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Regulators are in an “arms race” to keep up with the use of artificial intelligence in financial services, a senior UK official has warned, with millions of people using the technology to help them make personal finance decisions. Sheldon Mills, an executive director at the Finan

Meta-owned chat app WhatsApp started to roll out username reservations for its 3 billion users earlier in June. The username feature is not active, but you can claim your username and start using it whenever the feature becomes available this year. With usernames, people will be

Sick of the heat, crowds and high prices, more U.S. travelers are discovering the offseason of international travel — and airlines and hotels are fighting for a windfall. Flights to once-seasonal European vacation destinations now start when there's still snow on the ground in th

Our jaws drop at Anthropic’s growth rate, and its valuation. But sometimes we can lose sight of just how big it already is … versus everyone else in software. Anthropic exited 2025 at roughly $9 billion in run-rate revenue. By February 2026 it was $14 billion. Then $19 billion in

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The rapidly evolving nature of warfare and modern military requirements should prompt investors to rethink valuations in the defense sector, according to Panmure Liberum strategist Joachim Klement. While an increasingly fractious geopolitical environment continues to support the

Nvidia's Kyber rack for Rubin Ultra reportedly delayed to 2028, stopgap solution also axed due to customer pushback — Analyst firm SemiAnalysis says PCB midplane problems led to the delay [Updated] Leaving Nvidia without a proven way to scale Rubin Ultra past its current Oberon r

Walmart-owned e-commerce major Flipkart has approved its second discretionary employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) liquidity event, allowing eligible employees to liquidate up to 5% of their vested stock options, according to an internal email from Group CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy.

A year after cutting around 9,100 employees, Microsoft is making further layoffs today as it begins its new financial year. The software maker is laying off around 4,800 employees today, approximately 2.1 percent of its workforce. Most of the employees affected by today’s cuts ar

Off the Wire Press Releases Initial results lay the groundwork for key objective of the United States Genesis Mission YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, New York, July 6, 2026 — A team of scientists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Cleveland Clinic, and IBM, have calculated nine molecul

Furniture and appliance rental platform Rentomojo has received observations from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) for its proposed initial public offering (IPO), moving a step closer to its public market debut. According to the company's draft red herring prospec

Saudi Arabia and Qatar sent senior officials to the funeral of Iran’s slain supreme leader, a display of diplomatic protocol that drew criticism after Iranian organizers appeared to taunt the visiting delegations. As Saudi Arabia’s deputy foreign minister approached Ali Khamenei’

The UAE’s non-oil economy is experiencing its worst period since the COVID-19 pandemic, with the private sector at its weakest in more than five years, and employment falling faster than at any time since 2020. The Purchasing Managers’ Index compiled by S&P Global — which measure

East African illustrators made their mark at the world’s biggest animation market this year, as the nascent industry seeks commercial recognition on the global stage. The annual event in Annecy, France, is traditionally dominated by works from international powerhouses Japan, Fra

Cameroonian data center operator ST Digital opened its facility in Gabon on Friday, July 3, as per an announcement on LinkedIn. The company broke ground on the facility back in August 2025. It is located in the Nkok Special Economic Zone, an industrial park near the country’s cap

Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, said he plans to make major investment in ports, power, and roads in Tanzania, as part of his plans to expand amid a surge in global fuel and fertilizer costs. The Nigerian billionaire held talks with Tanzania’s president last week, and said b

Dubai is pouring billions into “building a city that does not pause,” Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed said, as it looks to bounce back from the economic fallout of the Iran war. The emirate’s executive council, chaired by the crown prince, approved an 18 billion-dirham ($

Economists and asset managers warned that sub-Saharan Africa’s economic crunch will likely extend to the end of 2026, dashing hopes that the US-Iran ceasefire would ease short-term conditions in a region badly impacted by the war. “The real effects of a conflict like this do not

Station F, a Paris-based startup hub founded by French billionaire Xavier Niel, is gearing up for a new edition of its F/ai accelerator program in a bid to strengthen its positioning as a stepping stone for promising AI startups. Launched in January of this year, F/ai’s planning

Versant Media Group, the owner of cable networks including CNBC, MS NOW and the Golf Channel, has agreed to acquire golf simulation company Full Swing from private equity firm Bruin Capital for about $530 million in cash. The deal follows a template CEO Mark Lazarus has outlined

Nvidia and Intel tout homegrown American chip supply chain prowess as country bolsters local production, but gaps remain — crucial Blackwell packaging steps remain offshore as projects grow in scope and scale America's AI supply chain now starts and ends in the U.S. Nvidia shoute

Electric drone breaks world air speed record at 434 mph, designed for anti-aircraft interceptor roles — German firm convincingly smashed the official 409 mph record, hopes to get stamp of approval from Guinness soon Quantum Systems Apex Recordhunter drone aims to smash more recor

China’s Huawei to enter South Korean AI chip market with new Atlas SuperPods, clusters pack 8,192 Ascend 950 accelerators per deployment — reportedly challenges Nvidia dominance with 'tripled inference performance' of H20 at one-quarter the cost The company claims its Ascend 950P

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This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Monday. I spent part of the weekend catsitting for a friend, which meant I could run their AC instead of mine during the heat wave. Stock futures are mixed this morning. Wall

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The News Buyers of high-end property have been active in Saudi Arabia this year, even as the Iran war has dented sales of the priciest homes elsewhere in the Gulf, according to DarGlobal CEO Ziad El Chaar. The London-listed developer, which focuses on branded luxury residences, s

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The heatwave that struck the UK late last month resulted in the University of Cambridge’s Dawn supercomputer being knocked offline. Per a report from The Times, the supercomputer was one of several services that suffered an outage on June 27 due to excessive temperatures. Access

APAC data center firm Digital Edge is reportedly looking to develop a 270MW data center near Mumbai, India. The firm bought an approximately 30-acre parcel at the proposed Green Integrated Data Centre Park in the city of Palava, according to a report by The Economic Times which c

The News Nigeria’s leading opposition parties are scrambling to fight a growing number of lawsuits that are threatening their capacity to mount a credible challenge in January’s presidential elections. A Nigerian court in June ordered election organizer INEC to de-register the Af

Capillary Technologies, a customer loyalty and engagement platform, has disclosed that one of its recently acquired overseas step down subsidiaries was hit by a sophisticated cyber enabled banking fraud, resulting in the fraudulent transfer of approximately EUR 3 million (around

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Steam Machine interview full transcript: Valve engineers discuss $1,049 pricing, compact design, component shortages, and Windows support Valve's Pierre-Loup Griffais and Yazan Aldehayyat talked to Tom's Hardware about launching the Steam Machine in unprecedented times. Ahead of

Bentley is preparing to add a fourth model to its rarified lineup, and today we know what it will be called: the Torcal. The carmaker has been working on its first electric vehicle for a while now; it was seen testing in the Arctic Circle late last year, giving us a sneak peek at

Washington is having the wrong debate about the African Growth and Opportunity Act. Congress is consumed with whether to extend the preferential trade program, when the more important question is what comes after it. AGOA remains one of the most successful pillars of US engagemen

PhonePe Insurance Broking Services CEO Vishal Gupta has stepped down to launch a new stealth startup. In a LinkedIn post announcing his departure, Gupta said he is leaving PhonePe to start a new venture, describing it as the "natural next step" after working across startups inclu

The temptation with a car like the Czinger 21C is to treat it as a collection of extreme specifications, and to be fair, it’s certainly not lacking in that department. At its most basic level, the carbon-fiber-bodied 21C is a hybrid hypercar built around a bespoke 2.88-liter twin

Wisconsin residents file class-action lawsuit against Microsoft's 'world's most powerful AI data center' due to data center noise — plaintiffs also mention construction noise and extreme light pollution from $7.3 billion facility A data center set right up against homes unavoidab

FIFA overturned a one-match men’s World Cup suspension against US striker Folarin Balogun after President Donald Trump reportedly pressured soccer’s governing body, leading to accusations of favoritism. The move has sparked schisms ahead of the US’ round of 16 tie: Belgium, which

Ukraine and its neighbors are increasingly skeptical that the US will come to their aid in the face of Russian aggression, and are taking precautions accordingly. Along multiple stretches of Europe’s eastern flank with Russia, from Poland to Finland, Axel Springer reporters descr