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The SpaceX logo is displayed at a SpaceX facility on Aug. 4, 2026 in Hawthorne, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesShort sellers betting against SpaceX are rapidly retreating from the trade, just as the newly public stock rebounds from its post-IPO slump.Short interest in SpaceX fell to about 11% of the company’s publicly traded shares Wednesday, down sharply from a peak of 34% last week, according to S3 Partners. The decline reflects a combination of bearish investors closing out positions and a significant expansion of the stock’s tradable float following the first major lockup expiration.”Shorts that wanted to short are…

Alphabet on Wednesday unveiled its new Pixel 11 smartphone lineup, putting its most agentic version of Gemini yet at the center of the devices just weeks before Apple is expected to roll out a rebuilt Siri powered by Google’s AI models.The new lineup includes the Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, Pixel 11 Pro XL and Pixel 11 Pro Fold. But Google’s hardware pitch leans just as heavily on Gemini Intelligence — a suite of artificial intelligence features designed to understand what a user is doing on the phone and take action across different apps.For example, Gemini Intelligence can connect information…

Police officers and sniffer dogs were in the grounds of the abbey ahead of the service, which lasted about 90 minutes.The private requiem mass included a homily from the Rt Rev David Charlesworth, Abbot of Buckfast.He said: “In the midst of the shock, clamour and sometimes unwarranted comment surrounding her death, our response is to pray for the repose of her soul, to give thanks for her fortitude, and offer Holy Mass in this Abbey Church which Ann called her safe haven.”A statement from the Abbey Church earlier said Widdecombe would be “missed and fondly remembered” and “many in our…

The Fortune 500 is an annual list compiled by Fortune magazine that ranks the 500 largest United States corporations by total revenue. Amazon currently holds the number one spot, recently displacing Walmart’s long streak. In the 72 years since the creation of the Fortune 500 list, only three companies before Amazon occupied the top spot. General Motors, ExxonMobil, and, most recently, the aforementioned Walmart.Amazon continues to grow the topline at an impressive rate. FY 2026 revenues are estimated at more than $828 billion, more than 2.5% of US GDP, and 15.5% YoY growth. Despite the solid rate of growth, the…

Meanwhile, rare booksellers continue to flag strange orders, recognizing that most sincere buyers tend to seek out single books, not order large batches of widely varying selections. Just yesterday, an Irish bookstore called Kennys flagged a “bananas” order for 5,000 obscure titles, The Irish Times reported. Unlike bulk orders placed by universities or big libraries, this order seemed suspicious because the buyer made no attempt to haggle on the price—which has now become an obvious “red flag” that AI is potentially involved, the Times reported. Although some booksellers said they could benefit in the short term from large orders, they…

President Donald Trump was sued on Wednesday over the controversial sale of advance notifications of his posts on Truth Social.The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, notes that Trump’s posts on his own social media site often move financial markets.”President Donald Trump is charging $100,000 per month for advance access to his official government announcements on Truth Social, the social media platform he owns,” the civil suit says.”This scheme is extraordinary, corrupt, and unconstitutional, and Plaintiffs bring this case to stop it.”The suit was filed by The Intercept Media, a news organization, and by the Freedom of the…

A trader watches the screen at his terminal on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York.Lucas Jackson | ReutersAfter years of standing in the sun, retail investors could have a dark cloud forming over their heads.Technological advancements helped level the playing field for Main Street and Wall Street investors over decades. Following the Covid trading boom and a banner performance in 2025, individual investors became a mainstay of today’s markets and shook off their “dumb money” stigma.But advocates for small investors now warn that efforts to change corporate earnings, Federal Reserve communication and social media access…

(L to R) Jensen Huang, President and CEO of Nvidia Corporation, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, arrive for a U.S. Senate bipartisan Artificial Intelligence Insight Forum at the US Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 13, 2023.Andrew Caballero-reynolds | Afp | Getty ImagesLast month, American tech giants came together to urge policymakers not to place “premature restrictions” on open-weight AI models, even if they’re from China. Now, two of those companies are making a concerted effort to compete by introducing their own open offerings. Meta and Nvidia both released artificial intelligence models this week that…

Andy Burnham has been warned that the UK economy could barely grow next year if disruption in the Strait of Hormuz continues until the end of 2026.Treasury sources have confirmed that internal modelling presented to the new prime minister and chancellor suggests UK GDP growth could be as low as 0.3% in 2027, as first reported by Bloomberg.Government officials say they routinely plan for all possible scenarios.The UK economy saw a strong start to the year, but growth then faltered with the conflict in the Middle East affecting some businesses. The Iran war has pushed up oil and fuel prices,…

“The advent of fecal pellets,” wrote Kimming and Bicknell, “provided an additional source of organic carbon, as well as iron, nitrogen, and phosphorus, to deeper waters. … In this framework, fecal pellets significantly boosted support for marine animal life and possibly supported the diversification and increased Cambrian biomass.” This coprolite still contains remnants of an unlucky trilobite, dating to somewhere between 520 and 506 million years ago in what’s now Australia. Kimming and Bicknell 2026 This coprolite still contains remnants of an unlucky trilobite, dating to somewhere between 520 and 506 million years ago in what’s now Australia. Kimming and…