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Troy Parrott scored twice in the first half to seal Ireland’s hopes of progressing to the next tournament with a famous victory.Ireland beat Portugal 2-0 to carve a narrow path to next year’s World Cup and leave the Nations League winners waiting to book an automatic spot on a night when captain Cristiano Ronaldo was sent off.Ireland, who have not qualified for a major competition for a decade and last played in a World Cup in 2002, needed at least a draw on Thursday to keep their hopes of qualifying alive, with Troy Parrott’s first-half goal completing the double for…
Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk speaks during a Q&A after visiting the OpenAI data center in Abilene, Texas, USA on September 23, 2025. Shelby Tauber | Reuters2 months ago oracle’s Shares had their best day since 1992, jumping 36% to a record after the company surprised investors with its cloud infrastructure revenue forecast.Since then, the company has lost a third of its value, more than wiping out its profits. As we enter mid-November, stock prices are on track for their worst month since 2011.This hype was driven by Oracle’s growing relationship with OpenAI. But the mood has changed recently, with investors…
Cursor, an AI coding tool for developers, continues to eat up venture capital as its valuation continues to rise. On Thursday, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal, Cursor announced a $2.3 billion funding round, valuing the company at $29.3 billion. The round more than doubles the company’s previous valuation of $9.9 billion, which reached $900 million in a Series C round in June. This latest funding was co-led by existing investor Accel and new addition to the cap table, Coatue. Strategic investors such as Nvidia (enterprise customer) and Google (AI model supplier) also participated in this round. Joshua…
Ticket reseller StubHub’s billboard on display at the New York Stock Exchange in preparation for the company’s IPO on September 17, 2025. new york stock exchangestub hub Shares fell 7% in after-hours trading Thursday after the company reported its first quarterly results since its initial public offering in September.Here’s how ticket sellers behaved compared to the LSEG consensus:Loss per share: $4.27 Revenue: $468.1 million vs. expected $452 millionThe company said second-quarter sales rose 8% from $433.8 million in the same period last year.StubHub reported a net loss of $1.33 billion, or a loss of $4.27 per share. This compared with…
Jen Tran & Devin StraderStatus: SplitOn the season 21 finale of The Bachelorette, it seemed like Bachelor alum Jen Tran finally had her happy ending with finalist Devin Strader. But Jen revealed on After the Final Rose in September 2024 that Devin snubbed her as soon as the cameras stopped. “He would boldly declare his love and then all of a sudden the next day he wouldn’t say anything and he would deny that he was in love,” Jen told host Jesse Palmer on the Sept. 3 episode. “All the promises he made to me, all the love he wanted…
A worker inspects an outdoor gas pipe at an underground gas storage facility operated by Gas Storage CZ AS in Hacě, Czech Republic, Friday, January 3, 2025.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe International Energy Agency’s latest outlook suggests oil demand could continue to rise until mid-century, reflecting a sharp shift in tone at the world’s energy watchdog and raising further questions about the future of fossil fuels.The Paris-based agency on Wednesday laid out a scenario in its flagship World Energy Outlook in which oil demand reaches 113 million barrels a day by 2050, a 13% increase from 2024 levels.The IEA…
Over the past two years, LinkedIn has been experimenting with bringing AI to different parts of its platform, including ad copy, content creation, personalized digests, recruiting assistance, career advice, and learning. The company is now finally adding AI to search, one of the most used parts of the site. Earlier this year, the company released a job search tool for its U.S. members that lets them search for jobs using natural language queries. Now, the company is extending this feature to people searches as well. Users can use queries such as “Find a healthcare investor with FDA experience,” “Someone who…
bern, switzerland — Remember when you ate too much cheese and felt a little sick, a greasy sheen appeared on your forehead, and you lied to yourself that from now on it was salad? Next, let’s think about the heroic judges at this year’s World Cheese Awards. The judges met on Thursday to name Switzerland’s aged Gruyère the world’s best cheese of 2025. This army of 265 cheese experts from around the globe was tasked with concocting dairy products of all shapes, sizes, colors and consistencies in a large auditorium in the Swiss capital Bern. Over the course of a…
Cynthia Erivo defends Ariana Grande as fan jumps over barricade at ‘Wicked’ premiereCynthia Erivo teeth ariana grandewill be her forever friend and protect her from bad things. Case in point, the Tony Award winner went into bodyguard mode for the match. Wicked: For Good The “Eternal Sunshine” singer performed for the first time in Singapore at the request of her fans. In a video shared on social media, Ariana was seen walking arm-in-arm with Cynthia and her pals. evil co-star Michelle Yeoh along a row of fans barricaded on both sides. After the 31-year-old blew a kiss to a fan…
Google DeepMind shared a research preview of SIMA 2 on Thursday. SIMA 2 is a next-generation generalist AI agent that integrates the language and reasoning capabilities of Gemini, Google’s large-scale language model, to enable it to understand and interact with its environment, not just follow instructions. Like many of DeepMind’s projects, including AlphaFold, the first version of SIMA was trained using hundreds of hours of video game data to learn how to play multiple 3D games like humans (including games it wasn’t trained on). SIMA 1, announced in March 2024, was able to follow basic instructions in a wide range…