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This spring, I worked almost every day at a local garden center, making $17 an hour, or just over the $15 minimum wage in Massachusetts. I didn’t make much money, but it was one of the best jobs I’ve ever had.At the time of application, funds were insufficient. I was laid off from my position as Senior Director of Content in June 2025. This was part of a series of top-to-bottom cuts affecting dozens of positions across the organization. By January, unemployment benefits were gone. My retirement savings are almost gone. And my bill didn’t seem to care about either…

Recent attacks have put the ceasefire and memorandum of understanding at risk.US President Donald Trump this week declared an end to the agreement suspending the war with Iran and ordered a series of attacks.He accused Iranian forces of violating the ceasefire by attacking ships in the Strait of Hormuz.The Iranian government reacted quickly, targeting U.S. interests in Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar.The escalation is the worst since the two countries signed a memorandum of understanding last month.It was intended to pave the way for further negotiations and a permanent agreement to end the war.Regional mediators are currently working to ease tensions.But…

london — King Charles and Queen Camilla hosted the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet on Friday afternoon at Highgrove House, the King’s private residence in Gloucestershire, England. It will be the first time in four years that King Charles has met his entire family, as Prince Harry, Duchess Meghan and their children visited the UK to celebrate the late Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee. Since then, Prince Harry has returned to the UK on short notice several times, most notably to attend his grandmother’s funeral in 2022 and his father’s coronation in 2023. The last known…

Open source AI is booming, said Clem DeLang, CEO of Hugging Face. The company has grown in recent years into a kind of GitHub for AI, allowing AI builders to share and download open models and datasets, and is now used by about half of Fortune 500 companies. DeLang has seen the same story repeated over and over again. Companies start with Frontier APIs, but as they scale, cost forces them to move to an open source model. In this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan talks to Delangue about why the battle between open source and closed source…

SK Hynix The stock opened at $170 per share on the Nasdaq market on Friday, up about 14%, as U.S. investors jumped at the chance to take a stake in South Korea’s second-most valuable company. The stock trades under the ticker symbol SKHYV, which will switch to SKHY starting Tuesday. The company’s American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) are priced at $149, raising $26.5 billion for aggressive expansion plans that include investments in new plant and equipment.”This was kind of a dream, and now it’s a dream come true,” SK Hynix Chairman Choi Tae-won told CNBC’s Cristina Parsineveros on Friday.SK Hynix is…

Kraken is preparing to reintroduce an app with agent trading at its core, which could be the next major competitive battleground for crypto exchanges, the company exclusively told CNBC.Agent trading is when an AI agent autonomously makes trading decisions, executes trades, and sometimes manages portfolios based on human input. Unlike traditional automated systems that follow fixed rules, agent platforms can evaluate multiple variables, learn from new information, and pursue goals defined by human direction, within set parameters.Kraken said its platform gives users access to agents who can continuously monitor the market, identify investment opportunities and execute trades in real-time. The…

The Commerce Department moved Friday to ease export restrictions for the United Arab Emirates, saying it would “favorably review” an export license application for UAE-backed investment firm MGX, which used a stablecoin linked to President Donald Trump’s family to invest $2 billion in the country. Binance.An unpublished version of the 17-page new rule, available in the Federal Register, includes a line stating that the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security is favorably reviewing applications related to MGX semiconductors and servers for the UAE. The rules are expected to be officially announced on Tuesday, July 14th.Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.,…

Lawyers representing three witnesses to the Texas man’s murder say they dispute the U.S. government’s account of the shooting by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.Friday’s remarks were in response to the July 7 shooting death of 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a traffic stop in Houston, Texas.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of listSalgado Araujo’s killing is the latest in a series of deaths linked to the immigration crackdown under US President Donald Trump, who has led a mass deportation campaign since the start of his second term.Lawyer Hugo Balderas Ibarra said all three men who were passengers in…

Iran wants to close a U.S. Navy-protected shipping lane through Omani waters that has allowed Persian Gulf oil and gas tankers to leave the Strait of Hormuz without Tehran’s permission. The Islamic Republic this week sought to impose its control over Hormuz by attacking three tankers sailing through the strait through U.S.-protected shipping lanes. The attacks have pushed Washington and the Iranian government to the brink of a new war as they exchange attacks across the Gulf. Analysts at maritime intelligence firm Windward said in a note that this week’s fighting marks “the most significant escalation of the conflict since…

Elon Musk postpones CNBC interviewMr. Musk “has to postpone” his interview with CNBC, Julia Boorstin said she was told after her interview with the CEO was scheduled to begin at noon Eastern time.Musk was expected to talk about Tesla, SpaceX’s historic initial public offering and the launch of the company’s latest Grok artificial intelligence model.”We hope he will give us new time for this interview, but we just heard that he will postpone,” Boorstin said on the broadcast. — Kevin Breuninger and Ari LevyTesla’s latest vehicle deliveries and production levelsA Tesla Model 3 electric vehicle (EV) is loaded onto a…