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US President Donald Trump speaks during an announcement in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on July 29, 2026.Ken Cedeno | AFP | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump wants Congress to add tariffs on Iran to a sanctions bill against Russia and Tehran that has bipartisan support.Those duties would have little effect because the U.S. imports nearly nothing from Iran. But tacking them on to the bill may torpedo its chances of becoming law. While sanctions against the two countries have widespread support in Congress, Trump’s well-established belief in tariffs as a one-size-fits-all tool for economic coercion…

By Deborah Mary Sophia and Greg Bensinger July 30 (Reuters) – beat market expectations for quarterly cloud sales growth on Thursday, calming prior fears among investors over hefty planned outlays for artificial intelligence development. Shares in the Seattle-based online retailer jumped more than 9% after the market’s close, following a 3.9% rise during the trading session. Revenue at its cloud computing unit, Amazon Web Services, jumped 37% to $42.2 billion in the second quarter ended June 30, compared with analysts’ consensus estimate of a 31.21% increase, according to data compiled by LSEG.  “AWS is booming,” CEO Andy Jassy said in…

Amazon reported better-than-expected revenue and cloud growth for the second quarter. The stock shot up more than 9% in extended trading. Here’s how the company did, compared with estimates from analysts polled by LSEG:Earnings per share: $5.75 a share. That may not compare with the $1.82 per share expected by LSEGRevenue: $200.61 billion vs. $196.47 billion estimatedWall Street was also looking at other key revenue numbers:Amazon Web Services: $42.2 billion vs. $40.54 billion expected, according to StreetAccountAdvertising: $19.81 billion vs. $19.43 billion expected, according to StreetAccountRevenue in Amazon’s cloud segment expanded 37% year over year during the quarter, surpassing Wall…

Available for 27 daysLucy Porter is joined by John Tothill, Kyrah Gray and Amy Annette to talk all things current-ish events. Should politicians wear ties? Should children learn to read? And should we all now identify as Spanish? Hosted by Lucy Porter Written by Lucy Porter, Ruth Husko and Katie Sayer, with additional material by Mike Shephard Producer – Katie Sayer Assistant producer – Lorna Reader Executive producer – Victoria Lloyd A Mighty Bunny production for BBC Radio 4Programme WebsiteShow less Source link

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, July 30 (Reuters) – -owned ABC said on Thursday that the Federal Communications Commission’s threat to revoke the network’s broadcast licenses is part of an unprecedented campaign of intimidation over broadcast content the Trump administration dislikes. ABC said that the Trump administration agency’s nearly unprecedented decision to order an early license review of the eight Disney-owned ABC stations is a warning from the government to other media companies. “The retaliation against ABC is a signal to every media company in the country: accommodate the administration’s view of what news coverage should look like or pay the…

Vernet’s patch instead monitors cores to look for situations where a busy thread would benefit from an improved clock rate. The patch then temporarily sets just that core to the “performance” setting until the workload slows enough to downshift back into energy-saving EPP mode. The nitty-gritty implementation at a kernel level gets pretty complicated—read through Vernet’s write-up for all the details. But the worst-case performance improvements seem clear in early testing. Vernet’s testing on Civilization VI benchmarks saw a 31.8 percent improvement in the “1% low” fps measurement, and 4.1 percent faster p99 frame generation times (i.e., the point where 99…

Although the government has not made any announcements on the issue, Trump has praised what he perceives as a change of stance by the UK government. In a social media post, published the day before Burnham became prime minister,, external Trump wrote: “The People of Aberdeen, in Scotland, are dancing in the streets because the new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, has stated that he will be opening up, all the way, the invaluable North Sea Oil!”This week, when asked about his conversation with Burnham, Trump said: “He said he’s going to open up North Sea oil.”If he does that, you’re…

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Open AI CEO Sam Altman reacts as he attends the G7 summit, in Evian, eastern France, on June 17, 2026. Mandel Ngan | Afp | Getty ImagesOpenAI on Thursday announced it is slashing the price of two of its latest artificial intelligence models, GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-5.6 Luna, roughly three weeks after their public release. The company is facing pressure to cater to a more cost-sensitive customer base, where enterprises have been less inclined to deploy expensive models without a clear picture of the return on their investments. It’s also working to fend off competition from Chinese startups and tech giants…

The current row began after Polanski shared a single post on Instagram that contained a carousel of 20 pictures.The re-post was shared to Polanski’s 713,000 followers, because he accepted a request to tag him as a collaborator, which on the platform makes him a “co-author,” placing it on his page and into his followers’ feeds.Polanski said he had not noticed the offending image among the others on the post.According to him, he had accepted collaborator tags for eight other posts from the same event in Bristol alone.Reform UK leader Farage claimed the t-shirt amounted to incitement to murder and his…