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Aston Villa defeated Bologna that night at Villa Park, winning 4-0 and winning 7-1 on aggregate in the Europa League quarter-finals, advancing to the semi-finals against Nottingham Forest.Ollie Watkins stopped a complicated early team move to score his 100th goal for Aston Villa, and although Morgan Rodgers’ penalty was saved, Emiliano Buendia added a second within 46 seconds of the spot-kick, and Rodgers made amends before half-time. It was a big moment for Rodgers. Not only after the penalty, but also because it ended a run of 12 consecutive games without a goal for club and country. It was a…

Mike Krieger, Anthropic’s chief product officer, resigned from the board of interface design company Figma on April 14th. His departure was disclosed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission by the $10 billion publicly traded company on the same day that the Information reported that Anthropic’s next model, the Opus 4.7, would include design tools that could compete with Figma’s flagship product. Figma is the developer of tools popular with user experience designers who build interfaces for websites and apps. The company worked closely with Anthropic to integrate Frontier Labs’ AI models into its products as user assistants. Krieger, who…

Britain’s financial watchdog has eased restrictions on hedge funds after relaxing rules on short selling and reducing management and reporting requirements.The move marks a major step change in how the Financial Conduct Authority regulates investors who bet on the value of companies, and comes as part of a broader UK effort to cut out bureaucracy. The FCA, which oversees Britain’s financial services firms and markets, announced on Thursday that the new framework will provide “clearer and simpler” rules on short selling.Short selling (a core element of many hedge fund strategies) involves an investor betting with the intention of profiting from…

Ten Republicans will join Democrats in extending Temporary Protected Status for about 350,000 Haitians in the United States.by Reuters and Associated PressPublished April 16, 2026April 16, 2026The U.S. House of Representatives has suspended talks with President Donald Trump and voted to extend temporary immigration protections to the approximately 350,000 Haitians living in the country.Ten Republicans joined the Democratic majority in Thursday’s vote, passing the measure by a 224-204 margin.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe bill would allow Haitians already in the United States to maintain Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for an additional three years due to violence and…

Nottingham Forest defeated Porto 2-1 on aggregate in the Europa League quarter-finals to advance to the last four against Aston Villa.After a tough 1-1 draw in Portugal in the first leg, with Jan Bednarek being sent off early for a reckless challenge on Chris Wood and the striker limping off again with a knee injury, Forest felt more confident at home. Down to 10 points, Porto were unable to match Forest’s intensity as they capitalized on their man advantage shortly after with Morgan Gibbs-White scoring from a deflection from Pablo Rosario. He celebrated by dedicating a goal to absentee midfielder…

There is currently a low-level war between OpenAI and Anthropic over who can release the most useful and powerful AI coding tools, and so far Anthropic seems to be winning. As TechCrunch reported last week, Claude Code is said to be the tool of choice for many companies, but OpenAI isn’t giving up just yet. This week, OpenAI announced a revamp of its proprietary automation tool, Codex, with a variety of new updates designed to provide significantly expanded functionality. On Thursday, the company announced a number of new features and updates, but perhaps the most notable is that Codex can…

Typically, more homes come on the market in the spring, but so far this year home prices haven’t been as affordable.According to the National Association of Realtors, the median price of existing homes rose to $408,800 in March, an increase of 1.4% from the same month last year and a record high for the month.At the same time, other costs have not been mitigated. According to the Consumer Price Index, which measures the prices of daily goods and services, the inflation rate rose 3.3% in March compared to the same month last year. It has remained above the Federal Reserve’s…

President Donald Trump speaks to the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on April 16, 2026.Anna Moneymaker | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump on Thursday dismissed concerns about a sharp jump in gas prices due to the Iran war, even though the latest polls showed most U.S. voters blame him for soaring pump prices.”Well, it’s not that high,” President Trump told reporters at the White House after being asked how long Americans will continue to see higher gas prices.President Trump said those prices were not as high as expected as a result of the…

The U.S. State Department announced that it would restrict visa issuance to “individuals from countries in the hemisphere who support adversaries that undermine U.S. interests in our region.”Thursday’s statement highlighted that 26 people have already had their visas revoked as part of the policy.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe State Department’s stance comes as President Donald Trump seeks to expand U.S. influence across the Western Hemisphere as part of a platform he calls the “Don Roe Doctrine,” a play on the 19th century Monroe Doctrine.Since taking office for his second term, President Trump has taken an aggressive stance…

Physical Intelligence, a two-year-old San Francisco-based robotics startup that has quietly become one of the Bay Area’s hottest AI companies, announced new research Thursday showing that its latest model can force robots to perform tasks for which they have not been explicitly trained. The company’s researchers say this feature caught the robots off guard. The new model, called π0.7, is what the company describes as an early but meaningful step toward its long-sought goal of a general-purpose robot brain that can be told an unfamiliar task, coached in plain language, and actually complete it. If this finding holds up to…