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Investing.com – European shares mostly rose on Thursday, as a massive wave of solid corporate earnings led by an energetic profit beat from oil major helped offset an ambiguous interest rate outlook from the Federal Reserve and fresh U.S. airstrikes in Iran.  The pan-European index rose by 0.8%. Germany’s gained 0.5% and France’s jumped 0.9%, as stellar bottom-line results across continental powerhouses provided a vital buffer against macro headwinds and geopolitical friction. London’s underperformed, falling 0.1% after the Bank of England kept borrowing costs steady.   Energy heavyweight Shell gave regional benchmarks an early lift, more than doubling its second-quarter adjusted profit…

Chip stocks rocketed on Thursday after strong tech earnings from Microsoft and Lam Research sparked a widespread rally, fueling double-digit gains for hard-hit semiconductor companies. Lam Research shares popped 20% and headed for their best day since 1999. The company posted strong earnings and guidance on artificial intelligence-driven demand. Microsoft popped 15% after signaling strong growth in its Azure business and lifting capital expenditures on robust demand. Shares headed for their best day since 2008.Memory stocks also surged as Samsung warned the memory crunch could last into 2028. Micron and Sandisk rallied 13% and 21%, respectively. The stocks sold off…

Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche arrives to speak during a news conference at the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice building on April 07, 2026 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump on Thursday said he is open to “temporarily withdrawing” Todd Blanche’s nomination as U.S. attorney general until after two Republican holdouts, Sens. John Cornyn and Thom Tillis, leave office next year.Trump floated that possibility in a Truth Social post after excoriating the GOP senators over their continued refusal to back Blanche, the current acting AG, due to lingering concerns about the Department of Justice’s…

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The hope is that the changes, detailed in the protocol’s documentation, will make widespread deployment in an enterprise context much easier. MCP started as something that simply ran on a local machine, connecting models to local apps, so the new spec is a major rethink of some of its foundations. There is also a new deprecation policy that ensures at least 12 months between when a feature’s formal deprecation is enacted and when the feature may actually be removed—with a narrow exception for critical security updates. This is again in keeping with the general “let’s make this work better at…

European football’s governing body Uefa and Prime Minister Andy Burnham have criticised proposals from Fifa to seek private investment in its competitions, including the World Cup.Fifa – the sport’s global governing body – said it intends to expand “football development funding” to more than $10bn (£7.5bn) and invite third-party investment in a new venture.The story was first reported in the Financial Times and the Times, with the latter claiming the plans could potentially earn Fifa president Gianni Infantino tens of millions of pounds.In a lengthy statement outlining the proposals, Fifa says it will “invite third parties to make minority, non-controlling…

POWER POINTWhat I’m hearing from energy insiders”Meet the new boss, same as the old boss”The classic lyric from The Who’s masterpiece “Won’t Get Fooled Again” certainly applies to the global energy markets. The ‘boss’ is a headline about the breaking of any fragile peace around Iran and every time oil prices fall, the markets seem to get fooled (again).I was all set to write this week’s piece highlighting some of the optimism around Iran and energy markets. Then Iranian militants launched a surprise missile attack on U.S. forces in Jordan. The barrage was repelled before it could do any damage.…

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the BlackRock Infrastructure Summit on March 11, 2026 in Washington, DC.Anna Moneymaker | Getty ImagesOpenAI said the rogue models that breached Hugging Face’s internal systems also used publicly exposed credentials across “four accounts on four services” to help facilitate the attack, further clarifying how the “unprecedented cyber incident” unfolded.   The company disclosed last week that a combination of its artificial intelligence models escaped an isolated testing environment that had very limited internet access. The models chained together a series of vulnerabilities to reach the open web and eventually gain access to Hugging Face, which operates…

There has been a large rise in the number of offenders being recalled to prisons in England and Wales having been released on licence, new government figures show.There were 51,419 licence recalls in the year ending March 2026, up from 40,259 in the previous year – a 28% increase.Although recalls in January to March were slightly lower than the previous three-month period, they remain well above historical levels.The figures follow government schemes to release a number of offenders early in an effort to ease prison overcrowding.The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) said offenders released on licence face strict conditions “and can…