U.S. Men’s National Team stars Christian Pulisic and Yunus Musah’s 2024-25 Champions League run is over.Their club team, Italy’s AC Milan, found itself on the wrong end of a 2-1 aggregate playoff defeat to the Netherlands’ Feyenoord on Tuesday. The shock upset eliminates Milan from the Champions League before the knockout stages of the tournament.Pulisic started both legs of the Feyenoord playoff and set up Mexican striker Santiago Gimenez for Milan’s only goal of the series. Musah started the second leg in place of French midfielder Youssouf Fofana. While Pulisic and Musah looked impressive for Milan, they were let down…
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In April 1928, Joseph Goebbels, later the Third Reich’s chief propagandist, wrote a newspaper essay addressing the question of why the National Socialists, despite being an “anti-parliamentarian party,” would nonetheless compete in that May’s parliamentary elections.“We enter the Reichstag to arm ourselves with democracy’s weapons,” Goebbels explained. “If democracy is foolish enough to give us free railway passes and salaries, that is its problem. It does not concern us. Any way of bringing about the revolution is fine by us.”Germany’s postwar federal republic, established over the ruins the Nazis made, has been haunted by Goebbels’s taunt ever since. How does…
xAI, the startup led by Elon Musk that raised $6 billion in December, has a new AI model that it claims is better than AI created by DeepSeek and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI.In a live-streamed event on X on Monday that has been viewed over six million times at the time of writing, Musk and three xAI engineers revealed Grok 3, the startup’s latest AI model. They claimed Grok 3 had higher scores on math, science, and coding benchmark tests than OpenAI’s GPT-4o, DeepSeek’s V3, and Google’s Gemini AI.Related: Elon Musk’s xAI Is Reportedly Set to Hire Thousands of ‘AI Tutors’ With…
The three layers of the atmosphere of the gas giant TylosESO/M. Kornmesser The atmosphere of a distant world has been mapped in detail for the first time, revealing a strange, topsy-turvy weather system, with the fastest winds ever seen inexplicably blowing around the planet’s stratosphere. Astronomers have studied WASP-121b, also known as Tylos, since 2015. The planet, which is 900 light years away, is a vast ball of gas double the size of Jupiter, and it orbits its star extremely closely, completing a full orbit in just 30 Earth hours. This close orbit heats the planet’s atmosphere to temperatures of…
On one side of the lake, lovers glide on canoes, friends ride jet-skis and families pose for pictures in the hazy sunset. On the other side, less than two miles away, dead bodies washed ashore while ammunition and discarded weapons littered the water.The shore of Lake Kivu in Rwanda offers leisure and relaxation. Across the border in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the same lake displayed devastation and misery after an armed group called M23 captured the lakeside city of Goma last month. Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the January offensive, according to the United Nations.“It is peaceful here,…
Humane, the ambitious start-up behind the Ai Pin device that aimed to one day replace smartphones, agreed to sell parts of its business to HP for $116 million, the companies said on Tuesday.HP said it planned to acquire Humane’s “A.I. capabilities,” including its software platform, intellectual property, patents and some employees. The Ai Pin will be shut down, Humane said in a message to customers.The deal caps a downfall for the high-flying start-up, which heavily promoted the $699 pin with ads, a TED Talk and at Paris Fashion Week with supermodels. Humane raised $240 million in funding from high-profile investors,…
This article is an on-site version of our FirstFT newsletter. Subscribers can sign up to our Asia, Europe/Africa or Americas edition to get the newsletter delivered every weekday morning. Explore all of our newsletters hereToday’s agenda: Big Tech emboldened; KKR’s Italian telecoms pains; pushback on Elliott’s BP move; drastic cost cuts at renewables leader; and Bolsonaro chargedGood morning. We begin with Donald Trump’s first public remarks since he held high-level talks with Russia, in which he signalled there should be elections in Ukraine.What he said: In comments critical of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s handling of the war, the US president…
Credit: Screenshot via Amanpour and Company A leaked document reportedly outlines President Trump’s demand for a $500 billion “payback” from Ukraine in any negotiated peace deal to end the war with Russia. According to the Telegraph, which has viewed the confidential document, that price includes some level of control over Ukraine’s ports, infrastructure, oil, gas, and critical minerals. The draft contract, dated February 7, 2025, proposes a U.S.-Ukraine joint investment fund to ensure reconstruction benefits exclude hostile parties. With it, Ukraine would cede 50% of resource extraction revenues and new license values to the U.S. It is unclear if there…
Meghan Markle renamed her lifestyle brand, American Riviera Orchard, to As Ever before the release of her Netflix series “With Love, Meghan.”This change has caused critics to call the shift rushed, citing trademark issues and repurposed materials. PR experts also argue it might be a strategic move to maintain intrigue.The As Ever website leaked before Meghan Markle’s announcement, revealing a broader product range, including food, home goods, and skincare.Article continues below advertisementMeghan Markle’s As Ever Rebrand Sparks CriticismMEGAMeghan’s rebrand of American Riviera Orchard to As Ever has sparked criticism, with experts calling it a rushed effort using repurposed promotional material…
BEIJING: China will always be Latin America’s “trustworthy” friend and partner, its foreign minister told his Bolivian counterpart, as Beijing and Washington look to firm their respective footholds in a region historically under the US sphere of influence. “Latin America is the home of the Latin American people, and is not any country’s ‘backyard,” Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said during a meeting at the United Nations on Tuesday (Feb 18), according to a statement from his ministry. China wants to “continuously elevate the China-Bolivia strategic partnership”, Wang told Bolivia’s Foreign minister Celinda Sosa. Bolivia, which established diplomatic ties with Beijing…