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Over the past few weeks, the Department of Energy has been looking at canceling billions of dollars’ worth of contracts. Now the federal agency has confirmed that it’s axing $720 million worth of manufacturing awards. The cuts affect companies that make battery materials, recycle lithium-ion batteries, and manufacture super-insulating windows. Energy Secretary Chris Wright has been combing through contracts made during the Biden administration. The DOE claimed that the projects “missed milestones” and “did not adequately advance the nation’s energy needs,” spokesperson Ben Dietderich told E&E News. All of the money for the grants was authorized by Congress as part…
An inside view of Newark Airport as travelers are facing eight straight days of massive delays, United Airlines canceling routes and staffing shortages in Newark, New Jersey, United States, on May 06, 2025. Mostafa Bassim | Anadolu | Getty ImagesAirline websites, including those for Delta Air Lines and United Airlines, were affected during Monday’s hourslong disruption of Amazon Web Services, the massive cloud computing provider, with some customers complaining they were unable to access flight check-in functions or their reservations.At 5:27 a.m. ET, Amazon said: “We are seeing significant signs of recovery. Most requests should now be succeeding. We continue…
New data indicates that use of Meta AI’s mobile app for iOS and Android has seen a significant increase. According to a new analysis from market intelligence provider Similarweb, the app’s daily active users across both platforms jumped to 2.7 million as of October 17, up from around 775,000 just four weeks ago. In addition, Meta AI’s app installs are also up, reaching 300,000 new downloads per day, compared with under 200,000 daily downloads a few weeks ago. For comparison, Meta AI’s app had just 4,000 daily downloads a year ago, on October 17, 2024. Image Credits:Similarweb The firm says…
President Donald Trump and Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese inked an agreement on Monday that will pump billions of dollars into critical minerals projects. The U.S. and Australia will together contribute $3 billion to the projects over the next six months. The total project pipeline is worth $8.5 billion, the governments said. As part of the deal, the U.S. Department of Defense will also invest in a gallium refinery in Western Australia capable of producing 100 tons per year. Currently, the U.S. imports approximately 21 tons of gallium, which represents 100% of domestic consumption, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. …
Periodic Labs, a new startup by one of OpenAI’s most respected researchers, Liam Fedus, and his former Google Brain colleague, Ekin Dogus Cubuk, came out of stealth last month with an enormous $300 million seed round. It was led by Felicis and included a who’s who of angels and other top VCs. The startup began when Fedus had a conversation with Cubuk (whose friends call him “Doge”) about seven months ago. Cubuk was one of Google Brain’s foremost machine learning and material science researchers. After endless Silicon Valley takes on how generative AI would radically change scientific discovery, they decided that the…
Apple has rolled out a new feature that makes it easier to customize Liquid Glass to your liking. Now users will be able to set the appearance of Liquid Glass to either Clear or Tinted, with the help of a new setting included in the latest beta update of its mobile and desktop operating systems. The addition indicates Apple is listening closely to user feedback in these early days of the iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS 26 public launches. Apples likes to push through more significant changes, but it will often offer a fallback option for those who have…
In a region long defined by fragmented enterprise systems, outdated compliance tools, and HR software that rarely talks to finance, Cercli is building a unified alternative for MENA businesses with AI at its core. The Dubai-based startup, founded by ex-Careem operators Akeed Azmi and David Reche, has announced an oversubscribed $12 million Series A round led by European VC Picus Capital. Cercli today looks slightly different from the company that raised a $4 million seed round last year. It is rebuilding a Rippling-like stack for the MENA region, but making it AI-native from the ground up. Over the past year, that bet…
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s royal family is once again under intense scrutiny as a memoir by one of Prince Andrew ‘s and Jeffery Epstein’s most outspoken accusers, Virginia Giuffre, hits bookstores Tuesday.The memoir “Nobody’s Girl” is being published posthumously six months after Giuffre died by suicide in April.Giuffre had for years accused Andrew of sexually abusing her on multiple occasions when she was under 18 years old and a victim of sexual trafficking by convicted sex offender Epstein and his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell.While her book did not break new ground, it has thrown fuel on a series of new…
by Lacey Pfalz Last updated: 9:05 AM ET, Mon October 20, 2025 It’s been twenty days since the government shut down on October 1, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is now warning that numerous staffing triggers have been received, with air traffic controller absences creating delays from Chicago to Phoenix. According to Reuters’ reporting on the subject, the FAA identified that the delays at airports including Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta, Newark, Las Vegas and others were facing delays specifically due to air traffic controller absences. Air traffic controllers received their last paychecks on October 14 and will not be paid until…
A General Motors Co. Chevrolet Silverado truck at a dealership in Upland, California, US, on Wednesday, Oct 15, 2025. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesDETROIT — General Motors is set to report its third-quarter earnings before the bell Tuesday amid a litany of challenges facing the automotive industry.Here is what Wall Street is expecting, according to average estimates compiled by LSEG:Earnings per share: $2.31 adjustedRevenue: $45.27 billionThose results would mark a 7.2% decrease in revenue compared with a year earlier and a 22% drop in adjusted earnings per share. GM’s 2024 third-quarter results included $48.76 billion in revenue, net…