Rodell Rahmaan has seen enough man-on-the-street interviews on social media to know he wants to do one. He’d love for a stranger with a camera to ask him the most famous person on his phone. “I can’t wait,” Rahmaan said, “to tell them it’s Eddie George.” The 1995 Heisman Trophy winner is in Rahmaan’s contacts […]
Mira Murati, the former chief technology of OpenAI who unexpectedly left the company in September, has helped found a new artificial intelligence start-up called Thinking Machines Lab, adding to the wave of young companies that have been formed in the race to lead A.I. Thinking Machines Lab aims to “make A.I. systems more widely understood, […]
Orla Guerin BBC News, Goma Göktay Koraltan / BBC Heshima winces in pain as he tries to shift his weight, sweat beading on his face. The slight 13-year-old sits on a bed in a tent in the grounds of an overcrowded hospital in Goma city in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Heshima’s […]
Huw Thomas Business Correspondent, BBC Wales•huwthomas Tata Steel An artist’s impression of how the new electric arc furnace will sit within the existing Tata Steel site in Port Talbot Tata Steel’s bid to build a £1.25bn electric arc furnace at its Port Talbot steelworks has been given the go-ahead by planners. Neath Port Talbot planning […]
Feb 17, 2025, 02:19 PM ET FC Cincinnati acquired All-Star Brazilian midfielder Evander from the Portland Timbers on Monday in exchange for $12 million, a record fee for a transfer between MLS teams. The Timbers retained a future sell-on and trade percentage and could receive up to an additional $150,000 if certain performance metrics are […]
European defense stocks continued their rally on Tuesday, as President Trump’s threats to reduce American military support to the continent and NATO raised the prospect that Europe’s governments will increase military spending. The flurry of trading helped push the Pan-European Stoxx 600 index to a record high; the Stoxx Europe Total Market Aerospace & Defense […]
Katy Watson Australia correspondent Reporting fromDarwin, Northern Territory Getty Images Saltwater crocodiles are the largest living reptile in the world It’s dawn on Darwin Harbour and government ranger Kelly Ewin – whose job is to catch and remove crocodiles – is balancing precariously on a floating trap. Heavy rain clouds from the storm that has […]
President Trump is joined by Elon Musk and his son at the Oval Office in the White House in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 11, 2025. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images/Getty Images North America When Elon Musk refers to actions taken by the Department of Government Efficiency as […]
Turo, a car rental start-up in San Francisco, has been trying to go public since 2021. But a volatile stock market in early 2022 delayed its listing. Since then, the company has waited for the right moment. Last week, Turo pulled its listing entirely. “Now is not the right time,” Andre Haddad, the company’s chief […]
Just over two weeks ago, a stunning trade launched an NBA executive relatively unknown outside basketball circles into the wider public consciousness. Dallas Mavericks general manager Nico Harrison’s decision to send 25-year-old Luka Dončić to the league’s glitziest franchise on Feb. 2 was largely unprecedented in sports history, and reaction was swift and deafening: crowds […]