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US military strikes Iran’s Qeshm port and Bandar Abbas, Fox News reporter says | Reuters

The U.S. military on Thursday carried out ‌strikes on Iran’s Qeshm port and Bandar Abbas, a Fox News reporter said in a post on X, citing a ⁠senior U.S. official.

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CENTCOM Protects U.S. Warships Transiting Strait of Hormuz > U.S. Central Command > Press Release View

TAMPA, Fla. — U.S. forces intercepted unprovoked Iranian attacks and responded with self-defense strikes as U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyers transited the Strait of Hormuz to the Gulf of Oman, May

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Musk v. Altman Evidence Shows What Microsoft Executives Thought of OpenAI | WIRED

The emails show how Microsoft, at the time, wavered over what has since been held up as one of the most successful corporate partnerships in tech history. Several Microsoft executives said in the emails their visits to OpenAI did not indicate any imminent breakthroughs in developing artificial ...

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British voters have spoken in local elections seen as a verdict on Keir Starmer’s leadership

Starmer’s center-left Labour Party is bracing for big losses in polls that could trigger a move to oust the leader who led them to power less than two years ago.

🔒 Starmer Braces for Local Election Losses Amid New Era of UK Politics - The New York Times

James Curry, 60, a social worker from Dumbarton, has in the past supported the Scottish National Party, which campaigns for independence from the United Kingdom and has led the Scottish Parliament for nearly 20 years.

UK government wins Supreme Court appeal over Northern Ireland legacy law | Reuters

Britain on Thursday won its appeal over a law to address the legacy of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland, ‌with the United Kingdom's top court ruling the law did not breach a 2023 agreement governing post-Brexit trade in Northern Ireland.

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Anthropic Debuts Natural Language Autoencoders to Decode AI ‘Thoughts’ - BitRss - Crypto World News

Anthropic's Natural Language Autoencoders turn AI activations into readable text, offering breakthroughs in safety audits and AI interpretability. (Read More)

United Kingdom Joins Emirates and Qatar Airways in Expanding In-Flight Calling, Allowing Voice and Video Calls on All Wi-Fi Flights Worldwide - Travel And Tour World

British Airways now allows voice and video calls on all Wi-Fi-equipped flights, joining Emirates and Qatar Airways. Here's how this impacts your travel experience.

Partial results show losses for Starmer’s Labour and wins for Reform UK in local elections

Reform UK, running on an anti-establishment, anti-immigration message, also is eyeing breakthroughs in Scotland and Wales, though pro-independence nationalists the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru are more likely to form governments in Edinburgh and Cardiff.

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One gateway to Thailand? Singapore startups tap Bangkok’s Rise to reach corporates

“Legit companies with breakthroughs are typically two to five years old,” said James Currier, general partner at NFX, a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm investing in pre-seed and seed-stage startups.

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Benjamin Franklin's experiments with lightning in the 1750s proved that lightning was electrical and led to the invention of the lightning rod.

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