'Lost Confidence In Leadership': UK PM Starmer 'Out' Odds Jump As Wes Streeting Resigns

America’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R Ford, has left the Middle East and is at a Greek port. The Department of War says the ship sustained damage from a laundry fire.  President Donald Trump ordered the Ford aircraft carrier strike group to relocate from Latin America, where it was involved in operations against […]

China's DeepSeek Debuts Flagship AI Model As Compute Race Intensifies Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has launched a preview version of its long-awaited V4 model, ending months of silence from one of China's most closely watched AI labs and arriving a year after its R1 release sparked U.S. market turmoil and concerns across Silicon Valley AI firms. The rollout signals that DeepSeek is full steam ahead in the frontier-model race: DeepSeek-V4 Preview is officially live & open-sourced! Welcome to the era of cost-effective 1M context length. DeepSeek-V4-Pro: 1.6T total / 49B active params. Performance...

Third Order Effects Begin: U.S. Airlines Hike Bag Fees As Jet Fuel Prices Spike The New York Harbor jet fuel benchmark has doubled in just five weeks as the aviation fuel crisis spreads from airport to airport worldwide following ongoing disruptions at the Hormuz chokepoint. The third-order effects of that energy shock began to materialize this past week, with major U.S. airlines raising checked-bag fees to offset soaring fuel costs.  United Airlines and JetBlue Airways, two major U.S. carriers, raised checked-baggage fees for domestic travel this week as they begin...