UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is set to present US President Donald Trump with a plan to send 30,000 European troops to Ukraine, The Telegraph reports. According to the report, Starmer will outline how European forces could oversee any ceasefire agreement brokered by Trump when they meet in Washington next week. JOIN US ON
Cherryrock Capital, founded by ex-TaskRabbit CEO Stacy Brown-Philpot, announced Wednesday the closing of its $172 million Fund I with an all-star limited partner list that includes JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, MassMutual, Melinda French Gates’ Pivotal Ventures, Reid Hoffman, Mellody Hobson, and Sheryl Sandberg. Brown-Philpot told Bloomberg that the fund actually closed in January. The firm launched
Figure founder and CEO Brett Adcock Thursday revealed a new machine learning model for humanoid robots. The news, which arrives two weeks after Adcock announced the Bay Area robotics firm’s decision to step away from an OpenAI collaboration, is centered around Helix, a “generalist” Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model. VLAs are a new phenomenon for robotics, leveraging
KEY TAKEAWAYS Hasbro shares jumped after the toymaker posted better-than-expected results and unveiled a new strategy of raising revenue yearly through 2027. The company behind “Dungeons & Dragons” fantasy games and Transformers action figures posted a fourth-quarter revenue decline of 15% year-on-year to $1.10 billion. Hasbro shares are up more than 20% in the past 12
The casting call for the next James Bond has gone out—from Jeff Bezos. The founder of retail and tech giant Amazon.com (AMZN) on Thursday asked people for ideas—”Who’d you pick as the next Bond?”— on the social platform X, getting suggestions ranging from actors to oddballs (like non-actors and comedians) to Bezos himself. The message
Americans are racking up more and more credit card debt. Collectively, consumers owe a record $1.21 trillion on their credit cards, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York recently reported. The average balance per consumer now stands at $6,580, up 3.5% year over year, according to a separate quarterly credit industry insights report from TransUnion. Despite the
Feb 20, 2025 07:51 PM IST Panama and Costa Rica are among the Central American countries that are collaborating with the US to repatriate deported migrants NEW DELHI: Indian authorities have started the process of verifying the nationality of around 50 people presumed to be Indians who were part of a group of 299 migrants
When Russian troops rolled into Ukraine three years ago , they brought their parade uniforms with them on the push to Kyiv. President Vladimir Putin expected a quick victory. What Putin dubbed the “special military operation” has turned into Europe’s largest conflict since World War II. Tens of thousands have been killed, entire cities have
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on February 15, 2025 in Munich, Germany. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) AFTER THE “ROOKIE MISTAKES” of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in Brussels, the insults and intrusions into Germany’s election hurled by Vice President JD Vance at the Munich Security Conference, and the kowtowing of Secretary of State Marco Rubio
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