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al-rozi camp, syria — We stepped out of the bitter cold, through a plastic flap and through a door into darkness. It was warm inside the tent, but I couldn’t see anything except for a little bit of outside light coming in through the cracks. “Please come in! Please come in,” a female voice said in English. Two children, a girl and a boy, were running around. They spoke a mixture of English and very appropriate standard Arabic. The latter immediately felt strange since no one speaks like that in a casual setting. We were in al-Roi camp in northeastern…
Tara Lipinski tells her ‘Traitor’ castmates they’ve been saying her name wrong all season.The cast of Traitors doesn’t live up to Tara Lipinski’s name. Viewers of the Peacock competition series noticed that many of the former Olympic figure skater’s co-stars in Season 4 mispronounced her name, calling her TAIR-Uh instead of the correct TAH-Rah, despite her best efforts to correct it. “At some point I just gave up,” the gold medalist wrote in a Jan. 25 TikTok comment where creator Hope Throop asked why no one seemed to know the correct way to say Tara’s name. Making the group’s failure…
A shopper carries a Nike bag in San Francisco’s Union Square neighborhood on January 21, 2026.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Imagesnike CNBC reported that the company is cutting 775 employees in an effort to increase profits and increase the use of “automation.” The job cuts are in addition to the 1,000 job cuts the company announced last summer, and primarily impact roles at distribution centers in Tennessee and Mississippi, where the sneaker giant operates large warehouses, the people said. Nike said in a statement to CNBC that the job cuts primarily affect its U.S. distribution operations and are…
Industrial AI startup CVector has built a brain and nervous system for big industry. Now, founders Richard Chan and Tyler Ruggles have a bigger challenge: showing customers and investors how this AI-powered software layer can lead to real savings at an industrial scale. The New York-based startup has seen some success following a pre-seed funding round last July. The system is currently in operation with real-world customers, including utilities, advanced manufacturing facilities, and chemical manufacturers. They provide more concrete examples of what problems they can solve and the money they can save for large industry clients. “One of the core…
Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of cloud and enterprise at Microsoft, speaks at the Microsoft Build developer conference in Seattle on May 7, 2018. The Build conference, held in Seattle for the second year in a row, is expected to focus on the company’s cloud technologies and the artificial intelligence capabilities within those services.Grant Hinsley | Bloomberg | Getty Imagesmicrosoft announced the next generation of artificial intelligence chips that could replace the world’s leading processors. Nvidia And products from cloud rivals too. Amazon and google.The Maia 200 arrived two years after Microsoft announced it had developed its first AI chip,…
The moment has finally arrived. NikeSKIMS has unveiled its first shoe. It’s a ballet sneaker with a tabi-inspired twist. It’s been nearly a year since Nike announced its partnership with SKIMS, and now the first footwear style has arrived. The release couldn’t have come at a better time. Launching today, January 26th at 7am PT, the NikeSKIMS Rift is a modern update to Nike’s Air Rift, a split-toe running shoe first released in 1996. The original design, inspired by Kenya’s Great Rift Valley, was created with barefoot runners in mind, with a split toe to support natural movement. Since then,…
usa rare earths CEO Barbara Hampton met with Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick a month after taking the helm of a major minerals startup and pitching its assets to the federal government. Hampton and Lutnick’s November 2025 conversation would ultimately lead to a proposed deal that would provide USA Rare Earths with approximately $1.6 billion in funding and a U.S. government stake in the company, subject to certain conditions. In an exclusive interview with CNBC’s Brian Sullivan on Monday, the CEO offered rare insight into how the federal government plans to invest in mining companies and aims to reduce U.S.…
A group of YouTubers suing the tech giant for scraping their videos without permission to train AI models has added Snap to its list of defendants. The plaintiffs, an internet content creator who operates three YouTube channels with a total of about 6.2 million subscribers, allege that Snap trains its AI systems on its video content and features AI features such as the app’s “Imagine Lens,” which allows users to edit images using prompts. Plaintiffs previously filed similar lawsuits against Nvidia, Meta, and ByteDance over similar issues. In a new proposed class action lawsuit filed Friday in California’s Central District…
There’s a new model from China that’s been a hot topic among developers. Zhipu AI’s GLM 4.7. It’s not new per se, but what caught our attention is where it’s gaining popularity: our turf, the United States.The first thing I came across was Zhipu’s post on WeChat announcing that the new coding tools were in such high demand that they would start restricting access. A year after DeepSeek’s R1 model shocked the U.S. artificial intelligence industry, AI experts say Chinese AI models are spreading around the world. I wanted to know if that applies to Zhipu as well.DeepSeek never responded…
The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group is currently in the Indian Ocean and close to supporting a potential US operation targeting Iran, two sources told CNN. The group falls within the area of responsibility of U.S. Central Command, which includes military operations in the Middle East. Still, the carrier does not have to be in the final position for potential operations. President Donald Trump continues to consider options for attacking Iran, but there is no indication that any decisions have been made. Carrier strike groups typically include aircraft carriers, guided missile cruisers, anti-aircraft ships, anti-submarine destroyers, or…