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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

MOST POPULAR AI - AI and ML OpenAI makes ChatGPT better at banter With GPT-Live, talking, listening, and formulating answers all happen at once - ai and ml The AI that spawned MechaHitler and deepfake porn puts on a suit to become legal advisor and Excel jockey The newly renamed

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

MOST POPULAR AI - AI and ML OpenAI makes ChatGPT better at banter With GPT-Live, talking, listening, and formulating answers all happen at once - ai and ml The AI that spawned MechaHitler and deepfake porn puts on a suit to become legal advisor and Excel jockey The newly renamed

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

MOST POPULAR AI - AI and ML OpenAI makes ChatGPT better at banter With GPT-Live, talking, listening, and formulating answers all happen at once - ai and ml The AI that spawned MechaHitler and deepfake porn puts on a suit to become legal advisor and Excel jockey The newly renamed

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

MOST POPULAR AI - AI and ML OpenAI makes ChatGPT better at banter With GPT-Live, talking, listening, and formulating answers all happen at once - ai and ml The AI that spawned MechaHitler and deepfake porn puts on a suit to become legal advisor and Excel jockey The newly renamed

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

A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected President Donald Trump's bid to restore his name to the Kennedy Center as he challenges a lower court's order that stripped his name from the Washington performing arts landmark in June. A three-judge panel said Trump and the Kennedy

A Linux vulnerability that allows untrusted virtual machines to gain root access to host machines is one of two high-severity flaws to surface this week in the open source operating system. The vulnerability resides in KVM, which is, in essence, a virtual machine app included in

Samsung has started mass production of the PM1763, its first PCIe Gen6 enterprise SSD, pairing 9th-generation V-NAND with a newly developed 4nm controller. The 15.36TB flagship is rated for sequential reads up to 28,400 MB/s and writes up to 21,000 MB/s, with reads landing at 1.9

Off the Wire Press Releases PARIS, July 8, 2026 — Vultr today announced the launch of SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA on Vultr infrastructure, developed in partnership with SUSE. Announced alongside SUSE at the RAISE Summit in Paris, this validated, full-stack enterprise AI platform

X’s crowdsourced fact-checking system, Community Notes, will be updated to send users direct messages alerting them whenever a post they have interacted with has received a correction. The change, which is not yet live, was announced by X owner Elon Musk. He did not share a time

Wildcard Fery storms past Cobolli and makes Wimbledon history This content is not available in your location. There was an error Arthur Fery made history at Wimbledon by defeating Italy's Flavio Cobolli in straight sets to become the first British wildcard and only the second in

Off the Wire Press Releases PARIS, July 8, 2026 — SambaNova today announced it has completed the first close of $1 billion in strategic financing as part of a Series F round, valuing the company at $11 billion post money. This latest financing round was led by General Atlantic, a

Google Photos is getting a new “Video Remix” feature that can edit and transform videos in seconds, Google announced on Wednesday. The feature is powered by Gemini Omni, Google’s recently released model that promises to “create anything from any input.” The launch is Google’s lat