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The Office of Personnel Management’s new rules reclassify senior officials as at-will employees and could fire them for “deliberately subverting the president’s directives.”Published February 5, 2026February 5, 2026Click here to share on social mediaShare 2sharePresident Donald Trump’s administration has finalized an overhaul of the U.S. government’s civil service system, giving him authority to hire and fire an estimated 50,000 career federal employees, according to a government statement.The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on Thursday plans to create a new category for high-level career employees involved in carrying out administration policy, The Wall Street Journal reported. Employees in this category…
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry claimed on Thursday that Russian Starlink satellite internet terminals were “blocked” inside Ukraine, thereby disrupting Russian military communications. Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said SpaceX is working with Ukraine to update a “white list” of approved and verified Starlink terminals, while unapproved Russian systems are blocked. “Starlink terminals added to the ‘whitelist’ are working. Russian terminals are already blocked,” Fedorov said in a statement on Thursday. “We continue to validate Starlink terminals. The first batch of ‘whitelisted’ terminals is already operational.” An official at Ukraine’s military general staff claimed that “all Russian Starlink links have been cut…
Celtic are in advanced talks with former Arsenal and Liverpool midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.The Scottish champions are confident of completing a deal with the England international as a free agent who is likely to undergo a medical on Thursday. Sky Sports News revealed earlier this week that Celtic were interested in the 32-year-old, and manager Martin O’Neill confirmed in a press conference on Tuesday that he had held discussions with the player. Use Chrome Browser for a more accessible video player Chris Sutton meets Martin O’Neill to discuss his second appointment as manager this season, including the ‘reconciliation’ between club and…
Mati Staniszewski, co-founder and CEO of Eleven Labs, says voice is becoming the next major interface for AI, meaning models are moving beyond text and screens and increasingly the way people interact with machines. Speaking at the Web Summit in Doha, Staniszewski told TechCrunch that speech models like the one developed by Eleven Labs are now moving beyond simply imitating human speech (including emotion and intonation) to working in conjunction with the inference capabilities of larger language models. As a result, he argued, the way people interact with technology will change. In the next few years, he said, “hopefully all…
A sign outside Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, on Tuesday, February 3, 2026. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images of the alphabet Fourth-quarter earnings and sales exceeded Wall Street expectations. The company’s cloud division has delivered impressive results, increasing revenue by nearly 48% year over year. The technology giant expects capital spending to be between $175 billion and $185 billion in 2026. Once the cap is reached, capital spending will be more than double what it was last year. The large rally appeared to surprise investors, with Alphabet shares falling as much as 3% in after-hours trading.Artificial…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in Berlin on September 25, 2025.Florian Gärtner | Phototech | Getty ImagesOpenAI on Thursday announced a new enterprise platform called Frontier. This is the latest release as part of the company’s continued efforts to reach more enterprise customers.Frontier acts as an intelligence layer that connects disparate systems and data within an organization. OpenAI said its platform will make it easier for companies to manage, deploy and build artificial intelligence agents – tools that can independently complete tasks on behalf of users.”Frontier is really a recognition that we’re not going to build everything ourselves,” Fiji Simo, OpenAI’s…
Ahead of Premier League Darts 2026, we asked Sky Sports’ experts for their big predictions for the tournament.emma payton prophecyWho will get the best start in PL? Luke Littler – But doesn’t that state the obvious? I don’t think the world champion will have too many problems early on and he’ll want to make some kind of statement. Littler aside, I think Gerwyn Price is looking to make something of his strong form this year. A good start in the Premier League will help! Use Chrome Browser for a more accessible video player Luke Littler looks back at how he…
An AI lab called Fundamental emerged from stealth on Thursday to offer a new underlying model for solving an old problem: how to extract insights from the vast amounts of structured data that companies generate. The company believes that by combining older systems of predictive AI with more modern tools, it can reshape the way large enterprises analyze data. “LLM is great for processing unstructured data like text, audio, video, and code, but it’s not very good at processing structured data like tables,” CEO Jeremy Fraenkel told TechCrunch. “With our model Nexus, we built the best underlying model to process…
Oil prices fell on Tuesday even as a major winter storm hit oil production and affected refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast.Anton Petrus | Moments | Getty ImagesOil prices fell on Thursday after Washington and the Iranian government agreed to hold talks in Oman on Friday, despite continuing disagreements over the scope of the talks.U.S. crude oil fell more than 2% to $63.8 per barrel in Asian trading (Wednesday 11:34 p.m. ET). Brent crude oil, the global benchmark, also fell 2.04% to $68.04 per barrel.Iran is seeking to focus the talks on its longstanding nuclear conflict with the West, but…
Immediately after the opening bell, you sell 100 shares of DuPont stock for approximately $48. After Thursday’s transaction, the Jim Cramer Charitable Trust will own 1,525 shares of DD stock, reducing its weight from about 2% to about 1.85%. It has booked big gains in DuPont stocks to take advantage of the recent market rotation away from technology and momentum stocks and toward more valuable industrial economy stocks. DuPont shares are up nearly 9% week to date ahead of Thursday’s open. For the year, the stock price rose nearly 19%, extending a strong rally that began when it separated Kuniti…