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• Young investors in their 20s are increasingly allocating significant capital toward technology stocks, drawn by the potential for high rewards. • This trend coincides with governments and corporations investing hundreds of billions of dollars into the development of artificial intelligence. • Market skeptics are questioning whether AI technology will generate sufficient profitability to justify these massive financial outlays.

Senator says Trump revisiting failed run against Biden ‘distracts from important things’ such as Iran warRather than continue fixating on the 2020 election defeat that ended his first presidency, Donald Trump could instead “do something positive”, including resolving the US war in Iran, Pennsylvania senator John Fetterman said in an interview on Sunday.“I don’t know why the president is dragging up all this stuff,” Fetterman remarked on CNN’s State of the Union, three days after Trump dedicated a televised, primetime address to claims about Chinese meddling in the 2020 White House race that he lost to Joe Biden. “You’re the president. Do something positive – and you are talking about 2020; that’s been settled over six years ago. Continue reading...

The new Alejandro González Iñárritu film sees Cruise playing an eccentric oil baron on a mission to save the worldThe first full length trailer for Alejandro González Iñárritu’s hotly anticipated comedy-drama Digger has been released, and with it audiences’ first look at Tom Cruise’s least recognisable role since he donned a fatsuit and prosthetics for 2008’s Tropic Thunder.The film will be released worldwide in early October and stars Cruise as Digger Rockwell, “the most powerful man in the world” on a mission to save the world from an ecological disaster. Continue reading...

• The Economic Times is highlighting the "Most Innovative AI Product Awards 2026," focusing on the gap between AI founders seeking product-market fit and enterprise buyers prioritizing scalability and measurable outcomes. • Google has introduced new tools, Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash, designed to make AI-driven image and video creation faster and more cost-effective. • The report emphasizes that while enterprise AI investment is widespread, few companies have successfully proven the long-term business value and impact of these integrations.

• Palantir CEO Alex Karp has launched a scathing critique of AI industry leaders, specifically targeting OpenAI and Anthropic. • Karp described the current state of the AI industry as "effing insane," suggesting that "something has gone completely wrong" with the trajectory of development. • The criticism highlights growing tensions between established data analytics firms and the rapidly scaling generative AI giants over industry ethics and direction.

• New research suggests that plasma from distant stars may interfere with and transform radio signals sent by alien civilizations. • This phenomenon could cause signals to be distorted or altered, leading scientists on Earth to overlook prime evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence. • The study highlights a critical gap in current SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) methods, which may be searching for the wrong signal patterns.

• A gamma-ray stream has been detected coming from the center of the Milky Way, known as the Galactic Center Excess. • Researchers have been unable to rule out the possibility that self-annihilating dark matter is the source of this emission. • The origin of the Galactic Center Excess is a long-standing debate in astrophysics, with no consensus on its cause.