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SpaceX says it’s building its largest spaceport yet, committing $100 billion for a Louisiana site—adding to its list of billion-dollar expansion plans
Louisiana is getting a taste of Musk’s big ideas as they get a part of the CEO’s billions-of-dollar-plans to bring humanity to space.
Google DeepMind is losing its grip on elite AI talent, new data shows
New data shared exclusively with Fortune shows the lab’s share of top research and engineering hires in Europe has fallen sharply as OpenAI, Anthropic, and a new generation of riv…
Without local languages, ‘AI is essentially useless’: Hong Kong’s Votee AI is taking on English and Mandarin’s AI dominance with a Cantonese model
Votee is one of a growing number of companies that are trying to tackle AI’s neglect of "low-resource" languages.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang eats dinner with someone ‘and their stock price doubles the next day’
People want to know where the CEO is dining, and more importantly, who he's with.
Qantas may hike fares and expand Jetstar add-on fees as profits dip to four-year low
Airline declines to predict impact of new carry-on luggage charge on Jetstar revenue or ticket sales, saying it is offering customers ‘choice’Follow our Australia news live blog f…
‘Forever chemicals’ surge during pilot of Thames Water plan to combat drought
Exclusive: utility company wants to draw off tens of millions of litres of water a day from Thames and replace it with treated effluentLevels of a toxic “forever chemical” rose to…
Giant cyborg cockroaches designed to help in search and rescue operations - video
Biorobotics engineers have been working on the design of six-legged cyborg insects with cameras and miniature medical injectors for search and rescue missions. The roaches are des…
Everyone hates datacentres. Do we really need them? – podcast
AI companies have promised us world-shifting technology. But there’s a cost: loud, unsightly datacentres that drain environmental resources. As the government pushes their rapid g…
Hot ticket: UK’s first sauna theatre draws swimwear-clad audiences
The 80-seat venue at Edinburgh fringe combines sauna rituals with theatre, music, storytelling … and sweatTucked away behind the Summerhall arts centre is the hottest new venue at…
Top of the crops: record heatwaves help deliver bumper UK berry harvest
Investment in climate-resilient irrigation enables this year’s haul to rise 6% on 2025’s already bigger-than-usual yieldBritish farmers have faced a sweltering summer tested by he…
The SaaSpocalypse that wasn’t – how Salesforce, Booking and IBM are thriving with AI
SaaSpocalypse now? More like a misguided panic that accidentally trampled the resilient winners of this misunderstood sector.
Ex-JPMorgan Chase executive shared confidential bank information with Epstein
Jes Staley told US House committee he also was at one point named a trustee of convicted sex offender’s estateFormer JPMorgan Chase executive Jes Staley told US lawmakers he repea…
Cyborg cockroaches with tiny syringes designed to join search and rescue teams in major disasters
Giant burrowing cockroaches with added cameras and medical injectors are being tested as potential ‘first responders’ in earthquakesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest …
Nvidia gave its first-ever year-ahead forecast—a 70% growth bombshell meant to silence AI bubble critics and ‘circular financing’ doomsayers
Nvidia’s stock climbed more than 4% in after-hours trading after delivering a blowout quarter and projecting $100 billion more revenue than analysts were expecting for next fiscal…
Key witness in Meta trial says terms of settlement insufficient to halt apps’ harms to teenagers
Exclusive: Arturo Béjar, an ex-Facebook employee and whistleblower, said outcome ‘is not an all clear to say the product is safe’Meta agrees to major changes to Facebook and Insta…
Drone video shows heat signature of datacenter turbines
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Nvidia’s quarterly revenue doubles to nearly $100bn as CEO declares ‘golden age’
The $5tn firm beat Wall Street expectations for yet another blockbuster quarter, though the stock made only modest gainsNvidia announced on Wednesday that its quarterly revenue ha…
Why Wall Street sees a $39,800 pancreatic cancer pill as proof of a much bigger bet
Dr. Danish Nagda, a shareholder in the developer, told Fortune it was "incredibly exciting ... maybe half a decade away from the post-cancer era."
Meta’s settlement will compel others to bend the knee and set up teen guardrails
Instagram and Facebook’s parent company agreed to sweeping alterations and a payment of upto $18bn to settle a landmark trialMeta’s agreement to change how teenagers use its socia…
Crypto traders turn Dolly Parton’s death into a memecoin frenzy
Tokens commemorating Parton appeared on popular memecoin platforms like Pump.fun, only to crash hours later.
Former CFTC Commissioner: Wall Street has used these financial contracts for decades. Now a goat herder does too
Because of prediction markets, for the first time ever, small businesses have access to risk management tools that Wall Street has used for years.
Nvidia doubled its quarterly revenue to $96 billion and crushes estimates—CEO Jensen Huang says demand is accelerating
Nvidia's second quarter fiscal 2027 earnings results were released after the market closed on Wednesday.
Don’t praise Meta ‘for what the court orders them to do’: Meta will only pay the full $17.1 billion settlement if TikTok and YouTube match it
State attorneys general guaranteed $12.1 billion. Meta says it's holding back $5.3 billion unless its rivals sign on.
CIA director visits Putin in Moscow in talks that Trump calls ‘sort of semi-routine’
Trump says Ratcliffe's trip was "sort of semi-routine." An expert on Russia's security services says it does not "happen every year."