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Bitcoin’s fall below $70,000 — a 12-week low that briefly broke its 200-week moving average — is being read as a price story. The more revealing story is about who earns from that price, and how badly they need it to move.
In the 1970s, countries of the Non-Aligned Movement pushed for a New World Information and Communication Order — an explicit challenge to Western dominance of international news flows. It failed, largely due to opposition from the US and UK, who saw it as a threat to press freed…
The release of Edge0-145B, an open-source 145-billion-parameter model that runs on a consumer laptop, quietly challenges an assumption that has shaped the entire AI industry: that frontier capabilities require cloud infrastructure.
President Donald Trump told Vice President JD Vance to abandon Iran negotiations and focus on domestic corruption, declaring “we don’t need a deal” despite having campaigned on reaching one. This is a political recalculation after Republicans performed poorly in the midterms — n…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns after affair revelations — His departure sent shares down 5% on Thursday; his partner Alice Huang reportedly has ties to Huawei.
Nebius plans to spend $40 billion on AI infrastructure, funding it through customer prepayments and loans rather than equity markets. It is the clearest test yet of whether the “neocloud” model — building data centres for a single anchor tenant — can scale into something resemb…
Google’s launch of Gemini 4 Hydrogen today matters less for its benchmark scores than for what it costs: $1.50 per million input tokens at 2.5x the speed of the previous Flash model. That combination — fast and cheap — is the one that actually changes how developers work.
The argument over Britain’s zero-emission vehicle mandate is being presented as a balance between household costs and climate commitments. It is more usefully read as a question about certainty — and about who carries the cost of the transition.
The Islamic names Al-‘Aleem (The All-Knowing) and Al-Khabeer (The All-Aware) are sometimes treated as abstract theology. They are anything but. Together they describe a Creator whose knowledge encompasses everything — seen and unseen, present and future.
The joint venture between crypto exchange OKX and NYSE parent Intercontinental Exchange will begin round-the-clock trading of tokenized securities on Nov. 23. That much is clear.
Nvidia board prepares to oust CEO Jensen Huang — The WSJ reports the board is moving to oust Huang after he admitted to an affair with a woman accused of being a Chinese agent.
Iran’s parliament speaker Ghalibaf said the Strait of Hormuz will “never return” to its pre-war status, as Tehran awaits a US response to seven conditions. This is not a negotiating stance — it is a declaration that the world’s most critical energy chokepoint has fundamentally c…
Mu is an open runtime for personal assistants. It brings together agents, connected services, accounts, permissions and persistent history. You can run it yourself or use a hosted instance, then access it through a web, mobile, desktop or command-line client.
A new startup called Plurai is applying the end-to-end approach that got self-driving cars on roads to the problem of AI agent reliability. The idea is simple: instead of stitching together separate modules for planning, reasoning and tool use, train a single neural network end-…
Russia-Ukraine talks yield prisoner exchange deal — Two days of US-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi ended with an agreement for a large-scale prisoner swap.
The Trump administration has taken equity positions in 41 private companies — from critical minerals to AI — justifying the deals as essential for national security. But with Democrats set to control the House and Senate in January, those arrangements face an unprecedented wave …
CoreWeave shares jumped 16% in premarket trading after the neocloud provider beat Q3 estimates and raised its full-year guidance, easing fears that the post-midterm political landscape might slow AI spending. As one analyst put it, the outlook for AI buildout mattered far more t…
Seven months into Project Glasswing, Anthropic’s flagship AI vulnerability research initiative, the numbers tell a sobering story. VulnCheck has tracked 442 CVEs attributable to the project — roughly 0.5% of all CVEs published this year — with only two identified as exploited in…
Britain is prepared to discuss financial contributions to EU infrastructure funds in exchange for access to the bloc’s electricity market, Europe minister Hamish Falconer confirmed. It is a pragmatic step toward a post-Brexit reset that lowers consumer bills through more efficie…
French intelligence has tied the IRGC-linked unit Shahid Kaveh to a campaign targeting French infrastructure — including an incident involving internet-connected refrigerators — through front groups that pose as vigilante hackers. The unit takes its name from “shahid” (martyr), …