Ukrainian President Zelensky said at a news conference at the Ukrainian Embassy in Turkey on the 15th that he himself will not attend the Ukraine-Russia talks in Istanbul, and that Ukraine will send a high-level delegation to participate in the talks. He said the Ukrainian delegation will be led by Defense Minister Umerov, and the delegation will include representatives of the military and intelligence services. It is unclear whether the talks will take place on the 15th or 16th.
President Trump: Something could happen, and I've talked to Apple CEO Tim Cook.
Federal Reserve Chairperson Jerome Powell, speaking on the economic outlook, said the labor market appears to be roughly in balance by many indicators and is not a significant source of inflationary pressure. Today's jobs report showed the unemployment rate at 4.2 percent in March, still at its lowest level since the start of last year. In Quarter 1, payrolls grew by an average of 150,000 jobs per month. The combination of low layoffs, slowing job growth and labor force growth has kept the unemp...
A viral video shows two AI agents recognizing each other mid-call—then abandoning human speech for a secret machine-only language
Fox Business reporter Eleanor Terrett posted on the X platform that legal sources he talked to believe that the Securities Exchange Commission is trying to reach a settlement for crypto companies rather than outright dismiss the relevant lawsuits as a way to "justify" spending millions of taxpayer dollars and save a little face. In addition, two Securities Exchange Commission commissioners, Hester Peirce and Mark Uyeda, did inform Coinbase that they are sorry for the inconvenience, which is a pr...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Vincent Bescent said Russia could win sanctions relief if it cooperated in peace talks. Bescent stressed that Trump is committed to ending the conflict as soon as possible. Click to view...
"When it comes to sovereign wealth funds, I said, 'monetizing the balance sheet' is definitely not what I want," Mr. Bescent, the Treasury secretary, said of revaluing gold reserves. Pressed if he would discuss the issue, he repeated, "It's not what I want." Gold reserves are currently priced at $42.22 an ounce, the traditional official price from decades ago. Revaluing these assets based on current market prices could...
Talk at the ECB's March meeting could be "very heated"... click to view...
Samczsun, a researcher at Paradigm, said of the Meme promotion scam on social media: "It's a very simple idea: the next time a large account gets hacked and promotes an obvious scam, maybe the front end should manually remove the scam? Of course no one would object to that unless the goal is to enable people to gamble in casinos?"
Musk's xAI is in talks to raise $10 billion at a $75 billion valuation.
US President Donald Trump said Ukraine would participate in all peace talks with Russia. Earlier on the 13th, Ukrainian President Zelensky said that he would not accept "any bilateral peace talks without Ukraine's participation" and that European partners should also be at the negotiating table as a party. Russian Presidential Press Secretary Peskov also said earlier on the 13th that Russia regards the United States as the main opponent in the negotiations on Ukraine. Peskov said that Ukraine wi...
Netanyahu says he hopes to further redraw the map of the Middle East through his talks with Trump. Click to view...
According to the Financial Times, SoftBank is in talks with OpenAI for a direct investment of $15 billion to $25 billion after the company pledged to invest more than $15 billion in the Stargate project.
According to the British Financial Times: SoftBank is in talks with OpenAI for a direct investment of 15 billion to 25 billion US dollars, after the company has pledged to invest more than 15 billion US dollars in the "Stargate" project. (Jin Ten)