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Paramount will not close Warner Bros deal before July 22 amid Oregon probe
Paramount has said it will not close its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros before July 22, the Oregon attorney general's office said, pushing out the timeline for the de...
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SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5 model for coding, agentic tasks
SpaceXAI on Wednesday launched the Grok 4.5 AI model, calling it the company's most intelligent offering to date designed for coding and agentic tasks.
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Telstra outage disrupts Australian train services, taxi payments
An outage hit services of Australia's biggest telecommunications company Telstra on Wednesday, disrupting taxi payment systems and some train services, with the government saying...
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FCC denies US firm with Chinese links approval to provide telecom services
The Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday it is adding California-based Digitalsystem Technology to a list of companies posing risks to U.S. national security, citing...
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SpaceXAI plans to launch new model with Cursor as soon as Wednesday, The Information reports
SpaceXAI and Cursor plan to launch their first jointly developed AI model as soon as Wednesday, The Information reported, citing a memo sent to staff.
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Italy's Meloni seeks to avoid escalation after Trump revives personal feud
Italy will not respond further to U.S. President Donald Trump's attacks on Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, ministers said, pledging to protect bilateral ties that have come under ...
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China smartphone sales drop 13% during 618 festival as memory costs limit discounts
Smartphone sales in China fell 13% year-on-year during the month-long 618 shopping festival, as brands raised prices to offset higher memory costs, according to data from Counterp...
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NATO’s Rutte stresses democratic rights after Turkey’s pre‑summit crackdown
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said the right to hold demonstrations and media freedom were essential in democracies, when asked about Turkey’s recent crackdown on dissidents a...
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Dior beats Chanel to dress Taylor Swift for wedding of the decade
In a coup for Parisian fashion house Christian Dior, both Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce wore Haute Couture designs by creative director Jonathan Anderson for their wedding in New...
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Trump goads Italy's Meloni again on eve of NATO summit
Italy's defence minister stressed the importance of good transatlantic relations on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump again goaded erstwhile ally Giorgia Meloni, the Itali...
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ASM International names KPN's Chris Figee as new CFO
ASM International , Europe's second-largest maker of semiconductor equipment, said on Monday it plans to nominate Chris Figee as its next chief financial officer.
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Husband of jailed Russian playwright keeps lonely vigil in exile
To the casual eye, there was nothing unusual about the bearded young Russian man sitting on a bench in the German city of Hamburg on a summer's day two years ago. But Yury Shekhva...
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Israel government says it will defy Supreme Court ruling on media regulator
Israeli cabinet members on Sunday voted to defy a Supreme Court decision regarding the country's broadcast regulator, raising concerns of a constitutional crisis.
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A Minute With: Christopher Nolan on telling the epic 'Odyssey' story on the big screen
Filmmaker Christopher Nolan follows up his Oscar-winning blockbuster "Oppenheimer" with "The Odyssey," an adaptation of Homer's epic ancient Greek poem. The Universal Pictures movi...
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Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce wed in intimate garden inside arena, guests say
The groom wore a white tuxedo, the couple wrote their own vows and Stevie Nicks sang.
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'Let us wail!' Iranians flock to Khamenei's funeral after wartime death
His 37-year reign was brought to an end in February by the first airstrike of the war launched by the U.S. and Israel.
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Adam Sandler, Swift's and Kelce's brothers play key wedding roles
Adam Sandler, the comic actor known for goofball roles in movies such as "Billy Madison" and "The Waterboy," has now officiated one of the most-anticipated celebrity unions of th...
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Mexican authorities identify remains of kidnapped journalist, arrest four police officers
Mexican authorities said on Friday that remains found at a site in the eastern state of Veracruz belonged to journalist Roxana Guzman, whose killing has again shined a harsh ligh...
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