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Despite being a major global polluter, the military remains exempt from climate change reporting, creating a blind spot that threatens the entire COP30 roadmap.by brendan mckieDirector of the Climate Action Beacon at Griffith University, Australia.Published November 20, 2025November 20, 2025Click here to share on social mediaShare 2shareCOP30 negotiations in Belem have entered their final stages, with hopes that countries may finally agree on a roadmap to phase out fossil fuels. This is a crucial breakthrough if we are serious about maintaining temperatures of 1.5 degrees Celsius. But even at this pivotal moment, one major highway remains missing from the roadmap,…
From electronic health records and blood tests to data streams from wearable devices, the amount of health information people generate is rapidly increasing. However, many users struggle to connect this large amount of data in meaningful ways and actually use it to improve their health. Function Health provides routine clinical testing services to help people track their health, but they want to change that by integrating health data and making it available to customers by connecting it to AI models. To further this effort, the company recently raised $298 million in a Series B round led by Redpoint Ventures at…
Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack said Thursday that she believes the central bank may be nearing the end of its short-term rate cutting cycle.The policymaker told CNBC that he believes current interest rate levels have “little, if any, constraint” on the economic impact. Restraint is a key metric for Fed officials, who are ideologically divided over whether the labor market downturn or inflation is the bigger threat. Hammack is more in the hawkish camp when it comes to inflation, favoring higher interest rates and more restrictive policies as a bulwark against further price spikes.”I think we need to maintain a…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Wednesday that TJX, the owner of TJ Maxx, is “the best guy right now” in a disadvantaged retail industry. He didn’t have much praise for Target. Mr. Cramer’s comments came after the companies reported vastly different earnings stories before the opening bell rang on Wall Street. TJX, which also owns the Marshalls and HomeGoods chains, delivered better-than-expected profits and sales in the third quarter. CEO Ernie Herman said the holiday season was off to a “strong start”. TJX stock hit an intraday high before the rally lost momentum. S&P 500 stocks are up about 22% since…
Yann LeCun, known as one of the godfathers of modern artificial intelligence and one of the first AI visionaries to join the company then known as Facebook, is leaving the company. meta.In a LinkedIn post on Wednesday, LuCun said he plans to found a startup focused on a type of AI technology that researchers describe as world models, which analyze information beyond web data to better represent the physical world and its properties. “I am founding a startup to continue the Advanced Machine Intelligence Research Program (AMI) that I have been pursuing for the past several years with colleagues at…
melbourne, australia AP — A convicted murderer is challenging the Australian state’s ban on the consumption of Vegemite by prisoners, claiming in a lawsuit that withholding the polarizing yeast-based spread violates his human right to “enjoy our culture as Australians”. Andre McKechnie, 54, has taken his fight over the salty, sticky, brown byproduct of beer brewing to the Supreme Court of Victoria, according to documents released by the court registry to The Associated Press on Tuesday. He is suing the Victorian Department of Justice and Community Safety and the agency that manages the prison, the Victorian Department of Corrections. The…
A tough week continued for Manchester United as Wolfsburg recovered from Fridrina Rolfo’s opener to eliminate 5-2 winners in Germany, ending their perfect Champions League record with their second defeat in five days. Against Man City on Saturday, United scored four goals in a game for the first time this season, making it too easy for the hosts to score after their previously solid defense had been breached three times. Things started very brightly for Mark Skinner’s side, who took an early lead through Rolfo’s bullet header, but Wolfsburg took full control three minutes later when Ella Pedemos exploited Safia…
January Ventures co-founder Jennifer Neundorfer stopped by the Equity podcast during TechCrunch Disrupt to talk about raising money in this very AI-driven market. Founders and investors alike are excited about AI, and even Neundorfer said her company is looking at ways to use AI to make its work more efficient, such as helping with market and competitive due diligence. When it comes to companies that are starting up, I prefer founders who want to create something entirely new. “What excites me is when I see someone using AI to do something that’s not 10 times better, because it’s actually creating…
Momo Production | Digital Vision | Getty ImagesIf you’re thinking about investing in bond exchange-traded funds (ETFs) instead of mutual funds, you’re not alone.Bond ETFs have seen nearly $344 billion in inflows through Oct. 31 of this year, compared to $138 billion in fixed income mutual funds, according to Morningstar Direct. This is part of a larger trend of investors favoring ETFs, with about $74 billion flowing out of mutual funds and $166 billion flowing into ETFs in October alone.And while ETFs have some advantages over mutual funds, and bonds are considered a safer investment than stocks, experts say it’s…
On November 19, 2025, Tesla CEO Elon Musk (left) talks with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang at the US-Saudi Investment Forum held at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.Win McNamee | Getty ImagesNvidia And xAI announced Wednesday that a massive data center facility it is building in Saudi Arabia that will house hundreds of thousands of Nvidia chips and count Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup as its first customer.Musk and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang both attended the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum in Washington, D.C.The announcement builds on a partnership from May, when Nvidia announced it would provide Saudi Arabia’s Humane with chips…