In a rare step few countries have tried, New Zealand is now rushing to vaccinate 300 breeding pairs of its most endangered native birds to protect them from H5N1 birdflu.

The central bank didn't have access to Claude Mythos Preview as of mid-July, even as other institutions were racing to patch their vulnerabilities.

From a remote hilltop just north of Nablus, the view stretches across the occupied West Bank. Israeli settlements, Palestinian villages, and the winding roads and checkpoints that connect – and divide – them.

China is stepping up efforts to stabilize its stock market, mobilizing a range of state-linked institutions to stem a tech-driven selloff.

Over the past week, the conflict between the United States and Iran has gone from a simmering tit-for-tat to something that much more resembles all-out war.

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Russia launched one of its largest ballistic missile attacks against Ukraine since the war began overnight into Sunday, according to authorities.

Chinese President Xi Jinping used China’s biggest tech stage to draw a sharp line between how Beijing and Washington think about artificial intelligence—and the difference comes down to one word: openness. Speaking at the opening of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on Friday, Xi urged countries to grab the “historic opportunity” of open-source AI and warned against letting a single nation dominate the technology.

Catira Alejandra couldn’t contain her excitement when she was reunited with her family. Tail wagging, frenzied leaping, and loving licks to the face marked the moment the small dog finally saw the familiar faces she didn’t know if she would see again.

Nikopol, in southern Ukraine, rarely makes the headlines. But this frontline city is under constant threat and its citizens have learned new behaviors to survive.

The Trump administration is taking steps to control who gets access to the latest frontier models, sources familiar with the matter told CNBC.

Miiyah Paavola fled her home in northwestern Ontario this week. “If we had waited any longer, we would have been dead,” she says.

It is the ultimate sanction. But somehow for President Trump – who once sought a Nobel Peace Prize for ending wars – military force has become a casual measure, a kind of background effect used to cajole Iran into diplomacy.

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Restaurant technology does not always arrive as a new app, kiosk or guest-facing platform. Some of the most useful operational gains come from the systems that help teams label food correctly, record temperatures, manage prep, [...]

Russian missiles struck Kyiv early Thursday, with loud explosions heard in the Ukrainian capital just hours before British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is set to arrive for a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky.

President Donald Trump has begun addressing a defense summit at the U.S. Army War College in Pennsylvania. He's highlighting major announced investments by top firms in battlefield technology. Wednesday's summit

President Donald Trump is headlining a defense summit at the U.S. Army War College.

An American scientist who has studied underground nuclear tests has been detained in China more than 18 months on spying charges, according to his supporters and a US lawmaker.

Major proposals to curb China’s access to artificial intelligence chips may end up in the Senate National Defense Authorization Act.

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has fined American Peat Technology more than $12,000. The MPCA says the company's facility in Aitkin failed to properly maintain and inspect equipment meant to control particulate matter emissions. On Jun. 26, 2025, the MPCA conducted an air compliance inspection at the facility. Inspectors discovered…

Global freight forwarder AIT Worldwide Logistics has hired Justin Kosslyn as its chief digital and technology officer. In the newly created role, Kosslyn will lead the company’s global technology strategy, continuing to implement AIT’s existing plans while accelerating the adoption of next generation digital, data, AI and customer-facing systems. Kosslyn arrives with more than 15

As technology companies increasingly gain control over every facet of people’s public and private lives, trust is at a record low: Just 1 in 5 Americans are confident in Big Tech today. Confidence in Big Tech has declined since Gallup began asking about the institution in its 2020 survey. The tech ...

Santa Maria-Bonita School District is asking parents and guardians to complete a districtwide survey on student technology use before the participation window closes Friday, July 17.

Iran claims it’s responding with attacks on US bases in the region, amid tensions over the Strait of Hormuz. Follow for live updates.

In autonomous and self-driving vehicle news are Tesla, HTEC, Embotech, Venti Technologies, Addionics & Xpeng. Tesla Expands Autonomous Robotaxi Commercial Operations Into Miami Market Tesla launched its commercial autonomous ride-hailing network in Miami, marking the company's fifth metropolitan market deployment and first operational expansion outside of Texas and California. The initial geographic footprint

Amanuel wakes up each day not knowing if it will be his last. A rap at his cell door could mean his time is up; no farewell call, no last meal. Executions in Saudi Arabia often arrive without warning.

The death of a Mexican man in Houston at the hands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement is threatening to upend already-strained relations between Mexico and the United States.

WNY P-TECH celebrated the accomplishments and next steps of its Class of 2026 during its Senior Advancement Ceremony on June 25 at Dunkirk High School, recognizing students as they transitioned to college, careers, or completion of college coursework through Jamestown Community College. Principal Jeffrey Teluk welcomed families, staff, and community partners and reflected on the…

The US launched strikes after Iran fired on a ship in the Strait of Hormuz and declared the waterway closed. Follow for live updates.

Anastasiya Minkova collapsed in shock when she arrived home from a trip last September to find that her husband had moved out and taken their two-year-old son.

A US citizen in the Democratic Republic of Congo has tested positive for the Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus, health officials said.

It’s been a historic week in Iran. For just the second time in the nearly 50-year history of the Islamic Republic, the country has buried a supreme leader. Ali Khamenei ruled Iran – as a spiritual leader and an iron-fisted autocrat – for nearly four decades. For many in Iran, he’s the only leader they have known.

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Millions of HIV/AIDS patients, many of them in Africa, face an uncertain future as a financial cliff-edge for US-funded global programs fast approaches, with no concrete replacement system in place.

It sounds like the script of a low-budget horror movie – a community besieged by hundreds of snakes. But in Hengzhou, a southern Chinese city of some one million residents, floodwaters have brought that terrifying reality to their doorsteps.

In many ways it was already the ceasefire that never was. But with the United States and Iran claiming to have hit dozens of targets each with air, drone and missile strikes in the past 48 hours, it’s increasingly hard to see how to see where this goes next.

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The US military said it hit 90 targets along Iran’s coastline. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they targeted US military bases in Kuwait and Bahrain in response. Follow here for the latest.

MIT PhD student Henry Wang studies how data and technology can improve the way sports are played, analyzed, and refereed. Working in the MIT Sports Lab in collaboration with FIFA, he develops systems with the goals of helping referees make faster, more accurate decisions and expanding access to performance analytics across the globe.

Chinese stocks in Hong Kong advanced as investors rotated into less-crowded parts of the global market, while reports that local AI model makers are developing their own chips boosted confidence in the country’s technology leaders.

As President Donald Trump met NATO leaders in Turkey, the US launched new strikes against Iran and reimposed sanctions on Iranian oil sales in retaliation for attacks on commercial ships near the Strait of Hormuz. Follow here for the latest.

SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Another step is being taken for Scranton’s Police Department to upgrade technology: The city is seeking half a million dollars to upgrade its technol…

As France braces for another heatwave, high temperatures may prompt the same question asked repeatedly in June: why won’t France just turn on the air conditioning?

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Nearly all of Russia’s 83 regions are seeing gasoline shortages or reported disruptions to supply, according to a CNN analysis, with many gas stations imposing rationing.

One of the strongest super typhoons on the planet this year was striking the US Pacific Islands on Monday morning, the second massive storm to hit the territories since April.

Surging demand for memory and rising prices are pushing Micron's sales and earnings higher.

Goldman Sachs’ top economist, Joseph Briggs has warned that AI adoption could displace about 9% of the US workforce which roughly accounts to 15 millions workers. According to a report by Business Insider, speaking on the bank’s Exchanges podcast, Briggs compared the disruption to the tech-driven upheaval of the late 1990s and early 2000s, noting that sectors like tech, consulting and graphic design are already witnessing 10,000 to 15,000 fewer jobs added each month due to AI tools.

A pastor who founded one of China’s most prominent underground churches has been released from prison and reunited with his family in the United States, his daughter told CNN.

America may be the ultimate dream for many young Australian bull riders – but for some, bull riding delivers rewards much closer to home.

Hotel conversion activity is running at a pace the hospitality industry hasn’t seen in years, and Mincey Marble Manufacturing is in the middle of it. The Georgia-based maker of cast marble shower pans and panel [...]

Radisson Hotel Group is replacing one of the hotel industry’s most familiar direct-booking promises with a more automated model. The company has launched an AI-powered real-time price matching feature that detects lower publicly available rates [...]

Outside the concert venue in Mumbai, the crowd of Gen Z office workers and teenagers is thickening. Event staff scan QR codes and fasten wristbands onto attendees’ wrists. Friends take selfies together as they wait in a queue. As night falls, the doors open and the nearly 5,000 attendees walk in.

Four months after he was killed at the outset of the US-Israeli war on Iran, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is being memorialized in a weeklong funeral spectacle stretching across five cities in two countries, with millions of mourners expected to attend.

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Microchip Technology (NasdaqGS:MCHP) has been reclassified from Value to Growth across the Russell 1000, 3000, and Midcap indexes. The shift will take effect with Russell index changes on June 27. This follows a quarterly update where the company reported revenue and EPS that were ahead of analyst expectations. For investors tracking Microchip Technology, the move into Growth benchmarks comes with the stock trading around $88.69 and showing a gain of 36.4% year to date and 24.5% over the...

A week after the deadly twin earthquakes in Venezuela, the official death count still strikes both Venezuelans and outside observers as remarkably low.

SAS marked its 50th anniversary Tuesday, five decades in which the company grew from a North Carolina academic research project into one of the world’s leading data and artificial intelligence companies.