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The end of a Democrat’s disastrous bid for a must-win US Senate seat has blunted the party’s efforts to oppose President Donald Trump’s agenda. Graham Platner’s populist campaign ignited the Democratic grassroots but many soured on the scandal-plagued candidate, underscoring the

Fidji Simo, OpenAI's product and business chief, on Thursday announced she is stepping down from her role at the artificial intelligence company to focus on recovery after a "severe exacerbation of a chronic illness." Simo was diagnosed with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndr

Fidji Simo, OpenAI's product and business chief, on Thursday announced she is stepping down from her role at the artificial intelligence company to focus on recovery after a "severe exacerbation of a chronic illness." Simo was diagnosed with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndr

Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s No. 2 executive, is stepping down from her full-time role, the Wall Street Journal reports. In a staff note Thursday, Simo said her ongoing medical leave has proven longer and harder than expected, and that she’ll transition to a part-time advisory role inste

China is considering restricting global access to its top AI models, Reuters reported, echoing US efforts to limit access to frontier AI technologies, as both countries look to erect a “silicon curtain” around their most advanced tech. Chinese officials discussed curbing foreign

OpenAI’s Fidji Simo is departing her full-time role as the company’s AGI chief and is transitioning to being a “part-time advisor,” she said on X. Fidji Simo steps down from leading OpenAI’s AGI work due to illness Simo is transitioning to a role as a ‘part-time advisor.’ She too

Russia and China are seeking the capability to disable and eventually destroy Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite network, an investigation found, as the allies deepen their clandestine military cooperation. The report by The Insider, Der Spiegel, and Le Monde highlights documents rev

UK bakes in 35C highs as heatwave to continue next week - Published The UK is set to bake in another day of 35C highs, with temperatures expected to remain at heatwave level until the end of next week. On Thursday, temperatures exceeded 34C for the eighth day this year, breaking

All the best looks from Paris Haute Couture Week 2026 - Published The hottest week in haute couture was accompanied by scorching temperatures as the biggest names in the world of fashion and celebrity descended on Paris for Couture Week. Brands such as Schiaparelli, Balenciaga, C

A slate of second-quarter earnings could present the clearest corporate scorecard of the Iran conflict’s impact to date. US oil majors and refiners are expected to report record profits as higher crude and fuel prices “trigger a wartime windfall,” The Financial Times reported, li

For 48 hours in Ankara, Turkey, it felt as though the world was moving on Donald Trump's timetable. Markets lurched. NATO allies braced for confrontation. Ukraine searched for reassurance. Iran threatened to upend the agenda. One moment, leaders were preparing for diplomatic cris

A series of task forces designed to bring outside thinking to the Federal Reserve will include the "best minds," Chairman Kevin Warsh said Thursday. For a task force that could be especially consequential for the Fed's management of the economy — on artificial intelligence — thos

France into semi-finals after comfortable win over Morocco This content is not available in your location. There was an error Kylian Mbappe scores his eighth goal of this World Cup to make up for an earlier penalty miss with Ousmane Dembele adding a second as France prove too goo

CNBC's Jim Cramer said Thursday that SK Hynix's upcoming Nasdaq debut will give U.S. investors a new way to bet on the artificial intelligence boom, but warned the South Korean memory-chip giant comes with significant risks. "We know the memory chip business is on fire and if you

CNBC's Jim Cramer said Thursday that SK Hynix's upcoming Nasdaq debut will give U.S. investors a new way to bet on the artificial intelligence boom, but warned the South Korean memory-chip giant comes with significant risks. "We know the memory chip business is on fire and if you

The fading prospect of a durable US-Iran ceasefire is forcing investors and energy companies to reassess their post-truce optimism and brace for prolonged instability in the Middle East. Qatar is delaying plans to ramp up LNG production after attacks on vessels near the Strait of

The US and Iran traded strikes for a second day on Thursday, marking the most serious rupture yet in the countries’ crumbling ceasefire. Tehran said it attacked US military sites in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and Jordan, and Washington’s Gulf allies braced for further strikes, as Pr

Guehi a doubt for Norway game and Rice ill with bug - Published England defender Marc Guehi will be assessed on Friday to see if he is fit to play in Saturday's World Cup quarter-final against Norway. The centre-back has a slight hamstring injury following England's 3-2 victory o

Until about 60,000 years ago, diminutive hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (affectionately nicknamed Hobbits for obvious reasons), shared the island of Flores with Komodo dragons, pygmy elephants, and giant rats. Based on the presence of hominin and pygmy elephant bones in the s

Off the Wire Press Releases DriveNets AI Fabric connects two WhiteFiber H200 GPU clusters data centers 52 miles apart into a single GPU supercluster, freeing AI infrastructure from single-site power constraints while delivering 111.2 Tbps of bandwidth with sub-millisecond latency

OpenAI unveiled its newest family of models on Thursday, introducing a set of heavyweight programs into an increasingly crowded field of AI offerings. GPT-5.6 comes in three variants: Sol (considered its workhorse), Terra (a more intermediate option), and Luna (its budget-friendl

CNBC's Jim Cramer said Thursday that he's sticking with the market's largest tech companies despite many delivering lackluster returns of late. "One day, one of these companies is going to announce on its conference call that it is raising forecast because of its AI products, and

How an app in South Korea will let victims track their stalkers A newly launched government app will now allow victims in South Korea to electronically track the location of their stalkers in real time. Officials say they hope the app will help ensure stronger protection for stal

There’s something almost too perfect about this one, via Bloomberg. Lyzr, a three-year-old, Jersey City, New Jersey, startup that helps enterprises build AI agents, used its own AI agent to raise its own round. The system, SivaClaw, reportedly fielded questions from more than 130

Off the Wire Press Releases RENO, Nev., July 9, 2026 — CIQ, the founding commercial sponsor of Rocky Linux and the company behind the Ascender Pro automation platform, today announced that Ascender Pro now closes the loop between detection and remediation across an entire Enterpr

OpenAI is sunsetting Atlas, the AI-powered browser it launched in October with ChatGPT at its core. But it’s not giving up on the idea that AI should help people browse the web. Instead, it’s taking some of the agentic browsing features it tested in Atlas and redistributing them

Norway's Haaland says pressure is all on England - Published Norway striker Erling Haaland says all the pressure is on England leading into their World Cup quarter-final meeting on Saturday - and with a smile, called on the media to put as much pressure on Thomas Tuchel's side as

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