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Joe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, testifies during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing entitled “Global Threats to the Homeland” on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2025, in Cannonville. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call Inc. | Getty ImagesJoe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, announced Tuesday that he is resigning in response to the Trump administration’s war on Iran. “I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war,” Kent said in a letter to President Donald Trump. The letter was posted to Mr. Kent’s personal account X.Kent, a far-right conspiracy theory promoter who was narrowly confirmed by the Senate…

Garry Tan, Y Combinator’s famous CEO, told an audience at SXSW that he suffers from “cyber psychosis” and is so excited about working with AI agents that he can barely sleep. “I’m sleeping about four hours a night now,” he told fellow interviewer VC Bill Gurley in an on-stage interview Saturday. “I have cyberpsychosis, and I think a third of the CEOs I know suffer from it as well,” he joked about his current obsession with AI. (At least, I hope he was kidding. AI-induced psychosis may actually be a dangerous condition.) “Once you try it, you’ll understand. It’s like…

Elon Musk watches as President Donald Trump speaks at the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, Nov. 19, 2025.Brendan Smialowski AFP | Getty ImagesElon Musk is in talks with the Securities and Exchange Commission to settle a lawsuit brought by regulators last year alleging he violated securities laws ahead of his Twitter acquisition. In a court filing Tuesday, the SEC said it was “discussing a potential resolution with Musk that could mean no further proceedings are required.”The SEC first filed the lawsuit in January 2025, and the case is proceeding in…

Looking for the signature scent of spring? Summer Friday has you covered. If you’re a gourmet scent lover (like me), you’ll fall in love with the new Summer Fridays Sunlit Vanilla Eau de Parfum, which just launched today. I’ve been wearing this scent for a few weeks already and I love it. Reminiscent of sweet, cool vanilla ice cream topped with a delicate veil of caramelized crème brûlée, it’s like a delicious warm-weather dessert. But this isn’t your run-of-the-mill vanilla scent, it’s inspired by the original Lip Butter Balm. All the notes (below) work together and dry down to create…

Tesla Megapack batteries at the Harmony Energy Ltd and Fotowatio Renewable Ventures BV battery energy storage project near Burgess Hill, UK, May 11, 2021.Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Imagestesla has expanded its relationship with South Korea’s LG Energy Solutions, signing a deal to purchase $4.3 billion worth of battery cells for energy storage systems manufactured in Lansing, Michigan.This factory was previously developed for a joint venture with LG. general motors The automaker has decided to withdraw from the project at the end of 2024 and sell its stake to LG as part of a reduction in investment in electric…

Most enterprise AI projects fail not because companies lack the technology, but because the models they use don’t understand their business. Models are often trained on the internet rather than on decades of internal documentation, workflows, and organizational knowledge. French AI startup Mistral sees opportunity in this gap. The company on Tuesday announced Mistral Forge, a platform that allows companies to build custom models trained on their own data. Mistral announced the platform at Nvidia GTC, Nvidia’s annual technology conference. This year, the focus is on AI and agent models for the enterprise. This is a sharp move for Mistral,…

Thoma Bravo co-founder Orlando Bravo said Tuesday that artificial intelligence will disrupt software companies faster and that some of the hit to valuations is “very justified.””There are so many software companies in the public market that will be disrupted by AI,” he told CNBC’s Leslie Picker at the Thoma Bravo investor conference in Miami. “Those companies will be destroyed anyway.”Bravo did not name any companies he thought deserved lower valuations or were at risk of disruption.Thoma Bravo is a software-focused investment firm founded in 2008. As of December, the firm managed more than $183 billion in assets across 77 companies.Software…

sarah michelle gellar This wooden stake through her character’s heart is unacceptable. Immediately after that, buffy the vampire slayer Actor announced with her Chloe ZhaoThe revival of the nostalgic drama has been canceled.she claimed that the project did not always have support from behind the scenes. “There was an executive on our show who not only wasn’t a fan of the original, he’d never seen the whole series and took pride in constantly reminding us how it didn’t sit well with him,” Sarah, 48, said. people He said this in an interview published on March 16th. buffyNot just to the…

The 2026 World Cup matches will be played as per the schedule announced last year, the soccer body said.Published March 17, 2026March 17, 2026FIFA, the world’s top soccer organization, has announced that the 2026 World Cup matches will be held as per the schedule announced last year, ending Iran’s hopes of moving the matches from the United States to Mexico because of the ongoing war against Iran between the United States and Israel.”FIFA is in regular contact with all participating member associations, including Iran, to discuss plans for the 2026 FIFA World Cup,” the organization’s statement said. “FIFA looks forward…

Fiji Simo, CEO of Instacart Inc., speaks during an interview in San Francisco, March 3, 2022.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesOpenAI is focusing employee and investor attention on its enterprise business as the artificial intelligence startup prepares to go public by the end of the year, CNBC has learned. Fiji Simo, OpenAI’s CEO of applications, held an all-staff meeting last week and said the company is committed to supporting businesses and is “actively working” on productive use cases. OpenAI sparked a generative AI boom with the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, with chatbots now supporting over 900 million…