HBO’s hit financial thriller “Industry” has delivered one of its most compelling storylines yet this season: a hunt to expose a fraudulent fintech company called Tender. The show follows Harper Stern, who’s leading her newly launched investment firm and looking for a company to short — essentially, betting that its stock will crash. After a … Read more
Haiti Couleurs made all the running to win the William Hill Denman Chase at Newbury and set up a potential tilt at the Gold Cup in the process. Rebecca Curtis’ pride and joy has graduated out of handicaps, winning the National Hunt Chase at Cheltenham last season which he followed up with a win in … Read more
This week, AI chipmaker Cerebras Systems announced that it raised $1 billion in fresh capital at a valuation of $23 billion — a nearly threefold increase from the $8.1 billion valuation the Nvidia rival had reached just six months earlier. While the round was led by Tiger Global, a huge part of the new capital … Read more
Brooks Koepka missed the cut at the WM Phoenix Open, where Ryo Hisatsune leads by one from fellow Japanese star Hideki Matsuyama. England’s Matthew Fitzpatrick and John Parry are four strokes off top spot on seven under, with world No 1 Scottie Scheffler seven adrift after following an opening 73 with a flawless 65 to … Read more
The war on California’s proposed ‘Billionaire’s Tax’ is getting weird. This week, amid ongoing rancor from tech elites over the much maligned bill, it became apparent that someone was planning a so-called “March for Billionaires” in San Francisco. A website advertising the event popped up online, providing little in the way of context other than … Read more
The top stories and transfer rumours from Saturday’s newspapers… PREMIER LEAGUE The Saudi Pro League is ready to offload Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo for £43m, but Manchester United are not interested in bringing the 41-year-old to the club for a third time as it stands – The i Paper Luis Enrique will snub a move … Read more
On Thursday, WordPress launched a new Claude connector, enabling site owners to share back-end data with Anthropic’s chatbot system. Users can control what specific data they want to share, and access can also be revoked if and when the user chooses. Notably, Claude is given read-only access, meaning it won’t be able to alter anything … Read more
There is a familiarity to the New England Patriots being back in the Super Bowl, mostly because of their complete dominance of the NFL for two decades. Seven years have passed since Tom Brady won his last Super Bowl with the Patriots before winning another with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Patriots are already back … Read more
The Norwegian government has accused the Chinese-backed hacking group known as Salt Typhoon of breaking into several organizations in the country. In a report published on Friday, the Norwegian Police Security Service said the hacking group, believed to be working for the Chinese government, targeted vulnerable network devices to conduct espionage. Norway is the latest … Read more
Jean-Philippe Mateta will decide next week whether to have surgery on an ongoing knee issue which quashed his chances of joining AC Milan in the January transfer window, Crystal Palace head coach Oliver Glasner has revealed. The France forward has been playing with a swollen knee for much of this season and failed a medical … Read more
