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U.S. President Donald Trump and Apple CEO Tim Cook shake hands on the day Apple announced its $100 billion investment in U.S. manufacturing in the Oval Office of the White House on August 6, 2025 in Washington, DC, USA. Jonathan Ernst | Reutersapple announced Thursday a major expansion of its U.S. manufacturing program, welcoming four new partners to its domestic supply chain: Bosch, Cirrus Logic, TDK and Qnity Electronics. The companies will manufacture materials and components needed for Apple products sold around the world in the United States, and Apple plans to invest $400 million in the new program by…
Rescue teams in northern Germany are working to rescue a humpback whale stranded in shallow waters off the Baltic coast in the Bay of Lübeck, CNN affiliate RTL reported. RTL reported that the whale was spotted in the Niendorf district of Timmendorfer Strand early Monday morning, and authorities began efforts to return it to deep water. Police said they would use “all means possible” to get the animal to a point where it could swim away again. Video released by RTL showed rescue workers trying to move the whale toward open water, but initial efforts were unsuccessful. Experts from the…
What’s the point of a good sale if you don’t buy the products you see (and covet) everywhere? Luckily, Amazon’s Big Spring Sale has discounts on a number of well-received and popular beauty items that are worth hitting the checkout button. For a limited time, get 15% off Clinique’s much talked about Almost Lipstick Tinted Lip Balm. You may have seen this lipstick on TikTok, as it has a near-perfect rating and over 15,000 reviews. Loved for its sheer (but buildable) pigment, moisturizing formula, and unique hues. Just like the lip trends we fell in love with in the ’90s,…
Humanoid robots could be one of the biggest growth opportunities for automation over the next decade, and a few companies will be winners in the boom, Jeffries said. The company said three factors are driving this new era of robotics: increasing demand for replacement labor due to an aging population, declining interest from younger generations in manufacturing, and continued advances in semiconductor and artificial intelligence technologies. “Humanity appears to be on the brink of widespread adoption of humanoid automata,” Jeffries wrote in a research note Wednesday. “While we expect early adoption to occur in commercial environments where the return on…
Enterprise AI company Cohere announced its first voice model on Thursday. Transcribe is an open source automatic speech recognition model that can be used for tasks such as note-taking and speech analysis. This model is relatively lightweight with only 2 billion parameters and is intended for use on consumer-grade GPUs that wish to self-host. We currently support 14 languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Dutch, Polish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Arabic. According to Cohere, Transcribe outperformed models such as Zoom Scribe v1, IBM Granite 4.0 1B, ElevenLab Scribe v2, and Qwen3-ASR-1.7B Speech on the Hugging Face Open…
Two major CEOs have told CNBC in recent months that the rise of artificial intelligence contributed to their decisions to hand over the reins and step down from their roles.This is one of the latest insights into how America’s business leaders plan to transition to AI.coca cola CEO James Quincey told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Thursday that his decision to step down from his role was influenced by a larger “wave of organizational momentum.””My job is also to think about the best team to put on the field to get the next wave done,” Quincey said. “And I concluded that…
Nancy Guthrie’s health condition revealed, requires medication to survive As the search continues for Nancy, authorities have stressed that she needs to take daily medication to survive, something she likely doesn’t have. “This woman is an 84-year-old woman who suffers from several physical illnesses, has physical problems, and requires medication,” Nanos said at a press conference on February 2. “Medications can be fatal if not taken within 24 hours.” “So we implore anyone who knows anything about this, anyone who has seen anything, anyone who has heard anything, to contact us,” he continued. “Call 911. We don’t need another tragic…
Published March 26, 2026March 26, 2026Transgender female athletes are now excluded from women’s Olympic events after the IOC agreed to a new eligibility policy in line with US President Donald Trump’s executive order on sports ahead of the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.”Eligibility to compete in women’s category competitions at the Olympic Games and other IOC competitions, including individual and team events, is currently limited to biological females,” the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said, noting that this is determined by genetic testing, which is mandatory at least once in an athlete’s career.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of listIt’s…
German carmaker Volkswagen is reportedly in talks with Israeli defense firm Rafael to produce missile defense systems, which Citi analysts say could be an opportunity. The two companies are in talks to repurpose VW’s factory in Osnabrück, Germany, which is scheduled to close, to make parts for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system, manufactured by Rafael, the FT reported on Tuesday. A VW spokesperson said the company is “in dialogue with various market participants” about the future of the site. They added that the production of weapons by Volkswagen was also ruled out in the future and that they were…
The surveillance technology industry is in the spotlight today, but that’s not the only reason. Controversy over U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s use of Flock’s camera network to surveil people, and home camera maker Ring drawing criticism for developing a new feature that allows law enforcement to ask homeowners for footage of their neighborhoods, are currently sparking a broader debate about safety, privacy, and who can monitor who. But the controversy won’t kill the market, and continued improvements in vision language models are only giving more wind to companies building new ways to help them monitor what’s going on within…