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Uncapped winger Findlay Curtis has been named in Scotland’s squad for this month’s World Cup warm-up games.The 19-year-old, who is on loan at Kilmarnock from Rangers, will be a surprise inclusion in Steve Clarke’s 26-man squad for the trip to Japan on March 28 and then to Everton’s Hill Dickinson Stadium to face Ivory Coast three days later. Also returning is goalkeeper Angus Gunn, who started at Euro 2024 in Germany in place of injured 43-year-old Craig Gordon. This despite only playing 45 minutes for Nottingham Forest this season. image: Angus Gunn (left) returns to Scotland squad in place of…
In 2023, after three years building their auto financing startup, Fuse co-founders Andres Klaric and Marc Escpapa realized that an LLM could help them modernize something even more important: the loan origination system (LOS), the backbone of the lending industry. Frustrated with the limitations of legacy software, Bolivian native Klaric (pictured left) and Spanish immigrant Escapa (pictured right) pivoted their business to build Fuse, an AI-native LOS. On Monday, Fuse announced it had raised $25 million in Series A led by Footwork, Primary Venture Partners, NextView Ventures, and Commerce Ventures. The LOS serves as the primary system of record for…
Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook opens the doors to the Apple Fifth Avenue store on the first day of in-store sales of Apple’s latest products on Friday, September 19, 2025 in New York, USA. Kenna Betancourt | Bloomberg | Getty Imagesapple has acquired a video editing company called MotionVFX, which provides plug-ins, templates, and visual effects tools that work with Apple’s Final Cut Pro. “We’re thrilled to share that MotionVFX has joined the Apple team and will continue to help creators and editors do their best work,” the startup said on its website on Monday. “From the beginning, we’ve focused…
WASHINGTON, DC – Advocacy groups are demanding answers after an Afghan asylum seeker in the United States died just hours after being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.The death of 41-year-old Mohommad Nazir Pakchawar comes as US President Donald Trump’s administration ramps up immigration enforcement as part of a massive deportation campaign.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe move often touched the lives of the roughly 70,000 Afghans who fled to the United States following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, like Pakchawal, who served with U.S. forces during Washington’s two-year military deployment to Afghanistan.…
On Wednesday, days after President Trump took to the stage at an event in Florida to warn about “hostile foreign influence” in Latin America, the Chinese embassy in the United States briefly shared an AI-generated video that poked fun at President Donald Trump’s Shield of the Americas summit. The video was released by the Chinese embassy on the The 18-second animation depicts a bald eagle in a suit presiding over a gathering of white pigeons, believed to represent Latin American countries. When the eagle presses a red button, he first detonates an atomic bomb, then promises to “keep everyone safe”…
Cameron Young continued his rise from golf’s near-man to one of the biggest stars on the PGA Tour at The Players, overcoming Sunday in major style to score the biggest win of his career.A thrilling final day at TPC Sawgrass saw Ryder Cup stars, past major champions and PGA Tour rookies battle it out for the top of the leaderboard, with Young plowing through the pack to claim a memorable victory. With Ludwig Oberg taking a three-shot lead overnight on the back nine, playing partner Matt Fitzpatrick faltering with a late bogey, and many challengers making late mistakes, Young delivered…
Eight-year-old semiconductor startup Flore Systems has raised $143 million in Series D led by MVP Ventures at a valuation of $1.64 billion, the company announced Monday. The company said Flore has now raised a total of $340 million. Furore does not manufacture its own chips. We manufacture liquid cooling systems for them. Founded by two former Qualcomm engineers, the company’s technology was originally created to provide air cooling technology for phones and other small fanless electronic devices. The company’s focus on chips was inspired by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who received a demo of the technology about two years ago,…
White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles in the Oval Office of the White House on June 27, 2025 in Washington.Yuri Gripas Bloomberg | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump said Monday that White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has been diagnosed with “early stage breast cancer” but is undergoing treatment and remains dedicated to her job.Wiles, 68, “decided to take on this challenge immediately rather than wait,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social disclosing the diagnosis.Trump said in a post that her prognosis was “excellent” and that she would spend “virtually full time in the White House.””Her strength…
Sky Sports columnist Laura Hunter breaks down the big talking points from the latest Women’s Super League fixtures and explores the key stories at the heart of the women’s game.James proves to be a class above image: Lauren James was the best player on the park as Chelsea beat Manchester United in the League Cup “LJ is probably the most talented player in the world,” Sonia Bompastre said after Chelsea beat Manchester United to win the League Cup on Sunday. This is high praise from a manager who has coached multiple Champions League winners at Lyon and was a former…
An oil tanker unloads crude oil at a port terminal in Qingdao, eastern Shandong province, China, March 11, 2026. – | AFP | Getty ImagesBEIJING – China stressed on Monday that it has sufficient energy resources as the Iran war restricts oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz and US President Donald Trump presses China to help secure the vital waterway.China’s energy supply is “relatively strong” and forms a “relatively good” foundation for responding to external market fluctuations, National Bureau of Statistics spokesperson Fu Linghui told reporters in Mandarin, with CNBC interpreting.The bureau also announced that China’s domestic crude oil…