
US says Iran war hit $37.5bn, and Hormuz shutdown spreads shockwaves beyond oil
The $37.5bn price tag meets a strait-of-Hormuz crisis, freezing key oil, gas, and fertilizer shipments.

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The $37.5bn price tag meets a strait-of-Hormuz crisis, freezing key oil, gas, and fertilizer shipments.

The 34-year-old founder’s open model launch spiked demand, strained compute, and rattled Wall Street’s AI winners.

The complaint targets Udio's training data, expanding the music industry's AI legal fight and raising new diligence and risk questions for peers.

Secondary-market bidders are paying premium prices for access to Elon Musk's AI and robotics bets, even as valuations stay murky.

A sudden leadership shake-up follows street protests, with Zelensky replacing a Soviet-trained top commander.

A cartoon plotline turns into a real math lesson: constraints force smarter reasoning, not wishful reversals.

A rare dip in 2025 raises immediate questions for regulators and investors tracking deforestation risk in Brazil.

The new Flash lineup targets lower token costs for AI agents, while Gemini 3.5 Pro remains delayed and Gemini 4 starts pre-training.

Approval of the record payout collides with ongoing worries about training practices and long-term creative risk.

A replication crisis in MRI-linked brain-behavior findings is derailing what researchers think they know, and why it matters for medicine.

The UK dubstep producer is pausing music and touring, apologizing to fans, and framing it as a health emergency.

The newborn-brain-injury biotech is betting on Hong Kong capital markets before a later US secondary listing.