Oil price at two-year high after Qatar warns all Gulf production could stop within days
Oil prices have risen to their highest level in more than two years, after Qatar’s energy minister warned he expects all oil and gas exporters in the Gulf to stop production within days. Saad al-Kaabi told the Financial Times the conflict in the Middle East – a region which plays a key role in global…
Read More‘Love Story’ Star Sarah Pidgeon Wears Trendy V-neck Pumps at the Loewe Show in Paris
Sarah Pidgeon is making her presence known during her Paris Fashion Week debut. The star of FX’s “Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette” attended the Loewe fall 2026 show at Château de Vincennes on Friday wearing pointed-toe heels. Sarah Pidgeon at the Loewe fashion show as part of Paris Fashion Week fall…
Read MoreFounders who scale spot these 7 patterns early
You can feel it when something is off in your business, even if the metrics still look fine. Or when something is working, even if it has not yet shown up cleanly in your dashboard. Early-stage founders live in that gray zone. You are making high-stakes decisions with incomplete data, limited runway, and a Slack…
Read MoreSurge in jet fuel prices could push up air fares, analysts warn
[Getty Images] A dramatic surge in jet fuel prices could push up costs for air travellers ahead of the summer holidays and even lead to flight cancellations, analysts have warned. Disruption to supplies from the Gulf, in the wake of the US and Israeli air strikes on Iran, has pushed the cost of aviation kerosene…
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Read More“Hoppers” Is a Happy Leap Forward for Pixar
The script is by Jesse Andrews, who co-wrote the Pixar comedy “Luca” (2021), a sunny tale of youthful self-discovery and the seemingly unbridgeable chasm between the human and natural worlds. “Hoppers,” though much unrulier in its construction, is onto something similar. Mabel is a freckle-faced, messy-haired misfit, with a love of nature that she inherited…
Read MoreCommentary: In two new court cases, judges find that AI does not have human intelligence
It’s becoming clearer with every passing day that the only people making a serious effort to come to grips with the implications of artificial intelligence for society aren’t legislators, or business leaders, or AI promoters themselves. They’re judges. Indeed, in recent weeks, judges in two federal cases have drawn a line that seems to have…
Read MoreLawsuit alleges Google chatbot was behind a user’s delusions and death
Google’s artificial intelligence chatbot Gemini encouraged a 36-year-old Florida man to embark on violent missions and to take his own life, a lawsuit alleges. The man, Jonathan Gavalas, started using the chatbot in August 2025 to help write, plan travel and assist with shopping. But after he activated Google’s most intelligent AI model, Gemini 2.5…
Read MoreHundreds of applications, no jobs and AI replacements: California’s brutal tech work landscape
Laid-off tech worker Joseph Tinner has spent almost a year hunting for a job. It has been a depressing crash course on the sea change in Silicon Valley. The former product instructor from the San Francisco Bay Area has ridden the tech wave throughout his career, easily jumping from Verizon to Fitbit to Workday. Since…
Read MoreRobertet Leans Into Plant-based Biotechnologies
PARIS – Robertet, a leader in natural raw materials for fragrances, flavors and active ingredients, is adding plant-based biotechnologies to its repertoire with an investment in Aethera Biotech. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the investment is to be completed in two phases over three years, contingent on certain, undisclosed market conditions.…
Read MoreStella McCartney Receives Legion of Honor From French President Emmanuel Macron
A STAR FOR STELLA: It was a family affair on Thursday night at the Élysée Palace in Paris, where President Emanuel Macron decorated Stella McCartney as a Knight of the Legion of honor. Macron pinned a red ribbon and green and white medallion to the front of McCartney’s dark blue, faux fur-trimmed skirt suit, in…
Read MoreFinland plans to lift decades-old ban on hosting nuclear weapons
Finland plans to lift its long-standing ban on having nuclear weapons on its territory, in a move the government says would align the country more closely with Nato’s deterrence policy. Defence minister Antti Häkkänen Finland and Europe’s security environment had “fundamentally and significantly changed” since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in 2022. The Nordic…
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