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Reform UK reports Zack Polanski to police over guillotine T-shirt post - Published Reform UK have reported Green Party leader Zack Polanski to the police, after he shared an Instagram post including a photo of a man wearing a top featuring the name "Nigel" alongside an image of a

Microsoft is introducing new AI tools designed to help customers continuously streamline and automate the process of identifying and reducing their exposure to security risks. The new tools come less than a week after OpenAI lost control of two of its security models when they in

The Trump administration today exempted SpaceX’s Starlink routers from the Federal Communications Commission ban on foreign-made routers. A public notice issued by the FCC said Starlink routers received approval from the Department of War (also known as the Department of Defense)

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will meet with senior Trump administration officials, lawmakers and economists in Washington, D.C., this week to preview the capabilities of the company's upcoming family of artificial intelligence models, CNBC has learned. Altman has maintained a regular pr

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will meet with senior Trump administration officials, lawmakers and economists in Washington, D.C., this week to preview the capabilities of the company's upcoming family of artificial intelligence models, CNBC has learned. Altman has maintained a regular pr

OpenAI is in discussions with Nvidia about a backstop of up to $250 billion that would help fund its ambitious plans to lease a massive new artificial intelligence data center, CNBC confirmed. The backstop would let OpenAI raise debt for a 10-gigawatt data center campus in Pike C

OpenAI is in discussions with Nvidia about a backstop of up to $250 billion that would help fund its ambitious plans to lease a massive new artificial intelligence data center, CNBC confirmed. The backstop would let OpenAI raise debt for a 10-gigawatt data center campus in Pike C

What's one trillion between a trillionaire and his biggest fans? SpaceX has now erased more than $1.2 trillion in market cap since its high price of $225.64 in June – almost exactly the value of Elon Musk's other company, Tesla, whose shares just fell to near one-year lows. On Mo

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On Sunday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella doubled down on the shocking warning he issued earlier this month to businesses that use AI, taking it a step further this time. Companies that rely wholly on the proprietary AI labs for their AI needs ultimately won’t survive, he predicts.

Apple passed Nvidia on Monday for the title of world's most valuable company, with the iPhone maker topping the artificial intelligence chip firm at market close for the first time since April 2025. Shares of Nvidia fell 5% on Monday, giving the chipmaker a valuation of $4.77 tri

Apple passed Nvidia on Monday for the title of world's most valuable company, with the iPhone maker topping the artificial intelligence chip firm at market close for the first time since April 2025. Shares of Nvidia fell 5% on Monday, giving the chipmaker a valuation of $4.77 tri

When US President Donald Trump took the stage earlier this month at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit, flanked by the CEOs of some of America's largest defence firms, he had one message in mind: build more weapons, and build them faster. "We have the best quality in

Oil prices fell after Iran reportedly said it would suspend attacks as long as a U.S. pause in hostilities remains in place, easing concerns over nearly two weeks of escalating conflict. International benchmark Brent crude futures for September delivery fell 8.7% to close at $88.

June's Federal Open Market Committee meeting ended with a much shorter statement from the Federal Reserve, and with Chairman Kevin Warsh not giving a forecast on the outlook for rates. It's likely he will continue a tight-lipped approach this week, as Kalshi traders point to pote

President Donald Trump said Monday that the U.S. has collected more than $13 billion from the sale of Venezuelan crude oil since the overthrow of former President Nicolás Maduro. The U.S. seized control of Venezuela's oil exports after capturing Maduro in a military raid on Jan.

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Anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made it one of his top priorities to convince Americans to “eat real food,” including more fresh fruits and vegetables. But, it’s a hard sell when those real foods are causing real eruptions of explosive diarrhea across the

The Scoop Michael Dell avoided investing in tech for years, figuring he had enough exposure through the company with his name on it. That’s changing. BDT & MSD, which manages much of the billionaire’s fortune, has hired Goldman Sachs partner Darren Cohen, who oversaw the bank’s b

For hard-tech startups, manufacturing is a pricey endeavor. Now, Thea Energy has a leg up courtesy of a Department of Energy grant. The fusion power startup told TechCrunch Monday that it has received a $20 million award from ARPA-E to help manufacture its modular high-temperatur

While much of the streaming industry is focused on mergers and acquisitions, NBCUniversal is expanding its reach through partnerships, with its latest move bringing Peacock directly to YouTube. On Monday, NBCUniversal and YouTube announced a multi-year global strategic partnershi

Apple has released iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS 26.6. Apart from potential security hotfixes, these are likely the last updates before the arrival of iOS 27, macOS 27, and so on. All of today’s releases include minor bug fixes, and there are numerous security updates: mo

'Nothing makes sense' - Ramsay-Peaty beaten again - Published Adam Ramsay-Peaty said "nothing makes sense" after he again had to settle for bronze at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. After finishing third in the 100m on Saturday, three-time Olympic champion Ramsay-Peaty, 31, wa

One missing underscore in a Skyrim-themed username put an innocent Nova Scotia man in prison for 18 months. A 2018 child-luring investigation, which began in Madison, Wisconsin, and eventually extended to Halifax, Canada, was based on a false premise. Police were looking for a ma

An untold number of Claude chats and Artifacts — the interactive mini apps and documents users can build inside Claude — were found publicly searchable on Google over the weekend, after Reddit users discovered that typing search operators like “site:claude.ai/share” into Google s

After a big court loss last week, Google has confirmed that it won’t give up its fight to block AI bots from scraping its search results. And Reddit is weirdly along for the ride. Curiously invoking the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), Google sued SerpApi last December. T

NBCUniversal's Peacock is officially landing on YouTube. All of the streaming service's content — including NBC Sports' portfolio of the NFL and NBA, Universal films like the Minions franchise, and original Peacock and Bravo content like the Real Housewives franchise and "Love Is

Inter in advanced talks with England defender Stones - Published England defender John Stones is in advanced talks with Inter Milan about joining the Italian side on a free transfer. The centre-half is a free agent after leaving Manchester City at the end of June. Stones has been

France and Spain wildfire witnesses describe 'wall of flames', fear and stress - Published People in the French city of Bordeaux are feeling "anxious and fearful" as a wildfire burns just 15km (9.3 miles) from its outskirts, a resident has told the BBC. Pierre Pourquery said that

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The cyclospora outbreak that has sickened thousands in the U.S. is drawing renewed attention to a decades-long shift in how fresh food moves through the country. While investigators work to identify the original source of contamination, some food safety experts say the industry's

Off the Wire Press Releases RICHLAND, Wash., July 27, 2026 — The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has partnered with Amazon Web Services to explore and validate some of the most advanced artificial intelligence tools that could help operators of the na

MSI and Colorful raise Nvidia RTX 50-series prices in China by up to 59% across the entire lineup — change in distributer pricing suggests GPU price hikes are on the way AMD and Intel GPUs also receive price hikes. The ongoing component crisis has forced manufacturers to raise pr