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Thomas Fuller | SOPA Images | Light Rocket | Getty ImagespaypalThe company’s stock rose nearly 7% on Tuesday after reports that fintech startup Stripe was considering acquiring a payments platform. Bloomberg reported the news, citing people familiar with the matter, who said talks were in the early stages. Stripe is reportedly considering acquiring all or part of PayPal’s business.The news comes a day after reports said buyer interest in the company had increased following recent stock weakness. PayPal and Stripe declined to comment on this report.PayPal, which has suffered from slowing growth in the increasingly competitive financial payments industry, has…
Zane Wack, an experienced hiker who runs, swims and competes in triathlons, nearly collapsed from altitude sickness while hiking with his father, Ryan Wack, on California’s Mount Whitney in June 2025. “He started experiencing some hallucinations,” Ryan told SFGATE of the 14-year-old boy. “He knew he was hallucinating. He said he saw things that looked like snowmen and Kermit the Frog.” Ryan managed to stop the boy from falling off the cliff multiple times as he made his way down the trail. “My son was in an altered mental state, but we don’t know what caused it. We don’t know…
Person using laptop and mobile phone. Tom Warner | Digital Vision | Getty ImagesSubmissions are now open for the fourth edition of CNBC’s list of the world’s top fintech companies, created in partnership with market research firm Statista.Each year, CNBC and Statista rank the top fintech players from around the world, from startups to big tech companies, across sectors such as payments, wealth technology, insurance, and more. Last year’s iteration included the following powerhouses: master cardwith stripes visaand many new scale-ups are also possible. Credit rewards company Bilt, payments startup TerraPay and insurance platform Entsia made their debut on the…
Google announced Tuesday that it is adding new ways to create automated workflows to its vibe coding app Opal. The company says the new agent coming to Opal will allow users to create mini-apps that can plan and execute tasks using text prompts. This feature uses the Gemini 3 Flash model and automatically selects the tool to perform the task. For example, you can use Google Sheets to maintain memory across sessions, such as shopping lists for e-commerce related apps. New agents create and plan their own next steps for tasks. Image credit: Google Google says these agents are natively…
london — In the days since Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s unusual arrest on suspicion of misconduct in office, the former prince has faced a number of allegations, including his time as British trade envoy and his friendship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Mountbatten-Windsor faces questions about how she traveled to visit Epstein and whether she used police protection as security during her time with him. The former prince has not commented on the latest allegations. He has previously denied any wrongdoing in connection with Epstein, saying he never witnessed or suspected any of the acts of the accused sex offender.…
Louis Osborne & Jessica OsborneThe oldest children of Ozzy and Thelma’s marriage certainly didn’t spend much time with Ozzy, who was often away on tour.In the 2011 documentary God Bless Ozzy Osbourne, Jessica said, “My childhood memories with my dad are that he would be away for long periods of time, and when he would come home there would always be an adjustment period, and then things would go back to normal and he would be fine again.” “So my childhood with my father was very unstable.”And when I was home, I would often go to the pub.”When he was…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Tuesday outlined a simple framework for understanding the current market as the disruptive threat posed by artificial intelligence looms over industries ranging from software to commercial real estate. “We want companies that make and do things that we understand. We want to avoid things that we don’t understand or can’t understand. Because if we don’t understand, it’s probably the kind of stock that Anthropic … can destroy with a simple press release,” Kramer said on “Mad Money,” referring to the AI startup that developed the Claude chatbot. Anthropic has been announcing new industry-specific AI tool announcements…
Anthropic has until Friday night to choose between giving the U.S. military unrestricted access to its AI models or face the consequences, Axios reports. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei during a Tuesday morning meeting that the Pentagon will either designate Anthropic as a “supply chain risk,” a designation typically reserved for foreign adversaries, or invoke the Defense Production Act (DPA) to force the company to tailor a version of its model to the military’s needs. The DPA gives the president the power to force companies to prioritize or expand production for national defense. The law…
Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, speaks at the 56th World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 20, 2026. Dennis Bariboos | ReutersAnthropic’s Claude Cowork, which shocked Wall Street last month, is now getting a wider release.The artificial intelligence startup on Tuesday announced a series of connectors and plug-ins for its knowledge worker tools that companies can use to “turbocharge” the capabilities of individual employees.Anthropic launched Claude Cowork as a research arm last month, spooking software stocks as investors grapple with the disruptive potential of AI. The company said Claude Cowork’s new updates mark its transition…
A group of Mexican mothers with years of experience searching for missing persons in the Mexican state of Sonora arrive in Arizona to help search for Nancy Guthrie. Initially, Madres Buscadoras de Sonora (Sonora Mother Search Group) applied for permission to conduct field searches in the Arizona desert. They had hoped to start on Tuesday, but the local sheriff rejected the application on the grounds that it could obstruct the official investigation. But the Madres Tribe, a national network of volunteers, mothers and wives, is undeterred. Some of them traveled to Arizona to hand out fliers with Guthrie’s likeness, while…