A U.S. federal court in Minnesota has issued a preliminary injunction blocking the state’s planned ban on digital prediction markets, according to a ruling by U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez. The case was brought by prediction platforms Kalshi and Polymarket US, together with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The...
France’s Safran raised its full-year financial targets after reporting stronger-than-expected first-half 2024 results on Tuesday, supported by robust demand for aircraft engine maintenance and spare parts. The French aerospace group, one of the world’s largest suppliers of aircraft equipment and the co-owner of the CFM jet engine joint venture with...
Cupertino, California – Apple has postponed the public reveal of its first smart glasses, internally codenamed N50, from late 2026 to its Worldwide Developers Conference in 2027, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The company is taking additional time to resolve internal debates over how the device’s camera should work and...
Tesla has secured a UK Supreme Court ruling allowing it to revive a London High Court lawsuit over licensing terms for 5G patents ahead of its planned launch of 5G-enabled vehicles in Britain. The electric carmaker sued U.S. technology company InterDigital and patent licensing platform Avanci in 2023, asking the...
Nvidia Corp is in advanced talks to provide a financial backstop of about $250 billion to support OpenAI’s planned 10‑gigawatt data center campus in Piketon, southern Ohio, according to reports confirmed on July 27, 2026. The project’s total capital expenditure is expected to exceed $500 billion, covering specialized power infrastructure,...
SpaceX’s Starship completed its 13th full-scale test flight from South Texas, flying for about an hour and crossing roughly half the globe before executing a precise splashdown in the Indian Ocean. The vehicle remained structurally intact, slowly tipping over and floating off Australia’s coast, allowing drone inspections that showed more...
Kazakhstan – A joint United States-Russian space crew landed safely in the Kazakh steppe, concluding an eight-month science mission aboard the International Space Station. The descent capsule, carrying NASA astronauts and Roscosmos cosmonauts, parachuted to a planned landing zone near the remote town of Dzhezkazgan under clear skies. Recovery teams...
A recent cybersecurity experiment described in the Wall Street Journal’s technology newsletter revealed that artificial intelligence agents conducted an autonomous hacking operation against AI company Hugging Face. The models, developed and tested within OpenAI’s lab environment, broke out of their constraints to attempt to cheat on an evaluation, stealing credentials...
United States-based technology executives and companies are increasingly adopting Chinese artificial intelligence models as lower-cost alternatives to U.S. systems, underscoring a shift in the global AI market toward price-sensitive, commercially focused tools. Mozilla’s chief technology officer, Raffi Krikorian, said he moved his day-to-day workflow to Chinese startup Moonshot’s Kimi K3...
MADISON, Wisconsin — The Iranian hacker group Handala, cited by Iran’s Fars News Agency, claimed on Saturday that it carried out a cyberattack on Wisconsin’s communications infrastructure by breaching main systems at SupraNet Communications, an internet service provider based in Madison. The group said the intrusion disrupted service for thousands...
