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LONDON — European stock markets ended lower on Friday as investors continued to monitor geopolitical tensions.The pan-European Stoxx 600 index ended 0.1% lower, with major exchanges and most sectors mixed.Semiconductor stocks in the benchmark index rose on Thursday after TSMC’s strong results, with some stocks extending their gains into Friday. Stock prices of Dutch semiconductor manufacturing equipment manufacturers ASML The stock hit a 52-week high and ended Friday trading 1.6% higher.This comes just days after a judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia gave Orsted the green light to resume work on the nearly completed Revolution…
Earlier this week, the California Attorney General’s Office announced that it was investigating xAI over reports that its chatbot Grok was being used to create non-consensual sexual images of women and minors. On Friday, the government sent a cease-and-desist letter to the company, demanding that it immediately stop producing CSAM, which contains non-consensual intimate images and child sexual abuse material. “Today, I sent a cease-and-desist letter to xAI, demanding that the company immediately cease producing and distributing deepfakes, non-consensual intimate images, and child sexual abuse material,” California AG Rob Bonta said in a press release. “The production of this material…
Some people watch Netflix in their free time. Remy Haussmann tracks a rusting tanker transporting illegal oil through one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes. From the roof of his Singapore apartment, a British expatriate who works as a food and drink salesman records the passage of shadowy ships often sanctioned by the United States and other Western countries to a growing online audience. Shadow fleets, also known as ghost fleets or dark fleets, are vessels that use opaque tactics to transport oil to pariah states such as Russia, Iran, and Venezuela. Oil revenues from these fleets of aging tankers…
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…
France’s finance minister has warned that US moves to seize Greenland could damage trade relations with the European Union, as one analyst told CNBC that tariffs and sanctions could lead to a “trade war.”US President Donald Trump has stepped up his talk this month of annexing Greenland, and has not ruled out the possibility of an armed occupation. Talks between the United States, Denmark and Greenland over the future of the world’s largest island ended on Wednesday without any diplomatic progress.French Finance Minister Laurent Lescure told the Financial Times on Friday that economic ties between the United States and Europe…
Runpod, an AI app hosting platform launched four years ago, has reached an annual revenue run rate of $120 million, founders Zhen Lu and Pardeep Singh told TechCrunch. Their startup journey is a wild example that if you build well and your timing is lucky, they will come. This story includes our journey to over $1 million in revenue. VC Radhika Malik, a partner at Dell Technologies Capital, raised a $20 million seed round after seeing some posts on Reddit. The company acquired another major angel investor, Hugging Face co-founder Julien Chaumont, because he used the product and reached out…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai during a press conference after meeting with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk at the Warsaw Google for Startups Campus on February 13, 2025 in Warsaw, Poland.Jakub Porzycki | Null Photo | Getty Imagesgoogle filed an appeal Friday against a federal judge’s ruling that the company had an illegal monopoly in the core market of Internet search.The appeal could delay relief for the Alphabet-owned company while the legal process progresses. Lee Ann Mulholland, Google’s vice president of regulation, said in a blog post Friday that the 2024 ruling “ignores the reality that people use Google because they…
Drake reveals shocking $125 million in gambling losses in one monthsay, drakeit seems a$ap rocky We also have beef. After rappers share children RZA3, and riot2, and rockyfor 4 months rihanna— dropped don’t make fun of mehis first album since 2018, he almost admitted that his track “Stole Ya Flow” was a diss towards the “One Dance” singer. “I think everybody knows,” A$AP said during a Jan. 16 appearance on the show. new york times’ pop cast podcast when asked about the nod to Drake in the track. “I don’t know, I just started seeing people who were friends at…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. new york stock exchangeU.S. Treasury yields rose on Friday as investors focused on the economic outlook and geopolitical concerns.The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield rose more than 6 basis points to 4.227%. The two-year government bond yield rose 3 basis points to 3.594%. The yield on the 30-year US Treasury note also rose by more than 5 basis points to 4.836%.One basis point equals 0.01%, and yields and prices move in opposite directions.Investors have been concerned about geopolitical uncertainty throughout this week, with President Donald Trump insisting on taking ownership…
We are always looking for comfort at lower prices. And no one knows that better than Gap. People are currently obsessed with the brand’s ultra-soft fabrics, chic designs, and practical constructions for the winter season. Gap’s cropped hoodie is currently trending on TikTok! So as soon as we heard about Gap’s crazy sale going on this weekend, we loaded up our carts full of cozy styles. There are some notable sales going on right now, including up to 60% off on select styles. But the additional discounts in the sale section are what caught our attention. Now through January 24th,…