O1.ai, the Chinese AI startup founded by AI pioneer Kai-Fu Lee, is aiming to raise funds ahead of a potential 2027 IPO, joining other AI labs that have gone public or plan to. Unlike China’s other “AI Tigers,” including Zhipu, DeepSeek, and Moonshot, O1.ai has pivoted from building frontier models ...
Day: July 21, 2026
BlackRock’s M&A spree comes into clear viewBlackRock’s M&A spree comes into clear view
BlackRock’s $25 billion M&A spree is starting to click. The company is raising $12 billion of debt for a Texas data center to be occupied by Meta — its first deal that puts infrastructure investor GIP and private-credit firm HPS to work in a major way since BlackRock bought them ...
Football, golf … behold the future of world sport: Donald Trump as referee-in-chief | Marina HydeFootball, golf … behold the future of world sport: Donald Trump as referee-in-chief | Marina Hyde
After his dubious intervention at the World Cup, the president is now an arbiter of high-level fairway disputes. There’s one word for that: SAD! For so many of us around the world, the final scenes of the World Cup were a chance to switch off the TV with an eye-roll ...
What Does Olive Garden’s Never-Ending Pasta Have to Do With Voting Rights?What Does Olive Garden’s Never-Ending Pasta Have to Do With Voting Rights?
When I was 20 years old, I went to my hometown Olive Garden with one goal in mind: For less than $10, I would attempt to eat so much bottomless pasta in their so-called Never-Ending Pasta deal that either the staff would be forced to stop me and my idiot ...
Apple Fixes Hide My Email Vulnerability After 404 Media CoverageApple Fixes Hide My Email Vulnerability After 404 Media Coverage
Apple says it has fixed a vulnerability in its Hide My Email feature which let essentially anyone figure out a user’s real email address which was supposed to be protected by the feature. Apple only fixed the vulnerability after 404 Media wrote about it at the start of July, despite ...
AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They’re Free of AI SlopAI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They’re Free of AI Slop
As AI companies search for more training data to improve their models, one company is offering old, printed books as an ideal source because they are guaranteed to be free of the very AI slop AI companies are producing. “The world’s best AI training data is sitting on a shelf,” ...
Ann Widdecombe was hit on head 21 times with hammer, prosecutors sayAnn Widdecombe was hit on head 21 times with hammer, prosecutors say
Joshua Kerry, 28, attacked Widdecombe while she was eating lunch at her home in Devon before stealing her wallet, prosecutors say. ...
London-based civil servants offered move to No 10 North in ManchesterLondon-based civil servants offered move to No 10 North in Manchester
London-based civil servants willing to move north have been told they will be offered relocation packages, the BBC understands. ...
Row escalates in Ukraine over army chief’s futureRow escalates in Ukraine over army chief’s future
Protesters are demanding Oleksandr Syrskyi be removed and former defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov reinstated by Friday. ...
Bahrain considers nuclear power optionBahrain considers nuclear power option
Bahrain is studying whether to build a small modular nuclear power plant, the Middle East Economic Digest reported, with the state-owned Bapco Energies leading the effort through its venture capital arm. If it goes ahead, it would be the first nuclear plant in the kingdom, which holds the Gulf’s smallest ...