Auto industry experts expect US car sales to moderate in 2026 after last year’s churn of trade announcements and environmental policy changes spurred increased sales. Analysts attribute some of 2025’s sales gains to President Donald Trump’s announcements early in the year of huge tariff increases. Although the president ended up...
Netflix boss promises Warner Bros films would still be seen in cinemas
Netflix will continue to distribute Warner Bros. films in cinemas if its takeover bid for the storied studio is successful, the streaming service’s chief executive Ted Sarandos said in an interview Tuesday in Paris. “We’re going to continue to operate Warner Bros. studios independently and release the movies traditionally in...
Tepid 2026 outlook dents Pfizer shares
Pfizer signaled Tuesday it expects a challenging 2026 as it invests in new products to offset declines in Covid-19 revenues while limiting shareholder payouts. Shares of the big drugmaker fell sharply after it projected a dip in full-year adjusted profits per share on roughly flat revenues. Pfizer expects 2026 revenues...
Reddit, Kick to be included in Australia’s social media ban
Popular social media website Reddit and streaming giant Kick will be added to a list of websites banned for under-16s in Australia from next month, Canberra said Wednesday. Australia will from December 10 force social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram and Tiktok to remove users under the age of 16,...
Nvidia, Microsoft invest $15 billion in AI startup Anthropic
Nvidia and Microsoft announced Tuesday investments totaling $15 billion in AI startup Anthropic, creator of the Claude chatbot, amid frenzied spending on the technology and growing fears of a bubble. AI chip powerhouse Nvidia committed up to $10 billion while Microsoft—which owns 27 percent of Anthropic rival OpenAI—pledged up to...
China launches Shenzhou-22 early for stranded space station crew
China conducted an urgent unmanned spacecraft launch on Tuesday, after damage to a previous mission’s return capsule left the crew on its space station without a means of getting back to Earth. The Long March-2F rocket carrying Shenzhou-22 lifted off shortly after midday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in...
Trump threatens air traffic controllers over shutdown absences
An additional 2,000 US flights were canceled Monday as President Donald Trump threatened to dock pay for air traffic controllers who called in sick during the government shutdown. After Trump ripped absent aviation workers as unpatriotic, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) labor union hailed members working without pay...
Szalay wins Booker Prize for tortured tale of masculinity
British-Hungarian writer David Szalay won the Booker Prize on Monday for his novel “Flesh”, a tortured story of a Hungarian emigre who makes and loses a fortune. Szalay beat five other shortlisted authors, including Indian novelist Kiran Desai, who won in 2006, and Britain’s Andrew Miller, to claim the £50,000...
As COP30 opens, urban Amazon residents swelter
Outside their run-down home in the Amazon city of Belem, a mother and her little girl laugh as they cool off from the punishing heat in a large blue plastic tub filled with water. Here in the riverside community of Vila da Barca, tightly packed houses on stilts bake in...
Indian forensic teams scour deadly Delhi car explosion
Indian crime scene investigators scoured through the wreckage of a car on Tuesday that exploded hours earlier in the heart of the capital, killing at least eight people. Police have not given details on the cause of the explosion, which also left at least 19 people injured, when intense flames...