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A handful of moderate Republican lawmakers Wednesday joined congressional Democrats to force a vote on extending Affordable Care Act tax credits that could avert skyrocketing insurance premiums for more than 20 million Americans, even as GOP leaders bulldozed ahead with a doomed plan of their own that would allow the aid to expire. Four GOP moderates, including Westchester County Rep. Mike Lawler, broke ranks to support a Democratic-led effort to extend the Obamacare subsidies for three years in a stinging rebuke to House Speaker Mike Johnson. “There is great frustration about a very simple fact: we have a responsibility to…

Mozilla has appointed Anthony Enzor-DeMeo as its CEO as the Firefox browser maker scrambles to adapt in a rapidly changing browser market. The appointment comes at a time when web browsers are seeing a revitalization of sorts as AI changes how people use the internet. After more than a decade of dominating the market, incumbents like Firefox, Google Chrome, and Apple’s Safari are facing a fresh challenge from companies like Perplexity, Arc, OpenAI, and Opera, which are focused on baking AI models and agents into their browsers to bring AI to users at the first point of contact with the…

Google’s vibe-coding tool, Opal, is making its way to Gemini. The company on Wednesday said it is integrating the tool, which lets you build AI-powered mini apps, inside the Gemini web app, allowing users to create their own custom apps, which Google calls Gems. Introduced in 2024, Gems are customized versions of Gemini designed for specific tasks or scenarios. For instance, some of Google’s pre-made Gems include a learning coach, a brainstorming assistant, a career guide, a coding partner, and an editor. Opal, meanwhile, focuses on helping users create mini-apps or mix existing apps. To use the feature, users describe…

Mythic items provide some of the strongest stats and effects players can want in Diablo 4. They are incredibly powerful, and a single one of them can easily turn your build from mediocre to excellent under the right conditions. The catch here is that Mythic Uniques are extremely rare, and unless players get very lucky during their first forays into Torment difficulty, they likely won’t get to see a Mythic Unique until much later. In this guide, we’ll be going over each of the Mythic Unique items in Diablo 4 to help you figure out which ones will work for…

Key takeaways:ETFs, treasuries, and macro tailwinds may snap Bitcoin’s four-year boom-and-bust pattern.A bearish phase should not be ruled out before new all-time highs. Bitcoin (BTC) has historically moved in four-year cycles tied to its halving events, with prices typically peaking 12-18 months after each supply cut before sliding into a prolonged bear market. This time was no different. Bitcoin peaked near $126,200 in October, exactly eighteen months after the April 2024 halving, before declining by more than 30%. BTC/USDT weekly chart. Source: TradingViewThe trend aligns with the early stages of past bearish phases, prompting veteran analysts such as Peter Brandt…

The moment Nick Reiner was arrested on suspicion of killing his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, was captured by a surveillance camera at a Los Angeles gas station convenience store. Nick Reiner was taken into custody Sunday night near the USC campus in downtown Los Angeles, hours after his mother and father were found dead inside their Brentwood mansion. In  footage obtained by NBC Los Angeles, he can be seen arriving at an ampm mini-mart near the intersection of Exposition Boulevard and Vermont Avenue, about 15 miles from his parents’ home. Reiner — wearing a baseball cap, green sweater, jeans…

Underwater autonomous vessels and robots could play a substantial role in defense operations, but submersibles have historically had trouble communicating across large distances unless they rose to the surface. But coming up to transmit poses the very obvious risk of being exposed. Skana Robotics thinks it’s made a breakthrough with underwater communications using AI — but not the large language models the industry touts today. Tel Aviv-based Skana has developed a new capability for its fleet management software system, SeaSphere, that allows groups of vessels to communicate with each other underwater across long distances using AI. The system allows vessels…

Check out the companies making the biggest moves in premarket trading: Warner Bros. Discovery , Netflix , Paramount Skydance — Warner Bros. Discovery’s board unanimously recommended that shareholders reject Paramount Skydance’s takeover bid and stick with Netflix’s proposal — which they called “superior.” Netflix shares ticked higher by 1.4% in the premarket. Warner shed 1.8% along with Paramount. Amazon — CNBC confirmed OpenAI is in discussions with Amazon about a potential $10 billion investment and agreement to use its artificial intelligence chips. Shares moved 1.4% higher. Lennar — The homebuilder shed 5% after its first-quarter guidance disappointed investors. Lennar expects…

Amazon is in early discussions to invest as much as $10 billion in OpenAI in a deal that would see the AI lab using the e-commerce giant’s AI chips, CNBC reported. If it materializes, the deal would value OpenAI at more than $500 billion, Bloomberg reported, citing an anonymous source. The Information was first to report on the story. Amazon has been looking to diversify its bets in the AI race, which has so far seen it partner up with and invest $8 billion in Anthropic, a rival to OpenAI. The e-commerce giant earlier this month also unveiled the latest…

Finland’s long-running gambling monopoly is set to give way to a partially competitive system after parliament approved a comprehensive overhaul of the country’s gambling legislation. Lawmakers voted decisively in favour of the reform package, bringing years of debate and legislative work to a close and setting a clear timeline for licensing and market entry.The vote marked the final parliamentary step for the new Gambling Act, which restructures Finland’s online gambling framework and ends Veikkaus’ exclusive position in several verticals. The bill now proceeds to presidential approval, which is expected before the end of the year.Parliamentary vote confirms shift away from…