Last year, Salesforce, the company best known for its cloud sales support software (and Slack), spearheaded a project called ProGen to design proteins using generative AI. A research moonshot, ProGen could — if brought to market — help uncover medical treatments more cost effectively than traditional methods, the researchers behind it claimed in a January … Read more
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen testifies before a House Financial Services Committee hearing on the “Annual Report of the Financial Stability Oversight Council” on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 6, 2024. Amanda Andrade-rhoades | Reuters Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday lauded President Joe Biden’s investment in electric vehicles for accelerating the sector, … Read more
John Bruton, who as Ireland’s prime minister played a key role in advancing talks that led to a landmark 1998 peace accord in Northern Ireland, died Feb. 6 at a hospital in Dublin. He was 76. Mr. Bruton’s family announced the death but gave no specific cause. First elected to Ireland’s parliament, the Dáil, at … Read more
MILAN — Authorities in Rome have arrested 14 migrants from nine countries for alleged involvement in unrest in a repatriation center following the death of a migrant from the African nation of Guinea, police said Monday. After the body was discovered Sunday morning, migrants in the center began setting mattresses on fire and throwing objects … Read more
U.S. President Joe Biden provides a thumbs up as he walks with first woman Jill Biden to Marine One on the South Garden of the White Home July 14, 2023 in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer | Getty Photographs WASHINGTON — Morgan Stanley is crediting President Joe Biden’s financial insurance policies with driving an surprising surge … Read more