Amid escalating turmoil in the Middle East and mounting global uncertainty, Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged China and Russia to elevate their strategic partnership to new heights by deepening “all-around cooperation” and reinvigorating the authority of the United Nations. During a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Beijing on Wednesday, he cast the growing bilateral rela...
Amid escalating turmoil in the Middle East and mounting global uncertainty, Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged China and Russia to elevate their strategic partnership to new heights by deepening “all-around cooperation” and reinvigorating the authority of the United Nations. During a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Beijing on Wednesday, he cast the growing bilateral relationship as a stabilising force in a volatile world, rooted in history, driven by strategic...
Mutlu Kurtbas Stock futures stayed cautious Wednesday morning as traders watched for potential new U.S.-Iran peace talks this week while tracking a heavy slate of corporate earnings reports. Here are some of Wednesday's biggest stock movers: Biggest stock gainers GitLab ( GTLB ) +7% - Shares surged after the company expanded its partnership with Google Cloud, enabling customers to integrate GitLab...
Mutlu Kurtbas Stock futures stayed cautious Wednesday morning as traders watched for potential new U.S.-Iran peace talks this week while tracking a heavy slate of corporate earnings reports. Here are some of Wednesday's biggest stock movers: Biggest stock gainers GitLab ( GTLB ) +7% - Shares surged after the company expanded its partnership with Google Cloud, enabling customers to integrate GitLab’s Duo Agent Platform with Vertex AI models, with usage counting toward existing cloud commitments. The collaboration strengthens GitLab’s positioning in AI-driven software development by combining its end-to-end DevSecOps platform with advanced AI capabilities, enhancing its role in the evolving agent-based development ecosystem. Broadcom ( AVGO ) +3% - Shares rose after announcing a multi-year AI partnership with Meta Platforms (META) to develop and deploy custom MTIA chips across data centers, with an initial commitment exceeding 1 GW and a broader multi-generation rollout planned through 2029. The deal reinforces Broadcom’s positioning in AI infrastructure and custom silicon while deepening its role in Meta’s long-term compute strategy. Stellantis ( STLA ) +3% - Shares gained after reporting an estimated ~12% Y/Y increase in Q1 global shipments to 1.36M units, driven by broad-based strength across regions. North America led with a 17% gain on strong demand for key models, while Europe, Asia Pacific, and other regions also posted solid growth supported by new vehicle launches and platform-driven momentum, signaling resilient demand across its global portfolio. Biggest stock losers TeraWulf ( WULF ) -5% - Shares fell after pricing an upsized $900M equity offering, raising dilution concerns, alongside softer-than-expected preliminary Q1 results with revenue of $30M–$35M below consensus and adjusted EBITDA to be between $0M and $3M. The company said proceeds will fund data center expansion, debt repayment, and new site development, but the combination of capital raise and w...
Mutlu Kurtbas Stock futures stayed cautious Wednesday morning as traders watched for potential new U.S.-Iran peace talks this week while tracking a heavy slate of corporate earnings reports. Here are some of Wednesday's biggest stock movers: Biggest stock gainers GitLab ( GTLB ) +7% - Shares surged after the company expanded its partnership with Google Cloud, enabling customers to integrate GitLab...
Mutlu Kurtbas Stock futures stayed cautious Wednesday morning as traders watched for potential new U.S.-Iran peace talks this week while tracking a heavy slate of corporate earnings reports. Here are some of Wednesday's biggest stock movers: Biggest stock gainers GitLab ( GTLB ) +7% - Shares surged after the company expanded its partnership with Google Cloud, enabling customers to integrate GitLab’s Duo Agent Platform with Vertex AI models, with usage counting toward existing cloud commitments. The collaboration strengthens GitLab’s positioning in AI-driven software development by combining its end-to-end DevSecOps platform with advanced AI capabilities, enhancing its role in the evolving agent-based development ecosystem. Broadcom ( AVGO ) +3% - Shares rose after announcing a multi-year AI partnership with Meta Platforms (META) to develop and deploy custom MTIA chips across data centers, with an initial commitment exceeding 1 GW and a broader multi-generation rollout planned through 2029. The deal reinforces Broadcom’s positioning in AI infrastructure and custom silicon while deepening its role in Meta’s long-term compute strategy. Stellantis ( STLA ) +3% - Shares gained after reporting an estimated ~12% Y/Y increase in Q1 global shipments to 1.36M units, driven by broad-based strength across regions. North America led with a 17% gain on strong demand for key models, while Europe, Asia Pacific, and other regions also posted solid growth supported by new vehicle launches and platform-driven momentum, signaling resilient demand across its global portfolio. Biggest stock losers TeraWulf ( WULF ) -5% - Shares fell after pricing an upsized $900M equity offering, raising dilution concerns, alongside softer-than-expected preliminary Q1 results with revenue of $30M–$35M below consensus and adjusted EBITDA to be between $0M and $3M. The company said proceeds will fund data center expansion, debt repayment, and new site development, but the combination of capital raise and w...
Hong Kong initial public offerings (IPOs) are attracting strong international demand as global funds rebuild their exposure to China after years of underinvestment, according to Bonnie Chan Yiting, CEO of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing. The Hong Kong stock exchange was seeing “very good momentum on both the supply and demand sides” for IPOs, Chan told a panel discussion at the HSBC Global Invest...
Hong Kong initial public offerings (IPOs) are attracting strong international demand as global funds rebuild their exposure to China after years of underinvestment, according to Bonnie Chan Yiting, CEO of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing. The Hong Kong stock exchange was seeing “very good momentum on both the supply and demand sides” for IPOs, Chan told a panel discussion at the HSBC Global Investment Summit on Wednesday. On the “cornerstone front”, last year saw “a very strong pickup by...
As soon as he got a company email address for his summer internship at accounting software maker FloQast, Sam Otto reached out to his employer’s newly hired director of artificial intelligence to see how he could help. After reminding the baby-faced business major that it was still his first week on the job, the AI director sent back links to two eight-hour-long YouTube videos explaining the ins a...
As soon as he got a company email address for his summer internship at accounting software maker FloQast, Sam Otto reached out to his employer’s newly hired director of artificial intelligence to see how he could help. After reminding the baby-faced business major that it was still his first week on the job, the AI director sent back links to two eight-hour-long YouTube videos explaining the ins and outs of a particular workflow automation platform. “He thought it’d get me off his back and I’d come back in three weeks or whatever,” Otto says. “No, I spent that entire weekend earnestly watching those videos and experimenting.” With his boss’s blessing, Otto spent the rest of his finance internship working with the AI director to streamline tasks like analyzing competitors’ earnings calls and pulling charts from the company’s data system into slide decks. Managers who attended his end-of-summer presentation were surprised to see the amount of development work he did, given his nontechnical background. Companies are increasingly looking to young workers like Otto to inject enthusiasm for AI into their workplaces, as concerns mount that employees aren’t “disrupting themselves” fast enough for a number of reasons: ignorance, inertia, skepticism, fear, professional pride. Like the digitally native millennials before them , Gen Zers have found that the introduction of a new technology in their formative years has in many cases engendered a level of fluency no one else in the workplace has. That’s why certain businesses are doubling—or tripling —down on entry-level hiring, even as the overall entry-level market has tanked: Unemployment among recent college graduates hovered near 6% last year and underemployment reached almost 43%, the highest since 2020, the latest data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York show. When e-commerce platform Shopify declared itself an AI-first business last year, it began requiring managers requesting additional workers to first prove AI co...
In a rare public protest in Singapore, hundreds gathered in Hong Lim Park over the weekend to denounce the “US war machine”. They brandished placards and banners, including one with horns drawn on US presidents past and present captioned: “This is what terrorists look like.” The demonstration, which required organisers to get permission from the authorities, came as public sentiment in the region ...
In a rare public protest in Singapore, hundreds gathered in Hong Lim Park over the weekend to denounce the “US war machine”. They brandished placards and banners, including one with horns drawn on US presidents past and present captioned: “This is what terrorists look like.” The demonstration, which required organisers to get permission from the authorities, came as public sentiment in the region sours against Washington. Observers attribute this to the perception that the US has become...
In the 1970s, the painter shocked the art world with paintings modeled on her own nude body. Now in her 10th decade, she’s celebrated as a feminist pioneer On a life-revivingly sunny day in New York, light pours into the SoHo studio of the 93-year-old painter Joan Semmel. She’s lived in the floor-through railroad apartment since 1970, and she works out of a high-ceilinged room overlooking Spring S...
In the 1970s, the painter shocked the art world with paintings modeled on her own nude body. Now in her 10th decade, she’s celebrated as a feminist pioneer On a life-revivingly sunny day in New York, light pours into the SoHo studio of the 93-year-old painter Joan Semmel. She’s lived in the floor-through railroad apartment since 1970, and she works out of a high-ceilinged room overlooking Spring Street, dominated by a decades-old snake plant. A loft stuffed with canvases occupies one side of the carpeted room, while the other wall displays four recent paintings that will appear in her upcoming show, Continuities, spread between locations of Alexander Gray Associates in New York and Brussels. Each vibrant piece evokes elements that have long connected Semmel’s process – gesture, doubling, transparency and abstraction – and features the same model she’s used for more than 50 years: her own nude body. She has maintained that these are not self-portraits, and for much of her career they lacked heads. Semmel bursts into laughter while recalling her surprise when people asked how she felt about “being naked out there. I’m not, that’s a painting,” she says. “It’s a construct, but it’s not me.” Continue reading...
In a post-apocalyptic landscape of cutthroat scavengers, surprisingly peaceful players are opting to team up and open up – a phenomenon that’s intriguing game developers and psychologists alike The video game Arc Raiders is set in a lethal imagining of an apocalyptic future for humanity. Survivors have been forced to live deep underground in colonies while mysterious, murderous AI machines patrol ...
In a post-apocalyptic landscape of cutthroat scavengers, surprisingly peaceful players are opting to team up and open up – a phenomenon that’s intriguing game developers and psychologists alike The video game Arc Raiders is set in a lethal imagining of an apocalyptic future for humanity. Survivors have been forced to live deep underground in colonies while mysterious, murderous AI machines patrol the surface. Only the desolate ruins of former cities survive, and reckless human “raiders” take trips topside to conduct dangerous scavenging missions. For all the menace of these armed robots, called Arcs, the deadly droids are not the biggest threat in this hugely popular game, which was released late last year and has sold more than 14m copies. Raiders operate with the constant anxiety that another person will shoot them on sight and steal their loot. Mercilessness is rewarded in this kind of competitive, high-stakes world. Continue reading...
Thomas Delaney’s addiction issues started when he was a teen and worsened through his 20s. Eventually, an argument with his mother led him to change everything Thomas Delaney never used to believe he was “good enough to be loved”. Growing up, he internalised the hurt he saw playing out at home. “I thought I was useless, I wasn’t a nice person … I even thought that my mum and dad didn’t love each o...
Thomas Delaney’s addiction issues started when he was a teen and worsened through his 20s. Eventually, an argument with his mother led him to change everything Thomas Delaney never used to believe he was “good enough to be loved”. Growing up, he internalised the hurt he saw playing out at home. “I thought I was useless, I wasn’t a nice person … I even thought that my mum and dad didn’t love each other because of me.” When I visit him (and his extremely affectionate black-and-white cat, Figaro) at home in Glasgow, Delaney, dressed in a jumper printed with the words “nicotine is dumb”, is frank about the impact his childhood had on him. “I had suicidal ideations from a very, very young age because I assumed that, if I was dead, maybe my mum and dad wouldn’t be arguing.” Later, he became addicted to ketamine. At his most unwell, he weighed just 38kg (6st). Continue reading...
Exclusive: Enable programme will provide support on how to handle complex relationships with inmates A new programme of instruction and support will be given to trainee prison officers to help them avoid being manipulated into illicit relationships by experienced criminals. The Prison Service in England and Wales is developing the scheme, which will offer mentors and advice to trainee officers on ...
Exclusive: Enable programme will provide support on how to handle complex relationships with inmates A new programme of instruction and support will be given to trainee prison officers to help them avoid being manipulated into illicit relationships by experienced criminals. The Prison Service in England and Wales is developing the scheme, which will offer mentors and advice to trainee officers on how to handle complex relationships with prisoners. Continue reading...
Even the promise of stronger, healthier hair could never quite tempt me to use products as opposed to cutting it. Until now … There are few brands one can credit with having changed the beauty game, but the launch of Olaplex just over a decade ago invalidated the assertion that the only way to fix damaged hair is to cut it. It used a patented ingredient (the unpronounceable bis-aminopropyl diglyco...
Even the promise of stronger, healthier hair could never quite tempt me to use products as opposed to cutting it. Until now … There are few brands one can credit with having changed the beauty game, but the launch of Olaplex just over a decade ago invalidated the assertion that the only way to fix damaged hair is to cut it. It used a patented ingredient (the unpronounceable bis-aminopropyl diglycol dimaleate) to strengthen and rebuild all types of hair bonds ravaged by bleach, colour and other chemical or heat treatments. Continue reading...
To rebuild relations with Europe in a dangerous world, the prime minister needs to win big arguments, not hide behind outdated red lines In opposition, Keir Starmer pushed Brexit to the margin of debate. In government, he has learned that Europe is central to Britain’s interests whether you talk about it or not. The avoidance of painful arguments from the past turns out to be a handicap when makin...
To rebuild relations with Europe in a dangerous world, the prime minister needs to win big arguments, not hide behind outdated red lines In opposition, Keir Starmer pushed Brexit to the margin of debate. In government, he has learned that Europe is central to Britain’s interests whether you talk about it or not. The avoidance of painful arguments from the past turns out to be a handicap when making plans for the future. This was predictable. Labour’s 2024 general election manifesto pretended that Brexit was a historical event. It was something Boris Johnson got “done” in 2020, in fulfilment of his winning campaign pledge from the previous year. The terms could be tweaked, but Starmer promised to preserve the substance . That was an indulgence of public fatigue with the whole issue, made electorally expedient by fear of offending former Labour supporters who had voted leave in the referendum. Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
Luther Davis, a national champion with the Crimson Tide, is said to have worn wigs and make-up to secure fraudulent loans A former University of Alabama football star plans to plead guilty later this month to orchestrating an alleged scheme in which he impersonated NFL players and defrauded lenders out of nearly $20m. The alleged scam is described in detail by the US attorney for the northern dist...
Luther Davis, a national champion with the Crimson Tide, is said to have worn wigs and make-up to secure fraudulent loans A former University of Alabama football star plans to plead guilty later this month to orchestrating an alleged scheme in which he impersonated NFL players and defrauded lenders out of nearly $20m. The alleged scam is described in detail by the US attorney for the northern district of Georgia, including depictions of the former defensive lineman donning disguises during loan closings. Luther Davis, a member of the Alabama team that won the 2010 national championship game, along with a partner, CJ Evins, “obtained at least thirteen fraudulent loans totaling more than $19,845,000”, the criminal information filing alleges. A criminal information (CI) document is filed by a US attorney when a defendant agrees to waive the constitutional right to indictment by a grand jury and instead proceed by typically entering a guilty plea; both Davis and Evins are doing so according to the court docket. Aliya Sports and Sure Sports did not reply to a request for comment for this article. Continue reading...
A hospital in Nebraska shut down the only dialysis unit for miles, upending lives. That's despite a new federal program that gave the state more than $200 million to improve rural health care access. (Image credit: Arielle Zionts/KFF Health News)
A hospital in Nebraska shut down the only dialysis unit for miles, upending lives. That's despite a new federal program that gave the state more than $200 million to improve rural health care access. (Image credit: Arielle Zionts/KFF Health News)