AMD acquiring Fei-Fei Li's World Labs AI firm in deal worth $8.2 billion: the hour's strongest signal

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Business & FinanceNorth AmericaSignal 46

AMD acquiring Fei-Fei Li's World Labs AI firm in deal worth $8.2 billion

The chipmaker had previously invested in World Labs.

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Business & FinanceNorth AmericaSignal 45

SpaceX’s Starship reaches orbit for the first time but returns home early

SpaceX launched its enormous Starship into orbit for the first time Monday and successfully delivered the most advanced Starlinks yet, but cut the flight short to ensure safety.

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Global AffairsNorth AmericaSignal 44

U.S. and China release product lists for tariff cuts after Trump-Xi meeting

The United States and China have released lists of products worth about $30 billion each that will see tariff cuts. This deal is expected to help boost bilateral trade.

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Global AffairsMiddle EastSignal 43

Trump ‘surprised’ UK freed airbase suspects on bail

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said Monday that British police should not have released on bail five men who were arrested near an airbase used by the United States over a suspected bomb plot.

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Business & FinanceGlobalSignal 41

Trump finalizes rule to make cars less fuel efficient - The Verge

gov) Trump Administration Lowers Automotive Fuel Economy Standards, Boosting Gas-Powered Cars Yahoo Trump says new fuel economy rules will cut car prices. Analysts are doubtful.

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Global AffairsMiddle EastSignal 40

Dutch man arrested in ShinyHunters investigation alleged to have been 'reformed hacker'

Van der Stap's 2023 convictions of data theft and extortion received widespread publicity, as did his subsequent disavowal of cybercrime.

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Global AffairsMiddle EastSignal 40

Pools, marble and mansions: Inside 100 Palestinian luxury homes in West Bank

Regavim’s Real Estate Under Occupation features 100 Palestinian villas and estates, arguing that images of private wealth complicate international portrayals of life in the West Bank.

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Global AffairsMiddle EastSignal 40

Trump vows victory in Iran war 'very soon,' officials in talks with Iranian mediators

"We're going to win; as far as I'm concerned, it's going to be one way or the other," Trump said in the Oval Office.

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Global AffairsMiddle EastSignal 40

Drakon submarine highlights Case 3000 dilemma: Was Netanyahu right for wrong reasons?

Did the way that Netanyahu concealed the deal from most of the defense establishment endanger national security and foreign relations, and why did he hide the transactions?

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Design & ArchitectureNorth AmericaSignal 40

The Easy Roller: An Alternative Take on the Pizza Cutter

While the traditional form of a pizza cutter is this… …Japanese manufacturer Fireside has a different take, offering a much more compact form factor: It's no surprise this Easy Roller came from Japan, where storage space is limited.

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Design & ArchitectureNorth AmericaSignal 40

A Minimalist Low-Cost Japanese Sketchbook

These Blank Note sketchbooks by MUCU, a Japanese stationery brand, almost look like some kind of military surplus. But in fact they're just as minimal a sketchbook as possible: Two pieces of recycled paperboard for the covers, a canvas strip for the spine, and 60 pages of…

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Design & ArchitectureNorth AmericaSignal 40

Motomorphosis: MSCHF's Radically Modified Lexuses

Art collective MSCHF is at it again, this time with Lexus . For their Motomorphosis exhibit, which opens tomorrow at NYC's Armory Week art fair, they've stretched two real cars into unlikely forms.

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Design & ArchitectureNorth AmericaSignal 40

Cory Johnson's Infinite Pocket Jeans

Remember these ridiculous jeans created by Werther's Originals? They had 30 coin pockets up and down the legs, intended to provide stash space for the candy company's treats.

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Early Transforming Furniture: Richard Neutra's Camel Table

In the 1930s Richard Neutra , the Austrian architect who'd made his home in California, designed an early example of flexible-use furniture.

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Raak Design Casts Light on a Medical Tool

ENT doctors use nasal speculums to look inside a patient's nose. Typically the tool is held in one hand and a flashlight in the other. Belgian industrial design firm Raak Design streamlined this approach with their new speculum design for client VisionTech.

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An Architectural-Scale Kintsugi Project

In the 1960s, college students stumbled across an abandoned ruin in the wilds of Warsaw, Virginia, outside of Richmond. The crumbling stone structure had been abandoned following a hurricane in the 1930s, and weather had taken its toll.

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Science & ClimateGlobalSignal 40

Why are employees reluctant to disclose AI use to their bosses?

Countless employees across the country are experimenting with artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline workflows and increase productivity. Yet many are keeping these solutions to themselves.

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Global AffairsEuropeSignal 40

Australia news live: Chalmers defends record as RBA’s cash rate decision due

Follow the day’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast There were 30 drowning deaths in 2025-2026, the highest number in almost a decade, according to a Royal Life Saving Australia report that Australian Associated Press reports on.

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