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Anthropic and OpenAI hunt for smaller data center deals, sources tell CNBC, in race to deploy AI capacity
Anthropic and OpenAI have announced a flurry of AI infrastructure deals over the past year as demand booms.
Nepal floods: ‘Apocalyptic’ destruction signals wider climate threat across Himalayas
The catastrophic flooding that swept away entire villages in northern Nepal could occur again in the country or elsewhere in the Himalayas due to climate change.
Rob Urie: Hack-Bots Gone Wild – Agentic AI Does What it Was Created to Do (and Revisiting the Fake Bond Market Panic) | naked capitalism
Some badly-needed sanity-checks on much-hyped stories: the agentic AI breakout and the (nowhere to be found) bond market freakout.
Yemen’s humanitarian crisis growing by the hour amid spike in displacement
People displaced by the renewed fighting in Yemen have described fleeing for their lives amid shelling and gunfire, aid agencies reported on Friday, while highlighting the dramatic increase in humanitarian needs in the c...
Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq slip as bond yields rise
Trump administration advances $24.3 billion fighter jet deal to Saudi Arabia as Houthis escalate attacks
The deal comes as Iran-backed Houthis escalate attacks on Saudi Arabia and seek control of the strategically important Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
UN mission finds evidence signaling U.S. war crimes in Iran; Washington rejects report
The UN mission pointed out the missile strike on a primary school that killed over 150 people, as well as another airstrike which killed 22 civilians.
New UN system platform puts millions of data points at users’ fingertips, says Guterres
How do you make sense of a world facing interconnected crises, from poverty and hunger to climate change, if the facts are scattered across dozens of different places?
Securitize jumps after regulators greenlight some tokenized U.S. stock trading
Securitize surged Thursday after federal regulators greenlit the issuing of tokenized stocks on some trading platforms in the U.S.
World News in Brief: Winter aid for Gaza, West Bank; Haiti food production; migrant deaths at sea; human rights funding
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is seeking to raise $97.5 million to protect 540,000 children and their families in Gaza and the West Bank from harsh winter conditions in the coming months.