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Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, speaks at an occasion commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the corporate at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, on April 4, 2025.David Ryder | Bloomberg | Getty PhotosMicrosoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says solely organic beings are able to consciousness, and that builders and researchers ought to cease pursuing tasks that counsel in any other case.”I do not suppose that’s work that individuals must be doing,” Suleyman instructed CNBC in an interview this week on the AfroTech Convention in Houston, the place he was among the many keynote audio system. “In case you ask the…

Caroline Leavitt, the youngest White Home press secretary in US historical past, accompanying US President Donald Trump on his state go to to South Korea, has taken to social media to share her newest discovery — Ok-cosmetics. Late Tuesday night, Leavitt posted an Instagram Story that includes a photograph of her current purchases, captioned “South Korea skincare finds” with a coronary heart emoji. Korean skincare merchandise posted by White Home press secretary Caroline Leavitt on her social media. The picture confirmed 13 totally different Korean magnificence merchandise, together with face masks, cleansers, lip balms, serums and sunscreens — all from home…

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan (left) shakes fingers with President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea forward of their summit on Oct. 30, 2025, on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Gyeongju, South Korea. (pool photograph) Assembly Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi for the primary time on Thursday, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung confused the necessity for his or her two nations to strengthen future-oriented cooperation and emphasised the function of shuttle diplomacy in doing so.“The present strategic setting amplifies the significance of Japan-South Korea relations and Japan-South Korea cooperation,” Lee advised his counterpart.  The 2 leaders…

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Senior portfolio managers from Korean pension funds and insurance coverage companies share their funding methods throughout a panel session at ASK 2025 on Oct. 29 South Korean main asset homeowners are searching for to diversify their senior direct lending-focused personal credit score portfolios into subordinated and distressed loans to offset decrease rates of interest.They’re additionally pivoting towards buyout offers, primarily within the center market, from secondaries on expectations of a valuation pullback in 2026.Nonetheless, they’re inserting larger emphasis on secure money flows, or distributed to paid-in capital (DPI) ratios, over inside fee of returns (IRRs), their senior portfolio managers stated…

ABUJA, Nigeria — U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday stated he is ordered the Pentagon to start planning for potential navy motion in Nigeria as he stepped up his allegations that the federal government is failing to rein within the persecution of Christians within the West African nation.The president additionally warned that he “will instantly cease all assist and help to Nigeria.”“If the Nigerian Authorities continues to permit the killing of Christians, the united statesA. will instantly cease all assist and help to Nigeria, and should very nicely go into that now disgraced nation, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to utterly wipe out the…

Hyundai Motor, Korea’s main carmaker, stated Sunday it has signed an settlement with Singapore’s science and know-how company to cooperate on superior applied sciences on mobility options.The memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the automaker and Singapore’s Residence Staff Science and Expertise Company (HTX) was signed on Friday through the Ok-Tech Showcase occasion held within the southeastern metropolis of Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang Province, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Financial Cooperation (APEC) summit.Established in 2019 beneath Singapore’s inner affairs ministry, HTX is a analysis company that develops superior applied sciences in public security, border safety, chemical and organic protection and safety…

Chinese language President Xi Jinping’s caravan passes via the tollbooth for Gyeongju on Oct. 30, 2025. (Yonhap) The 2025 Asia-Pacific Financial Cooperation financial leaders’ assembly formally kicked off in Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang Province, on Friday.The summit’s first session started on the Gyeongju Hwabaek Worldwide Conference Heart at 10 am.President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea attended the session in his capability as this 12 months’s APEC chair. Additionally on the session have been leaders of different main member nations, together with Chinese language President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, in addition to Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin…

This yr’s Asia-Pacific Financial Cooperation (APEC) was a profitable international negotiation desk for Korean shipbuilders, as firms signed a number of partnerships to advance digitalized shipbuilding practices and develop their presence in APEC economies. HD Hyundai mentioned Sunday it has signed a strategic collaboration for U.S. shipbuilding revitalization with Siemens on the sidelines of the APEC CEO Summit, which came about from Oct. 29 to 31.By means of the memorandum of understanding, the 2 firms purpose to reinforce the general competitiveness of the U.S. shipbuilding business by bettering design high quality, minimizing course of dangers and decreasing prices. By combining…

President Xi Jinping of China is welcomed to Korea by International Minister Cho Hyun upon his arrival at Gimhae Worldwide Airport in Busan on Oct. 30, 2025. (Xinhua/Yonhap) China expressed unease about US President Donald Trump’s Thursday put up on Reality Social that he had given South Korea the inexperienced gentle to construct a nuclear-powered submarine. “Our Navy Alliance [with Korea] is stronger than ever earlier than and, based mostly on that, I’ve given them approval to construct a Nuclear Powered Submarine, somewhat than the old school, and much much less nimble, diesel powered Submarines that they’ve now,” the US president…