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TORONTO (AP) — Air Canada said Tuesday it will gradually restart operations after reaching an agreement with the union for 10,000 flight attendants to end a strike that disrupted the travel plans of hundreds of thousands of travelers. The union first announced the agreement early Tuesday after Air Canada and the union resumed talks late Monday for the first time since the strike began over the weekend. The strike is affecting about 130,000 travelers a day at the peak of the summer travel season.Canada’s largest airline said flights will start resuming Tuesday evening. Flight attendants walked off the job early…
Crude oil prices declined today after the end of the Trump-Zelensky talks on Monday, in anticipation of trilateral talks that could result in a peace deal. That would likely also result in the lifting of sanctions on Russian crude, making more of its available on global markets.At the time of writing, Brent crude was trading at $66.20 per barrel and West Texas Intermediate was changing hands for $62.95 per barrel, after inching higher on Monday as the Ukrainian president arrived at the White House for talks with Trump.“Betting markets aren’t overly convinced that we’ll see a ceasefire before the end…
New Delhi: Oil and Natural Gas Corporation’s (ONGC’s) research arm ONGC Energy Centre Trust (OECT) on Tuesday said it has signed a ₹39.42 crore agreement with Engineers India Ltd (EIL) for setting up a helium recovery demonstration plant at ONGC’s Kuthalam gas collection station in Cauvery Asset, Tamil Nadu.The project is scheduled to be completed in 18 months. Helium, widely used in space exploration, semiconductor manufacturing, cryogenics, fibre optics and medical technologies, is currently imported to meet India’s demand.According to the official press release, the agreement, which was signed on August 18, provided for preparation of the detailed project report,…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said China’s open-source models drove the company to release its open-weight models earlier this month.”It was clear that if we didn’t do it, the world was gonna be mostly built on Chinese open-source models,” Altman said during a media briefing CNBC reported on Monday.”That was a factor in our decision, for sure. Wasn’t the only one, but that loomed large,” he added.OpenAI did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.OpenAI released two open-weight models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, on August 5. The former is designed for high-end computers, while the latter is meant to…
(Bloomberg) – Oil rose as U.S. President Donald Trump’s meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy tempered expectations that a resolution to the conflict with Russia will be reached quickly. Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy West Texas Intermediate advanced about 1% to settle above $63 a barrel after Zelenskiy said during a meeting at the White House that the countries need to find diplomatic ways to end the war. Brent crude rose more than 1% to settle below $67. “Zelenskiy’s latest comments may have lowered already-slim ceasefire odds even further,” said Rebecca Babin, a senior energy trader at CIBC Private…
New Delhi: India’s crude oil imports are slipping this year amid stagnant demand at home and abroad, a sign that the world’s third-largest consumer and importer may no longer be the reliable demand growth driver global markets count on.Oil imports fell 0.6% YoY during April-July and product imports 1.5%. The slide deepened in July with crude imports declining 4.3% and products’ falling 12.7%. Exports offered little cushion with product shipments down 0.2% in July and up 0.02% over four months. In volume terms, product exports equal about a fifth of India’s combined crude and product imports. Weak imports mirror flagging…
New Delhi: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and shared his assessment of his recent meeting with US President Donald Trump, the Prime Minister’s Office said.During the call, Modi reiterated India’s consistent position for a peaceful resolution of the Ukraine conflict and underlined support for all efforts towards this end. The two leaders also discussed bilateral cooperation, the statement said.In a post on X, Modi said, “Thank my friend, President Putin, for his phone call and for sharing insights on his recent meeting with President Trump in Alaska. India has consistently called for a…
Holly Andrzejewski hadn’t yet welcomed her and her family’s first guests to the Atlantic Inn on Hatteras Island when she had to start rescheduling them, as Hurricane Erin neared North Carolina’s Outer Banks on Tuesday and threatened to whip up wild waves and tropical force winds.Although the monster storm is expected to stay offshore, evacuations were ordered on such barrier islands along the Carolina coast as Hatteras as authorities warned the storm could churn up dangerous rip currents and swamp roads with waves of 15 feet (4.6 meters).Andrzejewski and her husband purchased the bed and breakfast, known as the oldest…
The artificial intelligence boom that Sam Altman helped ignite with ChatGPT in late 2022 is starting to make even him uneasy.Startups with little more than a pitch deck are raising hundreds of millions. Valuations have become “insane.” Capital is chasing a “kernel of truth” with feverish speed.The OpenAI CEO still believes the long-term societal upside of AI will outweigh the froth, and he’s ready to keep spending in pursuit of that goal.”Are we in a phase where investors as a whole are overexcited about AI? My opinion is yes,” he said at a recent dinner with reporters. “Is AI the…
Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a part of BlackRock and one of the world’s leading infrastructure investors, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a 49.99% interest in Eni CCUS Holding, a leading global platform in the carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) sector. Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi Eni CCUS currently encompasses the Liverpool Bay and Bacton projects in the UK, the L10 project in the Netherlands and has the option to participate in the Ravenna CCS project in Italy – cornerstone assets aimed at decarbonizing industrial clusters. The agreement also grants Eni CCUS the right to participate…