Ezim Joshua 
President Donald Trump acknowledged Wednesday that banning diesel exports, an idea he’s been floating as a fix for record fuel prices, could actually backfire by pushing gasoline costs higher, even as he declined to take the proposal off the table. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump said the administration discusses the pros and … Read more
Robinhood is expanding its push into round-the-clock investing, announcing plans to let customers trade selected U.S. stocks and exchange-traded funds throughout weekends while giving users more direct access to artificial intelligence agents capable of automating trades. The announcements, unveiled at Robinhood’s 2026 HOOD Summit, represent a significant expansion of the trading platform’s effort to make … Read more
Japan is confronting a growing misinformation problem as false and misleading claims about foreigners spread across social media, intensifying an already heated debate over immigration and contributing to the political environment in which the country’s far right has gained greater attention. Researchers and misinformation analysts have warned that fabricated stories about crimes allegedly committed by … Read more
OpenAI has been hit with what appears to be the first publicly reported lawsuit seeking to hold an AI developer directly liable for damage caused by its own autonomous systems acting without human direction. Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology, a public interest nonprofit known as LASST, filed the suit alongside law firm Gerstein … Read more
A Tokyo court has delivered Japan’s first legal ruling declaring that a person’s voice is protected under publicity rights, a landmark decision that emerged from a lawsuit filed by one of the country’s most recognizable anime voice actors against TikTok over AI-generated content he says mimics his distinctive baritone. Wednesday’s verdict from the Tokyo District … Read more
Last updated: September 28, 2026 Summary: A Connected Nation Still Fighting Its Own Infrastructure Nigeria’s telecoms sector kept growing through 2026, adding millions of new mobile lines and pushing broadband penetration past the halfway mark of the population for the first time. But the growth sits on a fragile base. The main findings from Nigerian … Read more
Unlike many quotes that trace back to a single well-documented moment, this one has no confirmed author. It circulates widely across social media, motivational pages and personal blogs, often shared without attribution, which is unusual for a line this often repeated. That anonymity does not weaken it. If anything, it points to why the quote … Read more
President Donald Trump told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that the United States would formally rename artificial intelligence as “super intelligence” across all government documents, arguing that the word “artificial” makes the technology sound fake when, in his view, it is anything but. Speaking to the global body, Trump said the change would … Read more
The Co-operative Group, one of Britain’s largest member-owned retailers, swung deeper into the red for the year to January 3, 2026, as the lingering financial fallout from a major cyberattack combined with rising staffing costs and a deliberate push to invest in stores and colleagues to widen the group’s losses considerably. The retailer reported an … Read more
Europe’s most prominent privacy watchdogs are sounding the alarm over a sweeping package of legislative changes the European Commission says will simplify the continent’s digital rulebook, but which critics argue is quietly rewriting core data protection principles specifically to make life easier for AI developers. The Digital Omnibus, published by the Commission on November 19, … Read more