Bloomberg The operation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) may soon stall because of US delays in appointing new judges, Canada’s trade minister said as he prepares to convene another round of reform talks in Davos. Jim Carr, in an interview with Bloomberg’s Kathleen Hays in Tokyo, said the US refusal to appoint judges to the appellate body of the ...

Bloomberg Facebook Inc is endowing a new institute devoted to the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) at the Technical University of Munich, in Germany. The new center, which Facebook is funding with an initial grant of $7.5 million over five years, will investigate issues around AI safety, fairness, privacy and transparency, Joaquin Quinonero Candela, Facebook’s director of applied machine learning, ...

Bloomberg For all the hand-wringing and headlines over the fallout of the US government shutdown, most forecasters still don’t expect it to cause too much pain to the economy so long as it doesn’t endure. Analysts project the government will reopen by mid-February, though if the closure lasts through March, the disruption will cause economic growth to dip below 2 ...