Anton Korinek, an economics professor at the University of Virginia, tells the students he advises nowadays that they should really begin to master a flourishing technology expected to transform the field of economics. That technology is generative artificial intelligence, or "genAI" for short.
After more than nine hours of testimony over two days, Caroline Ellison, the most important witness in the government's case against Sam Bankman-Fried, broke down as she described the final days of the crypto empire she helped build.
Fears that Evergrande's debt woes are spreading into the wider financial industry have sparked a run on a regional bank in northern China, multiple state media outlets have reported.
Schools in Israel, the UK and the US are advising parents to delete their children's social media apps over concerns that Hamas militants will broadcast or disseminate disturbing videos of hostages who have been seized in recent days.
A kindergarten teacher who gave melatonin gummies to special education students at an elementary school in Humble, Texas, has resigned, school officials said.
Booker Prize-winning Indian author Arundhati Roy could be prosecuted for allegedly seditious comments made over a decade ago, after a top official in Delhi said there was enough evidence to lay charges.
The brutal rampage by Islamist militant group Hamas on Israel last weekend involved thousands of rockets and missiles, drones dropping explosives, and untold numbers of small arms and ammunition.
The House Republican Party is sliding even deeper into disarray as it feuds over its next speaker, apparently oblivious to the picture of US government dysfunction it is sending at a moment of worsening global crises.
Jury deliberations are set to resume Thursday morning in the trial of two Colorado police officers who arrested Elijah McClain, an unarmed 23-year-old Black man who died in 2019 after being subdued by police and injected by paramedics with ketamine.
The mother of three suspects charged with murdering a South Korean woman, who was beaten and starved in Georgia by members of a religious group called the 'Soldiers of Christ,' has been arrested in connection with the woman's death, authorities said.
Israel is hammering Gaza with airstrikes, hitting hundreds of targets and reducing neighborhoods to rubble, as new atrocities are uncovered in its territory after a devastating attack by Hamas militants.
An Israeli woman and her daughter survived Hamas' 12-hour siege of their kibbutz by barricading themselves into a safe room using a vacuum cleaner and a rolling pin.
Helmets. Flak jackets. Press identification. Those are some of the tools that journalists covering the Israel-Hamas war are using to shield themselves from the unforgiving dangers of an active battlefield. But the gear only goes so far.
Carlee Russell, the Alabama woman who admitted to faking her own kidnapping, has been found guilty of two misdemeanor charges related to the case, according to CNN affiliates WBMA and WVTM.
Hamas' brutal weekend attack on Israel has thrust the Palestinian issue back into the international spotlight and may have thrown a wrench in Israel's efforts to expand what Netanyahu calls the "circle of peace."
The woman who authorities say fled to Costa Rica and was missing for more than a month after allegedly killing an elite professional cyclist in Texas attempted to escape custody on Wednesday, authorities said.
Former NFL player Sergio Brown, who had been missing since his mother's death last month, was taken into custody on Tuesday after a warrant was issued for first-degree murder in her killing, police said in a statement.
Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt slammed Corporate America's response to the terror attacks on Israel as "disappointing at best, disastrous at worst."
