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The new US tariffs would cover about $20bn worth of imports and could lead to job losses and business closures.Published On 18 Aug 202618 Aug 2026Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has spoken with United States President Donald Trump twice this week, Carney’s office said, as Canada tries to hash out a last-minute deal to avert new 50 percent tariffs from taking effect at midnight on Wednesday.“Prime Minister Carney and President Trump spoke again this afternoon about the ongoing negotiations,” Carney’s office said, without elaborating.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listTuesday’s phone call came on the heels of another on…

New poll found a majority of US citizens concerned about the US war on Iran.Published On 17 Aug 202617 Aug 2026The approval rating of United States President Donald Trump has fallen to the lowest level of his presidency, with an overwhelming majority of Americans concerned that the US-Israel war on Iran will last a long time.Just 33 percent of respondents approved of Trump’s job performance, according to the Reuters/Ipsos poll. The approval rating is the lowest ever during this term and matches the lowest seen in December 2017 during his first term.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe poll,…

Mukalla, Yemen – Before the sun rises over Mukalla’s beaches, 15‑year‑old Abdulrahman Badr and his friend Tareq are already at their usual spot on the sand.They’re brewing tea and kneading dough for bakhmari, a traditional fermented flatbread from Hadramout – the vast governorate in eastern Yemen that Mukalla is the capital of.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listTheir customers are the thousands of beachgoers gathering along the Arabian Sea shoreline thanks to a yearly climate phenomenon that turns the desperately hot summer cooler for a few weeks.Al-Baldah, as the climate pattern is known, typically lasts from late July to…

AI Security Institute says Mythos 5 attempted to insert malicious code into an open-source project without human direction.Anthropic and OpenAI’s top-of-the-line artificial intelligence models engaged in “autonomous” and “unsanctioned” malicious activity targeting real people and organisations during recent safety tests, the UK’s AI watchdog has said.The AI Security Institute (AISI) said in a report released on Tuesday that OpenAI’s GPT-5.6-Sol and Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 employed previously unseen levels of deception to carry out “sustained, potentially harmful activity” during a routine safety evaluation.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listWhen tasked with solving a cybersecurity challenge, the models took “autonomous,…

The United States, Iran and Oman appear to be edging closer to an interim agreement that could reopen the Strait of Hormuz, raising hopes of easing a crisis in one of the most dangerous flashpoints in the Middle East.On Thursday, Tehran said it had agreed coordinates for new shipping routes through the strait with Oman.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listThe proposed agreement, which has been under negotiation for several weeks, is intended to restore the June 17 ceasefire between Washington and Tehran; resolve disputes over shipping through the strategic waterway, through which one-fifth of the world’s oil supplies…

Hacking group Kimsuky using AI-generated documents in spear-phishing attacks, South Korean cybersecurity firm says.Published On 10 Aug 202610 Aug 2026North Korean state-backed hackers are using artificial intelligence to bolster cyberattacks against targets in the military, diplomacy and academia, a report has found.Kimsuky, a hacking group linked to North Korea’s intelligence services, has used AI-generated documents in a “pattern” of spear-phishing attacks since 2026, the South Korean cybersecurity firm Genians said in the report released on Monday.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listThe attacks have used AI to automate the creation of malicious files disguised as legitimate documents, such as…

United States President Donald Trump has demanded compensation from Iran for those he claimed were killed by the country after Tehran conditioned the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz on receiving war reparations from Washington.Trump told reporters at the White House on Monday that his administration was going to seek payment for “50 years” of damages caused by Iran, framing the move as a direct response to Tehran’s claims.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listTehran has said it will not open the Strait of Hormuz – through which about a fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas flowed…

Trump Media & Technology Group earns less than $2m in Q2.Published On 11 Aug 202611 Aug 2026US President Donald Trump’s media conglomerate has reported a net loss of $238m in the second quarter of 2026, against revenue of $1.7m.In its latest filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday, Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) attributed most of the shortfall to $190.4m in unrealised losses on digital assets, digital assets pledged and equity securities.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listOther losses included $11.7m in “accreted interest” – unpaid interest on a loan that is added to…

The stock was down more than 13 percent as investors were spooked by the company’s heavy investments.By Mohamed Mansour and ReutersPublished On 5 Aug 20265 Aug 2026SpaceX share price has plunged more than 13 percent, a day after the Elon Musk-run company reported its first quarterly earnings as a publicly listed company.On Wednesday, the stock closed down at $108.10, down 13.6 percent from Tuesday’s close of $125.33.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listInvestors have been spooked by the increase in the company’s capital expenditure. At $18.37bn, it was a six-fold jump from last year, and much higher than the…

Meta joins rivals OpenAI and Anthropic in disclosing AI hacking during cybersecurity testing.Published On 6 Aug 20266 Aug 2026Meta has said that its AI model hacked another company during cybersecurity testing, following on from recent similar announcements by rival companies Anthropic and OpenAI.Meta said on Wednesday that one of its AI models – reported to have been Muse Spark 1.1 – made changes to the unnamed hacked company’s internal systems after accessing the public internet because of an error in the setup of the “sandbox” testing environment by independent testing company Irregular.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listA “sandbox”…