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Dario Amodei, Anthropic CEO, speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 21st, 2025. Gerry Miller | CNBCAnthropic on Monday announced Claude for Life Sciences, a new offering for researchers to use the company’s artificial intelligence technology in the advancement of scientific discovery. Claude for Life Sciences is built around Anthropic’s existing AI models, but supports new connections with other scientific tools that are commonly used in labs during research and development.It will be able to help researchers through all stages of the discovery process, from carrying out literature reviews to developing hypotheses, analyzing data,…
Khawaja Asif says both nations committed to addressing militancy for lasting regional peace Pakistan and Afghanistan have reaffirmed their commitment to work together in curbing terrorism along their shared border, signaling a renewed effort to stabilise a region long plagued by militancy and distrust. Defence Minister Khawaja Asif, in an interview with Al-Jazeera Arabic, said that both countries have recognised terrorism as the principal obstacle to peace and progress. He explained that recent discussions between the two sides have focused on creating a sustainable framework for security cooperation, aimed at eliminating the groups responsible for cross-border violence. Read: Saudi Arabia…
Amazon can’t catch a break. “Amazon has been terrible,” the worst of the Magnificent Seven stocks this year, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said on ” Squawk on the Street .” While modestly higher Monday, Amazon was back down around its post-earnings lows of early August, which were driven by concerns about Amazon Web Services cloud growth. Shares have declined more than 2% year to year. Cramer’s comments came on the back of Monday’s major AWS outage, which disrupted access to several major websites. The issue has been largely resolved, with most affected sites now back online. While the outage grabbed the…
Sindh governor, CM wish Hindu community a joyful Diwali, celebrating light, love, tradition President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, and Pakistan Peoples Party Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Monday extended warm greetings to the Hindu community in Pakistan and across the world on the occasion of Diwali — the festival of lights symbolising the triumph of good over evil and light over darkness. In his message, President Zardari said the festival reminded everyone of the “universal values of peace, compassion and harmony that are shared across faiths”. He added that these values reflected the “principles of mutual respect and coexistence…
A next generation iPhone 17 is held during an Apple special event at Apple headquarters on Sept. 9, 2025 in Cupertino, California.Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesApple shares rose nearly 3% on Monday as a new report showed iPhone 17 sales off to a strong start in the U.S. and China.The iPhone 17 series, which dropped in September, has outsold the iPhone 16 series by 14% in the U.S. and China within its first 10 days of availability, according to data from Counterpoint research.”The base model iPhone 17 is very compelling to consumers, offering great value for money,” Counterpoint senior analyst…
* China’s economy demonstrated stable growth, with GDP expanding 5.2 percent year on year in the first three quarters of 2025, as positive factors accumulated despite global headwinds.* During the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) period, China’s GDP rose from 103.5 trillion yuan in 2020 to 134.9 trillion yuan in 2024, with an average annual growth rate of 5.5 percent, significantly higher than the global average of 3.9 percent over the same period.* Throughout the 2021-2025 period, China contributed approximately 30 percent annually to global economic growth, making it a key driver of world economic development and fully demonstrating the resilience…
While some celebrate the encounters as justice served, critics argue lasting protection for women lies in strengthenin LAHORE: After every high-profile rape case, popular sentiment often incites the authorities to take extreme punitive measures against the culprits. While such extrajudicial encounters might temporarily placate public fury, they nevertheless jeopardize the rule of law. In Punjab, several incidents have been reported this year involving the extrajudicial killings of suspects accused of harassing or sexually assaulting women. Most of these incidents were declared “encounters” by the police, while in some cases it was claimed that the suspects’ own weapons went off. However,…
Top White House economic advisor Kevin Hassett on Monday predicted that the government shutdown is “likely to end sometime this week.”But if that does not happen, the Trump administration may impose “stronger measures” to force Democrats to cooperate, Hassett said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”The comments came deep into the third week of the shutdown, which is dragging on with no clear end in sight amid a partisan fight in the Senate over federal funding priorities.Republicans want to pass a short-term resolution to resume funding at current levels. Democrats demand that any stopgap bill include additional spending on health care protections,…
Farmers being given a subsidy of Rs24,700 per acre for the purchase of urea and DAP fertiliser KARACHI: The Sindh government has called on the Centre to announce a national-level wheat support price to safeguard the interests of farmers facing mounting financial pressure. In a statement issued on Saturday, Sindh Agriculture Minister Sardar Muhammad Bakhsh Mahar said that under the conditions imposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), provincial governments are not permitted to fix support prices independently without a directive from the Centre. “The farmers are under severe stress because the wheat support price has not been fixed yet,”…
The Zions Bank headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah, US, on Monday, July 10, 2023. Kim Raff | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThis is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox.Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day:1. On the banksFollowing the discovery of a handful of bad loans from banks, Wall Street has been on the hunt for any other signs of risk in the sector. The regional bank selloff last week overshadowed earnings reports from many major financial institutions.Here’s what to know:Following the panic, investors have zeroed in on…