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CNN  —  Days of speculation that Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky could meet with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in Turkey have ended with the Kremlin pouring cold water on the idea, confirming that the Russian leader had decided not to show up for talks he himself suggested. The possibility of direct talks between Russia and Ukraine was not entirely off the table as of Thursday morning, however, with lower-level delegations from both countries known to be in Turkey. A direct meeting would be a major development – the two sides are not known to have met directly since soon after Moscow…

Summary Indie games allow for unique, immersive worlds due to a lack of mainstream constraints. Games like The Witness and Gris emphasize exploration over grand quests. Titles like A Short Hike and Subnautica balance curiosity with caution for rewarding experiences. Indie games are often where creativity and ambition thrive. Without the constraints of massive budgets or mainstream expectations, indie developers have crafted some of the most unique and immersive worlds players have ever wandered through. 4:06 Related Indie Games That Became Major Success Stories Though most only see a modest amount of success, some indie games have etched their way…

Méliuz’s executive chairman says his fintech firm has become Brazil’s first publicly-traded Bitcoin treasury company following shareholder approval, with the firm also announcing it bought $28.4 million worth of Bitcoin to add to its existing stack.“Historic day! Our shareholders have approved, by a wide majority, the transformation of Méliuz into the first Bitcoin Treasury Company listed in Brazil,” Israel Salmen posted to X on May 15.Salmen said the firm snapped up 274.52 Bitcoin (BTC) for an average purchase price of $103,604, achieving a BTC yield of 600%. Méliuz now holds 320.3 Bitcoin, worth a little over $33 million, with the latest…

Cops arrested one of their own early Thursday for drinking and driving while on duty, police said. Shareca Allen, a 37-year-old NYPD officer, was arrested just before 1 a.m. in the 83rd Precinct in Bushwick, cops said. She has been assigned to the precinct since April, records state. Allen was on duty at the time of the arrest, according to authorities. She faces several charges, including operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs, driving while intoxicated, aggravated driving while intoxicated, and driving while ability impaired. The NYPD confirmed the arrest and charges but did not…

xAI blamed an “unauthorized modification” for a bug in its AI-powered Grok chatbot that caused Grok to repeatedly refer to “white genocide in South Africa” when invoked in certain contexts on X. On Wednesday, Grok began replying to dozens of posts on X with information about white genocide in South Africa, even in response to unrelated subjects. The strange replies stemmed from the X account for Grok, which responds to users with AI-generated posts whenever a person tags “@grok.” According to a post Thursday from xAI’s official X account, a change was made Wednesday morning to the Grok bot’s system…

CNN  —  Sudden, hurricane-force winds toppled the luxury Bayesian superyacht that sank off the coast of Sicily last August, according to an interim report into the disaster, which found the boat had “vulnerabilities” to extreme wind which were not known to the owner or crew. The 184-foot sailing boat owned by British tech tycoon Mike Lynch was anchored about a half mile from the port of Porticello on the Italian island’s northern coast when it sank, killing seven people, including Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah. Initial efforts to recover the remains of the yacht have also proved deadly. A…

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday said he was impressed with CoreWeave’s first quarter since its market debut, citing strong demand for the artificial intelligence infrastructure outfit’s services.”As far as I’m concerned, this was a great quarter from CoreWeave,” he said. “The demand for their computing power is clearly there, and that was not a given at the time of the IPO, when everyone assumed the AI infrastructure story was about to collapse.”CoreWeave’s revenue rocketed 420% over the quarter, blowing past estimates. But while the company had better-than-expected sales, its profitability was more mixed, Cramer said. The stock initially soared Wednesday…

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday told investors not to approach the stock market with an overly pessimistic attitude. He gave a few examples of stocks that saw gains recently after they were “written off” by some on Wall Street.”You can be as cynical and corrosive as you want about the vast majority of things in the world, in life,” he said. “But if you’re trying to make big money in the stock market, you’re actually better off being critical and constructive. Reflexive negativity is not a smart strategy.”Cramer pointed to Walmart, which initially jumped on Thursday after the big box…

Walmart’s business is strong enough to withstand tariff headwinds without increasing its prices, according to the discount retailer’s former U.S. CEO.Bill Simon, who ran Walmart U.S. from 2010 to 2014, suggests the company may be overstating challenges tied to tariffs.”If you look down deep and dig into the details of their earnings release today, you know this quarter they grew their gross profit margin in the U.S. business 25 basis points. So, they’re expanding their margin. They also reported their general merchandise categories were flattish because they had mid-single digit price deflation,” he told CNBC’s “Fast Money” on Thursday, the…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman laid out a big vision for the future of ChatGPT at an AI event hosted by VC firm Sequoia earlier this month.  When asked by one attendee about how ChatGPT can become more personalized, Altman replied that he eventually wants the model to document and remember everything in a person’s life. The ideal, he said, is a “very tiny reasoning model with a trillion tokens of context that you put your whole life into.” “This model can reason across your whole context and do it efficiently. And every conversation you’ve ever had in your life, every…