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In Brief Posted: 10:50 AM PDT · July 30, 2026 Image Credits:Simile Add another member to the fast-and-furious AI unicorn club: Simile. Just five months after emerging from stealth and announcing a $100 million Series ...
10:41 AM PDT · July 30, 2026 Spotify is giving users a new way to personalize their playlists with “User Notes,” a feature that lets them add their own notes to individual tracks, the company ...
2026-07-30T16:48:55+00:00 Shafaq News- Duhok The Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) needs 126,700 to 140,000 barrels of fuel per day but receives only 50,000 barrels, driving up gasoline prices, Acting Minister of Natural Resources Kamal Mohammed ...
Okta on Thursday agreed to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso Security, betting that demand for protecting AI agents and other machine identities will grow as enterprises deploy autonomous software across their operations. The identity ...
Tesla has built its 10 millionth electric vehicle, according to a social media post by the company early on Thursday. The milestone comes six years after the company built its one millionth vehicle. Crossing the ...
Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) is the best-funded fusion power startup, having raised $4 billion from investors over the last seven years, including the $1 billion the company has raised now. Now, developments at CFS, plus ...
Meta is using AI to quickly launch apps, and more are on the way. During this week’s second-quarter earnings call, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the social giant has new apps in the works, following ...
Netflix is doubling down on one of television’s biggest franchises, signing a massive new licensing agreement worth a reported $500 million to bring The Walking Dead Universe to audiences around the world. AMC Global Media ...
In a bid to capture more of its customers’ AI spending, British AI neocloud Nscale is buying software startup Anyscale, which helps companies scale their AI workloads across data centers and servers. Nscale is paying ...
A court in Van has rejected a request for a retrial by Emrah Bayram, who was tried as an adult after authorities changed his age following his detention in 2009, when he was a minor, ...
A court in Van has rejected a request for a retrial by Emrah Bayram, who was tried as an adult after authorities changed his age following his detention in 2009, when he was a minor, ...
2026-07-30T13:08:37+00:00 Shafaq News- Erbil Masrour Barzani, Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Region, and Mohammed al-Halbousi, leader of the Taqaddum (Progress) party, expressed support for Iraq’s federal government under Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi in managing current ...
2026-07-30T12:55:17+00:00 Shafaq News- Erbil A fire broke out on Thursday at the Hersham camp for Syrian refugees near the Bahrka subdistrict in Iraqi Kurdistan’s Erbil province, destroying residential shelters without causing any casualties. Shafaq News ...
• Local teachers at the school staged a four-month strike over a massive pay gap with their Italian colleagues • After the strike ended in victory for the teachers, the school administration began dismissing participants ...
The climate pattern putting millions at risk: El Niño explained The story from a human perspective A farmer in Zambia who hasn’t seen a maize harvest. A mother in Somalia carrying her sick children through ...
Fear grows as freedoms shrink in Uganda 30 July 2026 Peace and Security Uganda is experiencing a growing climate of fear as increasing restrictions on fundamental freedoms leave opposition supporters, journalists, human rights defenders and ...
Middle East crisis: Humanitarian fallout ‘worsening by the day’ 30 July 2026 Peace and Security The humanitarian toll is mounting as fighting continues in the Middle East beyond strikes and counterstrikes between the US and ...
Wildfires: Prevention is the best defence, UN says The warning comes from the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) which said that more than 434,000 hectares have already burned across Europe this year, according to ...
Returning Afghans face growing risk of trafficking as crises deepen 30 July 2026 Law and Crime Prevention Afghans returning from neighbouring countries are facing growing risks of human trafficking and exploitation as overlapping humanitarian and ...
Attacks ‘getting worse’: Deadly Russian strikes hit Ukrainian cities 30 July 2026 Peace and Security Aid workers and first responders raced to help people across Ukraine after a wave of deadly Russian missile and drone ...
