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The Rugby Football Union (RFU) has announced a major overhaul of English rugby’s top tier, with the Gallagher Prem set to be expanded but fundamentally changed. This major reshuffle at the top of English club rugby will see promotion and relegation abolished. A landmark deal to reform the structure of professional rugby in England was approved “overwhelmingly” in a vote by the Rugby Football Union Council on Friday. The proposal would make the Gallagher Prem a franchise model, with 12 teams joining the district starting in the 2029-30 season and 20 teams expected to join by 2040.From the 2026-27 season,…
OpenAI announced Friday that ChatGPT has reached 900 million weekly active users, bringing its AI chatbot within reach of 1 billion people. OpenAI also shared that it currently has 50 million paying subscribers. “Subscriber momentum has accelerated significantly since the start of the year, and January and February are expected to be the largest months for new subscribers in our history,” the company said in a blog post. “People use ChatGPT to learn, create, plan, and build. As usage grows, the product improves in ways that people instantly feel: faster response, higher reliability, stronger security, and more consistent performance.” The…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks at a dinner event with the company’s Taiwanese suppliers in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, January 31, 2026.Yifei Lin | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesNvidia reported explosive profits on Wednesday and issued better-than-expected forecasts indicating accelerated growth. CEO Jensen Huang declared that “computing demand is rapidly increasing.” Investors’ concerns seem to lie elsewhere.Stocks fell for the second day in a row on Friday, down about 7% for the week, their biggest decline since November. The exit puts Nvidia’s stock price down for the year, joining the ranks of other tech giants.One of the broader concerns in the market…
Dell Shares soared 22% on Friday after the company beat fourth-quarter earnings estimates and issued strong guidance as historic memory shortages weighed on prices in the sector.Dell reported adjusted earnings of $3.89 per share, beating the $3.53 per share expected by analysts surveyed by LSEG. The company had revenue of $33.38 billion in the quarter, beating expectations of $31.73 billion.The company forecast fiscal 2027 sales of $138 billion to $142 billion, blowing away the $124.7 billion that FactSet had expected.Dell expects artificial intelligence server revenue to reach $50 billion in 2027, more than doubling from the previous year. Memory chip…
President Donald Trump announced Friday that he will order all U.S. government agencies to “immediately cease” their use of technology from artificial intelligence company Anthropic.President Trump’s sudden and unexpected order comes as the AI startup faces pressure from the Department of Defense to comply with Anthropic’s request to be able to use its technology without restrictions. The company signed a $200 million contract with the Pentagon in July, but the company wants guarantees that the Pentagon won’t use its AI models for fully autonomous weapons or for mass surveillance of American citizens at home.The Pentagon had given Anthropic a deadline…
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is scheduled to visit Israel next week as President Donald Trump expresses dissatisfaction with ongoing negotiations with Iran.On Friday, the U.S. State Department said Rubio’s trip will run from March 2-3 and will focus on relations with Iran and Lebanon, as well as implementation of President Trump’s 20-point plan for war-torn Gaza.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of listThis is Rubio’s fifth visit to Israel, a close ally of the United States, as secretary of state. I first visited in February 2025, and then twice in September and October last year.No other details about…
Aston Villa drew with Lille in the last 16 of the Europa League, while Nottingham Forest will face Midtjylland again this season. But there will be no repeat of last season’s all-England Europa League final, in which Tottenham defeated Manchester United in Bilbao. If they advance to that stage, Villa and Forest will meet in the semi-finals. Villa, who finished second in the league phase table, will face French side Lille in a repeat of the 2024 Conference League quarter-finals, which Unai Emery’s side won on penalties. Forest also face a familiar opponent as they take on Danish side Midtjylland,…
The past two weeks have been marked by a clash between Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, as they battle over the military’s use of AI. Anthropic refuses to allow its AI models to be used for mass surveillance of the American public or for fully autonomous weapons that carry out attacks without human intervention. At the same time, Hegseth argued that the Pentagon should not be limited by vendor rules and that any “lawful use” of the technology should be allowed. On Thursday, Amodei publicly signaled that Anthropic would not back down despite threats that…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on February 25, 2026 in New York City, USA. Brendan McDiarmid | ReutersUBS’s top equity strategist has downsized his view on U.S. stocks, citing rising risks from a weaker dollar, higher valuations and policy turmoil in Washington.Andrew Garthwaite, head of global equity strategy at the investment bank, downgraded U.S. stocks to the “benchmark” of a fully invested global equity portfolio, arguing that the factors that underpinned years of outperformance were starting to fade.Garthwaite writes that dollar risk is the biggest concern. UBS expects the euro to rise to…
coreweave On Friday, CEO Mike Intrater backed the company’s big spending plans in an interview with CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street,” even as the company’s stock price fell after the earnings call on concerns about profitability. Intrater told CNBC that Coreweave was willing to invest in more infrastructure and sacrifice margins to meet “once-in-a-generation” capacity demands.”I understand that people are concerned because they see us putting a lot of money into this market, but the reality is we have a huge backlog,” he said.Coreweave’s stock price plummeted 22% following the disappointing earnings outlook. The New Jersey-based company also said it…