JULY 14, 2026
Calf Creek canyon valley and the Grand Staircase-Escalante national monument in Utah. Photograph: Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket/Getty Images
Donald Trump has approved a sharp reduction in the size of two national monuments in Utah held sacred by many Native Americans, in the latest move to open US public land to corporate developers and the oil and gas industry.
The two monuments,...
JULY 14, 2026
Japan's Softbank AI Investment. - Miyuki Saito
TOKYO, JAPAN — Worries about a bubble in artificial intelligence investments are absurd, SoftBank Group’s CEO Masayoshi Son said Tuesday, deriding such doubts as backward and akin to questioning the use of cars and planes.
Softbank's AI Investment. - Miyuki Saito
“To ask whether AI is a bubble is a foolish question,” Son told executives at an...
JULY 13, 2026
Peter Thiel’s Dialog event aimed to bring together those who can ‘accomplish something amazing in the world’ - Visual China Group via Getty
It is the ultimate private members’ club – a gathering of 200 of the world’s most influential people, from tech bros and hedge funders to politicians and Hollywood actors. And once a year, they convene...
JULY 13, 2026
One analyst calls SpaceX's IPO filing ‘ hallucinatory’. - Kimberly White and Mario Tama/Getty Images
Ed Elson, a prominent tech analyst widely followed by Gen Z, has declared Elon Musk’s SpaceX a “trainwreck” ahead of its initial public offering.
Elson, who co-hosts the Prof G Markets podcast with entrepreneur Scott Galloway, made the determination after reading through the firm’s 277-page...
JULY 13, 2026
A picture taken on July 10, 2026 shows U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) speaking to the media after his meeting with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko/File Photo
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Republican South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster on Monday appointed the sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham to fill...
JULY 13, 2026
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks during the OpenAI DevDay event on November 06, 2023 in San Francisco, California
Of all the debates raging about the potential downsides of AI, there is one worry causing the most hand-wringing among AI enthusiasts in Silicon Valley. Their fear is that the giant AI labs that sell proprietary models are somehow acting...
JULY 13, 2026
Donald Trump says US will be ‘guardian angel’ of the strait - Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty
The US has launched another wave of strikes on Iran hours after Donald Trump said he will impose a 20 per cent toll on all ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
US Central Command (Centcom) announced on Monday evening that it had begun...
JULY 10, 2026
President of Finland Alexander Stubb speaks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as they attend a Coalition of the Willing meeting with European leaders on 24 February, 2026 in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Getty)
China warned Russian president Vladimir Putin not to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, president Volodymyr Zelensky has said.
“I think you heard such voices in Russian media: 'What...
JULY 9, 2026
The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It’s Almost Incomprehensible
The massive surge of fossil fuel-powered data centers cropping up across the country are emitting an enormous amount of pollution, a pulsing indication that we’re headed in the wrong direction in the midst of a climate crisis.
The extent of the this polluting...
JULY 6, 2026
To say President Donald Trump is trying to remake the nation’s capital in his image is an understatement. His latest plans involve an overhaul of East Potomac Park.
To say President Donald Trump is trying to remake the nation’s capital in his image is an understatement.
His latest plans involve an overhaul of the links on the East Potomac peninsula in...
