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Anthropic joins OpenAI in flagging ‘industrial-scale’ distillation campaigns by Chinese AI firms
The Anthropic logo displayed on the stage during the company’s Builder Summit in Bengaluru, India, on Monday, Feb. 16, 2026. Photographer: Samyukta Lakshmi/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Anthropic on Monday accused three Chinese AI enterprises of engaging in coordinated campaigns to extract information from its model, making it the latest […]
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Home Depot beats Wall Street’s expectations, even as sales decline
Home Depot on Tuesday posted a roughly 4% quarterly sales decline, as a sluggish real estate market and selective spending by homeowners continued to weigh on home improvement demand. The company also stuck by the current fiscal year forecast that it shared in December at an investor day. It said it expects full-year total sales […]
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Tesla’s Europe problem keeps getting worse. Here’s why
Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., during the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla‘s sales in Europe were down for a 13th consecutive month in January, while its biggest Chinese rival saw another surge. Data published […]
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Democrats counter Trump’s proposal to limit institutional housing investors
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts and ranking member of Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, speaks during a roundtable on housing affordability in Washington, Jan. 7, 2026. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images Both congressional Democrats and President Donald Trump both want to limit how many homes major corporations can own, […]
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Etihad Airways profits soar nearly 50% as fleet network expansion support strong demand
An attendee at the Dubai Air Show enters an aircraft on Nov. 13, 2017, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Natalie Naccache | Bloomberg | Getty Images Etihad Airways reported a near 50% jump in net profit to $698 million last year, the carrier said on Tuesday, as increased capacity supported strong demand across markets and […]
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Four years into the Ukraine war, is Europe ready for its own army?
Europe has struggled to unite to meet the challenges of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in the last four years. The threat from Russia, and the growing tensions with the U.S. under President Donald Trump, have fueled suggestions that the answer to Europe’s divisions, redundancies and duplications in its defense efforts is a single European […]
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European markets set for broadly positive open as traders assess tariff landscape
This photograph shows European countries’ flags waving in front of the European Parliament building in Strasbourg, eastern France, on June 6, 2024. (Photo by SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP) (Photo by SEBASTIEN BOZON/AFP via Getty Images) Sebastien Bozon | Afp | Getty Images LONDON — European stocks are expected to open flat to higher on Tuesday […]
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