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Armada co-founders Dan Wright (left) and John Runyan (right)fleetArmada, which builds modular data centers that are becoming increasingly popular among customers in the defense, energy and military sectors, has raised $230 million from investors in a Series B funding round announced Tuesday. San Francisco-based Armada, which was named to the 2026 CNBC Disruptor 50 list on Tuesday, was valued at $2 billion in the deal. This investor round comes with a contract with a manufacturing company. johnson controlsinvested in Armada to produce modular data centers in a new 400,000 square foot factory in Arizona called Galleon Forge One. The factory…
Published May 19, 2026May 19, 2026Cristiano Ronaldo will be playing in his sixth World Cup at the age of 41 after Portugal coach Roberto Martinez named him in his 27-man squad for the tournament, with a symbolic “plus one” in memory of the late Diogo Jota.Speaking in front of a packed house at Cidade de Futebol on Tuesday, Martínez confirmed that Ankara’s fourth-choice goalkeeper, Ricardo Velho, will be with the squad, but will only be added to the official 26-man list if one of the three registered keepers is injured.Reigning Nations League champions Portugal will open Group K in a…
1. The verdict is out.The combined photo shows OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (left) on April 28, 2026, and Elon Musk on April 29, 2026, during the trial of Elon Musk’s lawsuit over OpenAI’s commercial conversion in federal court in Oakland, California.Manuel Orbegoso | ReutersAfter less than two hours of deliberation, the jury decided: tesla CEO Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI’s Sam Altman had exceeded the three-year statute of limitations. The recommended verdict, adopted immediately by the judges, ended a three-week trial and a years-long saga that engulfed Silicon Valley.Here’s what you need to know:Musk wrote in a social media post…
Charles Spencer has found his happiness. Nearly 30 years after Princess Diana’s tragic death, her brother Charles, 9th Earl Spencer, married archaeologist Cat Jarman on May 15th. “We both feel incredibly lucky to have progressed from co-workers to friendship to deep love and connection,” Kat and Charles told People in a statement. “Each stage of our relationship is fueled by laughter and we share a passion for life.” In fact, the two first met in 2021, when Charles, who is in his fourth marriage to Kat, was chosen to review her non-fiction book River Kings. Kat completed her PhD in…
The EU’s economic commissioner told CNBC that the bloc would revise its growth forecasts downward, citing the “stagflation shock” caused by the Iran war.European Commissioner for Economy and Productivity Valdis Dombrovskis told CNBC’s Charlotte Reid that economic growth will be revised downward and inflation will be revised upward in the spring forecasts to be released later this week.”We are facing the shock of stagflation,” he said on the sidelines of the G7 finance ministers’ meeting in Paris on Monday.Concerns about stagflation have increased in recent weeks. A lasting solution to the Middle East wars is proving difficult, with oil prices…
The bodies of two of the four remaining Italians who died in an underwater cave in the Maldives were recovered by divers on Tuesday, and work continues to recover the bodies of the remaining two, officials said. Last week, five Italians died while exploring a cave in Vaabu Atoll, sparking a multinational effort to find and recover their bodies. The effort was temporarily halted after one of the military divers attempting to find the body was also killed, but it highlighted the dangers of operating at depths of several dozen meters. Authorities believe the cause of death was decompression sickness.…
Iran’s local soccer league has been suspended since March, with most of the team’s players inactive for several months.Published May 19, 2026May 19, 2026Iran head coach Amir Galenoei believes the coaching and fitness staff will have less work to do as they prepare the team for the World Cup with a training camp in Turkiye as most players have been out of action for seven weeks.The domestic Persian Gulf Professional League season was suspended after the US and Israel attacked Iran on February 28, sparking a regional war, and will not resume until after the World Cup.Of the 30 players…
Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump’s candidate to be the next Federal Reserve Chairman, testifies during the Senate Banking Committee confirmation hearing on April 21, 2026, at the Capitol in Washington.Kevin Lamarque | ReutersMarket veteran Ed Yardeni said incoming Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh, who was sent to the Fed to lower interest rates, may instead need to push for higher rates to establish credibility.Yardeni, who coined the term “bond vigilante” to describe such events of investor anxiety, added that if the new central bank leadership does not demonstrate that policymakers are in tune with inflationary pressures, it risks further market anger…
The Google Cloud logo appears on a high-resolution digital monolith at the entrance to the Google Pavilion during Mobile World Congress on March 5, 2026 in Barcelona, Spain. In the 2026 edition, Google Cloud showcases the evolution of the “IQ era” by announcing new Agentic AI solutions for communications, powered by the Gemini 3.1 Pro model and Vertex AI Agent Builder. This exhibit focuses on Google Distributed Cloud deployments running on TPU v6 (Tensor Processing Units) to enable AI at the network edge. Key demos include a “network digital twin” powered by Spanner Graph and BigQuery. This enables operators such…
The head of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday that he was “deeply concerned by the scale and speed” of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda, as local authorities warned of rising death tolls. WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the outbreak is caused by the Bundibugyo virus, one of several viruses known as ortho-Ebola viruses that can cause Ebola, and is primarily affecting DRC’s remote north-eastern Ituri province. In response to the growing epidemic, the United States on Monday activated a public health law restricting entry from the Democratic Republic…