The Oil Shocks of the ’70s Changed the World. Will the Iran War Do the Same?
Gas lines and quadrupling oil prices freaked out American consumers. But the oil crises also transformed global finance.
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Ukraine Finalizes Air Defense Deals With Gulf Nations Amid War in Mideast
The Ukrainian president visited the Middle East, where he sought to shift his country from a recipient of military aid to a supplier.
AI chatbots are sucking up to you—with consequences for your relationships
Large language model (LLM) chatbots have a tendency toward flattery. If you ask a model for advice, it is 49 percent more likely than a human, on average, to affirm your existing point of view rather than challenge it, a new study shows. The researchers demonstrated that receiving interpersonal advice from a sycophantic artificial intelligence…
Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds
The team from Bluesky has built another app — and this time, it’s not a social network, but an AI assistant that allows you to design your own algorithm, create custom feeds, and, one day, vibe-code your own app. At the Atmosphere conference over the weekend, Bluesky’s former CEO, Jay Graber, now chief innovation officer,…
TODDLERS CAN CATCH UP TO 19 ILLNESSES IN FIRST YEAR AT DAYCARE
You read that headline right! According to a new study, toddlers entering daycare for the first time can experience up to 19 illnesses within their first year at daycare. Kids playing with toys at daycare. Photo Credit: Freepik.com Researchers from UCL, the University of Cambridge, Cornell University and North Middlesex University Hospital were struck by…
How the big oil and gas CEOs think the Iran war supply disruption will play out
HOUSTON — The CEOs of the world’s most influential oil and gas companies delivered a sobering message this week about the impact of the Iran war on energy supplies and the long-term consequences for the global economy. The executives gathered in Houston, Texas, for S&P Global’s annual CERAWeek energy conference to take stock of the…
In Dubai, a famed horse race goes on, despite the war.
In Dubai, a famed horse race goes on, despite the war.
Landmark experiment reveals a big unexpected problem with cloning
Mice can only be repeatedly cloned for so long Xinhua/Zhou Qi/Imago/Alamy A clone is meant to be a genetically identical copy, but an extraordinary 20-year study has shown that this isn’t, in fact, the case. It reveals that clones have lots of extra mutations and, if you keep cloning clones, these build up to fatal…
TSMC capacity limits open doors for rival chip foundries
Much of the recent demand for custom AI chips has flowed to TSMC because it leads in manufacturing below 3 nanometers.
USMNT 2-5 Belgium: Red Devils romp over World Cup hosts – As it happened | USA
Match report Pablo Iglesias Maurer’s report is in from the United States’ 5-2 loss to Belgium, which will create plenty of questions ahead of Tuesday’s friendly v Portugal and the months to come ahead of his naming of the World Cup squad. Read below: Share Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript…