Author: admin
Hong Kong — It sounds like a script for a low-budget horror movie. A community besieged by hundreds of snakes. But in Hengzhou, a city in southern China with a population of about 1 million people, flooding is bringing that horrifying reality to life. State media said about 900 snakes, many of them venomous, were on the loose after Typhoon Maysak hit the region and caused flooding, killing 39 people so far. One woman died after being bitten by a snake, possibly a cobra, that appeared to have escaped from one of the flooded reptile farms, but state media reported…
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte greets U.S. President Donald Trump during a welcome ceremony for Allied and Heads of Government on July 8, 2026 in Ankara, Turkey.Win McNamee | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesNATO held an acrimonious summit in Turkey this week, with US President Donald Trump threatening to cut off trade with the ally and annex territory from another ally. But Alliance bosses were full of praise for the man they called “Dear Donald.”NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte thanked President Trump, calling his efforts to get NATO countries to increase defense spending an “amazing” achievement and a “huge victory” for…
Three years ago, Sequoia partner David Cahn was one of the first to crunch the numbers and calculate the impact of Silicon Valley’s massive spending on AI infrastructure. In 2023, he was reacting to Nvidia’s reported annual GPU revenue of $50 billion. Starting from this number, and adding in the implicit costs of running a data center and the operator’s margin, he estimated that $200 billion in revenue would be needed to repay the upfront investment. He took this as a challenge and asked entrepreneurs to come up with AI products and services that leverage all this infrastructure to generate…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Thursday he’s sticking with the market’s biggest tech companies, even though many companies have posted lackluster earnings recently. “One day, one of these companies is going to announce on a conference call that their earnings estimates are going up because of their AI product, and you’re going to see all of those companies go up, and the uptick is going to be so strong that you’re going to blame yourself for missing out,” the “Mad Money” host said.Former Wall Street darlings known as “Magnificent Seven” After boosting the market during several years of the generative AI…
Julianne Nicholson is taking on a new challenge. More than five years after Mares of Easttown ended, she will reprise her role as Lori Ross, a friend of Kate Winslet’s Mare, in the second season of the detective drama Tusk, a surprise crossover between Brad Ingelsby’s two dramas. HBO announced the news in a post on Instagram on July 9th, calling it a “plot twist.” “Julian Nicholson joins #Task Season 2.” While revealing Nicholson’s casting and, by extension, the crossover, the streamer shared a photo of Nicholson in the post, along with a split-screen photo of Nicholson looking through binoculars…
Mohammed al-Wahidi and three others were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the eve of Tuesday’s match between Egypt and Argentina.Palestinians in Gaza set up a World Cup screening in the shattered enclave and gathered in large numbers to pay tribute to an executive from Egypt’s main aid organization whose taxi was killed in an Israeli airstrike this week.Medical officials said the attack killed Mohamed al-Wahidi, himself a Palestinian, and three other people, including two young passersby and brothers aged 10 and 8, in Gaza City’s Sabra district on the eve of Tuesday’s game between Egypt and Argentina.The Palestinian Center…
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the press aboard the new Air Force One on July 8, 2026. Win McNamee | Getty ImagesUS President Donald Trump told reporters on Wednesday night that he did not know whether the United States and Iran would return to full-scale war, but said Iran “really” wants a deal to halt escalating hostilities in the Middle East. President Trump returned to Washington, D.C., via the United Kingdom on Wednesday. The president told reporters aboard Air Force One as he departed Britain’s Air Force Mildenhall that the U.S. military had “just hit[Iran]very hard.””We say we beat…
Should Anthropic trust Elon Musk to host its model? After an X user hinted that Musk could one day wake up and launch an AI lab from SpaceX’s servers as a way to kneel to his rivals, Musk responded with glowing praise for the AI lab. Such tricks are “not my style,” he said. “I was clearly wrong about Antropic,” Musk said Thursday, referring to a September 2025 post on X, saying “a win was not among the possible outcomes for Antropic.” Of course, even at that point, Anthropic could already be considered a winner. The company reportedly has the…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Thursday. SK Hynix The upcoming Nasdaq market debut will give U.S. investors a new way to bet on the artificial intelligence boom, but the South Korean memory chip giant warned it comes with significant risks.”I know the memory chip business is under fire, but if you’re willing to accept volatility, I think you can do much worse than this,” the “Mad Money” host said. “But if you really need it, put a small position and leave room to buy more weakness.”SK Hynix plans to begin trading on the Nasdaq on Friday through American Depositary Receipts (ADRs),…
Jason Kelsey breaks silence about Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift’s wedding after serving as best manJason Kelce couldn’t fight alchemy on this big day. The former Philadelphia Eagles center has finally revealed some trivial facts about his experience inside Madison Square Garden for the wedding of his brother Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift on July 3rd. Jason served as Travis’ chaperone, and Austin Swift served as Taylor’s man of honor. While greeting fans at the annual celebrity golf tournament American Century Championship in Nevada on July 9, Jason assured Inquisitive that the wedding was “a good time” and told another…