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Chevron to expand in Venezuela, days after the U.S. and Venezuela strike oil deal

Chevron is expanding its existing operations in Venezuela, the Houston-based company said Wednesday. This comes in the wake of Friday's announcement that Venezuela will give the U.S. access to 65 billion barrels of oil. The company will expand its operations in the Orinoco Belt, where much of …

Musk Loses The AI Race

For several months, Elon Musk’s xAI seemed to be falling behind OpenAI, Anthropic, Google’s Gemini, and the tier of AI companies just below them. Industry experts have recently reported that Musk’s Grok is well behind Claude, GPT, and Gemini in adoption. One metric people use is Apple App Store …

Chevron to expand in Venezuela, days after the U.S. and Venezuela strike oil deal

Chevron is expanding its existing operations in Venezuela, the Houston-based company said Wednesday. This comes in the wake of Friday's announcement that Venezuela will give the U.S. access to 65 billion barrels of oil. The company will expand its operations in the Orinoco Belt, where much of …
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Chevron to expand in Venezuela, days after the U.S. and Venezuela strike oil deal

Chevron is expanding its existing operations in Venezuela, the Houston-based company said Wednesday. This comes in the wake of Friday's announcement that Venezuela will give the U.S. access to 65 billion barrels of oil. The company will expand its operations in the Orinoco Belt, where much of …

Decoding Trump’s chaos: What science tells us about how Canada — and the world — should respond

For Canadians still reliving the Toronto Blue Jays’ emotional 2025 World Series run, Donald Trump’s latest attacks have supplied hits of high drama …

Trump welcomes Russia back to the G20. Europe isn’t having it.

Moscow's inclusion was a sharp change from how the U.S. handled such gatherings after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. ASHEVILLE, North Carolina — The Trump administration’s decision to bring Russia back into the fold at a gathering of the world’s leading economic officials is stirring fresh tensions …

Musk Loses The AI Race

For several months, Elon Musk’s xAI seemed to be falling behind OpenAI, Anthropic, Google’s Gemini, and the tier of AI companies just below them. Industry experts have recently reported that Musk’s Grok is well behind Claude, GPT, and Gemini in adoption. One metric people use is Apple App Store …

Why bond yields are rising and why everyone should care

WASHINGTON (AP) — Interest rates on government bonds are rising again around the world, making borrowing more expensive for consumers and businesses and heightening concerns about whether governments are issuing more debt than financial markets can handle. Rising bond yields are one of the few …

Trump Is Economically Dumb — and That’s How You Should Understand His Attempt to Steal Venezuela’s Oil

Donald Trump is not very good at running the economy, but he does have a great imagination about how he runs the economy. Trump continually boasts …

The Plot to Steal Venezuela’s Oil

A scam that is both vile and deeply stupid The United States has an ugly reputation in Latin America -- a reputation that, I’m sorry to say, is mostly …

A New World Order Is Coming. We Aren’t Ready.

A New World Order Is Coming. We Aren’t Ready. By Margaret MacMillan, NY Times   Ms. MacMillan is a historian and a former warden of St. Antony’s...

Where is AI headed? Two media theorists from the 1960s can help us figure it out

The 1960s were a time of great change in technology, culture and politics. Television was radically altering the media environment, and nobody was …

We Are Living in the Fantasy World of 13-Year-Old Boys (updated, shared)

Many of the tech billionaires who built our world have taken the wrong lessons from their favorite science fiction. After reading Jill Lepore’s The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, I have a new destination for a time machine, should I ever finally get my hands on one. I’d set the dial to some …

China Is Flatlining (updated, shared)

The country’s “stability” hides a host of problems. Compared with Donald Trump’s chaotic, divided, and violent America, China is a bastion of steady progress and serene order. This, at least, is the story that Beijing’s propagandists have been eager to spread. The Global Times, a Communist Party–run …

The U.S.-Venezuela oil deal won’t lower your gas prices. Here’s what you need to know

The Trump administration announced an agreement with the Venezuelan government on Friday to develop a vast amount of Venezuela's oil reserves. The U.S. government says it is entering into a joint venture with a private Venezuelan company, according to an official who spoke to NPR on the condition of …

Will the unusual oil deal between the U.S. and Venezuela work?

President Trump says a new deal with Venezuela would give the U.S. control of more than 65 billion barrels of oil reserves. NPR's energy and climate correspondent Julia Simon explains the hurdles that remain before the oil can start flowing. This episode was produced by Henry Larson. It was edited by …

AI is eating website traffic, websites are blocking AI – and reliable information is getting harder to find

For 30 years, the world wide web has run on a surprisingly profound social contract: most sites are free for search engines to access, but if you use …

What game theory teaches Canada about negotiating with an untrustworthy Donald Trump

Every negotiation assumes that both sides will honour what they agreed to, or that someone else — a court, a regulator, a contracting authority — can …

Amazon is buying 2 million Nvidia GPUs for AWS data center expansion

Amazon Web Services and Nvidia have expanded their long-running partnership to add far more computing power for artificial intelligence workloads. The …

The bond market prepares for a hike to interest rates, while US stocks drift lower

NEW YORK (AP) — The bond market swung Friday as investors built bets that the Federal Reserve may hike interest rates soon to get the nation’s high inflation under control. U.S. stocks, meanwhile, dipped but not by much after economists said a speech by Chairman Kevin Warsh helped strengthen faith …

China is secretly fueling America’s data center rage

Roughly 200 accounts from a suspected Chinese bot farm have quietly tried to influence Americans to oppose AI data centers on social media, X said …

In closely watched speech, Warsh signals Fed may need to raise rates

Any move to increase borrowing costs in September will likely invoke the frustration of President Donald Trump. JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming — Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh on Friday laid the groundwork for a possible interest rate hike in the coming months, arguing that the economy is strong and the …

FDA approves latest version of Pfizer’s COVID-19 mRNA vaccine

Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Pfizer and BioNTech announced Thursday that the Food and Drug Administration has approved a newly updated version of their COVID-19 …

AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable”

Tech industry is perplexed by Trump’s plan to win AI race by taxing data centers. Donald Trump may be preparing to announce sweeping new semiconductor …

FDA approves breakthrough pancreatic cancer drug – an oncologist explains how daraxonrasib nearly doubles survival

For a long time, the likelihood of surviving pancreatic cancer has been extremely low. For patients who were diagnosed with metastatic pancreatic …

Changes to Facebook and Instagram are key part of Meta’s $17B settlement with the states over harm to teens

Meta has agreed to pay up to US$17 billion over 10 years to settle claims brought by a bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general. The states …

I surveyed workers to see if AI had caused job losses and was surprised by the findings

Do artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT eliminate jobs, create new ones, or both? There’s a lot of speculation regarding this question, but …

The Truth About American Food Safety (updated, shared)

Have sprawling outbreaks become the norm? The phrase When it rains, it pours isn’t one you like to see applied to outbreaks of foodborne illness, yet here we are. The summer started with a diarrhea-causing parasite called Cyclospora cayetanensis, which infested iceberg lettuce. Then came news of Shiga …

FDA approves latest version of Pfizer’s COVID-19 mRNA vaccine

Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Pfizer and BioNTech announced Thursday that the Food and Drug Administration has approved a newly updated version of their COVID-19 …

FDA approves breakthrough pancreatic cancer drug – an oncologist explains how daraxonrasib nearly doubles survival

For a long time, the likelihood of surviving pancreatic cancer has been extremely low. For patients who were diagnosed with metastatic pancreatic …

Tsunami of dirt: what caused Nepal’s deadly glacial flood?

More than 150 people are dead and hundreds more missing after an enormous wave of water, ice, mud and rock cascaded more than 170 kilometres down the …

Why the US-Canada trade war could change how American farmers grow their crops for years

U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada is getting personal for American farmers. After trade talks between the two longtime allies fell …

Measles Used to Be in Our Rearview Mirror. Now Cases Are Reaching Record Highs.

In other parts of the world that have let their guard down to vaccine-preventable diseases, long-forgotten scourges have roared back and killed and …

More protein in your breakfast or snacks won’t give you more muscle without more work – a biologist separates the science from the marketing

Growing up, my brothers were fascinated by the first “Rocky” movie. They were trying to get stronger and excel in sports, so one scene stood out …

There’s a better way to cool data centres that cuts their huge thirst for water

Water is an amazing substance. The human body is made up of more than 50% water. Approximately 70% of the earth’s surface is covered by water. We …