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England and Australia will not play a Test in the north of England as Old Trafford and Headingley were not selected as hosts.Published July 23, 2026July 23, 2026There will be no Ashes matches in the north of England next year, when Australia joins as their oldest rivals in Test cricket.Leeds’ Headingley and Manchester’s Old Trafford both produced some of the most dramatic showdowns in the long history of Ashes cricket.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of listDon Bradman, perhaps the greatest batsman in cricket, scored two triple centuries at Headingley in the 1930s.Both grounds hosted notable individual feats by England…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on May 1, 2026 in New York City.Michael M. Santiago | Getty ImagesU.S. stocks fell on Thursday as oil prices soared on the back of escalating conflict in the Middle East as investors focused on quarterly results from the world’s two largest companies.of Dow Jones Industrial Average You lost 527 points, or 1%. of S&P500 Although it decreased by 1%, Nasdaq Composite It decreased by 1.8%.Oil prices soared after Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis claimed to have attacked two Saudi tankers in the Red Sea, raising concerns about…
The Google logo appears on the smartphone screen, and the European flag appears on the computer screen.Nicholas Cocobris | Null Photo | Getty ImagesEuropean regulators imposed fines google The company received 890 million euros ($1 billion) for preferential treatment for its services. The fine is Google’s first under the European Union’s comprehensive Digital Markets Act (DMA), which aims to scrutinize the business practices of big tech companies in Europe. Shares of Google’s parent company Alphabet fell about 4% in premarket trading, largely reflecting investor concerns about increased AI spending outlined in the company’s Wednesday earnings report.The European Commission, the EU’s…
Tyra Banks’ giant bangs are larger than life: She reacts to viral hair momentPlease call her Tyra Bangs. In fact, Tyra Banks debuted a bold new hairstyle and oversized bangs while serving as a judge on Season 22 of Project Runway. The supermodel wasn’t sure if she was able to pull off the stunning fringe, but she did manage to tease out how her hair change turned heads. “Brown never lets me down,” Banks wrote next to a series of Instagram selfies shared on July 16 about the brown ensemble she wore on the third episode of the Freeform series,…
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White House science adviser Michael Kratsios said the Chinese company Moonshot, which developed the Kimi K3, the largest open-weight LLM available, built the model by copying Anthropic’s Fable LLM while using chips that are not allowed to be exported to China. Amid reports of debate over a ban on China’s promiscuous models that are disrupting the AI field, Kratsios wrote that “massive, covert industrial distillation aimed at stealing America’s proprietary technology and undermining American research is unacceptable.” Moonshot did not respond to questions about the training process, and Kratsios did not provide details about the source of the allegations. Kratsios’…
White House officials accused Chinese AI company Moonshot of gaining access. NvidiaEven though its advanced chips are prohibited by export regulations. Moonshot announced the Kimi K3 on Friday. It closes the performance gap with frontier models such as Anthropic’s Fable 5 and OpenAI’s GPT 5.6 Sol, and even outperforms them in some benchmarks. It is the largest open source model to date, with 2.8 trillion parameters representing the size of a neural network.Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said in a post on X on Wednesday that the Chinese company “has acquired GB300-equipped…
AP — Firefighters in central Spain battled Wednesday to extinguish a wildfire that has burned more than 32,000 hectares (79,000 acres) in one of the country’s largest-ever wildfires. The fire in rural Guadalajara comes less than two weeks after a major blaze devastated a small expatriate community in southern Spain. The small but highly toxic fire was one of the deadliest wildfires in the southern European country, killing 13 people, including several foreigners. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez visited fire-hit areas in Guadalajara on Wednesday and called for an interparty agreement to fight climate change. “Every year we see more…
Jennifer Aniston proves she’s there for ‘Friends’ co-star Courteney Cox with sweet messageJennifer Aniston is a huge fan of Courteney Cox’s career. In fact, she praised her “Friends” co-star’s work as director and producer on “Friends,” a crime thriller of the same name starring Cox’s former sister-in-law, Patricia Arquette, after it was added to the Toronto International Film Festival lineup. Aniston reshared Cox’s post about the movie on July 21, writing on her Instagram Story, “My girl!” along with a red heart and clapping hands emoji. “So proud!!” the 57-year-old continued in the comments section of Cox’s post, adding: “When…
Published July 23, 2026July 23, 2026Norway’s head of football told The Times daily that Folarin Balogun’s World Cup suspension will be lodged formally with FIFA because it “puts the whole game in jeopardy”.Norwegian Football Federation (NFF) president Lise Klavenes said she would seek the board’s support to lodge a complaint with FIFA’s Ethics Committee over the incident, which “should not have happened”.The NFF had already lodged a complaint over President Gianni Infantino’s awarding of FIFA’s inaugural Peace Prize to US President Donald Trump, which was widely ridiculed.”We’re going to bring it to the board and discuss it with the board…