Posts by Susan Darwin
World Cup: Jude Bellingham criticism ‘hard to read’ says Jordan Henderson
England’s Jordan Henderson says he finds it “hard to read” what is written about Jude Bellingham but believes the midfielder can be the team’s “X-factor” at the World Cup. One of the biggest talking points before England’s first game of the tournament against Croatia on Wednesday (21:00 BST) has been whether Bellingham or Morgan Rogers…
Read MoreSkoda’s Peaq is a seven-seat electric SUV that undercuts the Kia EV9 by thousands
TL;DR Skoda’s Peaq seven-seat EV starts around €50,000 with up to 600km range and V2H charging, undercutting the Kia EV9 and Ioniq 9 significantly. Skoda has revealed the Peaq, its first seven-seat all-electric SUV and the most expensive car in the Czech automaker’s 130-year history. Built on the Volkswagen Group’s MEB platform at Skoda’s home…
Read MoreUK marines board Russian shadow fleet oil tanker in English Channel
Royal Marine Commandos boarded the vessel in an operation lasting six hours in the early hours of Sunday. Source link
Read MoreTrump’s name being removed from Kennedy Center after judge order
Crews erected scaffolding on Friday as onlookers gathered into the evening, though storms delayed the work until Saturday. Source link
Read MoreAndrew Yang says the next startup wave isn’t building AI. It’s lowering the cost of living.
TL;DR Yang says AI will compress wages and the opportunity is startups that lower living costs. Noble Mobile gives money back. Investors only want AI companies. Andrew Yang thinks the biggest startup opportunity of the next decade is not building AI. It is lowering the cost of living for the people AI is about to…
Read MoreWorld Cup 2026: Bellingham, but no Guehi – England’s expected team
Indeed, if that is the case, it appears that John Stones and Ezri Konsa will start the World Cup as England’s first-choice central defensive pairing. That would come as a shock to many given the widely held view that Marc Guehi was the team’s first-choice centre-back. Guehi, since his move from Crystal Palace to Manchester…
Read MoreAI rivals Altman, Amodei, Hassabis head to G7 summit
The chief executives of the three most powerful artificial intelligence companies on Earth are about to sit in the same room as the leaders of the world’s seven largest advanced economies. OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis are all slated to attend the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, France, which runs…
Read MoreWorld Cup kicks off in Mexico with Shakira, dancing, and protests
There was a star-studded opening ceremony, and some sporadic clashes between police and protesters around the Azteca stadium. Source link
Read MoreSatispay reportedly plans EUR 120M raise for stock trading
TL;DR Italian fintech unicorn Satispay is reportedly planning to raise up to EUR 120 million to fund its expansion into stock trading, ETFs, savings, and pensions. Existing backers including Addition, Lightrock, and Greyhound Capital have reportedly committed about half, with a shareholder vote set for 29 June Satispay, the Milan-based mobile payments company that became…
Read MoreUS and Iran exchange strikes across Middle East for second day in a row
The US carries out strikes on military targets in southern Iran. Tehran responds by targeting US military assets in Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan. Source link
Read MoreUS and Iran exchange fire after American patrol helicopter downed in Hormuz
According to US officials, Iran used a drone to launch the attack on the helicopter. But it is not clear whether the Iranian drone had deliberately attacked, an unnamed US official told CBS News, the BBC’s US partner. The semi-official Mehr News Agency reported that Iran had not claimed responsibility for the downed aircraft. Source…
Read MoreThe $2 trillion AI infrastructure problem no one is talking about, and the engineer solving it
The AI infrastructure earnings calls of the past eight quarters have given the public a precise vocabulary for what the build-out costs in capital. Hyperscaler GPU procurement. Power purchase agreements. Real-estate footprints. The vocabulary they have not given the public is for what it costs to keep the clusters healthy on a recurring basis after…
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