The US central bank held the target range for the federal funds rate at 0.25 per cent to 0.5 per cent, where it has been since the Fed lifted rates by a quarter point from near-zero levels in December ...

The “precursor” chemicals used to make fentanyl are produced in nondescript factories in China and sold openly on the ...

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Over the past few years, we have taken a gigantic leap forward in our decades-long quest to build intelligent machines: the advent of the large language model, or LLM. This technology, based on ...

It was not long before criminals began exploiting the technology. Austrac, the Australian financial intelligence agency, alleges that crime syndicates laundered more than A$75m through CBA’s systems.

Criss-crossed by about 1,500 large vessels at any one time, the Baltic Sea is a crowded maritime route and a key trade corridor for both Europe and Russia. But there are increasing tensions in a ...