Oil prices surge and stocks fall amid fears over Iran war A motorboat cruises off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, on the Strait of Hormuz, with a tanker seen in the background, on February 25, 2026. Tanker traffic through the strait has come essentially to a stop after Iran...

Why top talent is walking away from OpenAI and xAI AI companies have been hemorrhaging talent the past few weeks. Half of xAI’s founding team has left the company — some on their own, others through “restructuring” — while OpenAI is facing its own shakeups, from the disbanding of its mission alignment team to the firing of a policy exec who...

Senegal arrests 14 members of alleged paedophile gang linked to FranceAFP via Getty ImagesSenegalese police have pledged to pursue and dismantle such crime networksSenegalese police say they have arrested 14 people and broken up a paedophile gang operating between the country and France.Those arrested, who are all Senegalese, were part of a "transnational" criminal group that has been in...

As it preps Specs for the masses, Snap’s Q4 shows revenue growth but fewer daily users Snap is on a mission to diversify its revenue sources—moving from a business model in which it largely chases ad revenue to one where it can also make money through subscriptions and, eventually, hardware. The company’s latest quarterly earnings report shows that, so far, the firm is having moderate success...

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today after alleged DDoS attack Wikipedia editors have decided to remove all links to Archive.today, a web archiving service that they said has been linked to more than 695,000 times across the online encyclopedia. Archive.today — which also operates under several other domain names, including archive.is and archive.ph — is perhaps most widely used to access...