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Meta’s latest ad opens with a shot of a black-and-white eye, showing what people are seeing when they read countless panicked headlines about how AI will take our jobs, isolate us, and cause a global crisis. “AI will make us less connected, leading some to wonder if it will leave us behind,” the narrator says. “We couldn’t disagree more.” Suddenly, the video changes to color and shows a cycle of various people opening their eyes and smiling. We then see a couple dancing on the rooftop, pointing at the rainbow. A group of teenagers swimming in a lake. Children playing…
The European Union’s antitrust regulator announced on Wednesday that it had approved the agreement. paramount skydance acquisition proposal of warner bros discovery.The approval includes concessions from Paramount and comes as a deal in the U.S. has been delayed due to concerns raised by state attorneys general. The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, announced that Paramount had agreed to sell its stake in a film distribution joint venture with United International Pictures in Europe to gain approval, and said it would not have a film distribution deal with Universal in Europe for the next 10 years. “These commitments fully address…
White House officials accused Chinese AI company Moonshot of gaining access. NvidiaEven though its advanced chips are prohibited by export regulations. Moonshot announced the Kimi K3 on Friday. It closes the performance gap with frontier models such as Anthropic’s Fable 5 and OpenAI’s GPT 5.6 Sol, and even outperforms them in some benchmarks. It is the largest open source model to date, with 2.8 trillion parameters representing the size of a neural network.Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said in a post on X on Wednesday that the Chinese company “has acquired GB300-equipped…
US President Donald Trump said a civil nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia would be “fully compliant” with the kingdom normalizing relations with Israel as part of the Abraham Accords.President Trump’s statement on Thursday, a day after announcing the deal, adds to the confusion surrounding the deal, which is already opaque and details have not yet been made public.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of listIn a post on his Truth social account, President Trump wrote that the deal “will be approved, but entirely conditional on Saudi Arabia joining the highly respected and successful Abraham Accords.”Saudi Arabia did not immediately…
The Mercedes-Benz logo appears on a used car for sale at a dealership in San Diego, California on November 11, 2025.Kevin Carter | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesThe Senate Commerce Committee advanced a bipartisan bill Wednesday aimed at tightening the ban on Chinese automakers from the U.S. market, despite Chairman Ted Cruz (R-Texas) warning that it could result in an inadvertent ban. mercedes benz From domestic vehicle sales.Cruz said at the time of the Automotive Modernization Act of 2026’s commission raise that the bill’s 15% Chinese ownership standard covers Mercedes-Benz because two Chinese investors together own nearly 20% of…
This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox.Happy Thursday. If our minds aren’t already messed up thanks to wildfire smoke and Cyclospora outbreaks, we might also need to worry about red artificial intelligence agents.Stock futures are falling this morning as Wall Street declines.Here are five important things investors need to know to start their trading day.1. IrohaTuesday, July 21, 2026, at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, USA. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Imagesshares of alphabet and tesla Stocks are falling before the bell as companies report their quarterly results on…
Firefighters walk through smoke from a fire at the logistics facility of Russian e-commerce company Wildberries in the town of Elektrostal, on the outskirts of Moscow, on July 18, 2026. On July 18, 2026, officials announced that eight people were killed and 24 injured in Ukrainian drone attacks on two Russian distribution centers.Tatyana Makeeva | AFP | Getty ImagesUkraine intensifies attacks on Russia AmazonStyle retail giant Wildberries has signaled a new phase in the war as Kiev seeks to inflict fresh pain on Russia’s economy. Over the past week, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked major logistics centers on Russian territory,…
AP — Firefighters in central Spain battled Wednesday to extinguish a wildfire that has burned more than 32,000 hectares (79,000 acres) in one of the country’s largest-ever wildfires. The fire in rural Guadalajara comes less than two weeks after a major blaze devastated a small expatriate community in southern Spain. The small but highly toxic fire was one of the deadliest wildfires in the southern European country, killing 13 people, including several foreigners. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez visited fire-hit areas in Guadalajara on Wednesday and called for an interparty agreement to fight climate change. “Every year we see more…
White House science adviser Michael Kratsios said the Chinese company Moonshot, which developed the Kimi K3, the largest open-weight LLM available, built the model by copying Anthropic’s Fable LLM while using chips that are not allowed to be exported to China. Amid reports of debate over a ban on China’s promiscuous models that are disrupting the AI field, Kratsios wrote that “massive, covert industrial distillation aimed at stealing America’s proprietary technology and undermining American research is unacceptable.” Moonshot did not respond to questions about the training process, and Kratsios did not provide details about the source of the allegations. Kratsios’…
southwest airlines reported a more than 9% year-over-year increase in second-quarter profit as higher fares helped airlines cover fuel costs, but its outlook for the summer fell short of Wall Street expectations.The company forecast third-quarter adjusted earnings of 50 cents to 75 cents, below analysts’ expectations of 82 cents, even though it expected sales to rise 17.5% to 19.5% from a year earlier. The Dallas airline said it plans to reduce capacity by up to 1% or keep it flat compared to the third quarter of 2025.Southwest expects full-year adjusted earnings per share to be between $3.25 and $4.25. In…