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CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Wednesday the AI data center trade is reclaiming its place at the center of the market.”Today was one of those days where if you bet against the data center, you got trampled,” the “Mad Money” host said. “Of course the best time to buy was when Situational Awareness was forced to sell its holdings … but let’s just say the prices are still below their peaks and now seem primed to go higher.”Many once-hot AI infrastructure stocks started to cool in late June and continued struggling through much of July until the forced unwind of highly…

Terabytes worth of credentials, many belonging to the world’s biggest and most sensitive organizations, have been exposed in a supply-chain attack on LiteLLM, an open source tool that streamlines AI-driven software development. Microsoft, Amazon, Cisco, Samsung, and Salesforce are only a handful of the entities whose access secrets were exposed. The revelation was posted on Tuesday and Wednesday by security firms CloudSEK and Hudson Rock. CloudSEK said it found cloud keys, repository tokens, SSH keys, Kubernetes secrets, package publishing credentials, environment variables, and AI provider keys that could allow attackers to gain access to more than 2,500 organizations. 40 minutes…

Cisco Chairman and CEO Chuck Robbins speaks at a keynote address at the Cisco Live! conference in Las Vegas on June 7, 2023.Ethan Miller | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty ImagesCisco shares dropped in extended trading on Wednesday despite a better-than-expected earnings report and a revenue forecast that sailed past estimates.Here’s how the company did compared with analyst estimates, according to LSEG:Earnings per share: $1.22 adjusted vs. $1.17 expectedRevenue: $17.25 billion vs. $16.82 billion expectedEntering the fiscal fourth-quarter report, Wall Street had turned bullish on Cisco, pushing the stock up more than 60% this quarter and about 8% this month…

Other parties have come up with their own ideas for dealing with overcrowding in prisons.At a news conference on Monday, Reform UK suggested 10,000 prison spaces could be freed up if all foreign criminals were sent abroad to serve their sentences.Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said his party was exploring options to transfer foreign criminals in the UK to prisons in other countries, including El Salvador and Kosovo.When asked if he had other countries in mind, Farage said: “Yes there are Baltic state options as well.”I mean, conversations could certainly be had with Lithuania, for example, or perhaps Estonia as…

Performance might match JCB’s diesel engines, but 74 hp (55 kW) won’t go very fast on the salt. Instead, each of the two hydrogen engines powering the JCB Hydromax has been seriously worked on, increasing their outputs to 800 hp (597 kW) apiece. That required doubling the engine speed to a heady 3,800 rpm, replacing the pushrod valves with double overhead camshafts for better control over timing, and moving to direct fuel injection at much higher pressure than the production engine. JCB also dry-sumped the engine, cut weight, and improved cooling. The JCB Hydromax even uses two ice tanks to…

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during a press briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on July 16, 2026.Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty ImagesWhite House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will leave that post by the end of August, President Donald Trump said on Wednesday.Leavitt, 28, is leaving “so she can spend more time with her beautiful young children and family, a decision I totally understand and respect!” Trump said in a Truth Social post announcing her planned departure.The president said that Leavitt will become “one of my top outside advisors,” and…

Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a “Morning Meeting” livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here’s a recap of Wednesday’s key moments. 1. Stocks were modestly higher Wednesday on a subdued inflation report . The July consumer price index saw both the headline and core rates come in as expected, with gains easing a bit from June. Jim Cramer called the print “very benign,” pointing to market odds going down to about 40% for an interest rate hike at the Federal Reserve’s September meeting and 60% for a hold, according to the CME FedWatch tool. The CPI…

Larger table areas are being set up at the count venue of Clacton Leisure Centre so the long ballot papers can be verified, sorted into piles and then counted.Voting takes place at polling booths across the constituency, external from 07:00 until 22:00.The first ballot boxes are expected to arrive 10 minutes after the polls close. With the constituency consisting of rural villages and seaside towns, the last ones should arrive by 23:30.Records have already been broken for this election: Some 79,785 people are registered to vote in this by-election. Of those, 10,716 have already received a postal vote.In 2024, the…

James said that “no matter what they call themselves, prediction markets like Kalshi are gambling platforms, plain and simple. By ignoring our laws, Kalshi is running an illegal operation and harming New Yorkers in the process.” Trump admin claims exclusive authority The CFTC says it alone has the power to regulate platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket under the Commodity Exchange Act, a US law that gives the CFTC exclusive jurisdiction over designated contract markets (DCMs). “These are financial exchanges that offer financial instruments and operate across state lines,” Selig said yesterday. “They match the bid from a resident of…

Home Office minister Anna Turley has said the government is sticking with plans to accommodate asylum-seekers on former military bases despite protests from local residents. She told the BBC the government’s priority was to ensure asylum-seekers were looked after in a “secure” and “appropriate” place. That included disused Ministry of Defence properties because they had on-site facilities and were “more contained,” she added.But campaigners in areas earmarked for asylum centres have said small communities with limited infrastructure would not be able to cope with large numbers of people. There have been protests in Piddington, Oxfordshire, over plans to house more…