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The battered hedge fund founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner is unwinding many of its trades after big losses on artificial intelligence stocks and a bad bet against  software stocks left it scrambling to raise cash, according to people familiar with the matter.The prime brokers for the fund, Situational Awareness, have been rushing to raise cash to meet margin requirements, the people said. Ken Griffin’s Citadel hedge fund reached a deal to buy the fund’s publicly traded assets, people familiar with the deal said.Situational Awareness has sustained significant losses in recent weeks as its portfolio of AI infrastructure investments…

The hope is that the changes, detailed in the protocol’s documentation, will make widespread deployment in an enterprise context much easier. MCP started as something that simply ran on a local machine, connecting models to local apps, so the new spec is a major rethink of some of its foundations. There is also a new deprecation policy that ensures at least 12 months between when a feature’s formal deprecation is enacted and when the feature may actually be removed—with a narrow exception for critical security updates. This is again in keeping with the general “let’s make this work better at…

New research suggests that Mohenjo-daro followed a very different path from many other early cities. As the 4,000-year-old urban center became larger, more productive, and more successful, its society appears to have grown more equal rather than less. Historians have often argued that inequality increased when small farming settlements developed into cities. Under this traditional model, kings, priests, and other powerful leaders gained control of wealth and resources, causing the divide between rich and poor to expand. An Ancient City That Became More Equal A University of York study of Mohenjo-daro, the largest city of the Indus civilization, points to…

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ABC said that the FCC‘s demand for an early review of its broadcast station licenses was an part of an “ongoing retaliation campaign” to punish the network over its news coverage and create a chilling effect on free speech. In a filing made public on Thursday, the network’s legal team also warned that the FCC’s action — demanding an early review of the licenses for the network’s eight owned stations — reflected a wider effort to crack down on the media. The network’s filing identified multiple instances in which Trump has called for the network to lose its license. “The…

Team Nigeria enjoyed another encouraging session on the athletics track at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on Thursday, with world record holder Tobi Amusan producing a stunning performance while the country’s 400m team strengthened its medal hopes. Amusan underlined her status as the athlete to beat in the women’s 100m hurdles, storming to victory in her opening heat in a wind-assisted 12.19 seconds. Although the time will not count as an official record due to the +3.8 m/s tailwind, it is the fastest performance ever recorded in a Commonwealth Games women’s 100m hurdles race. The Nigerian eased comfortably into…

The protest is the first in support of the proscribed group since Andy Burnham became prime minister.Published On 30 Jul 202630 Jul 2026British Police have made dozens of arrests as crowds gathered outside a London courthouse to declare support for Palestine Action, which is proscribed as a “terrorist” organisation in the UK.The rally on Thursday outside Westminster Magistrates’ Court was organised by the Defend Our Juries activist group to picket the start of hearings against the first of thousands of people charged with voicing support for Palestine Action.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listDefend Our Juries says it is…

A small amount of rain fell near Bordeaux in France on Thursday, raising hopes that the Gironde wildfire that has burned an area larger than the US city of Detroit and destroyed 240 homes might soon be over.The region’s fire service said it was “reasonably optimistic” given that the fire had not grown in size since the weekend.Around 84,000 of the 220,000 displaced residents were allowed to return home on Thursday, according to French reports.It is estimated that more than 90,000 hectares of land across France have burnt this year – higher than any other year on record, according to…

Apple CEO Tim Cook at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 20, 2026.Ludovic Marin | AFP | Getty ImagesEarnings on deck this afternoon for Apple and Amazon will likely decide if the stock market can end what’s so far been a rough week on solid footing.Unfortunately for bulls it’s been tough to get two big-tech winners at once this earnings soon — last week Alphabet and Tesla fell together, and last night Microsoft rallied while Meta fell. It’s easy to see Apple and Amazon finding the same fate, with the stocks going in different directions so…

Laptops, mobile phones and documents have been seized after officials carried out search warrants in a crackdown on claims companies plaguing people with spam text messages about the car finance mis-selling scandal.The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) executed warrants at homes and businesses linked to five companies in London, Liverpool, Bolton, Burnley and Swansea on Wednesday.More than 12m complaints about nuisance marketing text messages have been submitted by the public since September 2025 as claims management companies (CMCs) and other firms attempt to grab a share of the billions of pounds in compensation expected to be paid out to motorists…