Information security and software stocks fell on Friday as traders fretted over Anthropic’s advanced AI model, in the latest slide sparked by worries new tools will upend a wide range of sectors.

Lebanon and Israel have agreed to hold talks next week in Washington, marking the first direct talks between the two enemy states in more than four decades. US vice-president JD V ...

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman’s San Francisco home was the target of a Molotov cocktail attack on Friday, with the suspect arrested outside the company’s office after threatening to burn it down.

At least nine of the 14 or so vessels to have transited chokepoint since the pause in fighting have ties to Tehran ...

Crispin Odey has dropped his £79mn libel claim against the Financial Times over its reporting of sexual misconduct ...

Swiss-listed private capital group seeks to ‘offer transparency’ with update against ‘complex’ market backdrop ...

Ireland risks temporarily cutting off oil supplies, the country’s premier warned on Friday, as protests over rising fuel prices paralysed key transport routes and threatened to spill over into ...

A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” Donald Trump wrote early on Tuesday. Two days earlier, he had warned in an expletive-laden post that “Tuesday will be Power ...

Investors have broadly made up their minds which part of the world is ripe for punishment as a result of the war in Iran. Spoiler alert: It’s not the US. “Punishment” is not quite the right word here.

A customer who wants to send money abroad makes the payment to Wise in their domestic currency, with the company paying the recipient in this currency. The group has grown rapidly, has more than 13mn ...

Now it has 3,300 in 14 European countries and plans to open 400 more this year before taking a crack at the US market in 2027. Private equity group 3i’s initial investment of £134mn has been repaid ...

But his assassination of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in 2020 and his decision to bomb Iran’s nuclear sites in 2025 were smart, limited, strategic strikes that carried little risk of embroiling ...