World - CNBC

1. Oil giant TotalEnergies on Trump's Venezuela dream: ‘Too expensive and too polluting'

2. Anthropic executive takes a thinly-veiled swipe at OpenAI over spending and ads

3. Bitcoin bounce fades as it drops back down to just under $67,000

4. Tariff bill in U.S. states hits $200 billion as affordability and Trump head into midterms showdown

5. Europe's answer to OpenAI announces billion-dollar AI infrastructure push in Sweden

6. French software maker Dassault Systèmes plunges 18%, on track for worst day ever

7. Heineken shares jump 4% amid plan to cut up to 6,000 jobs; European stocks move lower

8. CNBC Daily Open: Financial firms wobble on AI threats and disappointing U.S. retail sales

9. Jeffrey Epstein has sparked a political crisis threatening the UK government. Here's what's happening

10. The AI threat wrecked software stocks. Now financial stocks look next with LPL closing 8% lower

11. Japanese stocks have been hitting record highs. But the rally may be 'fragile'

12. Crypto's 'age of speculation' may be over, says Galaxy CEO Mike Novogratz

13. S&P is already predicting China's property slump will be worse than it expected this year

14. CNBC's UK Exchange newsletter: Compass shifts its trading to dollars — and it might not be the last

15. CNBC's The China Connection newsletter: Inside China’s push to feed 1.4 billion people without U.S. crops

16. Musk's xAI loses second co-founder in two days

17. China consumer inflation rises less than expected in January as producer price deflation persists

18. CNBC Daily Open: AI might come for financial firms next — and a weak U.S. retail report weighs on stocks

19. Salesforce employees call on CEO Benioff to cancel ICE 'opportunities'