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The EFL has announced that the Sky Bet Championship play-offs will be expanded from four teams to six from next season.Supporters of the change believe it will give more teams a chance to qualify for the post-season and gain promotion to the Premier League, creating more interest going into the Championship season. Teams from 3rd to 8th place will participate. The National League currently operates a six-team playoff tournament, with teams finishing second and third advancing directly to the semifinals, and teams finishing fourth through seventh competing in the quarterfinals. What would change?The format won’t be finalized until the summer,…
This isn’t David Park’s first rodeo. A graduate of TechCrunch Startup Battlefield, the veteran founder certainly has experience in the enterprise space. In this episode of Build Mode, Park joins Isabelle Johannessen to discuss how he and his team are intentionally iterating, financing, and scaling Narada. This enterprise AI solution uses large-scale action models to automate complex multi-step workflows across enterprise systems. At face value, Narada has everything an investor would come knocking down its door: a dream founding team of experienced researchers and operators from Stanford and Berkeley, major corporate customers, and a working product. So when Narada applied…
A Shahed-136 drone is displayed at a rally in western Tehran, Iran, on February 11, 2026.Null Photo | Null Photo | Getty ImagesIn the aftermath of the Israeli and U.S. attack on Iran, U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf are hearing a sound that Ukrainian soldiers have long feared: the one that portends the Shahed-136 “kamikaze” drone. Shahed, which originated in Iran, is already a staple of modern warfare, with Russia, Tehran’s strategic partner, using the technology in its years-long invasion of Ukraine. Drones, the most advanced of which is the long-range Shahid-136, are now central to Iran’s retaliatory strategy…
Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei speaks at the Inbound 2025 Powered by HubSpot artificial intelligence panel at Moscone Center in San Francisco on September 4, 2025.Chance Ye | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty ImagesDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision Friday to classify Anthropic as a “supply chain risk to national security” raises more questions than answers. “It’s all very puzzling,” Herbert Linn, a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security Cooperation, said in an interview with CNBC.Anthropic is the only U.S. company to be publicly designated as a supply chain risk, as supply chain risk designations have traditionally…
Eli Lilly The United States launched a new program on Thursday aimed at helping more employers cover obesity drugs in the United States, targeting them as a major barrier to access for patients. Lily and her biggest rival novo nordiskmoved to reduce the cash price of a popular bariatric injection for those who wish to pay the full cost out-of-pocket. However, due to high costs, employer coverage of obesity drugs remains uneven, with about half of those with commercial insurance unable to start or continue treatment, Lilly said in a release. List prices for Lilly’s weight loss and diabetes drugs…
Oil prices have soared due to the Iran war, and there are concerns about a resurgence of inflation. That makes Fed officials more likely to suspend the central bank’s recent efforts to lower interest rates, or even raise them. But that’s the Fed as we know it now. The central bank is likely to soon have a new leader with a different view of inflation. If Kevin Warsh is confirmed by the Senate, he will almost certainly be reluctant to cut interest rates despite soaring oil prices. Warsh is President Donald Trump’s candidate to become the next Federal Reserve Chairman.…
Top articles in Wednesday’s newspapers and transfer rumors…premier leagueCrystal Palace have added Thomas Frank as potential manager to replace departed manager Oliver Glasner – The Sun Leeds United have postponed contract talks with Daniel Farke until the end of the season – and the German may have to keep the club in the Premier League to sign a new deal at Elland Road – Daily Mirror fascinate This content is provided by fascinatecookies and other technologies may be used. To view this content, you must allow cookies. You can change the settings and enable it using the buttons below. fascinate…
The remains of a NATO air defense system that intercepted a missile fired from Iran are shown in Dorçol, southern Hatay province, Turkey, on March 4, 2026. This is a screenshot of this video. Ifras News | via ReutersThis photo shows debris from a NATO air defense system that intercepted a missile from Iran heading towards Turkey earlier this week, as members of the military alliance feel the heat of war in the Middle East.Iran has attacked multiple countries in response to US and Israeli attacks against Iran. It hit the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, Iraq, and Saudi…
Nanjing, China – March 2, 2026 – A new energy vehicle is parked outside a BYD store on March 2, 2026 in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China. (Photo credit: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)Photo | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesBYD lost ground to domestic competitors in the first two months of this year as demand across China’s electric vehicle market slowed.The world’s largest electric car maker’s total sales in January and February 2026 were down about 36% compared to the previous year. The figure was adjusted to take into account the seasonal sales slowdown during the two-week Lunar New Year holiday…
Kim Jong Un oversaw the launch of a sea-to-surface “strategic cruise missile” from his country’s new destroyer.listen to this article | 3 minutesinformationPublished March 5, 2026March 5, 2026Click here to share on social mediaShare 2shareplus 2 googleAdd Al Jazeera to GoogleinformationNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the test launch of a “strategic cruise missile” from a new 5,000-ton naval destroyer before its formal commissioning, state media said.Kim oversaw the launch of a sea-to-surface missile from the destroyer Choi Hyun on Wednesday, calling the test a “core” element of the new warship’s capabilities and calling it a “new symbol of…