Berkshire Hathaway sharply increased its Alphabet stake during its biggest quarter for stock buying in years. Greg Abel, who took over from Warren Buffett as CEO at the turn of the year, oversaw an 83% increase in Berkshire’s Alphabet holdings to about 106 million shares, worth nearly $38 billion at the end of June. Berkshire
Afghanistan is currently the only country in the world where girls are officially banned from secondary and higher education. Shakiba recounted that “15 August, when the government fell, was the worst and most painful day of my life. “Every year when this date comes I feel as if an old wound opens again and a
A whistleblower jailed for leaking military secrets about Australia’s involvement in Afghanistan has been released on parole after serving 27 months. In 2024, David McBride was sentenced to five years and eight months after pleading guilty to stealing top secret defence documents and giving it to the media. His actions later led to a landmark
Deep Purple fans had mostly given up any hopes of seeing the band ever share a stage with founding guitarist Ritchie Blackmore again, due to a well-known estrangement. But that’s exactly what took place near the end of the group’s show Wednesday night at Jones Beach in New York, as hatchets were buried and Blackmore
Chief Information Officer Stephen Franchetti has enthusiastically embraced a wide array of artificial intelligence tools to bolster workflow automation for the tech firm’s 4,100 employees. At tech firm Samsara, Franchetti has authorized Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and the AI coding agent Cursor, while also developing an internal system that monitors all AI expenses
John Hinckley Jr., the Oklahoma native who tried to assassinate President Ronald Regan in 1981 in an attempt to impress Jodie Foster, shared a new message for “The Silence of the Lambs” star during a recent appearance on the “Mark Joseph Show” (via EW). “I just wish Jodie Foster well, you know,” Hinckley said. “I