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Runway no longer wants to be just an AI modeling company. We want to be the infrastructure layer for generative media. On Thursday, the startup released Runway Media Router through Runway Dev, a developer platform launched earlier this month. This provides API access to Runway’s own models as well as a growing number of third-party image, video, and audio models. Media Router is a tool that automatically selects the best image, video, or audio generation model for a request based on whether the developer prioritizes quality, speed, or cost. Model routers are becoming increasingly common in the world of large-scale…
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 arrives from Chicago and lands at Los Angeles International Airport on March 7, 2026.Kevin Carter | Getty ImagesHow volatile is the fuel market this year? southwest airlines Chief Financial Officer Tom Doxey told CNBC that the company hired a ship this spring to send jet fuel from Texas to California, where prices were much higher, raising concerns about supply. It was a first for a Dallas airline.”It brought a week’s worth of supply to the West Coast at a time when supply was most constrained and most at risk,” Doxey said.The ship left Houston, transited…
intel announced better-than-expected second-quarter results Thursday, posting the highest revenue growth rate in a quarter since 2011, and issued better-than-expected guidance. Shares rose about 4% in extended trading. Here’s a comparison of the chipmaker’s performance and LSEG’s consensus estimates:Earnings per share: Adjusted 42 cents vs. expected 21 cents Earnings: $16.1 billion vs. expected $14.42 billionIntel shares are up more than 170% so far in 2026 as of Thursday’s close, after soaring 84% last year when the U.S. government took a 10% stake in the company as part of its support for U.S. chip manufacturing. However, the stock has been underperforming…
President Donald Trump attended the dignified transfer Wednesday of four U.S. soldiers recently killed in the war with Iran.Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25 years old. Private Isabella Gonzalez, 19 years old. And Sgt. Angel S. Rampersad, 28, was killed as part of an Iranian attack on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan. The Pentagon announced that Michael Emanuel Swinton, 30, was killed during the controlled explosion of an Iranian drone that was shot down in Iraq.President Trump met privately with the soldier’s family before the transfer and invited Feehan’s relatives to join him on Air Force One en route to…
Hackers are increasingly using AI to launch large-scale attacks, and email has emerged as a prime target. AI can quickly aggregate personal information such as co-workers, ongoing projects, and recent travel itineraries, allowing bad actors to instantly create convincing messages that look authentic. Last year, former Google security executives Cy Khormaee and Ryan Luo, who previously worked on Safe Browsing technology and reCAPTCHA, teamed up to launch AegisAI, a startup that uses AI agents to thwart these threats, known as spear phishing. After a decade of experience preventing email hacks, the co-founders of AegisAI realized that existing rules-based systems for…
Check out the companies that made the biggest moves after Bell: Intel — The chipmaker rose 9% after reporting its steepest quarterly sales growth in nearly 15 years. The company’s revenue for the second quarter was $16.1 billion, an increase of 25% from the same period last year. Adjusted earnings per share of 42 cents also beat analyst expectations. Deckers Outdoor – The shoe maker fell 3%. First-quarter revenue was $1.02 billion, in line with LSEG consensus estimates. Revenues from Deckers’ brands Hoka and Ugu fell short of Street expectations. Robert Half — Shares fell about 9% after the staffing…
The retraction is the latest example of government efforts to crack down on critical media facing setbacks in court.Published July 23, 2026July 23, 2026Lawyers for the U.S. government have withdrawn subpoenas that would have forced three New York Times reporters to testify about their sources for an article about the Air Force One fighter jet gifted to U.S. President Donald Trump from Qatar.Justice Arun Subramanian accused government lawyers of sloppy legal work in Thursday’s courtroom exchanges.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of list”Summoning is not the first thing you do. Summoning is the last thing you do,” said an irritated…
Weeks after OpenAI rolled out a new family of conversation models and updated ChatGPT’s voice mode, rival Anthropic is moving to make Claude more voice-friendly with a new update. The company announced Thursday that users can choose between Opus, Sonnet and Haiku models. Released last year and powered by the Haiku model, Claude’s voice mode offered quick responses but wasn’t well suited for complex tasks. The company said the new update will select the last model where voice mode was used for text chat and use its fastest version by default. Anthropic said the new voice mode will help users…
From left, President Donald Trump, Oracle’s Larry Ellison, SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son, and OpenAI’s Sam Altman appear at the White House in Washington on January 21, 2025.Jim Watson | AFP | Getty ImagesThe Department of Defense announced the contract Thursday. oracle It’s worth about $7 billion over 10 years, a big win for the software maker, which has been punished by investors this year. Shares rose about 3% in extended trading.The deal includes the use of Oracle software in on-premises data centers for the military, U.S. intelligence agencies and the Coast Guard, according to a statement. The Central Intelligence Agency was…
Microsoft Xbox CEO Asha Sharma speaks at the Bloomberg Tech Conference in San Francisco on June 4, 2026.David Paul Morris | Getty ImagesAmazon and microsoft They have devised a new way to get people to play video games in the cloud. Microsoft’s Xbox division announced Thursday that it will test an ad-supported way to help people stream video games.AmazonMeanwhile, it announced plans to add Luna cloud gaming service to its Prime Video streaming platform. Amazon’s Prime subscription includes Prime Video and costs $14.99 per month. With Amazon’s adjustments, Luna will have more prominent promotions on its website. Previously, Luna could…