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The OdysseySource: Universal PicturesChristopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” is racking up box office dollars for IMAX and fueling investor confidence that the company will reach record ticket sales in 2026.Shares of IMAX jumped more than 8% on Thursday after the company reported it was still on track to deliver a record $1.4 billion in global box office this year. Wall Street had worried that when Netflix and Greta Gerwig’s “Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew” was pushed from its November release date to February 2027, that IMAX would not be able to reach that guidance.Universal’s “The Odyssey” is easing those fears. Over its…

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Microsoft’s Xbox CEO, Asha Sharma speaks at the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco on June 4, 2026.David Paul Morris | Getty ImagesAmazon and Microsoft have devised new ways to get people playing video games in the cloud. Microsoft’s Xbox division said Thursday that it will test an advertising-supported way of letting people stream video games.Amazon, meanwhile, announced plans to add the Luna cloud gaming service to its Prime Video streaming platform. Amazon includes Prime Video in Prime subscriptions, which cost $14.99 per month. Amazon’s adjustment will give Luna more front-and-center promotion on its website. Previously, Luna was only accessible…

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The rest of their sentence would be spent in the community, where they would be monitored and could be returned to prison if they offended again. Those who would have served two-thirds of their sentence would instead be released after serving half of their sentence.This decision comes after criticism from the family of PC Andrew Harper, who was killed in 2019 when he was dragged by a car down a country road by three teenagers.Two of the killers of PC Harper, who were both sentenced to 13 years in prison, would have benefited from the scheme from June 2027, when…

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2026 Honda Ridgeline pickup truckCourtesy HondaHonda,Honda Motor on Thursday confirmed a next-generation model of its Ridgeline pickup truck will be produced in the U.S. following a temporary production stoppage later this year.The future of the midsize pickup truck has been in flux amid reports that there could be a production pause coming due to the vehicle not meeting California emissions regulations.The Japanese automaker on Thursday said there will be a temporary production stoppage for the pickup truck later this year at the Alabama plant that produces the vehicle, with assembly returning to the facility within two years, likely in 2028.…

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OpenAI has conducted this type of model testing for years, and there have been early warning signs in previous models of systems that will act maliciously and attempt to escape environments. In April, Anthropic’s Mythos model also gained internet access and published details of a security exploit online publicly, beyond what researchers anticipated the model would do. Mythos, and Anthropic’s subsequent Fable model, made reverberations in the cyber security community and caused governments around the world to home in on the idea that attacks on digital and critical infrastructure will be increasingly AI-led and autonomous. Jake Moore, global cyber security…

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Jes Staley, an American banker and former CEO of Barclays, arrives on Capitol Hill on July 23, 2026 in Washington, DC.Tierney L. Cross | Getty ImagesHouse Oversight Committee Chair James Comer said Thursday that former JPMorgan Chase investment banking chief Jes Staley encouraged the bank to retain Jeffrey Epstein as a client despite internal red flags about the convicted sex offender.”It appears that within JPMorgan there were flags — red flags — about Epstein, but Mr. Staley is on record defending Epstein and encouraging JPMorgan to keep him as a client,” Comer, R-Ky., told CNBC outside Staley’s closed-door interview with…

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Thomas Kurian, CEO of Alphabet’s Google Cloud, speaks at the Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco on April 9, 2019.Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesGoogle’s cloud chief Thomas Kurian said the company’s existing customers are shelling out “roughly 50% more” than they’ve already committed to spend on its products, which helped drive its red-hot cloud growth during the second quarter. “Our existing customers have increased their spend when they make a commitment to us,” Kurian told CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday. “They’re spending roughly 50% more than the commitment, and so it comes down to the differentiation in our…

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