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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a roundtable discussion on college sports at the White House on March 6, 2026 in Washington, DC. Nathan Howard | ReutersPresident Donald Trump on Friday called on Congress to “fix” the unsustainable financial situation in college sports due to a relatively new system that pays football, basketball and other players compensation for name, image and likeness rights.Trump’s comments were made during a White House roundtable on college sports that he hosted.”The amount of money that very successful schools have spent and lost in a short period of time is staggering,” Trump said. “The situation…
Air Wars said the first day of the U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran “hit far more targets than any operation in recent decades.”listen to this article | 3 minutesinformationPublished March 6, 2026March 6, 2026Click here to share on social mediaShare 2shareplus 2 googleAdd Al Jazeera to GoogleinformationThe US and Israeli governments have vowed to continue deadly artillery fire, with the US and Israel attacking Iran at a rate far exceeding other recent conflicts, according to research group Air Wars.In a report released Friday, Air Wars said the early days of the U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran “had significantly…
The sinking of an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka this week, something a U.S. Navy submarine has not done in more than 80 years, is another sign that the war between Washington and Tehran is on a scale and breadth not seen in decades. There are also questions about the expansion of the war with Iran. The Pentagon released periscope video of the attack showing the ship with a huge explosion at its stern, as well as what appeared to be still images showing the ship sinking beneath the waves. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi identified it…
Former Manchester United forward Jesse Lingard has joined Brazilian Serie A side Corinthians on a free transfer, ending a two-month wait for his new club. The 32-year-old left FC Seoul in January, signing a contract until the end of 2026 with an option for a one-year extension. Lingard left England to join the South Korean club in 2024 after a poor spell at Nottingham Forest. At the Midlands club, Lingard made 17 Premier League appearances despite being plagued by injuries, not scoring a single goal. Prior to that, Lingard enjoyed a successful loan spell at West Ham in 2021, scoring…
Vast missed out on the first round of NASA awards for the next International Space Station, but that won’t prevent the company from going all-in on the second stage.CEO Max Haot told CNBC’s Morgan Brennan this week that the company is betting on a “leapfrog strategy” and plans to successfully build and launch a space station to prove its capabilities. “If we do all of that or are in the middle of doing that, I think it’s going to be impossible for NASA to ignore in terms of the hardware that we have,” he said. Founded in 2023 after winning…
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks during the keynote at AWS re:Invent 2024, a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services, held at The Venetian Las Vegas on December 3, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.Noah Berger | Getty ImagesAmazon announced Friday that it will continue to offer Anthropic’s artificial intelligence technology to its cloud customers, except for work involving the Department of Defense.The announcement comes after the federal agency notified Anthropic on Thursday that it would classify the company as a “supply chain risk.” In response, Antropic said it had “no choice” but to challenge the designation in court. “AWS customers and…
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc believes Mercedes showed their first glimpse of “very impressive” pace in practice for the Australian Grand Prix, prompting many to name the Silver Arrows as 2026 title contenders.Leclerc observed on the track in Melbourne at the end of the first day of the season, despite Mercedes not being in the lead in either of Friday’s two practice sessions. It was the Monaco himself who set the pace from teammate Lewis Hamilton in a one-two for Ferrari in the first hour of practice at Albert Park, before McLaren’s Oscar Piastri beat the Mercedes drivers with the fastest time…
Claude’s daily active user numbers are increasing on mobile devices, and the number of new app installations is also increasing following the company’s conflict with the Department of Defense. The AI model provider behind Claude was marked as a supply chain risk after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei refused to allow the government to use its AI systems for mass surveillance of Americans or to power fully autonomous weapons. But data shows that Anthropic’s stance has led many consumers to support the model. App intelligence provider Appfigures reports that Claude’s mobile app continues to outnumber ChatGPT downloads in the United States.…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai gestures to the audience at Google’s annual I/O developer conference on May 20, 2025 in Mountain View, California.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Imagesgoogle The next day, the company announced that it would continue to provide Anthropic’s artificial intelligence technology to customers outside of defense operations. microsoft issued a similar statement to customers. The announcements by two of the three major cloud infrastructure vendors come after the Department of Defense formally designated Anthropic as a supply chain risk. “We understand that this decision does not prevent us from working with Anthropic on non-defense-related projects, and…
Healthcare sector was hardest hit, while tariff-exposed sectors remain stagnantlisten to this article | 3 minutesinformationPublished March 6, 2026March 6, 2026Click here to share on social mediaShare 2shareplus 2 googleAdd Al Jazeera to GoogleinformationThe U.S. economy unexpectedly lost 92,000 jobs in February, and the unemployment rate rose to 4.4%, marking the sixth contraction in the U.S. job market since Trump took office.The U.S. Department of Labor released February employment statistics on Friday.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of listEconomists expected a modest rise, with a Reuters poll of economists at 59,000, Bloomberg News at 55,000 and Dow Jones at 50,000.The…