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View of a commercial cargo ship and crude oil tanker anchored in the Gulf of Oman off the coast of Muscat, Oman, preparing to transit through the vital Strait of Hormuz on June 21, 2026.Shade Arasa | Anadolu | Getty ImagesIranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Berger Ghalibaf speaks during a press conference in Tehran, Iran, December 2, 2025.Shadati | Xinhua News Agency | Getty ImagesMohammad Berger Ghalibaf’s rebuttal followed remarks in the past days by President Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that a temporary peace deal that would unfreeze Iranian assets would benefit American farmers.The comments came as President…
Consumers who pay for AI are increasingly choosing Anthropic’s Claude, according to trend data from credit card transaction analysis firm Indagari. This suggests that AI Labs has a broader and healthier customer base than the niche customers typically thought of as dominating: companies and startup developers using coded code. Indagari analyzes billions of anonymized credit card transactions from approximately 28 million consumers in the United States. So while that data doesn’t give you absolute numbers about Anthropic’s revenue or total number of customers, it does provide a large enough sample to identify trends. And for Anthropic, the trend is upwards.…
Fair attendees play at the Xbox booth at the Cologne Trade Fair Center during the first day of Gamescom 2025 on August 20, 2025 in Cologne, Germany.Ying Tan | Null Photo | Getty Imagesa few hours later apple Announcing price increases for MacBooks and iPads, microsoft Consumers can also expect to pay more for Xbox gaming consoles, he said, reflecting the increased cost of components.Starting August 1, Xbox Series S consoles with 512GB of storage will increase in price from $100 to about $500, and 1TB models will increase in price by an additional $150, Microsoft announced Thursday. The entry-level…
The United Nations specialized agency, the International Maritime Organization, said on Thursday it had suspended evacuation operations in and around the Strait of Hormuz following attacks on ships in the Gulf of Oman. A U.S. official told CNN that the ship had been hit by an Iranian drone attack, but did not provide further details. Iran has not claimed responsibility. The suspension comes days after the IMO announced a deal between the United States and Iran paved the way for the evacuation of more than 11,000 stranded seafarers from the Persian Gulf region. “Following the launch of IMO’s evacuation plan,…
French football is mourning the death of a rising star. Kenzo KeithPlayers who played for En Haban trained hard AS Saint-Étienne died on June 22 after drowning in the Rhône River near Lyon, France, the city’s public prosecutor’s office told French media. BFMTV. He was 21 years old. Prosecutors told the media that Keith was swimming with two friends in an area of the river where swimming was prohibited, but was pulled from the water just after 5:30 p.m. local time on June 22. Other members of Keith’s party were not injured, but Keith was taken to a hospital where…
FIFA’s first U-15 World Cup to be held in October will be open to all member parties, paving the way for Russia’s return.Published June 25, 2026June 25, 2026Russian teams may be allowed to participate in FIFA events after the world football authority announced that the inaugural Under-15 World Cup and Festival, scheduled to be held in Azerbaijan in October, will be open to all FIFA member associations.FIFA banned Russia from international competitions in February 2022 after Russia invaded Ukraine, but lifted the ban from Russia’s U-17 men’s and women’s teams the following year.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of listHowever,…
The Supreme Court said in a 7-2 decision Thursday. bayer The company cannot sue over state-level claims that it failed to warn about cancer risks from the herbicide Roundup and the chemical glyphosate. The decision is a major victory for Bayer and the Trump administration, which argued that failure to warn claims are preempted by federal laws governing pesticides. It’s also a major blow to the Make America Healthy Again movement, which helped return Trump to the White House in the 2024 election but feels betrayed by the administration’s embrace of glyphosate. Glyphosate is most commonly used in agriculture and…
AI agents are becoming increasingly sophisticated. They have evolved from answering questions to autonomously performing complex multi-step tasks. But before these agents can be trusted to book travel or perform financial analysis on behalf of users, model providers and the startups building such agents want to ensure that their agents perform reliably across a wide range of scenarios. AI labs often use benchmarks to show off the capabilities of their models, but high scores, even for agent-oriented benchmarks, don’t actually prove that the AI can successfully perform a variety of complex jobs in the real world. Patronus AI, a startup…
Apple stock took a big hit Thursday after the company announced larger-than-expected price increases for MacBooks and iPads. It’s a difficult path, but the tech giants are well-equipped to handle it. The stock fell more than 6% in its worst single session in more than a year as management took the first formal steps to pass on higher memory prices to consumers since outgoing CEO Tim Cook said last week that price increases were “inevitable.” iPhone price changes are expected, but not before the launch event held each fall. Still, no other technology company is better positioned to weather these…
Dolly Parton still works a 9-to-5 job. On June 24, one month after canceling a stay in Las Vegas to focus on his health, the country music legend attended the opening event for Dolly’s Tennessean Travel Stop, a rest stop on Highway 65 in Cornersville, Tennessee. “Some of you may have wondered why we needed a truck stop, but we couldn’t leave it to Beaver,” Parton said, jokingly nodding to the gas station chain Buc-ee’s, according to Rolling Stone. “The door is open and I couldn’t be more proud.” The 80-year-old, who wore a blue and pink fringed dress for…