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But the technical specs haven’t changed. Premium R1s still have the same 329 mile (530 km) range, with a larger battery as an option that increases range to 410 miles (660 km) for the R1S and 420 miles (675 miles) for the R1T. Power is still 533 hp (397 kW), upgradable to 655 hp (488 kW). And you still have a choice of the same two interiors (now named Black Mountain and Ocean Coast), although only the black one can be specified with the middle bench seat. Captain’s chairs add $1,500 on top of the required $2,500 Sound+Vision package, or…
Section 21 “no-fault” evictions, where tenants can be evicted without giving a reason, are widely regarded as a key driver of homelessness, and were banned from May 2026.But Romesha said “Section 21 is not the problem”, adding: “My issue is the government allowing landlords to skyrocket rental prices, which are not in line with salaries.”It doesn’t add up.”The Labour government pledged to build 1.5 million new homes in England over the course of this Parliament, but is currently not on course to meet that target. “It is shameful that a record number of children are growing up without a home…
Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi speaks at the HumanX conference in San Francisco on April 7, 2026.Big Event Media | HumanX Conference | Getty ImagesDatabricks on Thursday said it closed a $5 billion funding round at a $190 billion valuation.The company said that it has crossed $7 billion in revenue run rate and grown more than 80% year-over-year in its second quarter.Databricks said it will use the funding to support enterprise AI capabilities, including its Unity AI Gateway governance tool and Genie agentic tool.The funding round comes six months after the private data analytics software company raised $5 billion in funding…
A woman and a child walk past Iranian-made Zolfaghar missiles displayed at Azadi Square in Tehran on July 24, 2026. Afp | Getty ImagesIran is set to join the BRICS New Development Bank, the country’s central bank chief said Thursday, as Tehran seeks to shore up its economic alliances almost six months into its war with the U.S. and Israel. The BRICS alliance was set up in 2006 by founding members Brazil, Russia, India and China, with South Africa joining in 2010. It has since expanded to include Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Indonesia, with various other…
“We’re adding marking to Claude’s output to comply with the EU AI Act, and other labs are taking similar steps,” Anthropic said. “It’s hard to identify AI-generated text, and this gives people better tools for identification. Text from supported Claude models, including output from Claude Code, will carry an invisible watermark, and it doesn’t change the meaning, quality, or readability of Claude’s responses. We also plan to ship a text detection API so users can do more of this themselves.” The fun is just starting In the EU, transparency requirements are meant to ensure AI tools like Claude don’t upset…
Businesses could face costs of up to £2.9bn a year because of a crackdown on zero hours contracts, according to the government’s own analysis.Labour’s employment reforms are set to cut the number of hours staff can work before they must be offered guaranteed time.Official analysis released on Wednesday showed it could cost employers between £350m and £2.9bn, based on the eventual threshold of hours the policy impacts.Skills Minister Baroness Jacqui Smith said the reforms would ensure workers are “fairly paid” but business groups said the cost to employers was “disproportionate” compared to how much it would help workers.Government analysis said…
The Icelandic and Canadian consulates building, left, in the historic old district of Nuuk, Greenland, on Wednesday, June 24, 2026. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesA Texas-based company with links to President Donald Trump has delayed plans to drill for oil in Greenland, after the Arctic island’s government issued a “strong warning” to its joint venture partner for bringing equipment ashore without permission.Greenland Energy Company, a Nasdaq-listed oil and gas exploration firm, said Wednesday that it was now working toward a targeted permit timeline for winter 2027, delaying its plans to try to unlock the hydrocarbon potential of the Jameson…
This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox.Happy Thursday. “Euro summer” might have cost some travelers a pretty penny this week: Hotel and short-term rental prices surged around yesterday’s rare solar eclipse.Stock futures are slightly higher this morning after a mixed session for Wall Street.Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day:1. Green flagA customer shops for cilantro at a Walmart Supercenter on July 23, 2026, in Austin, Texas.Brandon Bell | Getty ImagesWhile the headline reading of yesterday’s consumer price ticked modestly higher in July, the pace of annual…
US President Donald Trump during an executive order signing in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Aug. 10, 2026.Bonnie Cash | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesTwo top Democratic lawmakers are pushing President Donald Trump for answers on the mountain of stock trades made in his name since he returned to the White House.In a 17-page letter sent Wednesday and seen by CNBC, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Rep. Robert Garcia of California asked Trump to reveal the money managers he says are in charge of all his investment decisions.They also pressed him to…
As AI models gain advanced capabilities to find vulnerabilities in software, develop ways to exploit them, and even carry out autonomous hacking sprees, researchers offered a sobering new example on Tuesday, disclosing vulnerabilities in the video conferencing platform Zoom that could have been exploited to take over targets’ devices. Anyone on a call that involved screen sharing, whether participants or the host, would have been vulnerable to a silent attack that could be carried out with no indication and no interaction from the victim. Researchers from the digital defense firm A Security say the bug was discovered in early June…