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The US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, June 30, 2026. Graeme Sloan | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesPresidents and other federal officials would be banned from issuing or sponsoring cryptocurrency and other digital assets under newly updated legislation the Senate is considering.Republicans on Wednesday updated a measure already under consideration — known as the Clarity Act, major legislation to govern the broader digital asset market. Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., the bill’s lead sponsor, provided CNBC with the bill text, which now includes the first limits on how presidents may profit off of crypto.The bill would tap the Department of…
OpenAI Ceo Sam Altman speaks to journalists after meeting with US House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on June 3, 2026. Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty ImagesOpenAI said that its artificial intelligence models were behind an “unprecedented cyber incident” that affected the open-source developer platform Hugging Face, rattling researchers across the industry. The company said a combination of its models GPT‑5.6 Sol and a more capable model that has not yet been released escaped a sandboxed testing environment, accessed the internet and exploited a vulnerability to gain access to Hugging Face’s systems. The model was…
Deutsche Boerse reports 12% profit rise in second quarter Source link
Tesla is set to announce second-quarter results after the bell on Wednesday, three weeks after reporting a 25% year-over-year increase in vehicle deliveries. Here’s what Wall Street expects, according to estimates from analysts polled by LSEG:Earnings per share: 51 cents expectedRevenue: $25.71 billion expectedTesla’s earnings report lands in the midst of a steep decline in its stock price, which is down about 10% this month and 16% for the year. That slide has coincided with a drop in SpaceX, Elon Musk’s other trillion-dollar company, which held a record market debut in June and has lost almost 40% of its value…
‘It’s going to help us’ – public respond to bus fare cut. Source link
Google parent Alphabet reports fiscal second-quarter results after the bell. Here’s what analysts are expecting, according to LSEG.Earnings per share: $2.89Revenue: $116.9 billion estimatedGoogle’s earnings mark the first major test this earnings season for the ballooning capital expenditures trade fueling the artificial intelligence revolution.In recent months, technology giants have poured billions into building new data center infrastructure to keep pace with skyrocketing demand for compute. But those massive investments have started to raise questions over the sustainability of long-term demand. Consensus estimates from FactSet expect $187.1 billion in capex this year for Alphabet. Google’s AI pipeline is also top of…
US politicians pitch aviation, space business at Farnborough Airshow Source link
A photon is a single particle of light, and under normal circumstances, it can’t be divided. But a photon is also not a particle, in the sense that it does not have a specific location. Instead, it is an extended object. So if a photon is only partway through the process of reflecting from a perfect mirror and you yank the mirror away, what happens? The answer, from a trio of Norwegian physicists, turns out (arxiv.org link) to be more complex than I expected. A photon divided? Let’s first talk briefly about dividing and combining photons. If this were a…
The U.S. House is due to take up legislation Wednesday afternoon that would stop members of Congress from buying individual stocks while in office, potentially taking the first meaningful action on an issue that has dogged lawmakers for years.There is broad public support for a ban on members of Congress trading while in office, as lawmakers’ well-timed trades and booming portfolios have raised insider trading concerns among ethics watchdogs and drawn intense public scrutiny going back decades.But the GOP-led legislation before the House, dubbed the Stop Insider Trading Act, falls well short of what the most vocal advocates of a…
Iran’s Houthi allies in Yemen have completed preparations to attack ships transiting the Red Sea’s southern access point, a maritime security group led by the U.S. Navy has warned. “Sources close to the group stated that the Houthis have completed preparations to attack shipping, including the deployment of missiles and drones positioned near Bab el-Mandeb,” the Joint Maritime Information Center, or JMIC, told mariners in a notice Tuesday. The center, headquartered in Bahrain, provides security updates to commercial ships in the Middle East. The Houthis have repeatedly threatened to close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait during the U.S.-Iran war. The strait…