to us."

During his time at HHS, Paul Alexander also allegedly directly meddled with Covid-related studies published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.