Disney and Universal filed a copyright lawsuit against popular artificial intelligence image-generator Midjourney on Wednesday, marking the first time major Hollywood companies have entered the legal battle over generative AI. Filed in federal...
Access Financial Services Limited, as part of its 25th anniversary celebrations, will be selecting 300 customers who will receive either discounts on interest or get their loans interest-free. Its business customers typically fall within the micro...
Months before hosting the United Nations’ first climate talks held in the Amazon, Brazil is fast-tracking a series of controversial decisions that undercut President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s environmental rhetoric and show widening divisions...
Big Tech company Apple Inc has recently purchased and retired 100,000 carbon credits from Guyana, a move that Vice President Dr Bharrat Jagdeo says has significantly boosted the country’s international profile and enhanced the credibility of its...
The United States is at a turning point. For reasons that future historians will debate – and that will leave many dumbfounded – the country is attacking the very foundations of its strength: its openness, its institutions, and its global...
The trade wars launched by the United States are expected to slash economic growth this year in the US and around the world, the World Bank forecast Tuesday. Citing “a substantial rise in trade barriers” but without mentioning Trump by name, the...
After stumbling out of the starting gate in Big Tech’s pivotal race to capitalise on artificial intelligence, Apple tried to regain its footing on Monday during an annual developers conference that focused mostly on incremental advances and...
Jamaica Producers Group Limited, JPG, will be subdividing some of its lands in St Mary for villa construction, while another property will be utilised for a commercial complex. The company will be preparing lots on a 60-acre that can be utilised...
Scotia Group Jamaica Limited grew its earnings by nearly one fifth to $5 billion in the April quarter. It came on the back of improved revenue of $15.6 billion compared to $14.6 billion a year earlier. “All business lines continue to perform well...
Port company Kingston Wharves Limited will be a constructing a multi-level holding area for auto cargo next to its Newport West terminal in Kingston to facilitate the motor vehicle cargo transshipped through the port. Its capacity will be 10,000...
Wigton Energy has commenced the development of solar energy facilities with combined capacity of 70 megawatts at its main base at Rose Hill, Manchester, as it strives for more resilient revenue. Its top line income was blown off course in the year...
Amazon said Monday that it will spend US$20 billion on two data centre complexes in Pennsylvania, including one it is building alongside a nuclear power plant that has drawn federal scrutiny over an arrangement to essentially plug right into the...
Investors brave enough to peek at their account statements know that it has been a rocky 2025. Even before tariff-related volatility, DeepSeek AI’s launch clouded the major technology theme that powered the market in 2023 and 2024 as AI stocks...
Three decades ago, foreign students at Harvard University accounted for just 11 per cent of the total student body. Today, they account for 26 per cent. Like other prestigious universities in the United States US universities, Harvard, for years,...
Over the past two months, financial investors have hit upon a new trading strategy based on a simple rule: TACO – Trump always chickens out. America’s president threatens to slap massive import tariffs on friends and foes alike, or to remove the...
Michael Abrahams is an obstetrician, gynaecologist, and contributor to this newspaper. He also modestly describes himself as a social commentator and human-rights advocate. Dr Abrahams’ back-to-back articles about trauma – physical and mental – the...
Pan Jamaica Group Limited will be divesting a mix of listed equities and funds worth about $6 billion, Vice-Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Hall has said. “It’s to remove assets that we do not have control over in terms of the timing of cash flows,” Hall...
As a chief executive, you are a custodian of the future. However, as you look forward to stellar accomplishments, you are anxious about falling short. How can you vault yourself above daily distractions using powerful LLMs or large language models...
Telecommunications services provider Digicel Group received its first major debt rating since restructuring, with expectations for core earnings to reach US$800 million this financial year. Ratings agency Standard...
Money matters have been cited regularly as a principal cause of marital conflict and even divorce. Talking seriously about money before getting married can help a couple lay a solid foundation for a healthy, long-lasting marriage as it prepares...
The breakup between the president of the United States and the world’s richest man is unfurling much like their relationship started — rapidly, intensely and very publicly. As US President Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office on Thursday with...
The European Central Bank, ECB, cut its benchmark interest rate for an eighth time, aiming to support businesses and consumers with more affordable borrowing as the US trade war threatens to slow already tepid growth. The bank’s rate-setting...
Google signed an agreement with Chile on Wednesday to deploy an undersea fibre optic cable connecting South America with Asia and Oceania, a first-of-its-kind project that aims to cement the South American country’s status as a major digital hub....
In the coming weeks, the US Congress could cement China’s lead in the clean-energy race by passing the Republican Party’s “big, beautiful bill” which, among other things, seeks to eliminate the Inflation Reduction Act’s clean-energy tax incentives...
First Rock Real Estate Investment Limited announced plans to regain possession of the remaining lots at its Hambani Estate residential complex from Sagicor Bank Jamaica. Hambani Estate is a high-priced, luxury residential development that’s been...
