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It’s striped, it’s mesh, it’s nostalgic. But is it happy? Anyone pining for what was known as Gap’s “crazy stripe” sweater — featured in director Michel Gondry’s iconic holiday ads a quarter-century ago — may have looked forward to the remake from the brand’s GapStudio design ate

About half of Americans believe it isn't appropriate for the U.S. government to take ownership in U.S.-based companies, CNBC's new All-America Economic Survey found. The finding comes as the Trump administration has negotiated 30 deals worth nearly $27 billion in total, according

About half of Americans believe it isn't appropriate for the U.S. government to take ownership in U.S.-based companies, CNBC's new All-America Economic Survey found. The finding comes as the Trump administration has negotiated 30 deals worth nearly $27 billion in total, according

Microsoft will deploy AMD’s Helios rack-scale AI accelerator ‘at scale’ on Azure – Radeon Instinct MI455X and Epyc Venice power will be available through Redmond’s cloud infrastructure But it’s not clear just how much AMD AI compute Microsoft is buying The demand for AI compute i

Connor Love a16z is thrilled to welcome Connor Love as our newest General Partner America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts When we started thinking about people who could help build the next decade of American Dynamism, and talking to founders, one name kept surfacing. Founder

Government can seize private land to make way for new AI data center transmission lines, report says — takeovers could be implemented using eminent domain law when private citizens refuse to sell land Eminent domain can force land sales regardless of the owner's consent A report

Businesses would gain new guidelines for rounding transactions if the government gradually phases out the U.S. penny under legislation Congress is considering. The Common Cents Act, which passed the House of Representatives on Tuesday, enacts formal guidelines for businesses to r

Magenta silks, bright yellow raffia, and delicately woven motifs graced Imane Ayissi’s runway in Paris, a true fashion feast blending African and European fabrics, styles, and cuts. Cameroon-born Ayissi, the only designer from sub-Saharan Africa to ever take part in Paris’ haute

Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk has launched South Africa’s first low-cost version of its weight-loss drug, in a bid to squeeze out counterfeit products in Africa’s most obese nation. Demand for the drug, first developed for diabetes before becoming a global weight-loss

West African leaders approved a plan for a $25 billion pipeline to transport natural gas from Nigeria to Morocco, a major step in expanding the region’s gas exports to help meet global demand. The agreement signed by heads from the Ecowas bloc paves the way for a company to be es

Anglo American picked a group led by one of its former executives as its preferred bidder for an 85% stake in De Beers. The Global Diamond Consortium, led by Gareth Penny, was selected from three shortlisted groups following a bidding process, according to Moeti Mohwasa, Botswana

Chevron and a unit of Qatari conglomerate Power International Holding agreed to work on reviving an Iraq-Syria oil pipeline. The link could carry up to 2 million barrels a day from Iraq, bypassing the Strait of Hormuz. The deal adds to the prominent role that Qatari firms are pla

China closed more than 30,000 preschools and primary schools in 2025, new data showed, in the starkest sign yet of the country’s demographic crisis. Kindergarten enrolment has been plunging for years, with the number of registrations falling by a quarter just between 2020 and 202

Indian police baton-charged protesters heading to parliament and forcibly hospitalized a hunger striker, as frustration over the country’s education infrastructure intensified. India is home to globally competitive universities and has produced world-class entrepreneurs, scientis

As bitcoin prices fell yet again in the second quarter, traders on prediction market platform Kalshi think Coinbase's trading volumes suffered once again. The cryptocurrency trading platform is expected to post a third consecutive quarterly decline of trading volumes, and specula

Hugging Face, a platform that hosts AI models and datasets, said its internal datasets and service credentials were compromised in a hack last week. The company disclosed the breach on Friday, but said it was still investigating whether any customer or partner data was stolen dur

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For the first time since 2024, StrictlyVC is coming back to New York City — and we’re bringing the kind of access you’d expect from an under-wraps event to the whole startup, VC, and dealmaking community. For years, StrictlyVC has run a series of some of the most interesting nigh

This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Monday. Spain won the World Cup yesterday in an extra-time nailbiter. But the financial winner might be FIFA, which is set to net more than $9 billion in revenue for 2026. Sto

Samsung now supplying new VESA DisplayHDR True Black 1400 laptop displays — Lenovo, Asus, Dell, and MSI set to launch portables with the first 1,600 nits tandem OLED panels New VESA certification requires 40% higher brightness than the previous top tier. Samsung Display has annou

The News DR Congo’s government will consider changes sought by mining companies to a proposed overhaul of the country’s mining laws, a government spokesman told Semafor, as executives warned that repeated shifts in the rules could deter investment. “If there are concerns or point

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The Scoop TAWAL, the telecom tower company controlled by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, is in talks to acquire more than 10,000 sites from the kingdom’s second-largest mobile operator, according to people familiar with the matter. The multibillion-dollar deal would involve

3D printing enthusiast resurrects cancelled dbrand Steam Machine Companion Cube as DIY project — project shelved due to copyright can now be made and assembled at home dbrand had to scrap the Companion Cube after Valve threatened to sue Mere weeks after dbrand announced it would

There are a lot of AI coding applications out there, and as impressive as large language models and the agents they enable have become, many of the most recent developments in AI-assisted development have been in the software that manages those models, not just the models themsel

The News Nuclear power is key to bolstering energy security in Africa, but its rollout on the continent requires workforce training and safety regulations, according to a leading industry expert. The Iran war has injected fresh urgency into the need for homegrown energy solutions

Brazil said it would reciprocate after the US imposed 25% tariffs, a move that has shaken up the South American country’s economy and politics. Brasília — a rarity on the continent for running a trade deficit with Washington — also unveiled a $2.6 billion package to support the w

Save $148 on an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D bundle with 32GB of RAM, motherboard, and liquid AIO — start your AM5 gaming build for just $1,039 AM5 gaming isn't out of reach in 2026 Building a gaming PC in 2026 is tough given the state of RAM and SSD pricing, but it's not impossible. If y

Andy Burnham will become the UK prime minister today, facing the same list of economic and political problems that undermined several predecessors. Britain has low growth, high inflation, and heavy debt, and he is constrained by his own fiscal pledges. The country also lacks ener

Logitech's G Pro X2 Superstrike gaming mouse is $125.99 after getting a massive $54 discount — hall-effect haptic switches, 8K polling, and 30 ms faster clicks for peak gaming performance Haptic clicking for faster reaction times This is the first time that I can recall seeing a

Listen to this post: There’s a story I tell about my first day in STRT-431 at Kellogg School of Management, the introductory class that every first-year MBA was required to take; I leafed through the readings and case studies and was dismayed that there weren’t any tech companies