Haas started the season strongly, with Ollie Bearman delivering a big haul of points at the opening two races. As such, the American outfit were in the thick of the midfield fight – but since bolting on their first big upgrade package, their form has faded.
Lewis Hamilton finally stood on the top step of the podium for the first time in Ferrari colours last weekend after taking victory in the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix.
High-speed corners and hot temperatures highlighted Cadillac's weaknesses in Barcelona.
Reuters reports a cyber extortion group has claimed responsibility for breaching Novo Nordisk's network, stealing roughly 1.3 terabytes of data, including source code, drug research, clinical-trial records, employee and physician information, production-system details, and internal AI model data. The group says it's exploring selling parts of the data after unsuccessfully demanding $25 million from the company. From the report: FulcrumSec, a cyber extortion group that emerged in October 2025, said in a long message posted to its website that it spent more than two months in Novo Nordisk's networks stealing data. It said that data included company source code, proprietary information on released and unreleased drugs, trial data, employee, doctor and patient data, information related to company processing facilities and internal AI model information.
[...] FulcrumSec told Reuters in an email that Novo Nordisk representatives contacted the group on June 3, roughly 48 hours after the group's initial contact to unnamed company executives. The company used a random Proton Mail email address sent to email addresses that FulcrumSec used in its initial outreach, and confirmed it was the company by requesting specific files for verification only the company would know about.
The FulcrumSec representative also said that the group would prefer not to sell data, "as open sourcing it is a more effective deterrent for future companies to avoid paying." [...] FulcrumSec said it would not share some of the data it stole, including information on thousands of company employees and physicians, and roughly 11,500 pseudonymized clinical trial patients. The group said it also would withhold data related to operational technology and software used to interact with sensors and machinery at Novo Nordisk production facilities as part of its "harm-reduction strategy." A Novo Nordisk spokesperson said in an email that the company "is aware of claims that data allegedly copied externally without authorization from our systems has been published online. We take this matter seriously and maintain continued operations of our main platforms. We are in contact with the relevant authorities."
[...] FulcrumSec told Reuters in an email that Novo Nordisk representatives contacted the group on June 3, roughly 48 hours after the group's initial contact to unnamed company executives. The company used a random Proton Mail email address sent to email addresses that FulcrumSec used in its initial outreach, and confirmed it was the company by requesting specific files for verification only the company would know about.
The FulcrumSec representative also said that the group would prefer not to sell data, "as open sourcing it is a more effective deterrent for future companies to avoid paying." [...] FulcrumSec said it would not share some of the data it stole, including information on thousands of company employees and physicians, and roughly 11,500 pseudonymized clinical trial patients. The group said it also would withhold data related to operational technology and software used to interact with sensors and machinery at Novo Nordisk production facilities as part of its "harm-reduction strategy." A Novo Nordisk spokesperson said in an email that the company "is aware of claims that data allegedly copied externally without authorization from our systems has been published online. We take this matter seriously and maintain continued operations of our main platforms. We are in contact with the relevant authorities."
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from independent journalist Ed Zitron: Today, I can exclusively report, based on audited financial documents viewed by this publication that have been independently verified by the Financial Times, that OpenAI lost around $38.5 billion in 2025, as well as other crucial details about the financial condition of the company. [...] At the end of the year, OpenAI had just over $50 billion in assets, with almost half of that in cash. [...] The financial condition of OpenAI is deeply concerning. $38.53 billion in losses are astronomical, and far higher than most believed it would be. Losses also appear to be mounting year-over-year at a dramatic rate, and I'm not sure how this company finds a way toward any kind of sustainability or profitability. As discussed, I have not editorialized much today. I believe the best thing I can do for the general public is to deliver this news as plainly as possible. Ars Technica's Kyle Orland offers a more editorial take, writing: All told, OpenAI's day-to-day "loss from operations" increased from $8.78 billion in 2024 to $20.92 billion in 2025, a concerning direction for a company that is telling investors it hopes to be profitable by 2030. But measured as a percentage of revenues, the company's operating losses slightly improved year to year, from 237 percent in 2024 to 160 percent in 2025.
Operating numbers aside, OpenAI's headline "net loss" number of just over $5 billion in 2024 ballooned to nearly $39 billion in 2025. But the 2025 number includes a significant accounting charge related to investor valuations that shifted amid the company's 2025 conversion to a for-profit structure. The Financial Times cites "a person familiar with the matter" in reporting that this non-recurring charge was approximately $30 billion and that OpenAI's 2025 net loss amounted to a more reasonable-looking $8 billion without it.
Operating numbers aside, OpenAI's headline "net loss" number of just over $5 billion in 2024 ballooned to nearly $39 billion in 2025. But the 2025 number includes a significant accounting charge related to investor valuations that shifted amid the company's 2025 conversion to a for-profit structure. The Financial Times cites "a person familiar with the matter" in reporting that this non-recurring charge was approximately $30 billion and that OpenAI's 2025 net loss amounted to a more reasonable-looking $8 billion without it.
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Email! “Let’s not forget that Cristiano Ronaldo, in an alternative World Cup not driven by profit, would be serving a three-game ban now for violent behaviour,” remembers Justin Kavanagh. “But Infantino has learned to honour the time-traditions of the host country, where laws are just for little people, inapplicable to the rich.”
Yup, as the story below illustrates. I guess in the context of the competition, the decision to let Ronaldo off has been largely ignored because there’s so much worse going on, but it is a stain on the competition’s sporting integrity.
Continue reading...Keir Starmer has called the firing of warning shots by a Russian warship at a British yacht sailing across the Channel on Tuesday ‘deeply concerning and reckless’.
Russia’s defence ministry said the yacht was on a ‘dangerous course’ and several attempts were made to contact it – a claim disputed by the retired couple onboard the 40ft yacht.
Nosheen Iqbal speaks to the Guardian’s defence and security editor, Dan Sabbagh
Continue reading...BRUSSEL (ANP/AFP/RTR/BLOOMBERG) - Het kantoor van EU-kopstuk António Costa heeft "kort" contact gehad met het Kremlin, zeggen EU-bronnen tegen internationale persbureaus. Costa zou de Russische president Vladimir Poetin willen betrekken bij gesprekken over een einde aan de oorlog in Oekraïne.
Binnen de Europese Unie pleiten steeds meer landen voor een voorzichtig herstel van het contact met de Russen. Dat kwam na de invasie in Oekraïne vier jaar geleden vrijwel volledig stil te liggen. Maar om vrede te bereiken zal ook met Rusland moeten worden gesproken, is de gedachte.
Costa steunde dat standpunt zelf ook vorige maand. "We moeten, op het juiste moment, in gesprek met Rusland om onze gezamenlijke veiligheidskwesties te bespreken", aldus de voorzitter van de EU-regeringsleiders.
Actievere rol
Een van de bronnen benadrukt dat de EU geen bemiddelaar wil zijn tussen Rusland en Oekraïne, omdat het blok aan de kant van Kyiv staat. Volgens die functionaris heeft Costa nauw contact met de Europese regeringsleiders over mogelijke gesprekken met Rusland.
De EU is tot nu toe niet betrokken bij vredesgesprekken die worden bemiddeld door de Verenigde Staten. Kyiv heeft de Europeanen opgeroepen een actievere rol te spelen bij de onderhandelingen.
Speciaal gezant
Sommige EU-landen hebben daarom geopperd om een speciaal gezant aan te stellen om te onderhandelen met Poetin. De Italiaanse premier Giorgia Meloni herhaalde woensdag haar steun voor dit idee, maar stelde dat die persoon niet uit een groot EU-land zou moeten komen.
Sommige Europese diplomaten zien dit als een geschikt moment om met Rusland te onderhandelen, omdat de Russische opmars in Oekraïne lijkt te haperen. Oekraïne valt steeds meer doelen in Rusland aan en de druk op de Russische economie zou bovendien toenemen.
SONDRIO (ANP) - Tadej Pogačar heeft de eerste etappe van de Ronde van Zwitserland op overtuigende wijze gewonnen. De wereldkampioen van UAE Team Emirates begon op 70 kilometer van de eindstreep aan een solo die hij tot het einde volhield. Richard Carapaz uit Ecuador werd tweede op 2.13 minuten van de Sloveen. De Italiaan Andrea Bagioli werd derde op 2.28. Wilco Kelderman was de beste Nederlander op de 7e plaats. Hij kwam binnen op ruim vier minuten van de winnaar.
"Het was zwaar", zei Pogačar, die er niet uitgeput uitzag, in een flashinterview na de wedstrijd. "Dit was zeker niet het plan, maar op de een of andere manier werkte het." Op het moment van de aanval had de Sloveen geen verbinding met zijn ploegleiders, "dus ik had geen idee wat er achter me gebeurde".
De Ronde van Zwitserland is de laatste koers die Pogačar rijdt in voorbereiding op de Tour de France, die op 4 juli begint met een ploegentijdrit in Barcelona. In de eerste van vijf etappes, een heuvelachtige rit over 144 kilometer rond Sondrio, besloot hij direct in de aanval te gaan. Bij zijn aanval passeerde hij de kopgroep en had hij binnen 5 kilometer al een minuut voorsprong op het peloton te pakken.
Achter de wereldkampioen bleek Carapaz de beste van de rest van het veld. De wielrenner van EF Education - EasyPost moest de Giro missen vanwege een operatie, maar zal starten in de Ronde van Frankrijk.