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A shopper carries a basket of products at a grocery store in Wilmington, North Carolina, US, on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2026. Allison Joyce | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesPrediction market traders expect July’s consumer price index will be relatively tame, coming in below the Dow Jones consensus forecast.Monday’s odds on Kalshi show traders see a less than 55% likelihood that July’s CPI reading comes in above 3.3% on a year-over-year basis. They see a 15% chance that CPI comes in hotter than 3.4%. The event contract on Kalshi, asking what will be the year-over-year rate for July’s CPI, will be verified…

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wears the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, as he delivers a speech presenting the new line of smart glasses, during the Meta Connect event at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S., Sept. 17, 2025. Carlos Barria | ReutersMeta said it would open source its most powerful AI models and launch new ones designed for consumer devices, as it looks to rival leading labs like OpenAI and Anthropic. In an Instagram video posted Monday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company would open the weights for its latest AI model Muse Spark 1.2, meaning it can…

The comments have been widely criticised by survivors groups and political opponents who said they downplayed the seriousness and lasting trauma of rape.The SCRA, which comprises support groups in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Ayrshire and the Western Isles, said the impacts of rape can last a lifetime, and the crime should never be reduced to a theoretical debate. In an open letter the alliance said: “We are not demonising rape. We are naming it.”The authors strongly opposed the idea of rape existing on a “spectrum”, insisting “there is no hierarchy of rape” and that no survivor should feel compelled to ask whether…

Gold jumped roughly 7% last week, logging its best weekly gain since January, driven by a weaker U.S. dollar, falling Treasury yields, and an unexpected contraction in employment data that reduced fears of aggressive Federal Reserve rate hikes. (Note: the employment data wasn’t that bad; layoffs were low, private employment climbed by 30,000, and the data was negatively skewed by the seasonal effect of ~50k fewer government education jobs) Key Drivers for Gold last week:Weak U.S. Jobs Data: Softer-than-expected nonfarm payrolls and downward revisions signaled a cooling labor market, prompting investors to seek safety.Macroeconomic Shifts: Declining Treasury yields and a softer U.S. dollar…

Broader implications if so However, if the cause is due to the first stage’s main engine, the YF-100, there could be broader implications for China’s space program. The YF-100 is by far the most commonly used rocket engine in China’s space program. The engine, fueled by liquid oxygen and kerosene, has a thrust of 270,000 pounds at sea level. It has powered the Long March 7 and newer Long March 7A variant for the last decade. This rocket performs a variety of tasks for China’s space program, from communications satellite launches to boosting the Tianzhou cargo spacecraft that ferries supplies…

Intel headquarters is seen on July 23, 2026 in Santa Clara, California. Heather Diehl | Getty ImagesIntel announced a $15 billion common stock offering on Monday to support skyrocketing customer demand for artificial intelligence computing power.Shares of Intel fell 4% in morning trading. The chipmaker highlighted physical AI, purpose-built silicon and advance packaging among the major growth opportunities and said it will use the funding to support corporate needs, including capital expenditures and working capital,Technology giants have shelled out trillions in recent years to meet insatiable AI demand and the unrelenting infrastructure build-out to support new compute capacity. Several mega-cap…

A small boat has crossed the English Channel carrying 230 people, the largest number to make the journey in a single vessel.It breaks the previous record set in July, when 165 people made the crossing on a single vessel.The boat arrived in the UK in the early hours of Monday.A picture taken off the coast of northern France showed the inflatable boat was so full many passengers had to dangle their legs in the water as it entered the busy shipping route.A Home Office spokesperson said this latest incident demonstrated the “reckless and dangerous tactics employed by criminal gangs… who…

Elon Musk speaks at Starbase before SpaceX’s IPO in in Starbase, Texas, U.S., June 12, 2026. CNBCShares of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rose on Monday, bringing the stock back around its $135 IPO price.Shares briefly hit the benchmark in early trading on Monday, marking a rebound from rocky post-IPO trading that has seen the stock swing up and down and close as low as $108.27 just days ago.Last week, the rocket maker reported better-than-expected revenue in its first earnings report since the company made its historic debut on the Nasdaq in June. SpaceX said it generated $7.81 billion in revenue during…

President Donald Trump at an official arrival ceremony at Qasr al Watan, or Palace of the Nation, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, May 15, 2025.Win Mcnamee | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump’s foreign real-estate licensing business boomed during his first year back in office, generating $59.5 million in 2025 as international developers paid a premium to brand luxury towers, golf courses and coastal resorts with the Trump name.Foreign licensing revenue, including for the use of the Trump name on properties around the world, rose 71% from 2024. The sum was nearly 10 times higher than in 2023, according to a…

The Boeing logo is displayed on a Boeing building on Aug. 3, 2026 in El Segundo, California.Mario Tama | Getty ImagesIn a move to increase its focus on core operations, Boeing is selling three of its subsidiaries to Archer Aviation in exchange for a stake in the startup that focuses on electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, known as eVTOLs for short.Shares of Archer surged 18% in premarket trading, while Boeing slipped 0.2%.The subsidiaries include Wisk Aero, which has been developing an autonomous eVTOL, and SkyGrid, which is developing air traffic management systems for air taxis as urban air mobility…