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US says second day of strikes ‘completed’ – as it happened | US-Israel war on Iran | The Guardian

Since a ceasefire was agreed between the two sides in April, there have been a number of breaches, but the attacks this week – launched after the downing of a US helicopter over the strait of Hormuz – mark the most severe and extensive breakdown of the truce to date.

US launches new strikes on Iran and Iran retaliates | AP News

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US strikes Iran for second straight night

"We will strike them hard tonight and hopefully Iran makes a good decision," Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said.

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🔒 China's Medical Tourism Boom Draws Foreign Patients Seeking Cutting-Edge Care - Bloomberg

Scientific breakthroughs, price and availability are making the country an increasingly attractive destination for patients from abroad seeking care.

Xanadu Quantum Breakthroughs Reshape Photonic Hardware Efficiency And Investor Outlook

Xanadu Quantum Technologies (TSX:XNDU) reports an ultra low loss photonic chip edge coupling breakthrough, targeting a key hurdle in scalable quantum hardware. The company also unveils a new Quantum Read Only Memory algorithm that cuts core quantum memory operations in half.

'AI will kill us all anyway': Days before SpaceX IPO, former xAI engineer says he was fired after warning about Grok's safety risks | - The Times of India

Behind the personal dispute lies one of the most consequential debates in technology.The AI industry is moving at extraordinary speed. New models are released within months of one another. Companies compete fiercely for users, investment and technical breakthroughs.

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U.K. leaders call for calm as protests break out after Belfast street stabbing

U.K. leaders called for calm Tuesday after the arrest of a Sudanese man accused of trying to kill a man in a vicious stabbing on a Belfast street sparked fiery anti-immigration protests.

🔒 In Belfast, riots and mayhem follow alleged stabbing by Sudanese asylum seeker - The Washington Post

BELFAST — Masked men set houses, vehicles and a city bus ablaze in Belfast on Tuesday night, torching neighborhoods across the city after a graphic video of an alleged knife attack by a Sudanese asylum seeker went viral, igniting the latest anti-immigration violence to convulse the United Kingdom.

UK summer job vacancies down 31% from 2025, Indeed says | Reuters

British employers are offering almost a third fewer summer jobs this year than in 2025, adding to the challenges facing young people struggling to get a foothold ‌in the job market, figures from recruitment platform Indeed showed on Wednesday.

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FinancialContent - CoreWeave Announces Intention to Offer $3.5 Billion of Senior Notes

CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud ... a force multiplier by combining superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs....

Rubrik Launches Rubrik Agent Cloud for Anthropic's Claude Code

ABR for Cloud Applications delivers three primary breakthroughs:

CoreWeave Announces Intention to Offer $3.5 Billion of Senior Notes

CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud ... a force multiplier by combining superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs....

Busting The Misleading Assertion That AI Will Intellectually Homogenize Our Minds And Reduce Human Brains To Mush

This analysis of AI breakthroughs is part of my ongoing Forbes column coverage on the latest in AI, including identifying and explaining various impactful AI complexities (see the link here).

Infosys, HCL Tech, other IT stocks tumble up to 3%. What's spooking investors? - The Economic Times

IT stocks have been under pressure in recent months. Earlier this year, the sector witnessed a sharp selloff after breakthroughs by AI startups fuelled concerns about potential disruption to the traditional IT services business model. While intermittent buying emerged on hopes that fears of ...

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Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969, during the Apollo 11 mission.

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