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The Iran war has reignited and the U.S. may need European allies more than ever, but President Donald Trump left a NATO summit in Turkey on Wednesday without announcing any new commitments from the defense alliance to assist with the conflict. He instead delivered mixed signals a

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he would make a long-shot bid to get the Supreme Court to rehear the case in which it ruled against his executive order that sought to sharply restrict birthright citizenship. The Supreme Court on June 30 held that babies born in the Unite

Children keep dying in a country that made huge progress on measles - Published "I have never seen an outbreak this huge," says paediatrician Dr Mohammed Golam Mawla, as we look around a measles ward in the Bangladeshi city of Mymensingh. Until March this year, Bangladesh had mad

Michael Burry of "The Big Short" fame said he bought shares of regulated sports-betting operators DraftKings and Flutter Entertainment, anticipating regulators will eventually crack down on prediction markets after competition from the upstarts pressured the stocks. Burry said We

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Administrator Jonathan Morrison issued a directive Wednesday to autonomous vehicle (AV) developers, stating that it is unacceptable for their vehicles to interfere with first responders or law enforcement. Morrison noted in t

Ivy League college students are, by definition, intelligent. They don’t need to use generative AI to cheat on exams; they could just learn the material. But they also tend to be competitive, ambitious, and overscheduled, so AI can look like an easy shortcut that makes more time i

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Levi Strauss beat Wall Street's quarterly expectations on the top and bottom lines on Wednesday, leading the retailer to increase its guidance and its dividend. The denim maker is now expecting full-year adjusted earnings per share to be between $1.46 and $1.52, up from a prior r

SpaceX stock closed at $148 on Wednesday, below the company's first trading price of $150 per share for a second day in a row. Elon Musk's aerospace and defense contractor was included in the Nasdaq-100 index on Tuesday, less than a month after its stock market debut on June 12.

SpaceX stock closed at $148 on Wednesday, below the company's first trading price of $150 per share for a second day in a row. Elon Musk's aerospace and defense contractor was included in the Nasdaq-100 index on Tuesday, less than a month after its stock market debut on June 12.

MenB vaccine offers men no protection from gonorrhoea, claims major study - Published The Meningitis B vaccine does not prevent gonorrhoea infections despite being offered to at-risk men, scientists say. The NHS started offering the vaccine to men who have sex with men last year,

President Donald Trump agreed to supply licenses for Ukraine to build Patriot missile interceptors during a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday at the NATO summit in Türkiye. The move stops short of the immediate transfer of Patriots to Ukraine that

Justin Bieber joins Madonna, Shakira and BTS for Fifa World Cup final half-time show - Published Justin Bieber has joined the star-studded list of half-time performers who will close out the 2026 World Cup in New York. The Canadian pop star will perform alongside Madonna, Shakira

Nato chief tells BBC that Trump comments are like 'family argument' - Published Nato, the cornerstone of Western nations' defence, is stronger than ever. That's according to its Secretary General Mark Rutte who was speaking to the BBC at the alliance's summit in Ankara. This desp

US Central Command has launched new strikes on Iran Wednesday evening at the direction of President Donald Trump, as the ceasefire between the two countries goes up in smoke. Trump, speaking at the NATO summit in Türkiye earlier Wednesday, told reporters that the US may reimpose

Meta's AI expansion is heading north of the border. The company said in a blog post on Wednesday that it's building its first data center in Canada, a 1 gigawatt facility in the province of Alberta that will cost Meta about $9 billion and take two to three years to construct. It'

Meta's AI expansion is heading north of the border. The company said in a blog post on Wednesday that it's building its first data center in Canada, a 1 gigawatt facility in the province of Alberta that will cost Meta about $9 billion and take two to three years to construct. It'

Google’s SynthID system has been used to debunk a high-profile AI-generated hoax image, in a rare but significant win for the system. Earlier this week, a picture circulated online that seemed to show Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell covered in tubes in a hospital bed in a state

The race to produce more chips is on, and Europe is in. ASML, the Dutch company that has a near-monopoly on manufacturing the machines used for chipmaking, may soon no longer be an isolated success story. Like its U.S. counterpart, the European Chips Act aims to foster the semico

Good tennis IQ & inner belief - how Fery reached shock Wimbledon semi-final - Published By all tangible measures, Arthur Fery should not be in a Wimbledon semi-final. The 23-year-old was given a wildcard into his home Grand Slam, having been ranked 114th in the world before the s

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Manna Aero, the Ireland-based autonomous drone delivery startup, has been a smaller player in the United States. Founder and CEO Bobby Healy told TechCrunch that’s about to change. The startup, fueled by the $50 million in venture capital it raised in April, said Wednesday that i

Apple said it's expanding its partnership with chipmaker Broadcom in a multi-year deal expected to exceed $30 billion, marking the iPhone maker's largest U.S. manufacturing commitment to date. Shares of Broadcom climbed climbed almost 5% after the announcement on Wednesday. The a

C4N, now GA: Delivering cloud’s highest per vCPU network and block storage I/O for x86 workloads Parinda Gandhi Senior Product Manager Sajal Agarwal Senior Product Manager As organizations scale modern workloads — from high-throughput databases and network/security appliances to

One of the most horrific cases of allegedly Grok-generated child sex images was shared in a proposed class action lawsuit that was expanded Tuesday. Now, young girls not only accuse X and xAI of building toxic AI “nudify” tools but also of shielding child predators by obstructing

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Artificial Intelligence Introducing Claude apps gateway for AWS Enterprises deploying Claude Code and Claude Desktop across development teams need centralized control over access, cost, and policy. At scale, this is hard to manage: each developer needs an individual credential, s

Wimbledon thought it had seen everything - then Fery arrived - Published Days like these for British players at Wimbledon need to be cherished. Andy Murray ending the nation's 77-year wait for a men's singles champion in 2013 was the height of euphoria, and his commanding win thr

Gas prices could rise after President Donald Trump said the U.S. ceasefire with Iran was over and suggested more strikes could follow. The national average for regular gas is about $3.80 a gallon, according to AAA — well below this year's $4.56 peak in May. But renewed tensions c

SpaceXAI has released its latest model, Grok 4.5 — the first since the company went public several weeks ago. In a blog post published Wednesday, SpaceXAI characterized its new release as a workhorse that can tackle all of the typical tasks that the AI industry has sought to auto

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Somewhere above the Great Plains, a virtual woodpecker is on its way to Alaska to deliver a message to my anonymous pen pal. At the same time, a zebra finch named Tucker soars into Manhattan to send a friend my shabby doodle of the Cool S. These messages take hours or even days t

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Before OpenAI’s GPT-3 ushered in the era of foundation models, companies built specialized natural language processing models from scratch, training each on large amounts of task-specific data. Today, most organizations start with a general-purpose model like OpenAI’s GPT series,

Kalshi lost an attempt to override New York’s state gambling laws yesterday, with a federal judge rejecting the prediction market operator’s request to prevent enforcement of the rules. Kalshi is appealing the decision to a higher court. This is one of numerous cases in which jud

We closed out SaaStr AI 2026 with our deep dive AMA, and the theme this year: software is the least static it has ever been. The products we run change more in a month now than they used to in years. The old playbooks work but they are just … too slow. Planning once a year, winni

Federal Reserve officials were split last month about the future of interest rates, with policymakers entertaining scenarios in either direction, according to meeting minutes released Wednesday. In Kevin Warsh's first meeting June 16-17 as chairman of the Federal Open Market Comm