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Ship in the Strait of Hormuz near Bandar Abbas, Iran, May 4, 2026. Amirhossein Khorgoy | Isna | Wana | via ReutersDefense and geopolitical experts are skeptical that Project Freedom, the Trump administration’s new effort to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to commercial traffic, will succeed.”In my view, this is not a solution at all,” Jennifer Kavanaugh, senior fellow and director of military analysis at Defense Priorities, a libertarian-leaning foreign policy think tank, said of the operation.”This in no way addresses the fundamental problem, which is that uncertainty about the safety of shipping means captains and shipping companies are reluctant…
Etsy on Tuesday announced the launch of a native app within ChatGPT, pioneering new ways for shoppers to explore its catalog of more than 100 million products. The new experience is designed to go beyond the limitations of traditional keyword queries. Instead of typing something like “wooden coffee table” and scrolling to adjust filters, users can now express what they’re looking for in natural language. For example, “Help me find Mother’s Day gifts under $100 for my mom who loves gardening.” Currently in beta, this feature allows users to tag @Etsy directly within the prompt. From there, ChatGPT’s Etsy app…
Super Micro CEO Charles Liang speaks at the HumanX conference in Las Vegas on March 10, 2025.Big Event Media | Human X | Getty Imagessuper microcomputer Shares rose 19% in after-hours trading Tuesday after the server maker issued strong guidance, but fiscal third-quarter sales fell short of expectations. Here’s how the company performed compared to the LSEG consensus:Earnings per share: 84 cents adjusted, 62 cents expected; Revenue: $10.24 billion, $12.33 billion expected.Sales for the quarter ended March 31 increased 123% compared to the same period last year, the company said in a statement.Management called for adjusted earnings per share of…
PayPal is looking to the future despite a falling stock price and impending layoffs. During the company’s first-quarter earnings call, CEO Enrique Lores told investors that PayPal needs to “recommit to its fundamentals,” including “becoming a technology company again.” There was no need to read between the lines. PayPal was pitching an AI-powered turnaround. Lores made that statement, telling analysts on a conference call this week that major companies are finding ways to differentiate themselves through innovation, and now is the time for PayPal to take action. This includes modernizing its technology platform, quickly moving to “cloud-native” and “aggressively implementing…
beyonce and nicole kidmanThe costume change was just magical. In fact, the 2026 Met Gala co-chairs turned heads outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on May 4. and Taking the stage among the evening’s attendees, the interior now has a completely new look. While Beyoncé-With my husband Jay-Z and daughter blue ivy carter—Arriving on the steps of the famous Metropolitan Museum of Art in a glittering custom nude dress by Olivier Rousteing with a dazzling diamond skull encrusted front, she swapped the ensemble for a stunning black number for the soirée. (See all Met Step stars…
The U.S. stock market has been in a state of turmoil this week, with hurdles being cleared one after another, from soaring oil prices and geopolitical tensions to five of the seven “excellent” earnings results.Next up is a blockbuster week of Q1 earnings season, with more than 100 S&P 500 members scheduled to report. Highlights include semiconductor leaders advanced micro deviceretail trading favorites Palantir and coinbaseand consumer stocks Uber to Disney.For momentum traders, AMD’s report after the bell on Tuesday is probably the most important. Semiconductors remain at the center of the bull market as the driving force behind the…
On Tuesday, OpenAI released a new foundational model called GPT-5.5 Instant. This replaces GPT-5.3 Instant as the default ChatGPT model. The company said the model reduces hallucinations in sensitive areas such as law, medicine, and finance, while maintaining the low latency of its predecessor. OpenAI released its latest GPT-5.5 model last month, claiming improvements in areas such as coding and knowledge work. The new model also achieved a score of 81.2 on the AIME 2025 math test, compared to the previous model’s score of 65.4. It also outperformed its predecessor on the MMMU-Pro multimodal inference benchmark with a score of…
Microsoft Xbox CEO Asha Sharma speaks to employees at the Xbox Town Hall on February 24, 2026 in Redmond, Washington.Provided by: Microsoftmicrosoft Xbox CEO Asha Sharma told employees in a memo on Tuesday that she is appointing a new leader as the software company looks to get its video game division back on a growth path.Sharma moved to Xbox in February after gaming chief Phil Spencer announced his retirement. She joined Microsoft in 2024 after holding executive positions at Microsoft. Meta and instacartPresident of Products for the CoreAI Engineering Group, which works on GitHub Copilot, Visual Studio Code, and other…
Mexico will make history this summer as the first country to host the World Cup three times, but the excitement over that record is not reflected among Mexican fans. Francisco Javier Ferreira remembers the two World Cups held in his home country in 1970 and 1986, but he will not be able to play in the third. The 70-year-old said the high price of tickets for the 13 games to be played on Mexican soil, the difficulty in obtaining tickets and the limited number of games allocated to Mexico as third host nation dampened his excitement as a fan. “Given…
ABCDEFG… kourtney kardashian Had to go elsewhere. Instead of attending the 2026 Met Gala with her sisters kim kardashian, Kendall Jenner, kylie jennerand mom kris jennerthe Lemme founder chose to stay in Los Angeles for a date night with her husband travis barker. of kardashian family The star posted a photo of an empty dinner plate on her Instagram Story on May 4, tagging Crossroads Kitchen and writing, “My husband’s date.” She also revealed her and Travis’ alternative plan for fashion’s biggest night: Netflix is a joke fest. Another post showed the couple appeared on Comedian Shane Gillis” at the…