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Explosions heard across Iran, state media reports, after UAE oil tankers hit in Hormuz strait – Middle East crisis live

UAE says Iranian cruise missiles hit two oil tankers in strait, killing a crew member and wounding eight US launches third night of strikes on Iran as Trump announces Hormuz blocka…

Here’s What’s Next for the Senate After Sudden Passing of Lindsey Graham

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., died from heart failure this past weekend, forcing Republicans to scramble to find another candidate to take his place on the ballot. While South Carol…

X admits its broken algorithm made the site feel like a ‘battleground’

X's head of product, Nikita Bier, admitted in a post on Monday that X's algorithm was "missing" data about surfacing posts from people who you've followed back. Now, he says a twea…

US braces for another heat wave with temperatures hotter than 100 degrees expected

More than 100 million Americans will experience stifling temperatures as a sprawling summer heat wave will push thermometers into the triple digits later this week. This is the sec…

The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents

STAT+: 10 charts that explain America’s hidden alcohol epidemic

America's hidden alcohol epidemic — the toll, emerging risks, shifting usage, and economic stakes — broken down in 10 charts.…

Iran executes 2 Islamic State members convicted of armed rebellion

Two members of the Islamic State group were executed after they were convicted of armed rebellion against the Islamic Republic, Iranian state television reported Tuesday.…

Researchers detail "context bombing", where defenders use prompt injections to trigger guardrails of attackers' LLMs, cutting AI hacking success rates by ~90% (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica : Researchers detail “context bombing”, where defenders use prompt injections to trigger guardrails of attackers' LLMs, cutting AI hacking success rates b…

Anthropic's extravagant tokenizer complicates AI pricing

Token consumption doesn't tell the whole tale but it shouldn't be ignored…

Prosecutors get long-withheld evidence on fatal shootings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti

Good, an unarmed US citizen and mother, was killed by immigration officer and Pretti was shot by CBP officials Previously withheld evidence regarding the fatal shootings of Renée G…

‘We’re Going To Go To the Jacobin Next’: Mamdani Handpicks Left-Wing Media for Questions

Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York, taking a page from communist predecessors, is moving to assure that he has a pliant, ideologically aligned press corps to serve as props for his p…

America has issues — and Bill O’Reilly has ideas for how to fix them

Bill O'Reilly is releasing a new book: “Confronting America: What Has to Change.”…

The Ridiculous Rise of Victor Marx

Once started, the process of voter radicalization isn’t easy to modulate.…

Video generation startup PixVerse raises $439M, valuation soars past $2B

Singapore-based video generation startup PixVerse closed a Series C extension on the strength of 15 million monthly active users, it said.…

X just tweaked its algorithm to make it more friendly, less battleground

The social media site says it will amplify posts made by users' mutual followers' to give the feed more of a communal feel.…

Massive wildfire explodes to twice size of Beverly Hills — as fire chief erupts over shocking sabotage

Deputies responded to the area, identified the drone operator, and ensured the device no longer posed a threat before firefighting aircraft could resume operations.…

Staggering cost of raising a child in California revealed, as state tops ‘most expensive’ charts

It costs to raise kiddos on the coast. Sunshine, surf and seriously steep expenses are on deck for new mommies and daddies in California, which has just been named one of the most …

World Cup Freddy Returns to X With More on His Trip Across America - Including Amazing 4th of July

As we reported a couple of weeks ago, Freddy, the World Cup tourist from Germany, who had been bringing people a lot of fun and joy with his posts about his road trip, deactivated …

Kalshi promo code NYPMAX: Trade $10, get $15 for the 2026 Open Championship

Trade $10, get $15 for The Open Championship with Kalshi promo code NYPMAX.…

Q&A with Xinzhou Wu, head of automotive at Nvidia, on Nvidia's chips and AI models for autonomous driving, lidar's usefulness for Level 4 autonomy, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Nilay Patel / The Verge : Q&A with Xinzhou Wu, head of automotive at Nvidia, on Nvidia's chips and AI models for autonomous driving, lidar's usefulness for Level 4 autonomy, and mo…

Libs panicking after Texas brings the Bible back to schools — Glenn Beck exposes their real agenda

The left is in hysterics after the Texas State Board of Education approved new K-12 language arts curriculum standards for the 2030-2031 school year that include specific Bible sto…

America’s retirement system is broken. Trump may have found a bold fix

Trump is eyeing Australia's retirement system as a model for portable retirement accounts that could reshape how millions of Americans save.…

TSMC Q2 revenue jumps 36% from a year earlier, beating market expectations - Reuters

TSMC Q2 revenue jumps 36% from a year earlier, beating market expectations Reuters…

SK Hynix Shares Drop in Seoul After Much-Hyped US Trading Debut - Bloomberg.com

SK Hynix Shares Drop in Seoul After Much-Hyped US Trading Debut Bloomberg.com…

The SpaceX IPO made history. Is the excitement still there?

A month on from the firm's stock market debut, the reality of how SpaceX currently makes money has seemed to come into clearer focus.…

'Quality decays exponentially following AI arrival': Experts leaving in droves

AI may have killed Stack Overflow while training on the same platform, as it pushed expert contributors away from the platform…

Fictional Worldbuilding: Multi-Agent LLM Collaboration with Hierarchical Context Compression and Iterative Review

arXiv:2607.09403v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Worldbuilding, the construction of coherent fictional worlds, is a foundational task in game design and literary creation. Large Lan…

Scoped Verification for Reliable Long-Horizon Agentic Context Evolution under Distribution Shift

arXiv:2607.09175v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deployed LLM agents rely on agentic context, the model-external textual control content assembled by an operational harness. In this…

CogniConsole: Externalizing Inference-Time Control as a Formal Abstraction for Reliable LLM Interactions

arXiv:2607.08774v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliability in large language model (LLM) systems is typically framed as a function of model capability. We challenge this by demons…

SpaceX's near-term AI payoff seen tethered to Earth, not outer space

EDX Markets Closes $76M Series C Led by SBI Holdings

EDX Markets, an institutional-only crypto trading venue with its own central clearinghouse, closed a $76 million Series C funding round led by SBI Holdings, the firm said in a pres…

China’s crude imports rebound as fuel export curbs ease, Middle East supplies rise

China's crude import rebound may drive global oil demand and prices higher, with potential geopolitical impacts on supply routes. The post China’s crude imports rebound as fuel exp…

Explosions reported in Iran’s Bandar Abbas amid regional tensions

The explosions in Bandar Abbas could destabilize Iran's regime, affecting regional security and global oil markets amid ongoing tensions. The post Explosions reported in Iran’s Ban…

AI microbusinesses could drive $262B in stablecoin volume by 2033: Swyftx

The AI-native cohort of the expanding gig economy could increasingly use stablecoins to avoid slow and expensive traditional payment rails, Australian crypto exchange Swyftx said.…

eToro Takes Strategic Stake in Onchain Derivatives Exchange Extended, Plans Zengo Tie-Up

eToro has become a strategic investor in Extended, an onchain perpetual futures exchange, and said the round begins a partnership with Zengo, the self-custody wallet eToro acquired…

Ethiopia: Ethiopia Launches AfCFTA Exports, Ships $15 Million in Goods

Ethiopia exported goods worth USD 15 million under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) framework during the 2018 Ethiopian fiscal year, marking a milestone in the coun…

Anthropic is giving away Claude Fable 5 at no extra cost for a limited time

Anthropic is offering paid Claude subscribers free access to Claude Fable 5 until July 19, after which continued use will require separate usage credits.…

Open weight AI models are facing an existential policy test in the US, with Anthropic leading a campaign against Chinese models over distillation concerns (Nathan Lambert/Interconnects AI)

Nathan Lambert / Interconnects AI : Open weight AI models are facing an existential policy test in the US, with Anthropic leading a campaign against Chinese models over distillatio…

Wimbledon finalist Alexander Zverev is using his tennis success to raise diabetes awareness - AP News

Wimbledon finalist Alexander Zverev is using his tennis success to raise diabetes awareness AP News…

Wall Street feasts on fees from SpaceX IPO and mega-mergers

Top US banks benefit from revival of large deals as AI optimism and strong consumer fuel market rally…

Nextdoor: Building An AI Business That Big Companies Can't Copy

Nextdoor has a strong, localized, and trusted network that it can leverage AI to create a more accurate and useful search experience for users. See why NXDR stock is a Buy.…

Liberia: President Boakai's Turkey Trip - Taxpayers Deserve Answers, Not Dismissal

President Joseph Nyuma Boakai's return from Turkey on July 11, 2026, should have been an opportunity to explain to the Liberian people the purpose, achievements, and expected benef…

South Africa: Displaced Migrants Face Severe Healthcare Crisis Amid Xenophobic Violence, Warns MSF

Médecins Sans Frontières says thousands displaced by anti-migrant violence are struggling to access healthcare, shelter and medication, while the government insists conditions at r…

I tried the 'Marshmallow Prompt' — and it completely fixes ChatGPT's most annoying habit

Add this simple prompt to eliminate excess fluff and generic filler from ChatGPT's responses…

Congo-Kinshasa: DR Congo Has Taken Rwanda to the World Court Over Genocide Again. a Law Scholar Explains What's Different This Time

Analysis - The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) filed a lawsuit against Rwanda at the International Court of Justice at the end of June 2026. The 60-page complaint alleges acts o…

Alex Eala returns home with new career-high ranking

Alex Eala is back in the Philippines at the peak of her powers as she climbs to a career-high No. 28 in the latest WTA rankings following her superb Wimbledon run…

Nifty Realty Index: How NSE measures performance of real estate sector

The Nifty Realty Index is a sectoral stock market index of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) that is benchmark of the performance of country's listed real estate companies. It is d…

Surging Red Sox cap first 9-0 road trip since '77

Hancock exits M's win in 2nd with bruised finger

Orioles' Alexander hit by pitch, has fractured han...

Sources: Spurs' Wemby inks $252M max extension

What's next: Why Max Holloway and Paddy Pimblett c...

Adapnex: PLC Programming for Software Engineers

Modern C++ SDK, device management and hardware procurement for industrial automation and controls.…

China June export growth cools, AI demand supports trade strength

China's June export growth cools to 5.8%, but AI demand supports trade. China's 2026 GDP growth below 1% at 0.1% YES, between 5% and 6% at 16.1% YES.…

Watch: US missiles rain down on Iran as Middle East tensions explode

The United States on Monday released footage of its latest military operation against Iran, showing fighter jets taking off from aircraft carriers and precision strikes on Iranian …

‘No matter how bad, it is always fixable’: how Bea Elton cleans up the houses – and lives – of desperate people

She has built an unlikely career in mould, maggots and excrement, cleaning for those who most need it. It can take months building trust with a stranger, before she and her boyfrie…

Beyond Fixed Representations: The Vocabulary and Verifier Gaps in Open-Ended AI

Modern AI systems are increasingly being evaluated for their ability to reason, code, prove theorems, use tools, and long-horizon research tasks. These are powerful capabilities, b…

Knowledge Graphs and Explainable AI as Complementary Resources for Urban Mining

Pre-demolition assessment, the regulated audit process at the heart of urban mining, is an information process in which AI support must serve qualified auditors who remain accounta…

TrustX Agent Risk Classification Framework (ARC): Risk-Tiering Internally Created Agentic AI Systems

The proliferation of agentic AI systems across enterprise and public-sector contexts has outpaced the capacity of general-purpose AI risk frameworks to classify and govern them. In…

ConceptSMILE: Auditing the Trustworthiness of Concept-Based Explainable AI

Concept-based explainable artificial intelligence (AI) can make model reasoning more human-understandable, but concept-level outputs are not automatically trustworthy. We introduce…