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The West Texas Intermediate for March delivery increased 55 cents, or 0.75 percent, to settle at 73.86 U.S. dollars a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange rose slightly on Wednesday as the U.S. dollar weakened.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 156.00 points, or 0.40 percent, to 38,677.36. The S&P 500 added 40.83 points, or 0.82 percent, to 4,995.06.
Elon Musk, Neuralink’s billionaire founder, has said the first human received an implant from the brain-chip startup on Sunday and is recovering well, in a post on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
Artificial intelligence (AI) will impact 60 percent of jobs in advanced economies, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva told AFP, shortly before departing for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
From Hollywood and Washington to social media timelines and the World Wide Web, deepfakes — a combination of ‘deep learning’ and ‘fake’ — and other synthetic media made with artificial intelligence (AI)