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Kenyan athlete Sabastian Sawe made history at the London Marathon on Sunday by becoming the first athlete to run a marathon in under two hours in a competitive race. Sawe finished the race in 1 hour, 59 minutes, and 30 seconds, shattering the previously held men’s marathon world record, set ...

Beijing formalized labor rules for gig workers on online platforms, including delivery drivers and livestreamers, as the sector takes on a larger role in China’s economy. The guidance, which requires tech companies to provide fair pay and stronger protections, signals “a shift from ad-hoc regulation to normalization of the platform ...

Mounting tensions between the US and Iran scuttled a second round of peace talks that were set to happen in Pakistan over the weekend. US President Donald Trump called off his envoys’ trip to Islamabad after saying Iran “offered a lot, but not enough.” Trump faces the choice of escalating ...

AI enthusiasm in equity markets roared back before a crucial week for Big Tech. Following months of underperformance and despite economic turmoil stemming from the Iran war, US tech stocks have rebounded in part because investors have “proved willing to buy anything with an AI label slapped on it,” The ...

The gunman who tried to storm the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was targeting US administration officials, authorities said Sunday citing a manifesto, in the latest instance of political violence to hit Washington. The suspect was fired at and apprehended after sprinting past a security checkpoint, prompting a chaotic scene in ...

The News US President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh, is on track to be confirmed after a key Republican senator said on Sunday he will greenlight the nomination. North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis’ move came after the the Department of Justice on Friday dropped a ...

US President Donald Trump was evacuated from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday, after witnesses heard multiple loud bangs in the ballroom of the Hilton Hotel in Washington, DC. The US Secret Service said it was investigating a shooting incident and that one individual was in custody. “The president ...

Google chief Sundar Pichai said 75% of the company’s new code is AI-generated. The trajectory is fast: In 2024 that figure was 25%, rising to 50% last fall. Meta targets similar levels by midyear. Perhaps more startlingly, Pichai said the workflow was now “truly agentic” — rather than engineers giving ...

During a conversation at Los Alamos labs in 1950, physicist Enrico Fermi famously asked why, if the universe is so large, we have never seen any signs of extraterrestrial life. Well, maybe we just needed some GPUs. There is now so much data streaming in from powerful telescopes like the ...

In the past, when tech companies laid off employees, the markets reacted approvingly. Cutting costs means more profit. But in the upside-down world we live in, Microsoft and Meta both suffered on Wall Street Thursday after news of their layoffs broke. Microsoft closed down nearly 4%, while Meta lost more ...