California Exposes Amazon's Alleged 'Retail Price Fixing' In Unredacted Court Filing

Chinese Chipmakers Buy 3-Year Sanctions Buffer As Huawei Spearheads Domestic Juggernaut Right now, Chinese open-weight AI models are on the cusp of dominating closed-weight US frontier models in both price and performance. All ten of the top open-weight models on Artificial Analysis’s spring Intelligence Index came from China-based labs, and the best sat just six points behind the leading closed model; Chinese models also passed American ones in token share on OpenRouter in early June. All of this - despite asymmetrical lack of access to bleeding-edge hardware vs. their US competition,...

Rising Jet Fuel And Ticket Prices Could Disrupt Summer Air Travel Submitted by Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Summer travel could be disrupted for millions of airline passengers as airlines pass on higher jet fuel prices onto air fares and cancel unprofitable routes, according to the global association Airports Council International. The surge in jet fuel prices as a result of the Middle East crisis leads to higher air fares. Passengers should be prepared for higher ticket prices for longer, Stefano Baronci, the Airports Council International’s director general of Asia Pacific and Middle...

President Donald Trump said that “Dumocrats” and “unpatriotic Republicans” are harming his negotiating position with Iran.  “Iran really wants to make a deal, and it will be a good one for the U.S.A. and those that are with us,” the President wrote on Truth Social Monday. “But don’t the Dumocrats, and various seemingly unpatriotic Republicans,  […]