Another 29 Starlink satellites were deployed last night. | Image: SpaceX SpaceX is currently ahead of last year's record-setting pace for Starlink satellite deployments. SpaceX launched 1,589 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit in the first half of 2026, according to launch data compiled by Jonathan McDowell's satellite tracker , compared to 1,489 satellites deployed at the same point in 2025...
Another 29 Starlink satellites were deployed last night. | Image: SpaceX SpaceX is currently ahead of last year's record-setting pace for Starlink satellite deployments. SpaceX launched 1,589 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit in the first half of 2026, according to launch data compiled by Jonathan McDowell's satellite tracker , compared to 1,489 satellites deployed at the same point in 2025. 2025 was already a record year for SpaceX, with the company deploying 3,180 Starlink satellites in total. SpaceX has launched over 12,400 Starlink satellites since the constellation's inception, with nearly 11,000 still functioning. To put these numbers into perspective, Amazon's fledgling Leo service has only deploye … Read the full story at The Verge.
Investments and Partnerships to Fuel AI Growth in 2027 and Beyond Palantir names Rackspace Technology as a Preferred Partner in Regulated and Sovereign Markets SAN ANTONIO, July 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rackspace Technology® (NASDAQ: RXT), a global enterprise AI infrastructure and solutions provider, today announced a strategic and financial update on its transition to becoming the operator of...
Investments and Partnerships to Fuel AI Growth in 2027 and Beyond Palantir names Rackspace Technology as a Preferred Partner in Regulated and Sovereign Markets SAN ANTONIO, July 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rackspace Technology® (NASDAQ: RXT), a global enterprise AI infrastructure and solutions provider, today announced a strategic and financial update on its transition to becoming the operator of the full enterprise AI stack. Strategy Update Rackspace is becoming the operator of the full enterp
German bond yields fell after spiking on Wednesday as investors watched for further disruption in the oil market following the latest flare-up in conflict between the US and Iran. Two-year bund yields, which are among the most sensitive to changes in monetary policy, were two basis points lower at 2.68%, after jumping 12 basis points on Wednesday. Oil markets were calmer on Thursday, with Brent tr...
German bond yields fell after spiking on Wednesday as investors watched for further disruption in the oil market following the latest flare-up in conflict between the US and Iran. Two-year bund yields, which are among the most sensitive to changes in monetary policy, were two basis points lower at 2.68%, after jumping 12 basis points on Wednesday. Oil markets were calmer on Thursday, with Brent trading near $79 a barrel. Meanwhile, traders are still expecting the European Central Bank to raise interest rates later in the year. Swaps assign a 90% chance of an increase as soon as September, unchanged since Wednesday. The probability of another hike by year end remains almost evenly split, similar to pricing a month ago. “ECB pricing has decoupled quite noticeably from oil prices the past month,” said Frederik Romedahl Poulsen , chief strategist at Velliv Pension & Livsforsikring A/S. European policymakers have also hinted at caution. Earlier this week, Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said, “does the decline in oil prices mean that we are back to the pre-war situation? I don’t think so ,” noting that core inflation’s momentum remains strong. The picture is similar in the UK. Gilt yields fell by up to three basis points across the curve on Thursday. Traders are assigning the chance of two quarter-point increases this year at almost 50%.
S&P 500 Index futures climb 0.2% as of 7:43 a.m. in New York. The US military struck Iran for a second day and Tehran retaliated against American allies in the Persian Gulf. Nasdaq 100 futures climb 0.7% Dow Jones Industrial Average futures are down 0.1% The MSCI World Index is up 0.1% Here are some of the biggest US movers before the bell: Magnificent Seven stocks: Meta Platforms (META) -0.1%, Mi...
S&P 500 Index futures climb 0.2% as of 7:43 a.m. in New York. The US military struck Iran for a second day and Tehran retaliated against American allies in the Persian Gulf. Nasdaq 100 futures climb 0.7% Dow Jones Industrial Average futures are down 0.1% The MSCI World Index is up 0.1% Here are some of the biggest US movers before the bell: Magnificent Seven stocks: Meta Platforms (META) -0.1%, Microsoft (MSFT) -1%, Tesla (TSLA) +0.2%, Nvidia (NVDA) +0.2%, Amazon (AMZN) -0.6%, Apple (AAPL) -0.2%, Alphabet (GOOGL) -0.3% Ceco Environmental (CECO) rises 3% after JPMorgan initiated coverage of the air-purification equipment provider with a recommendation of overweight, citing its acquisition of Thermon. International Business Machines (IBM) slips 3% as Starbucks is developing in-house tools with the help of artificial intelligence that could replace some software applications it now buys from the company. Ionis Pharmaceuticals (IONS) slumps 19%, while AstraZeneca falls in London, after a late-stage trial of the companies’ gene silencer drug Wainua showed a failure to help prevent heart problems in patients with a rare and potentially fatal disease of the organ. Developers of rival cardiomyopathy drugs gain: Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (ALNY) +17%, Bridgebio (BBIO) +13%. Levi Strauss (LEVI) falls 4% after after the apparel company’s increase to its forecast underwhelmed investors. Mattel (MAT) slips 2% after Goldman Sachs analyst Stephen Laszczyk cut his recommendation on the toy maker to sell from neutral, and cut his price target to a Street-low $12 from $15. Salesforce (CRM) falls 4% after KeyBanc downgraded the software company to sector weight, noting a lack of momentum in the the company’s Agentforce AI product. Simply Good Foods (SMPL) rises 13% after the packaged-food company reported adjusted earnings per share for the third quarter that beat the average analyst estimate.6.3
A Singaporean man, hired by his aunt to tutor primary school pupils, instead beat them with a clothes hanger, forced them to hold push-up positions for long periods, punched and starved them. One of the children, a six-year-old Chinese national, was abused for 18 hours and forced to drink his own urine. On Thursday, the 31-year-old pleaded guilty to two counts of child abuse, one count of voluntar...
A Singaporean man, hired by his aunt to tutor primary school pupils, instead beat them with a clothes hanger, forced them to hold push-up positions for long periods, punched and starved them. One of the children, a six-year-old Chinese national, was abused for 18 hours and forced to drink his own urine. On Thursday, the 31-year-old pleaded guilty to two counts of child abuse, one count of voluntarily causing grievous hurt and one of giving false or misleading information to police, local media...
ismagilov BlackRock expects its new iShares Nasdaq 100 ETF ( IQQ ) to begin trading today on the Nasdaq exchange. Nasdaq 100 ETFs have become more important to tech investors since MSCI and S&P Dow Jones Indices changed the definition and constituents of the GICS sectors in 2018. “Tech-driven” stocks Meta, Alphabet, and Netflix were moved from the Technology sector to the Communications Services s...
ismagilov BlackRock expects its new iShares Nasdaq 100 ETF ( IQQ ) to begin trading today on the Nasdaq exchange. Nasdaq 100 ETFs have become more important to tech investors since MSCI and S&P Dow Jones Indices changed the definition and constituents of the GICS sectors in 2018. “Tech-driven” stocks Meta, Alphabet, and Netflix were moved from the Technology sector to the Communications Services sector, and Amazon was moved from the Technology sector to the Consumer Discretionary sector. Before 2018, the favored ETF for many tech investors who wanted to own all the big tech and “tech-driven” stocks was the State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF ( XLK ), or the similar ETFs VGT, IYW, and FTEC. But since the GICS change, tech- and growth-focused investors who want to own the most popular names, including Nvidia, Apple, Micron, Alphabet/Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Netflix, couldn't do so with a single sector ETF. While the S&P 500 ETF includes all the large-cap tech and “tech-driven” stocks, it also includes many lower-growth companies and sectors, such as real estate, energy, and utilities. So it’s not sufficiently focused for tech and growth investors. This is where the Nasdaq 100 comes into play: It includes all the large-cap tech and “tech-driven” stocks that many tech and growth investors want to own, including Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, and Netflix. Not surprisingly, the original Nasdaq 100 ETF ( QQQ ), which is owned by Invesco, has $476B of assets under management. Given the popularity of the original Nasdaq 100 ETF ( QQQ ), why did Invesco rename it “The Invesco QQQ Trust, Series 1 ETF” and launch an essentially identical Nasdaq 100 ETF, the Invesco NASDAQ 100 ETF ( QQQM )? The answer is that due to competition in the ETF market, Invesco had to offer an ETF with a lower expense ratio if it wanted to acquire new assets. Why didn’t Invesco just cut the expense ratio of QQQ? Because many investors are locked into QQQ due to large unrealized capital ...
SUBSCRIBE TO CNBC'S "POWER INSIDER NEWSLETTER POWER POINT What I'm hearing from energy insiders First and foremost, I hope that everybody had a wonderful 4th of July holiday and celebrated the 250th birthday of this amazing nation. As the celebrations ended and this week began, we seemed to be on a path to the Iran conflict winding down and the Strait of Hormuz being fully opened. But then Iran sh...
SUBSCRIBE TO CNBC'S "POWER INSIDER NEWSLETTER POWER POINT What I'm hearing from energy insiders First and foremost, I hope that everybody had a wonderful 4th of July holiday and celebrated the 250th birthday of this amazing nation. As the celebrations ended and this week began, we seemed to be on a path to the Iran conflict winding down and the Strait of Hormuz being fully opened. But then Iran shot at a Qatari tanker, the U.S. retaliated and Trump said at the NATO Summit that the ceasefire was off. Despite this news, oil prices remained relatively muted. WTI crude moved back above $75 per barrel at one point, but that's only back to levels of a few weeks ago. It is certainly possible oil inches even higher, but as we wrote recently, there is a lot of oil in the world and it's clear the market wants to push prices lower if it can. MY TAKE → If you look out further on the futures curve, prices at the CME Group are still just above $70 later in the year. So the outlook for oil is relatively stable. Still, with the chaos we are seeing inside Iran - the Ayatollah's son, who is ostensibly ruling the country, didn't even attend his own fathers funeral and it's unclear even if he's alive - where things are with oil in the next 24, 48 or 72 hours is anyone's guess. Stay nimble. It is likely going to stay very dicey for a while. Another reason why the outlook for oil is remaining steady is because trading during this conflict has proven the extent of the ample energy supplies from America. So back to what I wanted to talk about first in this newsletter: American exceptionalism and how our energy abundance contributes to that. When you travel the world, energy stands out. Billions of people don't have easy or affordable access to electrical power. Here in America, our electricity costs are close to half that of Europe. Having relatively moderate energy costs is a massive benefit. That benefit isn't just to economic growth, but how families live. Some of the reporting I'm most...
【导读】12148篇投稿暴增45%，ACL 2026满场被LLM论文攻陷！三篇最佳论文一作全是华人，杰出论文华人更是近乎包场。 ACL 2026最佳论文，出炉了！ 作为计算语言学的年度顶会，ACL今年共评出三篇最佳论文（Best Paper Award），一作都是华人。 《The Imperfective Paradox in Large Language Models》，作者是慕尼黑大学的Bol...
【导读】12148篇投稿暴增45%，ACL 2026满场被LLM论文攻陷！三篇最佳论文一作全是华人，杰出论文华人更是近乎包场。 ACL 2026最佳论文，出炉了！ 作为计算语言学的年度顶会，ACL今年共评出三篇最佳论文（Best Paper Award），一作都是华人。 《The Imperfective Paradox in Large Language Models》，作者是慕尼黑大学的Bolei Ma和东京大学的宫尾祐介（Yusuke Miyao）。 它用一道连小学生都能答对的语法题，把7个开源大模型考了个底朝天。 《Memory efficiency and resource-rational encoding in sentence processing》，作者是加州大学欧文分校的徐炜杰（Weijie Xu）、马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校的Brian Dillon，以及加州大学欧文分校的Richard Futrell。 它反其道而行，给大模型硬装了一颗「会遗忘」的人脑，结果发现模型反而更像人了。 《Characterizing the Expressivity of Local Attention in Transformers》，作者是苏黎世联邦理工学院的Jiaoda Li和Ryan Cotterell。 它用形式语言理论，讲清了一个被用了很多年、却一直没人说明白的问题：为什么「只看局部」的注意力反而更强。 史上最卷的一届ACL ACL 2026于今年7月在美国圣地亚哥举行，规模刷新了历史纪录。 主会共收到12148篇投稿，比2025年暴增45%。 最终，主会接收2297篇（录取率18.9%），Findings接收2164篇（17.8%），合计超过4462篇论文被接收。 平均每篇论文挂着6.25个作者，最多的一篇署了整整102个名字；相比之下，单人独作的论文只剩39篇，占比不到1%。 其中，有83位作者各自被接收了10篇以上（比去年又多了66%）；甚至有人光在一月那批投稿里，就一口气投了65篇、中了36篇。 全部作者里，有67%（13563人）彼此通过合著关系连在了一起。 支撑这场评审的，是8594名审稿人（+46%）、1434名领域主席（+28%）、255名高级领域主席（+51%）。 桌拒（desk reject）数量则翻了一倍多，达到925篇（+106%...