In a landmark move, skincare giant NIVEA has announced actor Taapsee Pannu as its first Global Brand Ambassador from India, marking a significant step in the brand’s evolving presence in the country. The announcement comes alongside the launch of NIVEA’s latest innovation — NIVEA Soft Daily UV — a moisturizer that combines long-lasting hydration with…
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This month in the White House’s Rose Garden, as he held up a placard showing the global wave of tariffs he wanted to impose, President Trump paused to fondly recall a fallen friend. “The prime minister of Japan, Shinzo, was — Shinzo Abe — he was a fantastic man,” Mr. Trump said during the tariff…
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly capable of complex reasoning through “inference-time scaling,” a set of techniques that allocate more computational resources during inference to generate answers. However, a new study from Microsoft Research reveals that…
The Golden State Warriors hung on to defeat the Memphis Grizzlies 121-116 Tuesday night in the NBA play-in tournament game, earning the No. 7 seed in the Western Conference. Editor’s Picks 2 Related The Warriors will face the No. 2 seed Houston Rockets in the first round. Jimmy Butler III led Golden State with 38…
Even with the pain of Trump tariffs and threats of becoming the 51st state, Canada’s approaching election is moving aside for the Canadiens. Wednesday’s primetime debate between the leaders of the five main political parties in the Great North has changed its start time to avoid clashing with a hockey game that could lurch the…
Share prices of big technology companies declined in Asia on Wednesday, dragging broader markets lower, after Nvidia, the American chip giant, revealed that the U.S. government would restrict sales of some of its chips to China. They are the first major limits that President Trump’s administration has put on semiconductor sales abroad. Nvidia dominates the…
Trump escalated a feud with Harvard After freezing $2.2 billion in funding to Harvard University, President Trump turned up the pressure yesterday and threatened to revoke its tax-exempt status. The fight between the Trump administration and the nation’s oldest and most elite university was headed for a showdown that could affect other U.S. institutions. Harvard…
Lorne Michaels is launching a British SNL spinoff next year, and many people think it’s a terrible idea. IDK, it could work? Or it could be awful. [Pajiba]Hailee Steinfeld wore Robert Wun to the Sinners premiere. [RCFA]It’s bizarre to me that outlets are regularly publishing body-language analysis, but it’s even weirder to do it about…
Dongsanhuan Ring Road, CBD, Beijing, China. Xiaoyang Liu/Construction Photography/Avalon | Getty Images China’s economy expanded by a better-than-expected 5.4% in the first quarter, maintaining a strong momentum, even as U.S. tariff threats prompt major investment banks to slash the country’s annual growth outlook. The first-quarter GDP topped Reuters’ poll expectations for a 5.1% growth year…
