Bonanza for Chatg Pt Maker openai it takes in new funding, making it one of the most valuable Start Ups in The World. Will he or wont he show up that is Elon Musk is due to testify to the us Markets Watchdog over his Twitter Buyout after a no show last month. Welcome to business today, im ben thompson. We start in the Middle East where, as weve been reporting, President Biden has said the us does not support an attack by israel on irans nuclear sites in response to tehran s missile strikes on israel on tuesday. The us president said the israelis had a right to respond to the attack, but they needed to do so proportionately. In the latest fighting, israel has bombed a building in central beirut. Oil prices have risen since wednesday over supply fears, with markets regaining ground as investors seemingly come to terms with the escalation. Lets have a quick look at the price of oil. This is the one to keep an eye on, Brent Crude up another 2 today taking it above 75 per barrel. For more o
Plumes of smoke over the capital still over beirut. In central beirut, a massive overnight Air Strike killed nine people, in a multistorey building, Housing A Hezbollah affiliated health centre, near the lebanese parliament building. Lebanon says paramedics are among the dead. While the World Health Organization says 28 Health Workers have been killed in the past day. As the conflict escalates, more people are on the move well talk in a few minutes to the Un Agency organising aid in beirut. Meanwhile, the Lebanese Army says, that two of its soldiers have been killed, by israel in separate incidents in southern lebanon. I want to return to Whatjoe Biden has been saying because he responded to questions thrown at him yesterday saying of course the us did not support any potential israeli strikes on nuclear facilities. He was asked today whether there are discussions about israel and Irans Oil facilities and his answer was we are discussing that possibility and that resulted in a spike of
legend for a billion dollars over his promotion of crypto exchange, binance. plus 12 months that changed the world one year on from the launch of chatgpt, how is the boom in artificial intelligence transforming the way we do business? hello if you have just hello if you havejustjoined us, you are very welcome. i am sally bundock. i am sally bundock. we start in dubai, where, as you have been hearing, 167 world leaders and 70,000 delegates from business, charities and faith groups are gathering for the latest round of global climate talks, the conference of the parties or cop28. of the parties, or cop28. eight years ago, in paris, nearly 200 nations pledged to keep global warming well below two degrees centigrade above pre industrial levels, and try to limit it to 1.5 degrees. but a recent un report has confirmed the world is not acting fast enough to achieve the paris goals. there is added controversy, this time around, given the event is hosted by one of the world s to