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Celtic defeated Utrecht 4-2 at Parkhead to qualify for February’s Europa League play-offs.The Scottish Premiership champions got the job done early on, with Martin O’Neill’s side leading 3-0 after just 19 minutes thanks to a goal from Benjamin Nygren, an own goal from Nick Vierjevar and a penalty from Arne Engels, making it the club’s fastest-ever three-goal lead in a major European match. The first goal came after a well-worked goal from a short corner, with Kieran Tierney reaching the byline and pulling the ball back for Nygren to score from close range. It was the Swede’s 14th goal of…
Google DeepMind opens up access to Project Genie, an AI tool for creating interactive game worlds from text prompts and images. Starting Thursday, Google AI Ultra subscribers in the US will be able to try out an experimental research prototype powered by a combination of Google’s latest global model Genie 3, image generation model Nano Banana Pro, and Gemini. The move, announced five months after Genie 3’s research preview, is part of a broader effort by DeepMind to gather user feedback and training data as it races to develop a more capable model of the world. A world model is…
The new chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said Thursday that the commission will develop clear new rules to govern prediction markets. “Despite their history, many see (prediction markets) as novel or unstable, and that uncertainty is not serving our markets and not serving the public interest,” CFTC Commissioner Michael Selig said at an event co-hosted with Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins.Selig said he has ordered agency officials to rescind proposed rules starting in 2024 that would ban sports and political transactions. He also directed prediction markets to rescind recommendations in 2025 to be more cautious in…
New Motion | iStock | Getty ImagesCompanies are investing heavily in AI-powered agents and looking toward a future where chatbots may be the first communication a customer has when they want an answer or want to buy something.In October, walmart announced an agreement with OpenAI that will enable shoppers to discover and purchase products without leaving ChatGPT. The retailer now has an AI agent in its app that can respond and recommend products.During Walmart’s November earnings call, CEO Doug McMillon said agent AI will be one of the growth drivers for the company’s e-commerce business. He said the technology “helps…
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed criminal charges against the man who sprayed Rep. Ilhan Omar with apple cider vinegar during a press conference.In court records filed Wednesday and made public Thursday, the Justice Department accused Anthony Kazmierczak of “forcibly assaulting, resisting, obstructing, threatening, and obstructing” Omar while performing his official duties.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe complaint included an affidavit from Derek Fossi, a special agent assigned to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Minnesota field office.Fossi witnessed the incident. He described how, on January 27, during a town hall in Omar’s hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota,…
Igor Jesus scored twice as Nottingham Forest defeated Ferencvaros 4-0 at the City Ground in their final Europa League game.Although it was a convincing win, it wasn’t enough to seal a top-eight spot due to their performance elsewhere, and Forest will now play in next month’s play-off round. But it was a confidence-boosting victory for Sean Dyche’s side, who continued to build on their improved form. Forest had an early scare thanks to their Hungarian opponents when Kristofer Zachariassen’s header hit the target, but then Robbie Keane’s side capitulated and dominated as the Premier League side launched attack after attack.…
Apple, Meta, and Google are locked in a fierce battle to lead the next wave of AI, and have recently increased their focus on hardware. With its recent acquisition of AI startup Q.ai, Apple aims to gain an edge in the audio space in particular. As first reported by Reuters, Apple has acquired Israeli startup Q.ai, which specializes in imaging and machine learning, specifically technology that allows devices to interpret whispers and enhance audio in noisy environments. Apple is adding new AI features to AirPods, including the live translation feature it introduced last year. The company is also developing technology…
Workers at a factory workshop in Huaying, Sichuan Province, China.Getty ImagesChina’s recent record $1.1 trillion trade surplus shows that geopolitical and economic rival China has not only found a global workaround, but is also thriving, despite President Donald Trump’s efforts to use tariff policy to slow China’s manufacturing export power. Trade and supply chain data shared with CNBC shows that two factors loom large behind China’s success in mitigating the impact of U.S. tariffs: the use of secondary manufacturing markets to complete products, particularly in Asia, and forced labor.In recent years, Chinese companies have rerouted manufacturing to Southeast Asian countries,…
York Space Systems began trading as a public company on Thursday, with founder and CEO Dirk Wallinger touting the company as a potential major contributor to President Trump’s “Golden Dome” project.The Denver-based space company opened at $38 on the New York Stock Exchange, up 11.7% from its public offering price of $34. The valuation was $4.75 billion. The stock closed 1.15% lower at $33.61.”Golden Dome is essentially making disparate systems that weren’t meant to talk to each other talk to each other, and that’s what we’re doing,” Wallinger told CNBC’s Morgan Brennan. “York has already achieved that and we are…
US President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House on January 29, 2026 in Washington, DC. Samuel Corum | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump on Thursday backed a Senate deal that funds much of the federal government through the remainder of the fiscal year.President Trump’s support is likely to make it much easier to pass the six-bill funding package the Senate is considering with just over a day left before a partial government shutdown. Senators reached a deal shortly before Trump’s announcement, agreeing to remove funding for the Department of Homeland Security from the package, pass the…