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Israeli forces on Friday began preparing for a major operation in the occupied West Bank after four Palestinians and two Israelis were killed in clashes in the area. The military said on Friday that a group of settlers had entered an area in the West Bank that is restricted to Israeli civilians for an “unauthorized and disorderly hike.” As the group approached the Palestinian village of Tell, clashes broke out between settlers and village residents. The ensuing gunfight led to widespread violence across the West Bank, leaving four Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers (one of whom was also a settler)…
OpenAI announced Thursday that it has updated its ChatGPT desktop app to add support for ChatGPT Voice, allowing users to speak to the app to control AI agents and perform tasks on their computers. This new feature takes advantage of a new family of voice models called ChatGPT-Live that OpenAI launched earlier this month. OpenAI says ChatGPT Voice works with both ChatGPT Work and Codex, and you can also leverage your computer usage skills to search websites and apps. Additionally, on macOS, Appshots allows users to give apps access to on-screen content, including alt text. When launched, the smartphone version…
Oilfield workers contracted by the Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) work on a service rig during a state-funded oil well plugging operation in Midland, Texas, U.S., Thursday, September 25, 2025. Eli Hartman | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesOil prices fell more than 3% early Friday but remained on track to rise 10% for the week as the war between the US and Iran continues to escalate. global benchmark brent crude oil futures Prices for July delivery fell 3.6% to $97.10 a barrel and were on track for a weekly gain of about 10%. us West Texas Intermediate Crude Oil Futures was trading…
The White House is visited by tourists on July 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. Michael M. Santiago | Getty ImagesNvidia, microsoft, Meta, Palantir On Friday, more than 20 other companies released a letter urging policymakers to avoid “premature restrictions” on promiscuous artificial intelligence models that would “inhibit competition or drive innovation abroad.”Openweight AI models, which users can download, modify, and run on their own infrastructure, have been the subject of intense debate within the tech industry in recent weeks. China’s open weight model is gaining traction against major products from US companies. OpenAI and humanmainly develops its own closed model.…
Editor’s note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series dedicated to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet and their solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has partnered with CNN to promote awareness and education on key sustainability issues and inspire positive action. For years, Gaurav Patil has witnessed fishing nets left unattended in India’s mangrove forests get caught and entangled. They are known as “ghost nets” and can break down into microplastics, choking coastal trees and destroying ecosystems. Hoping to shed light on this “overlooked” crisis, he took his camera to the tidal shores of Nandgaon village in…
1.T oil and troublesTraders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on July 8, 2026 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images2. Another roundU.S. President Donald Trump speaks at Wheeler High School in Marietta, Georgia, on July 22, 2026. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty ImagesThe White House announced yesterday that it would impose new tariffs ranging from 10% to 12.5% on more than a dozen countries over alleged forced labor violations. The U.S. Trade Representative said the tariffs, which began overnight, apply to 60 trading partners, accounting for more than…
Chinese ships fired water cannons at Philippine ships, including one carrying a CNN crew, near a dangerous flashpoint in the South China Sea on Friday. It was the third tense confrontation in the disputed waters this week. Other than the rich fishing grounds of the lagoon and surrounding waters, there doesn’t seem to be much of note about this shoal. But this corner of the world is a deceptively dangerous geopolitical hotspot. With unfettered access to one of the world’s most important shipping lanes, a mutual defense treaty between the Philippines and the United States, and China’s steady push to…
Agamemnon and Odysseus from The Odyssey.Source: Universal PicturesChristopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” is a box office success imax And it’s giving investors more confidence that the company will hit record ticket sales in 2026.IMAX stock soared more than 8% on Thursday after the company announced it was still on track to achieve a record $1.4 billion in global box office revenue this year. Wall Street was worried about that. Netflix And Greta Gerwig’s The Chronicles of Narnia has been pushed back from its November release date to February 2027, but IMAX won’t be able to reach that milestone.universal “Odyssey” alleviates such…
On July 24, 2026, in St. Petersburg, Russia, large plumes of smoke rise above St. Petersburg after a Ukrainian drone attack targeted a logistics facility operated by Wildberries, Russia’s largest online retailer.Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty ImagesA Russian attack on energy facilities in the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv and surrounding districts left around 150,000 residents without power on Friday, according to the regional electricity distribution company.In an update via Telegram, the company said its workers are actively working to restore power to customers in the area.Ukrainian air defense forces were also active Friday morning in the Ukrainian capital Kiev…
French authorities on Friday ordered a complete evacuation of the Cap Ferret peninsula and sent boats to rescue people from the popular tourist destination threatened by wildfires. The state’s governor, Sophie Brocas, said Friday morning that evacuation boats were operating from three piers on the peninsula, about 70 kilometers (43 miles) west of Bordeaux in southwestern France. Such operations demonstrate the severity of the wildfires currently burning in parts of southern France and other parts of Europe, sparked by record climate change heatwaves and turning the landscape into tinderboxes. Similar wildfires have broken out in Spain, forcing the government to…