Austria urges EU to lure Anthropic after US export controls cut access

Austria's State Secretary for Digitalization Alexander Pröll has written to European Commission Executive Vice President Henna Virkkunen urging…

Saudi Aramco helicopter crash kills all 14 onboard

A helicopter belonging to Saudi Aramco crashed on Sunday at approximately 6:00 a.m. local time in Ras Tanura…

Chinese AI matches Anthropic’s Mythos in cybersecurity

Chinese artificial intelligence systems have achieved performance comparable to Anthropic's Mythos model in cybersecurity vulnerability discovery, according to…

Asian AI firms launch Mythos alternatives amid US export ban

Two Asian AI companies unveiled products this week positioned as direct alternatives to Anthropic's most advanced models, which…

Messi becomes first to score in 7 straight World Cup games

Lionel Messi added another line to his unmatched World Cup resume on Saturday night, coming off the bench…

Iran eliminated from World Cup without losing a match after wild 3-3 draw

Iran's dream of reaching the World Cup knockout stage for the first time ended in heartbreak on Saturday…

Pakistan, British Columbia issue glacial flood warnings amid record ice loss

Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority issued a glacier melting alert for June 27 to July 3, warning that…

Nadella says every company should build its own AI model

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has called on every company to develop its own AI model, arguing that firms…

BIS warns AI boom dwarfs past bubbles, urges action

The Bank for International Settlements has sounded an alarm over a convergence of threats to the global economy,…

BIS warns high debt leaves nations exposed to bond crises

The Bank for International Settlements has warned that elevated government debt levels are leaving countries increasingly vulnerable to…

Google caps Meta’s Gemini AI use amid compute crunch

Alphabet has imposed limits on Meta's use of its Gemini artificial intelligence models after Meta sought more computing…

Coinbase defaults to Chinese AI models as US export controls limit alternatives

Z.ai, the Beijing-based AI lab formerly known as Zhipu AI, released GLM-5.2 on June 13 — one day…

Vlašić header sends Croatia past Ghana into World Cup round of 32

Croatia advanced to the knockout stage of the 2026 FIFA World Cup on Saturday with a 2-1 victory…

GTA 6 pre-orders reportedly hit 39 million in 48 hours

Grand Theft Auto VI has broken entertainment pre-order records, reportedly accumulating 39 million copies and approximately $3 billion…

US visa restrictions shut out African fans from World Cup

As DR Congo prepares to face Uzbekistan in a decisive Group K match in Atlanta on Saturday evening,…

Retailers warn of console shortages ahead of GTA 6 launch

Retailers are sounding the alarm about potential PlayStation 5 and Xbox console shortages heading into the 2026 holiday…

Mars harbored vast Earth-like magma systems, study finds

A study published in Nature Astronomy on June 26 reveals that Mars once harbored vast, interconnected magmatic systems…

Bolivia ends 15-year dollar peg, devalues currency by 30%

Bolivia's Finance Ministry on Friday announced the country will abandon its 15-year fixed dollar peg and adopt a…

Outgoing IMF chief economist warns global economy has fewer buffers against shocks

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, the International Monetary Fund's outgoing chief economist, warned on Friday that the global economy is losing…

Musk calls AI chip price surge ‘biggest’ he’s ever seen

Elon Musk called the current AI-driven component price surge "the biggest price jump in anything I've ever seen,"…

North Atlantic ‘cold blob’ linked to Europe’s record heat dome

As a historic heat dome continues to shatter temperature records across Europe, scientists are pointing to an unlikely…

South Korea scrambles jets as China, Russia hold air patrol

China and Russia carried out their 11th joint strategic air patrol on Saturday over the Sea of Japan,…

Baltic states urge EU to revive stalled Russian oil ban

Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania urged the European Commission this week to accelerate a legislative proposal for a complete…

China strips generals, ex-regulator of lawmaker posts

China on Friday stripped six senior People's Liberation Army officers, former financial regulator Li Yunze, and Politburo member…

Belgium rout New Zealand 5-1 to win World Cup Group G

Belgium roared into the World Cup knockout stages with a commanding 5-1 demolition of New Zealand at BC…

Russian hackers linked to $2.5B Jaguar Land Rover cyberattack

Russian hackers carried out last year's cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover that shut down production for nearly six…

Drone strikes Iranian Kurdish opposition camp near Erbil

An explosive drone struck a camp belonging to an Iranian Kurdish opposition group north of Erbil in Iraq's…

AI chip rout exposes $270B in leveraged bets

A week of turbulence in artificial intelligence chip stocks has laid bare the scale of leveraged and speculative…

Citigroup warns El Niño could cost global economy trillions

Citigroup economists warned this week that a rapidly intensifying El Niño event could inflict between $3 trillion and…

Vitol ships stranded aluminum through Strait of Hormuz

Vitol Group has shipped a stranded cargo of aluminum through the Strait of Hormuz, marking what appears to…