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Persian Gulf oil flows return to prewar levels, but Iran could resort to a ‘scorched earth campaign’ as U.S. deploys more ships and Marines to Mideast thumbnail
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Persian Gulf oil flows return to prewar levels, but Iran could resort to a ‘scorched earth campaign’ as U.S. deploys more ships and Marines to Mideast

Iran is losing leverage over the Strait of Hormuz as oil exports recover under the protection of the U.S. military, but the Islamic...

Japan’s population is shrinking at an accelerating rate, but the nationalist prime minister is making it harder for foreigners to live there thumbnail
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Japan’s population is shrinking at an accelerating rate, but the nationalist prime minister is making it harder for foreigners to live there

New census data over the past week showed Japan’s population shrank more quickly than in the prior tally. Also last week, the government...

Court tosses 10-year manslaughter sentence due to an AI-generated video of the victim ‘created from the imaginings’ of his sister thumbnail
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Court tosses 10-year manslaughter sentence due to an AI-generated video of the victim ‘created from the imaginings’ of his sister

An Arizona man’s 10-year manslaughter sentence has been tossed in a case where a video generated by artificial intelligence portrayed the deceased victim addressing a...

Tom Cruise suffers one of the worst movie debuts of his career. Reviews were so bad Warner Bros. ran ‘decide for yourself’ ads thumbnail
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Tom Cruise suffers one of the worst movie debuts of his career. Reviews were so bad Warner Bros. ran ‘decide for yourself’ ads

On the cusp of the studio’s merger with Paramount, Warner Bros.’ “Digger” flopped in its opening weekend, handing Tom Cruise one of the worst debuts...

Air Force removes all bombers from British base and redeploys them to the U.S. after a planned terror attack linked to Iran was foiled thumbnail
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Air Force removes all bombers from British base and redeploys them to the U.S. after a planned terror attack linked to Iran was foiled

The U.S. Air Force has brought home its bombers stationed at a U.S.-run military air base in England used to strike Iran following an investigation...

Vaping was supposed to get people off smoking. Now e-cig users are switching to cigarettes to try to quit thumbnail
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Vaping was supposed to get people off smoking. Now e-cig users are switching to cigarettes to try to quit

More than 60 years after the U.S. Surgeon General released its landmark report on the dangers of smoking, a new breed of “cigfluencers”...

Ford CEO sees blue-collar workers using AI as a ‘companion’—but other jobs ‘are definitely going to be changed and eliminated’ thumbnail
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Ford CEO sees blue-collar workers using AI as a ‘companion’—but other jobs ‘are definitely going to be changed and eliminated’

Ford CEO Jim Farley knows AI won’t leave blue-collar workers untouched. But at a backstage media roundtable during Ford Pro Accelerate, he argued...

‘Never waste a crisis’: Sweetgreen cofounder on stolen recipes, the cyclospora cyclone, and the company’s first-ever chef in residence thumbnail
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‘Never waste a crisis’: Sweetgreen cofounder on stolen recipes, the cyclospora cyclone, and the company’s first-ever chef in residence

Sweetgreen doesn’t use iceberg lettuce, and it doesn’t buy lettuce from Mexico, according to cofounder Nic Jammet, but the salad chain still paid...

‘This revolution is happening in years, not decades’: Verizon CEO Dan Schulman sees AGI within 18 months—and a century of progress in a decade thumbnail
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‘This revolution is happening in years, not decades’: Verizon CEO Dan Schulman sees AGI within 18 months—and a century of progress in a decade

Verizon CEO Dan Schulman offered a strikingly aggressive forecast for artificial intelligence’s development at the Ford Pro Accelerate event in Detroit, saying that...

Investors thought they were buying pre-IPO OpenAI and SpaceX shares. Their cash went to strip clubs, Bloomingdale’s, and shopping on Amazon, SEC alleges thumbnail
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Investors thought they were buying pre-IPO OpenAI and SpaceX shares. Their cash went to strip clubs, Bloomingdale’s, and shopping on Amazon, SEC alleges

The Securities and Exchange Commission is dropping the hammer on private fund advisers who allegedly mishandled millions in investor assets under the guise...