Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca says he doesn’t have any doubts about Noni Madueke’s frame of mind amid intense transfer “noise” linking him to Arsenal. Sky Sports News reported this week that the 23-year-old has emerged as a top target for Arsenal and are expecting a bid for the winger from the north London club. Gearing … Read more
Instagram Threads is close to catching up to top competitor X in terms of mobile app users, according to new data from market intelligence provider Similarweb. In June 2025, Threads’ mobile app for iOS and Android saw 115.1 million daily active users, representing 127.8% year-over-year growth; X reached 132 million daily actives, as its year-over-year … Read more
Former British and Irish Lions captain Sam Warburton says flanker Tom Curry is under pressure to perform having been given a “big shot” at securing a fiercely contested starting spot in the back row for the first Test against Australia next weekend. England’s Curry was on Monday named in the starting XV for the Lions’ … Read more
The main Reuters news account, as well as the Reuters World account, became inaccessible to X users in India on Saturday evening. Access was subsequently restored on Sunday. Reuters reports that Indian users attempting to view the @Reuters account — which has 25 million followers — instead saw a message stating that the account “has … Read more
Andy Farrell has named his strongest British and Irish team Lions team yet with Wednesday’s match against the ACT Brumbies in Canberra shaping up to be a dry run for the first Test against Australia. Maro Itoje leads the side as part of a second-row partnership with Joe McCarthy and across the starting XV there … Read more
With AI igniting an investor frenzy, every month, more startups obtain unicorn status. Using data from Crunchbase and PitchBook, TechCrunch tracked down the VC-backed startups that became unicorns so far this year. While most are AI-related, a surprising number are focused in other industries like satellite space companies like Loft Orbital and blockchain-based trading site … Read more
Brian Campbell secured his second play-off victory of the season on the PGA Tour by beating Emiliano Grillo at the first extra hole of the John Deere Classic. Campbell and Grillo both posted final-round 67s at TPC Deere Run to finish on 18 under and top of a congested leaderboard, where 14 players were separated … Read more
On Friday morning, Elon Musk declared, “We have improved @Grok significantly. You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions.” While Musk didn’t say exactly what improvements to look for, he’d previously declared that xAI (which built Grok) would retrain the chatbot after it had been trained on “far too much garbage,” and he … Read more
Lewis Hamilton lashed out at the state of his car and at Ferrari’s strategy calls as his proud streak of Silverstone podiums was ended on Sunday. Hamilton had finished in the top three in his previous 12 races at Silverstone, but was forced to settle for a frustrating fourth at the 2025 British Grand Prix … Read more
Academics may be leaning on a novel strategy to influence peer review of their research papers — adding hidden prompts designed to coax AI tools to deliver positive feedback. Nikkei Asia reports that when examining English-language preprint papers available on the website arXiv, it found 17 papers that included some form of hidden AI prompt. … Read more
