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Chelsea beat Roma 6-0 at Stamford Bridge to move one win away from directly progressing to the Women’s Champions League quarter-finals.Sonia Bompastre’s side needed a win to take their fate into their own hands after dropping points against Twente and Barcelona, but they achieved the win in emphatic fashion, beating the eliminated visiting Italian team. It was also a welcome result after Sunday’s 34-game unbeaten run in the Women’s Super League ended against Everton. image: Johanna Ritting-Canellid scored Chelsea’s third goal just before half-time. Chelsea took the lead with an early own goal. Sandy Baltimore’s cross from the left was…
In a big move in the AI infrastructure arms race, Google just promoted Amin Vahdat to chief engineer for AI infrastructure, a newly created position that reports directly to CEO Sundar Pichai, according to a memo first reported by Semafor and later seen by TechCrunch. That’s a sign of how important the effort has become as Google plans to spend up to $93 billion in capital spending by the end of 2025, a number that parent company Alphabet expects to grow even more next year. Vahdat is no stranger to this game. The computer scientist with a PhD from the…
Thrive Market headquarters at Fast Company Creativity Counter-Conference in Los Angeles.Alaya Doheny Getty ImagesThrive Market is officially depleted.The online health food and grocery marketplace becomes the first major online grocer to remove all alcohol products from its subscription service. The company plans to completely replace this category with a lineup of more than 100 products across 20 brands, including non-alcoholic beer, wine, and mocktails.”It’s time to really step up non-alcoholic and align with what we believe is a scientific shift in consumer attitudes towards health and wellness,” Thrive CEO Nick Green told CNBC. “Alcohol is not the future.”The company said…
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell reacts during a press conference after the Federal Reserve Board’s Federal Open Market Committee meeting in Washington, DC on December 10, 2025.Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images As expected, it was a “hawkish cut.” Still, investors managed to find some gifts wedged between the lumps of coal.Two regional bank presidents, Jeffrey Schmidt of Kansas City and Austan Goolsby of Chicago, wanted rates to remain unchanged even though the Federal Reserve cut interest rates in the states on Wednesday.Their warnings were also reflected in a “dot plot” of the Fed’s rate outlook, which showed officials making one…
US President Donald Trump reiterated new threats against Colombian President Gustavo Petro, warning that the South American leader could be the next target in the anti-drug campaign.On Wednesday, at a White House roundtable with business leaders, one reporter asked President Trump if he had spoken to Petro. Republican leaders reacted fiercely to this.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of list”I haven’t thought much about him. He’s pretty hostile to the United States,” Trump said before launching into the attack.”If he doesn’t act wisely, he’s going to find himself in big trouble,” Trump continued.”Colombia produces a lot of drugs. Colombia has…
Alex Grimaldo scored a late goal in the match against Bayer Leverkusen that ended in a 2-2 draw at BayArena, preventing Newcastle from coming from behind to win the Champions League. Newcastle thought they had pulled off a comeback with a perfect smash and grab when Lewis Miley made history for his boyhood club by becoming the Champions League’s youngest goalscorer at the age of 19 with a second-half header. Miley’s goal, perfectly set up by Anthony Gordon, who scored Newcastle’s second-half equalizer, promised to end Newcastle’s away woes, but legendary Leverkusen had other ideas. Despite leading the game against…
RJ Scaringe, CEO of Rivian, tours the inside of electric vehicle maker Rivian’s manufacturing facility in Normal, Illinois, U.S., June 21, 2024. Joel Angel Juarez | ReutersDetroit — Rivian Automotive They will put artificial intelligence behind the wheel and try to convince investors that the future could be more profitable than the past.The all-electric vehicle maker will hold its first Autonomous Driving and AI Day on Thursday, as its core business of manufacturing and selling EVs has not performed as well as expected since its initial public offering in 2021.The company’s stock price has since fallen more than 80% as…
A Deere & Company tractor in front of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Monday, December 8, 2025 in New York, USA. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesRepublican lawmakers are pleading with President Donald Trump for more farm relief and aid to farm equipment manufacturers amid the tariff offensive, even as the president has provided $12 billion in relief to farmers hurt by his trade policies. Farmers say President Trump’s tariff policies are hurting their profits because they rely on exports to international trade competitors, including China, to survive. The blow comes on top of years of low…
Superb strikes from Noni Madueke and Gabriel Martinelli helped Arsenal maintain their perfect record in the Champions League as they defeated Club Brugge 3-0.With this win, Mikel Arteta’s side are now at the top of the table, three points clear of Bayern Munich with two games remaining, and a place in the last 16 is almost guaranteed. After a pedestrian start in Belgium, Arsenal suddenly came to life when Maduke picked up the ball near the halfway line, moved forward and fired a shot from outside the area, hitting the underside of the crossbar to give his team the lead.…
Spotify announced for the first time Wednesday that it will give users more control over the streaming service’s algorithms. At least that’s how the company plans to launch its new ‘Promoted Playlists’, a feature that will be available to premium subscribers in New Zealand first. Spotify says the feature, currently only available in English, is still in beta and will evolve before rolling out to other markets. The company says the new tool allows users to write what they want to hear into a personalized playlist that reflects the “complete arc” of their tastes. That means this playlist focuses on…