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Israel steps up bombardment of Gaza City as at least 61 killed

Israel steps up bombardment of Gaza City as at least 61...

UN chief warns of 'new and dangerous phase' of war as Israeli forces target east...

Why France, Germany, and the UK want to reimpose sanctions on Iran

Why France, Germany, and the UK want to reimpose sancti...

France, Germany, and the UK are starting a 30-day process to reimpose sanctions ...

Famous Sikh shrine partially submerged after flooding in Pakistan

Famous Sikh shrine partially submerged after flooding i...

One of Pakistan’s most famous Sikh temples was flooded after heavy rains submerg...

Intel receives $5.7bn as Trump administration buys 10 percent stake

Intel receives $5.7bn as Trump administration buys 10 p...

CFO David Zinsner has also downplayed concerns that Intel's manufacturing arm co...

Two Lebanese soldiers killed in Israeli drone explosion in southern Lebanon

Two Lebanese soldiers killed in Israeli drone explosion...

Lebanese army says two other personnel wounded after crashed Israeli drone explo...

What do a US envoy’s ‘animalistic’ remarks to journalists signify

What do a US envoy’s ‘animalistic’ remarks to journalis...

Anger after US special envoy Tom Barack tells reporters in Beirut to 'be civilis...

United Nations says children make up 50 percent of gang members in Haiti

United Nations says children make up 50 percent of gang...

US and Panama proposed a security force meant to counter gangs, despite setbacks...

PM Shehbaz calls for water reservoirs to curb flash flood devastation

PM Shehbaz calls for water reservoirs to curb flash flo...

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif chairs a high-level meeting to review country’s f...

Charles Goodman takes charge as US Consul General in Karachi

Charles Goodman takes charge as US Consul General in Ka...

Charles Goodman, newly-appointed Consul General at the US Consulate General in K...

PTI chairman Barrister Gohar quits four NA panels on Imran Khan's directives

PTI chairman Barrister Gohar quits four NA panels on Im...

PTI Chairman Gohar Ali Khan addresses a press conference at the party's office i...

VIDEO: Flood&affected families in Bahawalnagar villages seek aid

VIDEO: Flood&affected families in Bahawalnagar villages...

Flood-affected residents in Bahawalnagar struggle to move their household belong...

NDMA issues fresh rain alert, warns of urban flooding in Karachi

NDMA issues fresh rain alert, warns of urban flooding i...

People wade through a flooded road after the monsoon rain in Karachi, Pakistan, ...

UEFA Champions League 2025&26 Draw Highlights: Bayern vs Chelsea, Real Madrid vs Liverpool And More...

UEFA Champions League 2025&26 Draw Highlights: Bayern v...

UEFA Champions League 2025-26 Draw Highlights: Liverpool and Manchester City wil...

Eye On World Cup Qualification, Indian Hockey Team 'Putting Everything' On Line In Asia Cup: Craig Fulton

Eye On World Cup Qualification, Indian Hockey Team 'Put...

Asia Cup is the "flagship event" of the year for Indian men's hockey team chief ...

Real Madrid to face Liverpool, PSG face Barcelona in Champions League draw

Real Madrid to face Liverpool, PSG face Barcelona in Ch...

The draw for the league phase of the UEFA Champions League was made in Monaco on...

Israel steps up bombardment of Gaza City, killing at least 61 people

Israel steps up bombardment of Gaza City, killing at le...

UN chief warns of 'new and dangerous phase' of war as Israeli forces target east...

Millions of children at risk across Africa as aid cuts impact food supplies

Millions of children at risk across Africa as aid cuts ...

Emergency food supplies are running out in Nigeria, Kenya, Somalia and South Sud...

US envoy says calling Lebanon reporters ‘animalistic’ was ‘inappropriate’

US envoy says calling Lebanon reporters ‘animalistic’ w...

Tom Barrack says he was telling Lebanese journalists to 'be civilised' but notes...

Israel launches latest attacks against Houthis in Yemen’s Sanaa

Israel launches latest attacks against Houthis in Yemen...

No immediate reports of casualties as Israel says it strikes military target. Ho...

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook sues Trump for his attempt to fire her

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook sues Trump for his a...

The lawsuit comes amid concerns that the US president is trying to sway central ...

Q&A with researcher Petter Törnberg on his pre-print study showing how social media's structural architecture creates problematic outcomes like echo chambers (Jennifer Ouellette/Ars Technica)

Q&A with researcher Petter Törnberg on his pre-prin...

Jennifer Ouellette / Ars Technica: Q&A with researcher Petter Törnberg on his pr...

Sources: Perplexity is seeking new funding at a $20B post-money valuation, up from a reported $18B in its latest fundraising round in July (Business Insider)

Sources: Perplexity is seeking new funding at a $20B po...

Business Insider: Sources: Perplexity is seeking new funding at a $20B post-mone...

Advent International agrees to acquire and take private Nasdaq-listed Sapiens International, an Israel-based insurance software company, for $2.5B in cash (Reuters)

Advent International agrees to acquire and take private...

Reuters: Advent International agrees to acquire and take private Nasdaq-listed S...

Chinese open-source AI models from DeepSeek, Alibaba's Qwen, and others gaining global traction spurs US policymakers and companies to respond (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal)

Chinese open-source AI models from DeepSeek, Alibaba's ...

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: Chinese open-source AI models from DeepSee...

eToro reports Q2 crypto revenue up 17% YoY to $1.9B, assets under administration up 54% to $17.5B, and adjusted non-GAAP net income up 23% to $54.2M (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)

eToro reports Q2 crypto revenue up 17% YoY to $1.9B, as...

Daniel Kuhn / The Block: eToro reports Q2 crypto revenue up 17% YoY to $1.9B, as...

Sources: OpenAI is preparing to back a Neuralink rival called Merge Labs, co-founded by Sam Altman, that aims to raise $250M at an $850M valuation (Financial Times)

Sources: OpenAI is preparing to back a Neuralink rival ...

Financial Times: Sources: OpenAI is preparing to back a Neuralink rival called M...

Microsoft and the NFL extend their partnership to bring real-time game data and analysis to coaches and players using Microsoft Copilot and Azure AI (Ali McCadden/CNBC)

Microsoft and the NFL extend their partnership to bring...

Ali McCadden / CNBC: Microsoft and the NFL extend their partnership to bring rea...

Austin-based Aalo Atomics, which is building a modular nuclear reactor and data center, set to finish construction in 2026, raised a $100M Series B led by Valor (Julia Hornstein/Business Insider)

Austin-based Aalo Atomics, which is building a modular ...

Julia Hornstein / Business Insider: Austin-based Aalo Atomics, which is building...

Alibaba releases Qwen-Image-Edit, the image editing version of Qwen-Image, supporting modifications of Chinese and English text while preserving font and style (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Alibaba releases Qwen-Image-Edit, the image editing ver...

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Alibaba releases Qwen-Image-Edit, the image editing ...

Sources: Apple is making all four iPhone 17 models in India ahead of debut, a first, as it expands to five factories to cut reliance on China for US-bound units (Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple is making all four iPhone 17 models in I...

Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is making all four iPhone 17 models in India ahead of ...

Sources: Masayoshi Son met Lip-Bu Tan to discuss SoftBank acquiring Intel's faltering foundry business in the weeks before announcing SoftBank's $2B investment (Financial Times)

Sources: Masayoshi Son met Lip-Bu Tan to discuss SoftBa...

Financial Times: Sources: Masayoshi Son met Lip-Bu Tan to discuss SoftBank acqui...

Sources: Databricks is finalizing a funding round that would value it at $100B, up 61% from December 2024, co-led by Thrive Capital; a16z is set to participate (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Databricks is finalizing a funding round that ...

Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Databricks is finalizing a fundin...

Sources: the EU and US are delaying formalizing their trade deal over "non-tariff barriers", including relaxing the DSA, which the EU sees as a red line (Financial Times)

Sources: the EU and US are delaying formalizing their t...

Financial Times: Sources: the EU and US are delaying formalizing their trade dea...

NYC-based Protege, which prepares and sells real-world datasets like lab results and sports footage for AI training, raised a $25M Series A led by Footwork (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)

NYC-based Protege, which prepares and sells real-world ...

Natasha Mascarenhas / The Information: NYC-based Protege, which prepares and sel...

How Chinese streaming giants iQiyi and Tencent are gaining on Netflix in Southeast Asia through original productions and free, ad-supported services (Nikkei Asia)

How Chinese streaming giants iQiyi and Tencent are gain...

Nikkei Asia: How Chinese streaming giants iQiyi and Tencent are gaining on Netfl...

Ex-Intel engineer Varun Gupta was sentenced to two years' probation and a $34K+ fine for stealing trade secrets and sharing them with his new employer Microsoft (Maxine Bernstein/Oregonian)

Ex-Intel engineer Varun Gupta was sentenced to two year...

Maxine Bernstein / Oregonian: Ex-Intel engineer Varun Gupta was sentenced to two...

How an editor uncovered the "largest self-promotion operation in Wikipedia's history" that promoted obscure composer David Woodard with entries in 335 languages (Nate Anderson/Ars Technica)

How an editor uncovered the "largest self-promotion ope...

Nate Anderson / Ars Technica: How an editor uncovered the “largest self-promotio...

GPT-5's underwhelming performance on benchmarks suggests that the current approach of scaling LLMs is starting to reach the limits of available resources (Financial Times)

GPT-5's underwhelming performance on benchmarks suggest...

Financial Times: GPT-5's underwhelming performance on benchmarks suggests that t...

A new Artificial Analysis benchmark, focusing on OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b, shows how open-weight LLMs exhibit inconsistent performance across hosting providers (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

A new Artificial Analysis benchmark, focusing on OpenAI...

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: A new Artificial Analysis benchmark, f...

Some developers say GPT-5 excels at technical reasoning and planning coding tasks and is cost-effective, but Claude Opus and Sonnet still produce better code (Lauren Goode/Wired)

Some developers say GPT-5 excels at technical reasoning...

Lauren Goode / Wired: Some developers say GPT-5 excels at technical reasoning an...

Meta's strong Q2 shows it has learned a company must give investors short-term results to get permission for long-term investments, such as its AI ambitions (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

Meta's strong Q2 shows it has learned a company must gi...

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Meta's strong Q2 shows it has learned a company must...

An interview with Binance co-founder Yi He on growing u...

Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: An interview with Binance co-founder Yi He on growi...

Sources: two AI researchers hired by Meta for its Superintelligence Labs returned to OpenAI after less than one-month stints; a third researcher also left Meta (Wired)

Sources: two AI researchers hired by Meta for its Super...

Wired: Sources: two AI researchers hired by Meta for its Superintelligence Labs ...

MongoDB reports Q2 revenue up 24% YoY to $591.4M, vs. $553.9M est., net loss down 14% to $47M, and increases its full-year guidance; MDB jumps 28%+ after hours (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)

MongoDB reports Q2 revenue up 24% YoY to $591.4M, vs. $...

Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: MongoDB reports Q2 revenue up 24% YoY ...

So far in 2025, at least 10 biotech companies have pivoted into crypto to boost stock prices, frequently sparking frenzied but short-lived spikes in shares (Bloomberg)

So far in 2025, at least 10 biotech companies have pivo...

Bloomberg: So far in 2025, at least 10 biotech companies have pivoted into crypt...

Sources: TSMC plans to drop Chinese chipmaking equipment, including AMEC's etching tools, from its most advanced 2nm production to avoid potential US backlash (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)

Sources: TSMC plans to drop Chinese chipmaking equipmen...

Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: Sources: TSMC plans to drop Chinese chipmaking eq...

Two former executives who ran the CHIPS Program Office say the US-Intel deal won't solve Intel's real issue: a lack of external customers for its foundry unit (Wall Street Journal)

Two former executives who ran the CHIPS Program Office ...

Wall Street Journal: Two former executives who ran the CHIPS Program Office say ...

Casca, which offers AI-powered tools for banks to accelerate loan application and origination processes, raised a $29M Series A led by Canapi Ventures (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Casca, which offers AI-powered tools for banks to accel...

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Casca, which offers AI-powered tools for banks to ...

Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, named by Trump as the first US chief design officer, says he wants to update federal websites to an "Apple Store-like experience" (Mike Allen/Axios)

Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, named by Trump as the fir...

Mike Allen / Axios: Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, named by Trump as the first US...

TSMC's financial statement shows the company booked its first profit from its four-year-old Arizona subsidiary in H1 2025, reporting $150.1M in net profit (Lisa Wang/Taipei Times)

TSMC's financial statement shows the company booked its...

Lisa Wang / Taipei Times: TSMC's financial statement shows the company booked it...

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