As US presence wanes, China works to increase its influence through foreign aid As US presence wanes, China works to increase its influence through foreign aid Audio will be available later today. When the U.S. pulled back on giving out foreign aid last year, fears emerged that China would swoop to take America's place. But China's...

April Arrivals on Disney Plus: Watch a New Star Wars Series, Live Savannah Bananas Game and MoreWe all know that Disney Plus is the hub for Disney content, new and old, along with Star Wars, Marvel, Pixar and National Geographic. While it's comforting to revisit those classics, the platform also releases plenty of new shows and movies each month, including original series, Disney Jr....

Didero lands $30M to put manufacturing procurement on ‘agentic’ autopilot Tim Spencer realized just how complicated manufacturing procurement can be while running Markai, an e-commerce startup in Asia, during the pandemic. “We had thousands of suppliers, and we were distributing products into dozens of countries around the world,” Spencer (pictured left) told TechCrunch. His staff was...

The AI skills gap is here, says AI company, and power users are pulling ahead Anthropic’s latest research suggests that while AI is rapidly changing the way work gets done, it hasn’t meaningfully eliminated jobs. At least, not yet. But beneath what Anthropic’s head of economics, Peter McCrory, says is a “still healthy” labor market, early signs are pointing to uneven impacts, especially for...

New York City: Baby shot dead in pram in 'broad daylight', police sayNYPDPolice believe they have apprehended the shooter while the driver remains at largeA seven-month-old girl was shot and killed in while sitting in her pushchair in "broad daylight" in New York City's borough of Brooklyn, police have said.Police believe the baby was the unintended victim of a suspected gang-related...