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Google plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic, the companies confirmed on Friday, as tech giants ramp up their strategic investments in the leaders in artificial intelligence. The pact involves an initial $10 billion from Google at Anthropic’s latest valuation of $380 billion. The remaining $30 billion is contingent on certain performance milestones. Bloomberg was first to report the deal. Anthropic said the agreement expands on a longstanding partnership between the two companies. Earlier this month, Anthropic secured 5 gigawatts worth of computing capacity as part of an announcement with Google and Broadcom that will start to come…

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“It’s blingier on the Costa del Sol,” says Iain Begg, sales director at QP Savills Algarve, Portugal. “The Algarve is more reserved.” His southern Spain-based colleague, James Stewart of QP Savills Sotogrande, shrugs: “It’s got a certain cachet and it’s fun and buzzy.”The two European golf meccas have long drawn international buyers — from the UK, US and Scandinavia in particular — but the landscape is changing. Since Portugal concluded its golden visa scheme in 2023, and Spain last year, both destinations are upping the ante for second-home owners, digital nomads and families — and not just the golf crazy.The…

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U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell holds a press conference following a two-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), at the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 18, 2026. Kevin Lamarque | ReutersFederal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is likely in his final weeks at the central bank helm and now faces a choice, following a Justice Department decision Friday, of whether he stays on at the institution.U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced in a social media post that she was referring a criminal probe into renovations at Fed headquarters to the central bank’s inspector general, effectively removing the…

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Websites for some of the world’s most prestigious universities are serving explicit porn and malicious content after scammers exploited the shoddy record-keeping of the site administrators, a researcher found recently. The sites included berkeley.edu, columbia.edu, and washu.edu, the official domains for the University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University, and Washington University in St. Louis. Subdomains such as hXXps://causal.stat.berkeley.edu/ymy/video/xxx-porn-girl-and-boy-ej5210.html, hXXps://conversion-dev.svc.cul.columbia[.]edu/brazzers-gym-porn, and hXXps://provost.washu.edu/app/uploads/formidable/6/dmkcsex-10.pdf. All deliver explicit pornography and, in at least one case, a scam site falsely claiming a visitor’s computer is infected and advising the visitor to pay a fee for the non-existent malware to be removed. In all, researcher Alex…

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Advanced nuclear reactor company X-energy began trading Friday as the AI boom and electrification broadly spark a flurry of interest in the nuclear industry.The stock opened at $30.11, after upsizing its initial offering, pricing at $23 per share — ahead of the initial range of $16 to $19 per share. The company raised more than $1 billion, making it the largest nuclear public offering on record. Shares ended the day 27% higher at $29.20.The company’s xe-100 reactor is 80 megawatts, and can be bundled together with additional reactors to scale up to 960 megawatts. The xe-100’s model is a high-temperature…

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