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The Seattle Storm WNBA basketball team has apologized after its co-owner reprimanded female students for signing a “thank you” sign to Sophie Cunningham.Published July 30, 2026July 30, 2026The Seattle Storm issued an apology statement a day after one of its co-owners berated two teenage female fans for holding signs supporting the views of Indiana’s Sophie Cunningham during a home game against the Fever.Each of the teens held a sign that read, “Thank you, Sophie, for speaking up for girls!” Cunningham recently took to the plate to protect women’s sports and keep them women-only.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of listIndependent…

Robostore’s humanoid robots will be joining CNBC’s Power Lunch on December 30, 2025.CNBCBEIJING – China’s Ministry of Commerce said Thursday that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has repeatedly ignored the Chinese government’s restrained stance on product bans and threatened to retaliate.The FCC announced Tuesday that it has added foreign-made advanced robotic equipment, including humanoid robots, to a list that restricts import into the United States due to cybersecurity concerns. The statement did not specify any countries and said retailers could continue to import models previously approved by the FCC.China’s Ministry of Commerce said in an online statement Thursday that the…

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is touting to investors his prediction that billions of people will have their own personal AI agents over the next five years. (Let’s hope that data centers will be efficient enough in the future to power all these agents without causing another wave of climate disaster.) “If you look, say, five years from now, I think it’s extremely unlikely that there won’t be billions of individual agents who understand your goals and work on your behalf 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to help you achieve your goals in the areas you…

Google’s exhibit at APEC Digital Week in Chengdu on July 23, 2026 did not focus on Gemini.Evelyn Chen | CNBCBEIJING — The artificial intelligence race between the United States and China is intensifying in Asia, the world’s largest continent.”The U.S. strategy is to prevent China from becoming a major AI supplier to the rest of Asia and, frankly, the entire world,” said Gary Dvorchak, managing director at Blueshirt Group. He noted that while Chinese alternatives are cheaper, the United States currently offers more complete solutions, from chips to AI models.However, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Conference’s Digital Week held this month…

SingaporeAP — A French student was fined S$600 ($465) in Singapore on Thursday after pleading guilty to filming himself licking the straw of an orange juice vending machine and then replacing it in what his lawyer described as a social media stunt. Didier Gaspard Owen-Maximilian, 19, admitted to licking the straw and putting it back in the vending machine as he recorded the act for his online followers. The incident occurred at a shopping mall in March and charges were filed in April after the video went viral. Other mischief charges were also taken into consideration during sentencing. The court…

Marilyn Monroe was the first to play Marilyn Monroe. “Do you want to see me become her?” the actress, born Norma Jean Mortensen, asked one day while walking down Broadway in New York, according to Amy Greene, wife of Monroe’s photographer Milton Greene. “I don’t know how to explain what she did because it was so subtle,” Green recalled in 2020. “But she turned on something magical inside her, and all of a sudden the car slowed down and people started turning around and stopping and staring.” It wasn’t just her platinum blonde hair and glowing smile that turned the…

Lionel Messi returns to Inter Miami after Argentina lost to Spain in the World Cup final, sparking rumors of his retirement.Published July 30, 2026July 30, 2026Soccer superstar Lionel Messi has returned to training with Inter Miami, 10 days after Argentina ended the World Cup with a 1-0 defeat in extra time to Spain in the final earlier this month.The two-time MLS MVP missed the first two games for Miami after the World Cup was suspended, against Chicago and against Montreal, but his team won both games, extending their winning streak to six games.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of listThe…

Samsung logo seen at Samsung Electronics Seocho Building in Seoul on July 7, 2026. South Korean technology giant Samsung Electronics on July 7 expected second-quarter operating profit to jump about 19 times from a year earlier, supported by sustained demand for AI-driven memory chips. (Photo credit: Jade GAO/AFP via Getty Images)Jade Gao | AFP | Getty ImagesSamsung Electronics posted a record second-quarter operating profit, exceeding analysts’ expectations, as strong demand for artificial intelligence continues to drive growth in its memory chip business.Below is a comparison of Samsung’s first quarter results to the LSEG SmartEstimates. These focus on more consistently accurate…

As AI overtakes the technology industry, Microsoft is in a unique position. The company is one of the world’s largest cloud providers and software-as-a-service companies, as well as holding valuable stakes in two major AI labs, OpenAI and Anthropic. Those incentives are starting to collide as Microsoft releases blockbuster financial results. The company just reported a very profitable quarter with $90 billion in revenue and $35.8 billion in net income. For the fiscal year that ended June 30, Microsoft reported revenue of $331.8 billion and net income of $133.7 billion. And CEO Satya Nadella has no intention of letting Anthropic…

The top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee demands: space x CEO Elon Musk provides a tour of the company’s xAI data centers and power plants in and around Memphis, Tennessee. “Americans are concerned about what data centers and Big Tech’s push for more AI will mean for their communities, jobs, property values, and their futures,” Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) said in a letter to Musk on Wednesday. “Electricity prices are rising, power grids are straining, clean air and water are being polluted, and noise is harming the health and patience of local residents.”Public opposition to data centers…