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AI video generation startup Luma on Thursday launched Luma Agents, designed to handle end-to-end creative work across text, images, video, and audio. The Luma agent is powered by the startup’s Unified Intelligence family of models, with an architecture trained on a single multimodal inference system. Luma Agent is being pitched as a new way of working for advertising agencies, marketing teams, design studios, and businesses. Luma says its agents can plan and generate text, images, video, and audio while working with other AI models, including Luma’s Ray 3.14, Google’s Veo 3 and Nano Banana Pro, ByteDance’s Seedream, and Eleven Labs’…

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable discussion on the administration’s Ratepayer Protection Pledge in the Indian Treaty Room of the White House on March 4, 2026 in Washington, DC.Win McNamee | Getty ImagesLONDON – European stock markets closed lower on Thursday as market participants tracked geopolitical developments in the Middle East.pan-european Stocks 600 The stock ended 1.4% lower, erasing early gains as the region’s major exchanges and most sectors, excluding media, ended in negative territory.spanish ibex 35 Madrid ended down 1.4% after drawing the ire of US President Donald Trump after refusing to allow the US military to…

Vishal Garg, Better.comSource: Better.comonline mortgage platform better has partnered with OpenAI to launch an app within ChatGPT that will dramatically reduce the time it takes to underwrite mortgages and home equity loans, the companies have announced, exclusively learned by CNBC.The app, which will be unveiled later Thursday, will take Better’s mortgage engine and combine it with OpenAI’s models to speed up the underwriting process for loan officers working at banks, mortgage brokers and fintech companies, Better CEO Vishal Garg said in an interview.”By reducing the mortgage underwriting process, which many of us have personally experienced, from 21 days to just…

The Middle East conflict is rapidly escalating across the region as the US and Israeli-led war with Iran enters its sixth day. Images released Thursday show destruction across Tehran after nearly a week of attacks on the Iranian capital. In retaliation, Iran has launched a slew of missiles and drones at Israel and has also targeted U.S. allies in the region. Explosions were also reported in Qatar and Bahrain, oil-rich Azerbaijan said it had been attacked by two Iranian drones, and Tehran claimed naval jets had attacked a U.S. tanker in the northern Persian Gulf.US President Donald Trump has said…

HAVANA, Cuba – Eight days before U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order threatening tariffs on countries that supply Cuba with oil, 26-year-old twins Sandra and Sabrina Gonzalez received a shocking email.”Due to U.S. regulatory requirements, Airbnb is required to deactivate certain listings. Unfortunately, this applies to your listing in Cuba…all future reservations will be canceled today,” the email, dated Jan. 21, said.“At that point, all of our reservation dates were blocked and all reservations from January to April were automatically canceled,” said Sandra, who lives in Havana.Sandra’s family has run two guesthouses through Airbnb since 2016, when Cuba’s…

Emma Raducanu has revealed that it was former coach Francisco Roig’s decision to part ways and that it was difficult to ignore the noise surrounding her appointment as coach.The former US Open champion parted ways with Roig after losing in the second round of the Australian Open. The Spaniard becomes Raducanu’s ninth coach since winning the 2021 US Open. Since then, Raducanu has reunited with Mark Petchey on a daily basis during Indian Wells and continues to work closely with hitting partner Alexis Kanter. Emma Raducanu’s nine coaches nigel searsSears, best known for coaching former top five players Amanda Coetzer,…

French President Emmanuel Macron speaks next to the nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) submarine Le Temeraire S617 during a visit to the Ile Longe nuclear submarine naval base in Crozon, northwestern France, March 2, 2026 (Photo by Yoan VALAT/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)Yoan Vallatt | AFP | Getty Images”To be free, you must be feared. To be feared, you must be powerful,” French President Emmanuel Macron said in a landmark speech on nuclear deterrence this week.France is one of only two nuclear powers in Europe and, unlike Britain, operates its nuclear weapons systems completely independent of the United States. Macron’s speech…

Jakub Porzycki | Null Photo | Getty ImagesThe Justice Department, which has been criticized for withholding files on Jeffrey Epstein from the public, plans to release a new set of documents on the notorious sex offender “very soon,” MS Now reported Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.The development came a day after the House Oversight Committee approved a motion to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi for questioning about her handling of the Justice Department’s investigation into Epstein and her handling of documents about him that are required by law to be made available to the public.”AG Bondi claims the…

Aston Martin boss Adrian Newey has suggested it is unlikely that either of the team’s cars will be able to complete Sunday’s season-opening Australian Grand Prix due to concerns that vibrations could cause serious damage to drivers.During two pre-season test events in Bahrain last month, it emerged that the team was having major problems with the Honda power unit that was initially supplied in a new partnership with the Japanese manufacturer for 2026. The extent of the problem became clear on Thursday morning in Melbourne when New Way held a press conference with Honda executive Koji Watanabe, revealing that vibration…

Netflix announced Thursday morning that it will acquire Interpositive, a film production technology company founded by actor Ben Affleck in 2022. This acquisition is consistent with Netflix’s approach to the use of generative AI in film production. The company already uses generative AI for special effects on some of its original content, and has assured investors that it is “very well positioned to effectively leverage ongoing advances in AI.” Affleck said in a statement that he started thinking about how AI will impact the future of filmmaking in 2022. “I want to protect what makes human storytelling human, which is…