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Elon Musk accuses OpenAI of breaching charitable trust and prioritising profit over AI safety and nonprofit values.Published On 14 May 202614 May 2026Lawyers for OpenAI and Elon Musk began closing arguments in a landmark trial that could impact the future of the ChatGPT maker.On Thursday, each side presented a concluding statement to jurors, who will decide whether OpenAI and its leaders profited from a venture that was meant to be a “charity”.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listThe lawsuit was brought by Musk, the world’s richest man and the founder of a rival artificial intelligence (AI) model, Grok.Musk sued…

Amid an oil blockade against the island, the US blames Cuba’s communist leadership for ‘standing in the way’ of aid.The United States has offered $100m in humanitarian assistance to Cuba on the condition that the island’s communist government agrees to “meaningful reforms”.The sum was made public in a statement from the US State Department on Wednesday, though the administration of President Donald Trump underscored it had made the offer privately in the past.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listBut the $100m comes with strings: namely, that Cuba’s government commits to Trump-approved changes.“Today, the Department of State is publicly restating…

Taipei, Taiwan – Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to seek concessions on Taiwan and US tariffs when he meets United States President Donald Trump for a high-stakes summit taking place in the shadow of the war on Iran.Trump will arrive in China on Wednesday evening for a three-day visit that will mark the first trip by a US leader to the country since 2017, when Trump visited in the early days of his first term.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listUnlike Trump, who is renowned for his mercurial policymaking, Xi is widely seen as predictable in his goals…

Senator Hawley plans legislative action supporting President Trump’s bid to waive the petrol tax amid rising consumer costs.United States President Donald Trump said he will cut the 18-cent federal tax on petrol to offset surging prices that have continued to soar after his comments that the US ceasefire with Iran is on “life support”.On Monday, Trump said he would suspend the petrol tax, but did not specify an end date.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list“Yup, we’re going to take off the gas tax for a period of time, and when gas goes down, we’ll let it phase back…

Brent crude rises amid clashes in critical waterway.Published On 8 May 20268 May 2026Oil prices have jumped after clashes between United States and Iran in the Strait of Hormuz pushed their tenuous ceasefire to the brink.Futures for Brent crude rose as much as 7.5 percent during a volatile trading session on Thursday, before easing as Asia’s markets opened on Friday morning.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listThe international benchmark stood at $101.12 per barrel as of 03:00 GMT, down from the day’s high of $103.70.The latest rise came after the US and Iran exchanged fire in the critical strait,…

Mukalla, Yemen – When Abdullah Salem raised his fare by 100 Yemeni riyals ($0.06) on a routine afternoon trip from the eastern outskirts of Yemen’s port city of Mukalla to the city centre, passengers pushed back immediately. “They shouted at me,” the 55-year-old driver told Al Jazeera as he prepared for another trip. “I told them it’s not my decision; it’s the government who have hiked fuel prices.”The Yemen Petroleum Company (YPC), controlled by the internationally recognised government, has announced a new round of fuel price hikes in areas under its administration, a move that analysts say could accelerate inflation…

The bloc currently imports more than half of its crude oil from the Middle East.Published On 8 May 20268 May 2026Southeast Asian leaders have agreed on measures aimed at reducing the impact of the Iran war on their economies, but conceded that the initiatives will take considerable time to come into effect.On Friday, leaders gathered in the Philippines for a summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz dominating the agenda.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listMembers agreed to a regional fuel-sharing framework in a bid to ease the economic…

Southeast Asian leaders have gathered in the Philippines to coordinate a joint response to the fallout from the war on Iran, which has prompted a surge in energy prices across the region.Speaking at the opening of the gathering of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Friday, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said the United States-Israeli war on Iran had been felt “through higher living costs” and “threatened livelihoods” both in “our homelands and amongst our nationals in the Middle East”.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listMarcos said ASEAN, an 11-member bloc that includes the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore…

SpaceX pens a new deal with Anthropic as Elon Musk sues competitor OpenAI for allegedly backtracking on its mission.Published On 6 May 20266 May 2026Anthropic has reached a deal to tap the computing resources of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, marking a detente with its one-time critic and a boost for both companies in the high-stakes artificial intelligence race.Under the agreement announced on Wednesday, Anthropic will use the full computing power of SpaceX’s Colossus 1 facility in Memphis, Tennessee, which houses more than 220,000 Nvidia processors and will give the Claude chatbot maker 300 megawatts of new capacity within a month. That’s…

The United States is set to impose 25 percent tariffs on the European Union’s auto sector, a move that would reverse an agreement reached in August between Washington and the bloc.US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told CNBC on Monday that the White House is “moving forward with this action”.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listEarlier this year, the US Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump could not impose his global tariffs through the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), limiting the president’s sweeping global tariffs.However, last year, Trump imposed a 25 percent tariff on global automotive imports under…