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Michaela Mayer will be at ringside this weekend to watch Chantel Cameron compete amid speculation about a future world title showdown.Former undisputed super lightweight champion Cameron will fight Mikaela Kotaskova for the WBO super welterweight title in 10 three-minute rounds this Sunday on the undercard of the world title unification bout between Caroline Dubois and Terry Harper, live on Sky Sports. Mayer defeated Mary Spencer by unanimous decision in October to unify the WBA, WBC and WBO super welterweight titles, but the American also holds the WBO welterweight belt and could face unified British champion Lauren Price in an undisputed…

AI may be booming, but behind the scenes, businesses are wasting vast amounts of expensive computing. GPUs are sitting idle, workloads are over-provisioned, and cloud costs continue to rise. At ScaleOps, we believe the problem is mismanagement, not scarcity. The startup, which develops software to automatically manage and reallocate computing resources in real-time, has raised $130 million at a valuation of $800 million, ScaleOps announced Monday. The Series C funding round was led by Insight Partners with participation from existing investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, NFX, Glilot Capital Partners, and Picture Capital. The company says its software reduces cloud and…

Pickleball paddle producer Debi Wei has a message for US shoppers.”Americans will have to pay more money,” a Chinese businessman told CNBC at a Beijing trade show at the China International Exhibition Center last week.Due to recent fluctuations in oil prices due to the Iran war and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, Wei, who founded his own export business, Huijin Trade, has had to raise the prices of paddles and pickleballs by up to 20%, he said. Wei’s products are made from polypropylene, a petroleum-based plastic material, and manufactured in the Middle East, a major producer in the…

(The stream is scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. ET. CNBC TV will begin the stream as the event begins. Refresh the page if you don’t see the player above.)Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell will speak at Harvard University’s Economic Principles class on Monday.This will be one of Mr. Powell’s final public appearances scheduled before his term ends in May. The discussion comes amid market expectations that the central bank will keep interest rates on hold until the end of the year.In recent comments, Powell characterized the economy as growing at a “solid pace” and said he was not concerned…

“If you’re worried about something, I want you to look at me, don’t give up, and keep fighting.”These words were spoken by Gary Woodland in an emotional interview shortly after his first PGA Tour win since undergoing surgery to remove a brain tumor in September 2023. “From the moment I was diagnosed with this brain disease, I wasn’t going to let it win. Today was proof of that.” The American won the Texas Children’s Houston Open by five strokes, qualifying him for the Masters at Augusta National starting April 9, but it has been seven years since his last win…

Large language models trained on massive datasets can accelerate genomics research, streamline clinical documentation, improve real-time diagnostics, support clinical decision-making, accelerate drug discovery, and even generate synthetic data to advance experiments. But their promises to transform biomedical research often run into bottlenecks. Beyond the structured data that healthcare relies on, these models struggle in edge cases such as rare diseases and abnormal conditions where reliable and representative data is lacking. New York-based Mantis Biotech claims to be developing a solution to fill this data availability gap. The company’s platform integrates disparate data sources to create a so-called “digital twin” of…

Federal Reserve President Stephen Milan speaks to CNBC on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, USA, on November 10, 2025. Brendan McDiarmid | ReutersFederal Reserve President Stephen Milan continued his campaign to lower interest rates on Monday, telling CNBC that policymakers should ignore the current spike in energy prices unless there are signs of long-term consequences.”If we see a wage-price spiral, if we see evidence that inflation expectations are starting to rise, I would be concerned about that,” he said in an interview on “Squawk on the Streets.” “There is no evidence of…

In 1973, OPEC declared an oil embargo on the United States, which decided to supply the Israeli military during the Yom Kippur War. The embargo lasted until March 1974, during which time oil prices quadrupled. To control supply, the federal government under Nixon rationed oil to states up to 1972 levels. By February 1974, the American Automobile Association estimated that 20 percent of gas stations were out of fuel to sell. The second energy crisis in the past decade was in 1979, after the Iranian revolution.Photo: Associated PressThe U.S. economy has made a surprising recovery recently, confounding forecasters who have…

US President Donald Trump has renewed his threat to “blow up” various Iranian civilian infrastructure, including all of Iran’s desalination facilities. The practice threatens water supplies for millions of people and experts say is illegal.President Trump has regularly warned Iran about possible U.S. attacks on energy and power facilities, but on Monday he added water stations to the list of targets in his latest threat.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of list”The United States is in serious discussions with a new, more rational administration to end military operations in Iran,” Trump said in a social media post.He added that “significant…

Thieves have stolen more than 400,000 Kit Kat chocolate bars weighing approximately 12 tonnes from a truck in Europe. KitKat said in a statement that the confectionery, manufactured by Swiss company Nestlé, was stolen as the vehicle was distributing the bars along a route from a factory in central Italy to Poland. “The vehicle and its contents remain unaccounted for and an investigation is ongoing in close collaboration with local authorities and supply chain partners,” the statement said. A total of 413,793 Kit Kat bars were stolen, the company said. Each product is traceable using the batch number on the…