Jewel Samad | AFP | Getty Images Alibaba founder Jack Ma waits on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York on September 19, 2014. SenseTime is a little-known AI firm with a valuation reportedly higher than $3 million. The firm provides facial-recognition technology that can be …

Nicolas Asfouri | AFP | Getty Images China’s President Xi Jinping shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump (L) during a business leaders event at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Nov. 9, 2017. China’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday that the United States was to blame …

REUTERS/Alexei Druzhinin/RIA Novosti/Kremlin Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, October 20, 2015. The Russian military said on Monday that two Israeli F-15 warplanes had carried out strikes on a Syrian air base on Sunday, the …

Nicolas Asfouri | AFP | Getty Images China’s President Xi Jinping shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump (L) during a business leaders event at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Nov. 9, 2017. Trade fears looked set to continue simmering after a week dominated by developments …

David Mareuil | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images People gathering near the Japan Parliament hold placards against Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as Yasunori Kagoike, head of the Moritomo Gakuen group, gives sworn testimony in the Diet on March 23, 2017. Japan’s Finance Ministry proposed crafting a cover story with …

It was the middle of the night in Florida. Eighteen-year-old photographer John Kraus was heading to bed after working long hours over the weekend, when the notifications began pouring in. “My phone just starts blowing up and I’m thinking, ‘oh man, what did I do,'” Kraus told CNBC. Kraus first …

Sean Gallup | Getty Images People walk past an original graffiti-covered portion of the Berlin Wall at a spot where the outer layer of the Wall once stood at Potsdamer Platz on October 29, 2014 in Berlin, Germany. The German daily Die Welt is reporting that police have foiled a …

Pool | Getty Images Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump attend a welcoming ceremony November 9, 2017 in Beijing, China. President Donald Trump is suggesting China will ease trade barriers “because it is the right thing to do” and Washington and Beijing can settle disputes that have …

Chris Kleponis | Pool | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump makes a statement on health care while standing with ‘victims of Obamacare’ at The White House on July 24, 2017 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump harshly condemned a suspected chemical attack in Syria on Sunday, vowing that the …

Thomas Lohnes | Getty Images Management board member of Deutsche Bank Christian Sewing speaks to the media at Deutsche Bank headquarters on October 29, 2015 in Frankfurt, Germany. Deutsche Bank is favoring Christian Sewing to be its new chief executive, replacing John Cryan, a source told CNBC on Sunday. The …