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Tel Aviv CNN  —  Newly freed Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander provided new information about Israeli hostage Matan Zangauker, confirming that he is alive but suffering from significant weight loss, abdominal pain and mental distress, according to Zangauker’s family. Zangauker was held by Hamas alongside Alexander from October 7, 2023, until Alexander’s release last week, Zangauker’s family said in a statement. The family said it learned about Zangauker’s condition following Alexander’s release. Zangauker, 25, has been in “severe mental distress” in recent months, according to information disclosed by his family, and has been refusing to speak or eat, even after Hamas…

CEOs are now so immersed in AI, they’re sending their avatars to address quarterly earnings calls instead of themselves, at least partially. After the Klarna CEO’s AI avatar appeared on an investor call earlier this week, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan followed suit, also using his avatar for initial comments. Yuan deployed his custom avatar via Zoom Clips, the company’s asynchronous video creation tool. “I am proud to be among the first CEOs to use an avatar in an earnings call,” he — or rather his avatar — said. “It is just one example of how Zoom is pushing the boundaries…

With Grand Theft Auto 6 now looming large on the horizon, there’s never been a better time to play through all of the Grand Theft Auto games in order. However, whether you’re new to the franchise and looking to get yourself up to speed or a long-time fan in need of a refresher, trying to figure out the best order to do so may seem like a daunting task. Related Grand Theft Auto: Where Do All The GTA Games Take Place? All but a handful of Grand Theft Auto games have taken place in one of three main settings, leading…

Shares in Swedish health tech company H100 Group AB rose 37% after it said it purchased Bitcoin for the first time as part of a new strategy, while China’s Jiuzi Holdings revealed its plan to stack 1,000 Bitcoin over the next year.H100 said on May 22 that it spent 5 million Norwegian krone ($490,830) buying 4.39 Bitcoin (BTC) at an average purchasing price of around $111,785.The company’s shares closed May 22 trading up 37% to 1.22 Swedish krona ($0.13) on the Nordic Growth Market following its disclosure of its Bitcoin purchase, Bloomberg data shows. Source: H100The strong trading day recovered some losses from the past…

Tokyo CNN  —  An off-the-cuff remark about never paying for rice has cost Japan’s agriculture minister his job, as pressure mounts on the government to solve the nation’s rice crisis. Taku Eto resigned on Wednesday, telling reporters that he had concluded he was “not the right person for this role” after sparking a public backlash by saying that he had “so much rice at home that (he) could sell it.” The cost of rice – Japan’s prime staple food – has become a major political issue, with prices surging to record highs this year and the government taking the rare…

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei believes today’s AI models hallucinate, or make things up and present them as if they’re true, at a lower rate than humans do, he said during a press briefing at Anthropic’s first developer event, Code with Claude, in San Francisco on Thursday. Amodei said all this in the midst of a larger point he was making: that AI hallucinations are not a limitation on Anthropic’s path to AGI — AI systems with human-level intelligence or better. “It really depends how you measure it, but I suspect that AI models probably hallucinate less than humans, but they…

Summary The Vibrant Visuals update in Minecraft’s Bedrock Edition introduces supernova events in the End dimension. Environmental enhancements extend to biomes, including biome-specific color grading and fog density changes. Vibrant Visuals not only improves the Overworld but also teases the fanbase with hints of possible future updates. Fans trying out experimental preview versions of Minecraft’s Bedrock Edition have discovered that the upcoming Vibrant Visuals graphical update brings a curious environmental change to the End dimension. This has sparked some Minecraft enthusiasts to further speculate about the possibility of a fully-fledged End update sometime in the future, although the likelihood of…

Check out the companies making headlines in extended trading. Ross Stores — Shares pulled back more than 11%. Ross withdrew its earlier full-year guidance . The off-price retailer said that it expects second-quarter earnings to range from $1.40 to $1.55 per share, while analysts polled by LSEG sought $1.65 per share. Ross also said that it expects pressure on its profitability if tariffs remain at elevated levels. AutoDesk — Shares gained more than 2% after the software company issued a higher-than-expected second-quarter outlook. AutoDesk forecast adjusted earnings in the current quarter in the range of $2.44 to $2.48 per share…

Key takeaways:The two most bullish events ever imagined by XRP (XRP) advocates happened in 2025, but XRP continues to underperform the cryptocurrency market. On March 6, XRP was listed as a candidate for the United States’ “Digital Asset Reserve,” and Ripple Labs settled a multi-year-long complaint with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on May 8.XRP/USD (blue) vs. crypto market capitalization. Source: TradingView / CointelegraphXRP fell 6% in the three months leading up to May 22, while overall crypto market capitalization rose 10%. Traders remain hopeful for a 45% rally to $3.50, with derivatives metrics signaling rising confidence.Leverage use ramps…

Anthropic’s new flagship AI model, Claude Opus 4, is a strong programmer and writer, the company claims. When talking to itself, it’s also a prolific emoji user. That’s according to a technical report Anthropic released on Thursday, a part of which investigates how Opus 4 behaves in “open-ended self-interaction” — i.e. essentially having a chat with itself. In one test that tasked a pair of Opus 4 models with talking to each other over 200, 30-turn interactions, the models used thousands of emojis. Opus 4 sure does like emojisImage Credits:Anthropic Which emojis? Well, per the report, Opus 4 used the…