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Aerial view of the Amazon Web Services data center known as US East 1 in Ashburn, Virginia, USA on October 20, 2025. Jonathan Ernst | ReutersAmazon announced Monday that it will invest up to $50 billion to expand its cloud division’s ability to deliver artificial intelligence and high-performance computing capabilities to U.S. government customers.The project is expected to break ground in 2026 and will add nearly 1.3 gigawatts of capacity through a new data center designed for federal agencies, the company said in a blog post. As part of the investment, the agency will use Amazon Web Services’ AI tools,…
Content warning: This article discusses suicidal thoughts. Lizzo talks about dark times. The “About Dumb Time” singer reflected on her deteriorating mental health amid a lawsuit filed by former dancers and how it affected her health and fitness journey. “I started losing weight in the fall of 2023,” Lizzo, 37, wrote in a Nov. 23 Substack post. “I was deeply depressed. I had been the subject of a vicious scandal and it felt like the whole world was against me. I became deeply suicidal.” “I isolated all my loved ones. During the scandal, I couldn’t trust anyone,” she continued. “A…
Hong Kongspreephoto.de | Moments | Getty ImagesAsia-Pacific markets were mixed on Monday after New York Fed President William Williams hinted at the possibility of a third interest rate cut this year.Williams suggested Friday that the Fed may lower its key interest rate because a weak labor market poses a bigger economic threat than rising inflation.The Fed only has one more meeting left in 2025, which will be held in the continental United States on December 9th and 10th. The target interest rate is currently 3.75-4.00%.Federal funds futures are pricing in about a 70% chance of a quarter-point rate cut, up…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Monday that Amazon’s AI-powered retail business is a “no challenge” area heading into the long Thanksgiving shopping weekend. “I don’t think OpenAI will challenge Amazon’s retail,” Cramer said on “Squawk on the Street.” “When it comes to retail, we’re not going to stop them.” OpenAI’s ChatGPT is shaping the way consumers search for gift ideas, while Amazon’s built-in assistant Rufus gives the e-commerce giant an advantage. Rufus creates conversational shopping experiences that keep customers within Amazon’s ecosystem. This is a key differentiator as more consumers plan to use artificial intelligence tools for their holiday shopping, according…
Almost a year after sister Karen Houghton’s death, Kris Jenner attends niece’s weddingKris Jenner is celebrating her late sister Karen Houghton. The Kardashian family paid a touching tribute to Karen on her 67th birthday, highlighting how much she had thought of him in the 18 months since Karen’s death in March 2024. “Happiest birthday to my beautiful sister Karen,” Kris captioned a merry-go-round of photos of Karen with various members of her family, including her mother Mary Jo Campbell and Kris’ daughter Kim Kardashian. “I think about you every day.” She added, “I miss you, I love you, and I…
The Macquarie Group Ltd. logo at the company’s headquarters in Sydney, Australia, Wednesday, June 18, 2025. Brent Lewin | Bloomberg | Getty Images Australia’s Cube Holdings said on Monday that Macquarie Asset Management had submitted a non-binding offer to acquire the logistics company for an enterprise value of A$11.6 billion ($7.49 billion).Macquarie is offering to buy Qube for A$5.2 per share in cash, representing a nearly 28% premium to Qube’s closing share price of A$4.07 on Friday.Qube shares rose 19.4% to close at a record high of A$4.86 on Monday, while shares in Macquarie Group, the asset management unit’s parent…
On Monday, Anthropic announced the latest version of its flagship model, Opus 4.5. This is the last model in the Anthropic 4.5 series to be released, following the launch of Sonnet 4.5 in September and Haiku 4.5 in October. As expected, the new version of Opus delivers state-of-the-art performance across a variety of benchmarks, including coding benchmarks (SWE bench and terminal bench), tool usage (tau2 bench and MCP Atlas), and general problem solving (ARC-AGI 2, GPQA Diamond). Notably, Opus 4.5 is the first model to score above 80% in SWE-Bench validation, a popular coding benchmark. Anthropic also launched a number…
A Broadcom circuit board for chip testing is photographed during a lab tour as Broadcom prepares to launch new optical chip technology to fend off Nvidia on September 5, 2025 in San Jose, California, USA. Brittany Hosea-Small | Reutersbroadcom Stocks rose more than 10% on Monday as investors flooded back into several fast-growing tech companies tied to artificial intelligence trading. Wall Street is also eyeing the chipmaker as a derivative play. of the alphabet The superiority of AI will increase. Broadcom, one of the largest suppliers of high-performance application-specific chips (ASICs) for hyperscalers, has been underperforming this year, up 60%…
AP — Sudan’s top commander has rejected a cease-fire proposal put forward by a US-led mediator as the “worst ever”, dealing a blow to efforts to halt the devastating war that has gripped the African country for more than 30 months. In video comments released by the military late Sunday, General Abdul Fattah Burhan said the proposal was unacceptable and accused the mediator of being “biased” in efforts to end the war. Sudan was plunged into chaos in April 2023 when a power struggle between the military and the powerful militia Rapid Support Force erupted into open fighting in the…
Emilia Clarke’s brain aneurysmEmilia Clarke, who filmed battle scenes for Game of Thrones, published an essay in The New Yorker in 2019 titled “A Battle for My Life.”After suffering a severe headache at the gym, the actress writes, “I made it to the bathroom and fell to my knees feeling very, very sick.” “During that time, the pain was getting worse with shooting, stabbing, squeezing pain. On some level, I knew what was happening: my brain was damaged.”She was taken to the hospital for a brain scan.”The diagnosis was swift and ominous: a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a life-threatening type…