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Peter Thiel Says, ‘The Biggest Risk With AI Is That We Don’t Go Big Enough’ As His Founders Fund Leads $600 Million Crusoe Investment Crusoe, a vertically integrated artificial intelligence infrastructure provider, secured $600 million in Series D funding led by Peter Thiel‘s Founders Fund, valuing the company at $2.8 billion. The round included participation…
Patrick Mahomes threw for two touchdowns but suffered a late injury scare as the Kansas City Chiefs kept up their push for NFL playoff top seeding with a comfortable 21-7 win over the Cleveland Browns on Sunday. Chiefs quarterback Mahomes limped off the field midway through the fourth quarter of Sunday’s victory in Cleveland, which…
Read the full story on The Auto Wire Germans Cheer With Glee As Supercars Are Impounded An incident in Berlin involving a red Ferrari 488 Spyder and turquoise Lamborghini Huracan being loaded onto wreckers on the same day caused quite the stir on social media. Berlin police posted images of both supercars suspended mid-air by…
Watch: Cars smashed and walls knocked down following Mayotte cyclone The search for survivors in Mayotte, a French island territory in the Indian Ocean, continued on Sunday after it was hit by a powerful cyclone. Rescue workers are still attempting to reach some communities and it is feared the eventual death toll could stretch into…
(Reuters) -Teamsters members working at Marathon Petroleum’s Detroit refinery have voted to ratify a seven-year collective bargaining agreement, the company and the union said on Sunday, three months after workers walked off the job. “The process to safely welcome our employees back to the refinery is already in progress,” the Findlay, Ohio-based company said. Over…
CNN may have been duped by a so-called “hidden prisoner” from a Syrian jail that one news agency claims is actually a first lieutenant in the Syrian Air Force Intelligence. During a segment, CNN’s Clarissa Ward and a rebel fighter uncovered a prisoner who appeared to be still unaware of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s ouster….
Italy’s Sofia Goggia marked her return from injury with a superb victory in the Super-G at Beaver Creek on Sunday, following up her second place finish in the downhill a day earlier with the 25th World Cup win of her career. The 32-year-old, who finished just 0.16sec behind Austria’s Cornelia Huetter to take second in…
Reeva Steenkamp’s mother has warned Oscar Pistorius‘s new girlfriend that the disgraced Paralympian is still a ‘danger to women’. Pistorius, 38, is said to have found new love just months after being released from prison on parole having served nine years for killing his girlfriend at his South African home in 2013. The double amputee…
Bashar al-Assad’s central bank airlifted around $250mn in cash to Moscow in a two-year period when the then Syrian dictator was indebted to the Kremlin for military support and his relatives were secretly buying assets in Russia. The Financial Times has uncovered records showing that Assad’s regime, while desperately short of foreign currency, flew banknotes…
BELEN, N.M. (AP) — A 16-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with the deaths of four family members in a rural area in New Mexico, authorities said Sunday. State Police said the victims were found fatally shot at their Valencia County home early Saturday morning. The name of the teenager was being withheld Sunday…