Indonesia Tightens Rule on FX Purchases After Rupiah Hit New Record Low
Indonesia further tightened rules on dollar purchases to support the beleaguered rupiah after the currency slumped to a series of record lows.
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Extinct relative of koalas discovered in Western Australia
An artist’s impression of the Western Australian koala WA Museum Australia was once home to a second species of koala that lived only in the west of the continent, where it became extinct around 30,000 years ago. Today, there is only one koala species: Phascolarctos cinereus. It is found almost exclusively in eucalyptus forests in…
Ranking the offseason for every Power 4 college football team
Ahead of a College Football Playoff semifinal matchup against Oregon, Indiana coach Curt Cignetti took time out of his weekend prep to secure the most impressive transfer group for the 2026 season. As Miami got ready to face Cignetti’s Hoosiers in the national title game, news broke that the team was set to poach quarterback…
SAP bets $1.16B on 18-month-old German AI lab and says yes to NemoClaw
By OpenAI COO’s own admission last February, “we have not yet really seen AI penetrate enterprise business processes.” But for enterprise software giant SAP, whose stock has dropped significantly in 2026 in part from the “SaaSpocalypse,” the issue is still front and center. On Monday, the European heavyweight announced its intention to acquire German AI…
Oil prices ease as US seeks reopening of the Hormuz Strait
President Donald Trump raised hopes of an agreement between the US and Iran after days of escalation.
Anthropic Reportedly Agrees To Pay Google $200 Billion For Chips And Cloud Access
Chesnot/Getty Images We learned earlier this month that Google and Anthropic had inked a deal that would grant the creator of the Claude AI models access to cloud servers and chips. Today, The Information reported that Anthropic has agreed to pay a staggering $200 billion to Google…
Met Gala 2026: Moment 14-year-old Blue Ivy refuses dad Jay-Z’s repeated request to take sunglasses off on red carpet
Beyoncé and Jay-Z‘s oldest daughter Blue Ivy made quite the statement during her Met Gala debut yesterday by refusing one simple request. The 14-year-old, who was one of the last to arrive on the 2026 red carpet, stunned in white bubble Balenciaga gown paired with dark sunglasses she refused to take off. A video moment…
US military kills three people in boat strike in eastern Pacific | West Coast
The US military said on Tuesday it had struck a vessel in the eastern Pacific, killing three people, in the latest such attack that rights groups label as “extrajudicial killings” and Washington describes as targeting “narco-terrorists”. US Southern Command posted about the strike on social media Tuesday evening, alleging that the vessel struck on Tuesday…
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4879-4885: Struggle at Atacama
Written by William Farrand, Senior Research Scientist, Space Science Institute Earth planning date: Friday, May 1, 2026 Chile’s Atacama desert is the driest mid-latitude desert in the world, receiving only 15 millimeters (0.59 inches) of precipitation per year. Only the dry valleys of Antarctica receive less precipitation. These environmental conditions have made the Atacama a…
‘I Actually Thought He Was Going to Hit Me,’ OpenAI’s Greg Brockman Says of Elon Musk
In August 2017, Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever gathered at Elon Musk’s self-described “haunted mansion,” a 47-acre, $23 million estate in Hillsborough, south of San Francisco, to discuss the future of OpenAI. Actor Amber Heard, Musk’s then-girlfriend, had served the group whiskey and then dashed off with a friend, Brockman, OpenAI’s cofounder and president, testified…