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At a U.S. military base in central California, a four-seater all-terrain vehicle roams a hillside path. This is training, but not for the people in the vehicle. This is an effort to train AI models to enter conflict zones. The autonomous military ATVs are operated by Scout AI, a startup founded in 2024 by Coby Adcock and Colin Otis that calls itself “Frontier Lab for Defense.” The company announced Wednesday that it has raised $100 million in a Series A round led by Align Ventures and Draper Associates, following a $15 million seed round in January 2025. Scout invited TechCrunch…

starbucks on Tuesday raised its full-year outlook for comparable profit and same-store sales growth after reporting a second consecutive quarter of growth in store traffic.”This quarter was a milestone for Starbucks and a turning point in our recovery,” CEO Brian Nicol said in a video posted with the company’s second-quarter results.Starbucks said global and U.S. same-store sales in fiscal 2026 are expected to increase at least 5%, up from the previously expected 3% increase. Starbucks also raised its adjusted earnings per share forecast to a range of $2.25 to $2.45 per share, from the previous range of $2.15 to $2.40.Concerned…

The European Commission found that Meta breached EU law by failing to prevent minors under the age of 13 from accessing its platform. The company’s handling of child safety has come under increasing scrutiny. The commission announced Wednesday that a preliminary investigation concluded that Meta violates EU digital services law because Instagram and Facebook’s minimum age requirement of 13 years is not adequately enforced. According to the commission, minors can enter false dates of birth when creating accounts, and there are no controls in place to verify this.Additionally, the commission said the tool for reporting minor accounts is “difficult to…

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media before boarding Air Force One bound for Virginia at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S., April 10, 2026.Evelyn HochsteinReuterUS President Donald Trump threatened Iran in a post on Truth Social on Wednesday morning, saying it “better get smarter fast!”Shortly after 4 a.m. ET on Wednesday, President Trump posted on the social media platform TruthSocial: “Iran is not getting its act together. It doesn’t know how to get a nuclear-free deal. They better get smarter and faster!”The post included a photo of President Trump holding a gun to the sound of AI-generated explosions and…

Sen. Tim Kaine said that if someone did to the United States “what we are doing to Cuba,” it would be considered an “act of war.”Published April 29, 2026April 29, 2026The US Senate has blocked a resolution that would have prevented President Donald Trump from ordering military action against Cuba without Congressional approval.The Republican-led Senate voted 51-47 on Tuesday, almost entirely along party lines, to pass a procedural measure blocking the Democratic-led War Powers Resolution. This is because members of the Trump party argued that there is no active hostility by the United States toward Cuba and that there is…

As the Iran war enters its ninth week with no clear end in sight, shipping traffic in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz has been completely restructured, causing major disruption to global markets and supply chains for oil, natural gas, fertilizers and other essential goods. Before the United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran in late February, about 3,000 ships typically passed through the Strait of Hormuz every month, according to Lloyd’s List Intelligence. The passing oil tankers account for an estimated 15 million barrels a day of exports of crude oil and other petroleum products, about…

As focus returns to his return to F1 in Miami, there will also be particular focus on Max Verstappen, who revealed a month ago that he is considering his future in the sport.Verstappen has been a vocal critic of F1’s new 2026 regulations, which have introduced a different driving and racing style while preventing Red Bull from competing at the front of the field. In the five weeks between the final race in Japan and this weekend’s Miami Grand Prix, F1 tweaked power unit regulations to address some of the concerns of drivers, including Verstappen. Also this month, Verstappen’s race…

Mounted police sit outside the Royal Exchange and Bank of England on June 17, 2020 in London.Tolga Akmen | AFP (via Getty Images)All eyes will be on Europe’s central banks this week as they announce their latest monetary policy decisions against a backdrop of rising prices and growth concerns. Eurozone and UK figures for March show the Iran conflict is already weighing on the economy, raising fears of looming “stagflation” with low growth, high inflation and rising unemployment. The ECB and BOE kept interest rates on hold in March as the war began to shake up the global economy, but…

U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell arrives for a press conference after the conclusion of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting at the Federal Reserve Building in Washington, DC, on March 18, 2026. Brendan Smialowski AFP | Getty ImagesIn what could be Jerome Powell’s last meeting as Fed chairman, he is expected to lead other policymakers into another cautious pause, as stubborn inflation and a resilient labor market still leave little room for rate cuts.Wednesday’s decision will be taken against a backdrop of rising energy prices and a weak but not crisis labor market, while the central bank has exceeded…

NEW DELHI, India — U.S.-India relations are once again at a crossroads. This time, it’s about New Delhi’s decade-long investment in Iran’s Chabahar port.India’s most ambitious connectivity project in its vast neighborhood may now be at a standstill after a US sanctions waiver on the project expired on Sunday, with no sign of a revival from Washington. The port is central to India’s hopes of building a trade and transit corridor with landlocked Afghanistan and Central Asia.Under its “maximum pressure” campaign, the United States has been pressuring Iran’s economy toward collapse through an aggressive sanctions regime aimed at cutting off…