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by Sarah Kuta Last updated: 1:40 PM ET, Tue July 1, 2025 Welcome to the fleet, Viking Vesta. Viking officially named its newest ocean ship at a traditional ceremony held in Split, Croatia. Norwegian journalist and philanthropist Lene Tangevald-Jensen, the ship’s godmother, used a Viking broad axe to cut a ribbon that caused a bottle of Norwegian aquavit to break across the ship’s hull. Norwegian soprano Sissel Kyrkjebø, who also serves as the godmother of the Viking Jupiter, and Norwegian violinist Tor Jaran Apold performed at the event. Viking Vesta now continues her inaugural season in the Mediterranean and Northern Europe.“As…

Genesis AI, a startup that aims to build a foundational model for powering all kinds of robots, has emerged from stealth with a giant $105 million seed round co-led by Eclipse Ventures and Khosla Ventures. Founded last December by Zhou Xian (pictured above, left), who holds a PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, and Théophile Gervet (pictured above, right), a former research scientist with the French AI lab Mistral, the startup wants to build a general-purpose model that will enable robots to automate a wide range of repetitive tasks, from lab work to housekeeping. Large language models are trained…

If you’re shopping for a used car this summer, you may have noticed something frustrating: Prices are climbing again. According to the latest Edmunds’ Used Car Report, the average transaction price for a 3-year-old used vehicle has reached $30,522. That’s up 2.3% from the same time last year and marks the first time since mid-2023 that this number has climbed back over the $30,000 mark.Many people expected used car prices to cool off as new vehicle production recovered post-pandemic. But as the latest data shows, that’s not happening just yet — and shoppers should understand why. What’s driving used car…

The jury in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial has reached a verdict on four of five charges but remains deadlocked on the most serious charge: racketeering conspiracy. Despite the jury’s note Tuesday about being split with “unpersuadable views,” Judge Arun Subramanian instructed them to continue deliberating. ___ Janice Combs, mother of Sean Combs, leaves after Sean “Diddy” Combs trial at Manhattan federal court, Tuesday, July 1, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura) Janice Combs, mother of Sean Combs, leaves after Sean “Diddy” Combs trial at Manhattan federal court, Tuesday, July 1, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)Read…

U.S. senators voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to remove a controversial 10-year ban on states’ abilities to regulate AI from the Trump administration’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” reports Axios. The provision to the reconciliation bill was introduced by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). Many prominent Silicon Valley executives — including OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anduril’s Palmer Luckey, and a16z’s Marc Andreessen — were in favor of the so-called “AI moratorium,” which they said would prevent states from forming an unworkable patchwork of regulation that could stifle AI innovation. Opposition to the provision became a bipartisan issue, as most Democrats and many Republicans warned that…

Reuters  —  Denmark on Tuesday expanded its military service to include women, as the Nordic country seeks to recruit more soldiers and strengthen its defenses amid heightened security concerns across Europe. Under a law passed by Denmark’s parliament in June 2023, Denmark will require women turning 18 after July 1, 2025 to register for assessment days for potential military conscription, aligning with measures already in place for men. Until now, women, who last year made up around 24% of all recruits, had been allowed to join the military on a voluntary basis. “In the world situation we’re in right now,…

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Cousins Tanisha Tucker Lohse and Maria Francisco set off from their desert camp around dawn on most early summer days, in search of ripe fruit from the towering saguaro cactus, an icon of the Southwest that is crucial to the Tohono O’odham Nation’s spirituality.One plucks the small, thorn-covered fruits called “bahidaj” with a 10-foot-long (3-meter-long) stick made with a saguaro rib as the other catches them in a bucket. The harvest ritual is sacred to the O’odham, who have lived for thousands of years in what are now U.S.-Mexico borderlands, and it’s enjoying a renaissance as…

NEW YORK (AP) — The jury in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial is set to resume deliberations Wednesday after reaching a yet-to-be-disclosed verdict on all but one of the five charges the hip-hop mogul faces.U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian ordered the jury to continue its closed-door discussions for a third day after the panel of eight men and four women said Tuesday that it was unable to reach consensus on the top count: racketeering conspiracy.The judge agreed with prosecutors and Combs’ defense team that less than 13 hours of deliberations was too soon to give up on reaching a…

An IPO may not be on your near-term roadmap, but the best founders start planning for it long before the bankers show up. At TechCrunch All Stage on July 15 at Boston’s SoWa Power Station, Mo Jomaa, partner at CapitalG (Alphabet’s independent growth fund), will lead a session titled “What to Think About Now If You Want to IPO Someday” on the Scale Stage. In this session, Jomaa will walk founders through what it really takes to build toward a public debut, with lessons drawn from years investing in companies like Databricks, Grafana, Armis, and Cribl. Whether you’re a few…

Kyiv CNN  —  North Korea is set to triple the number of its troops fighting for Russia along the front lines with Ukraine, sending an additional 25,000 to 30,000 soldiers to assist Moscow, according to an intelligence assessment from Ukrainian officials. The troops may arrive in Russia in the coming months, according to the assessment seen by CNN, adding to the 11,000 sent in November who helped repel Ukraine’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk region. Around 4,000 of those North Korean soldiers were killed or injured in the deployment, according to Western officials, yet Pyongyang’s cooperation with Moscow has since bloomed.…