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AI or real? BBC analyses viral China disaster videos As weather events become more extreme, fake videos are being shared rapidly online, and it’s causing real world problems in China. The government has vowed to crack down on misinformation, but as our China correspondent Stephen

I'd like Hundred to be longer - Salt - Published Welsh Fire captain Phil Salt would ideally like The Hundred to be a week longer after his side played three matches in five days. His second-placed side won at Birmingham Phoenix on Saturday afternoon and defeated Southern Brave in

Billion-dollar films are back in Hollywood. The theatrical industry welcomed its fourth billion-dollar film of 2026 this week as Sony and Marvel's "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" surpassed the coveted benchmark. It joins the three-comma ranks alongside Universal's "The Super Mario Ga

More than a week after exempting B2B ecommerce exports from foreign direct investment (FDI) rules, the government has now notified the new norms to enable online marketplaces to export products from India. In a circular dated August 5, the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DG

Infantino sorry for errors but stays Fifa president - Published Gianni Infantino has apologised for "errors" he made in controversial plans to sell off stakes in competitions to private investors, but will remain Fifa president after receiving the backing of senior executives in

SpaceX ramped up spending on energy products from CEO Elon Musk's other trillion-dollar company, Tesla, during the period ending June 30, 2026, financial filings revealed. Musk's aerospace and defense tech conglomerate purchased $295 million worth of Tesla Megapacks, or battery e

SpaceX ramped up spending on energy products from CEO Elon Musk's other trillion-dollar company, Tesla, during the period ending June 30, 2026, financial filings revealed. Musk's aerospace and defense tech conglomerate purchased $295 million worth of Tesla Megapacks, or battery e

Nikita Bier has stepped down as head of product at X, Elon Musk’s social media platform, after a little more than a year in the role. Bier wrote Wednesday that he thinks it’s “time to pass the torch and demote myself to my natural state: a poster,” adding that he’ll continue to a

Another former Uber executive is joining Travis Kalanick’s robotics and industrial AI startup Atoms, just a few weeks after it raised $1.7 billion. Gautam Gupta, the former finance chief under Kalanick, said in social media posts on Wednesday that he has joined Atoms as chief fin

Flutter shares faltered Wednesday after the company slashed its full-year U.S. profit guidance by 22% and announced the departure of CEO Peter Jackson at the end of the quarter. The current CEO of Flutter's international business, Dan Taylor, will take the reins, effective Oct. 1

Disney parks are defying a slump in international travel to the U.S., posting record quarterly revenue for the company's experiences division on Wednesday. The experiences segment, which includes Disney's theme parks, cruise line, resorts and consumer products, reported nearly $1

Meta, considered a bit of a straggler in the AI harnesses realm, is making strides to catch up. This week, the company released a new terminal coding agent aimed at programmers looking for assistance with complex tasks across large software code bases. Muse Code, which is current

The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced on Wednesday that OpenAI, and its once-subsidiary Statsig, signed a settlement that includes three years of oversight over the AI lab’s hiring practices. The DOJ has alleged that these companies used various tactics to prev

In a 51–44 vote Wednesday, the US Senate confirmed Erica Schwartz as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, despite failing miserably to convince senators last month that she could stand up to anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The confirmati

Meta is rolling out its first coding agent called Muse Code as the company tries to challenge leading AI labs Anthropic and OpenAI. Muse Code is latest major release from AI chief Alexandr Wang, who leads Meta Superintelligence Labs and oversees foundation model development. Wang

E.l.f. Beauty's profits nearly doubled during its fiscal first quarter thanks to a windfall of cash it received in tariff refunds from the federal government, the company said Wednesday. In the three months ended June 30, E.l.f. received about $50 million in tariff refunds, plus

Moove’s evolution from a vehicle financing startup to ride-hailing and deliveries in Africa to one that also owns autonomous vehicles may seem like a leap. But co-founder and co-CEO Ladi Delano said the experience in financing and human-driven ride-hailing fleets was the ideal tr

Earlier this year, Lightspeed made headlines when it announced that Claire Zau, an investor and popular tech content creator, would join the venture firm. She has more than 100,000 followers on TikTok and over 250,000 followers on Instagram, where she breaks down the day’s bigges

Venture firms are turning to creators to build trust with the next generation of founders before a check is ever written. It’s a trend that’s been building with a16z’s acquisition of Erik Torenberg’s Turpentine podcast and OpenAI’s acquisition of TBPN. Lightspeed Venture Partners

Salesforce has appointed an operating chief under CEO Marc Benioff, promoting Miguel Milano to the role. Milano, a former Oracle executive, rejoined Salesforce as chief revenue officer in 2023. He previously worked for Salesforce in Europe from 2011 to 2020 and then spent three y

Salesforce has appointed an operating chief under CEO Marc Benioff, promoting Miguel Milano to the role. Milano, a former Oracle executive, rejoined Salesforce as chief revenue officer in 2023. He previously worked for Salesforce in Europe from 2011 to 2020 and then spent three y

Off the Wire Press Releases RICHLAND, Wash., Aug. 5, 2026 — A quiet revolution is taking place in the halls and laboratories at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Labs that once contained handheld equipment are being rapidly replaced with robotic ha

Routine cybersecurity testing of frontier AI models sparked a series of unexpected security incidents—the most serious case arising when Anthropic’s Mythos 5 model attempted to insert malicious code into an open source software application and created fake identities to deceive t

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook said Wednesday that she's ready to support an interest rate hike unless the inflation numbers improve. "Inflation is too high, and I consider the risks to the inflation side of the dual mandate higher than the risks to the employment side at thi

Off the Wire Press Releases Aug. 5, 2026 — Berkeley Lab researchers have developed a highly specialized AI assistant named AstraAI, specifically designed to help scientists write code for the world’s most powerful supercomputers. By studying the complex structure and rules of an

Power Bottlenecks Push Data Centers Beyond Traditional Hubs As grid queues grow longer, regulatory hurdles and power constraints are reshaping the site selection playbook. Power availability is overtaking customer demand as the decisive factor shaping global data center developme

Off the Wire Press Releases DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIÁN, Spain and SAN DIEGO, Aug. 5, 2026 — Multiverse Computing today announced a collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. to bring highly efficient AI models to data centers worldwide. Multiverse Computing’s AI models will be sp

Off the Wire Press Releases DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., Aug. 5, 2026 — CPC (Colder Products Company), part of PSG, a Dover company, and a leading manufacturer of connection technologies used in liquid cooling of electronics, has announced the launch of the Everis DC Series, a family of

Uber issued a forecast for bookings and earnings that trailed analysts' estimates, while second-quarter profit was in line with expectations. Shares closed 5.3% lower on Wednesday following the print. Here's how the company did versus analysts' estimates compiled by LSEG: - Earni

Publicly traded e-commerce marketing automation platform Klaviyo has agreed to acquire Agency, a three-year-old AI-powered customer success startup founded by serial entrepreneur Elias Torres. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 2023, Agency had raised $32 millio

Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su on Wednesday brushed off comments from Elon Musk that SpaceX was committing to exclusively use Nvidia artificial intelligence chips. "I have tremendous respect for Elon and everything that he has done, and so we look forward to continuing to par

Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su on Wednesday brushed off comments from Elon Musk that SpaceX was committing to exclusively use Nvidia artificial intelligence chips. "I have tremendous respect for Elon and everything that he has done, and so we look forward to continuing to par

Old.reddit.com’s days appear to be numbered. Reddit has strayed from saying that it will shutter the website, which many long-time Redditors prefer for its layout, navigation, and fewer feed recommendations. In a blog post today, Reddit made a vague statement about upcoming “chan

YouTube currently requires that content creators let viewers know “when they use AI to meaningfully alter or generate photorealistic content.” The policy draws some strange boundaries. It applies to “AI-generated music” (not photorealistic) but not to “riding a unicorn through a

SpaceX says it has a plan for Starlink Mobile to compete against the big three wireless carriers and take a large number of customers away from them. SpaceX has so far partnered with traditional mobile carriers to supplement their ground-based networks with Starlink satellite cap

The Trump administration said it has refunded about $100 billion of the tariff revenue that was collected before President Donald Trump's "liberation day" duties were struck down by the Supreme Court. The figure, reported Tuesday in a filing in the U.S. Court of International Tra

Jeff Dean, one of the longest-serving and most influential executives at Google, is stepping down from the search giant to launch his own AI startup. Coming with him as co-founders are several other top researchers at the company, including Sanjay Ghemawat, a top engineer and sen

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