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It’s the 100th day of President Donald Trump’s second term, and it’s been full of economic changes.He’s signed over 100 executive orders, could push the average effective tariff rate to the highest in over a century, and has cut large swaths of the federal government.Hard economic data doesn’t reflect much of Trump’s new policies just yet: The job market is still on the same cooling but strong trajectory it’s been on, and inflation was still marching down toward the Federal Reserve’s target before the bulk of new tariffs kicked in.However, that could all change in the coming months. Implementing tariffs could…
Veterans of the European startup scene, who’ve launched multiple consumer apps in the past, are partly coming out of stealth Tuesday with a new app. On the face of it, Grouphug will simply generate memes from the archive of a group WhatsApp chat. However, that masks a wider play. Grouphug is led by Felix Petersen, one of the most experienced and seasoned B2C founders in Europe, who built the Amen and Plazes apps. Right now, all users can do on Grouphug is export the text from a group WhatsApp chat and generate funny images from the content. However, this is…
Veterans of the European startup scene, who’ve launched multiple consumer apps in the past, are partly coming out of stealth Tuesday with a new app. On the face of it, Grouphug will simply generate memes from the archive of a group WhatsApp chat. However, that masks a wider play. Grouphug is led by Felix Petersen, one of the most experienced and seasoned B2C founders in Europe, who built the Amen and Plazes apps. Right now, all users can do on Grouphug is export the text from a group WhatsApp chat and generate funny images from the content. However, this is…
By Joshua McElweeVATICAN CITY (Reuters) -An Italian cardinal who was convicted of embezzlement and fraud said on Tuesday he will not take part in the secret conclave to elect the new pope that will be held in the Sistine Chapel next week following the death of Pope Francis.Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the most senior Catholic Church official ever to stand trial before a Vatican criminal court, was sentenced to 5-1/2 years in jail in December 2023. He denies all wrongdoing and is free pending an appeal.Francis, who died on April 21 at the age of 88, had fired Becciu from a…
The push alerts of the first 100 days of the Trump administration | AP News We downloaded all push alerts sent to the Associated Press’ mobile app between noon on Jan. 20 and will be updating through 11:59 p.m. on April 29. We ran the text of these alerts through a model called BAAI general embedding to vectorize it. We then ran a similarity search over the vectors, using a FAISS index, and boosted the specific terms “Trump” and “U.S. government.” This project includes push alerts with a similar score of at least 0.4. We checked results against the complete…
Qwen3 is Alibaba’s debut into so-called “hybrid reasoning models,” which it says combines traditional LLM capabilities with “advanced, dynamic reasoning.”Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesAlibaba released the next generation of its open-sourced large language models, Qwen3, on Tuesday — and experts are calling it yet another breakthrough in China’s booming open-source artificial intelligence space.In a blog post, the Chinese tech giant said Qwen3 promises improvements in reasoning, instruction following, tool usage and multilingual tasks, rivaling other top-tier models such as DeepSeek’s R1 in several industry benchmarks. The LLM series includes eight variations that span a range of architectures and sizes,…
The top stories and transfer rumours from Tuesday’s newspapers…DAILY TELEGRAPH Arne Slot will be backed with one of Liverpool’s biggest summer transfer budgets to pursue a record-breaking 21st league title, but their chances of signing Alexander Isak appear slim.Tottenham are facing the prospect of having to sell to buy this summer, despite the fact the club could spend over £200m without breaching profit and sustainability rules (PSR). Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Arne Slot reacts to Liverpool being crowned Premier League champions Several prominent Lionesses have shown their support for Ian Wright after he said…
CNN — Mankind’s achievements over the millennia have been bountiful. Their evolutionary fruits – from the harnessing of fire, to vaccines, to the art of diplomacy – were never low hanging; they were imagined before they were ever grasped. But once held, they became indispensable. Until now that is, as 100 days into his presidency US President Donald Trump seems determined to throw this painful learning to the wind, risking a world forced into reverse. A torrent of tariffs, unleashed against the better judgement of experts, yet exalted by Trump’s acolytes as the work of a deal-making genius are a…
Joseph Parker missed out on the chance to fight Daniel Dubois for the IBF world heavyweight title but may now find himself in an even stronger position, says Frank Warren. Dubois had been due to defend his belt against Parker on what was billed as the greatest card in boxing history in February, only to withdraw from the bout on the Thursday of fight week after falling ill. Parker subsequently stopped late replacement Martin Bakole in the second round to keep his world title aspirations alive, and is the current WBO interim world champion.It was announced on Monday that Dubois will…
A Dollar Store on April 1, 2024, in Lansing, Michigan, U.S.Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty Images Tariffs unleashed — and temporarily, almost capriciously, paused — by U.S. President Donald Trump have given governments across the world a headache as they figure out how to minimize disruptions to their economies. But the U.S. consumer, ironically, could be the real victim of tariffs.During the weekend, Temu, a Chinese e-tailer known for offering wallet-friendly items, hiked prices, citing “import charges.” Analysis by CNBC’s Gabrielle Fonrouge and Annie Palmer found that those fees can cost more than the items themselves and…