GRONINGEN (ANP) - De twee vrouwen die verdacht worden van mishandeling van hun kinderen in Stadskanaal blijven veertien dagen langer vastzitten.
De verdachten zijn bevriend met elkaar. De slachtoffers zijn een jongen van 7 en een meisje van 6. Het meisje raakte zo zwaargewond dat ze in een ziekenhuis in een kunstmatige coma moest worden gebracht. Volgens het vonnis van de rechtbank moest het meisje haar eigen braaksel van de grond eten, werd ze met een bezemsteel geslagen en kreeg ze te weinig eten.
De 31- en 33-jarige verdachten blijven vooralsnog in beperkingen zitten. Dat betekent dat zij alleen via hun advocaten mogen communiceren met de buitenwereld. Daardoor is het Openbaar Ministerie in Noord-Nederland terughoudend in zijn communicatie.
De kinderen zouden ook zijn opgesloten in een kelder. De vrouwen worden daarom ook verdacht van vrijheidsberoving.
Hulpverleningsinstanties waren al langer op de hoogte van problemen rond de kinderen.
NEW YORK (ANP) - Nvidia ging donderdag licht omhoog op de beurzen in New York. De grootste verkoper van chips voor kunstmatige intelligentie (AI) behaalde afgelopen kwartaal opnieuw recordresultaten door de aanhoudende grote vraag naar chips voor AI-datacenters. Volgens topman Jensen Huang verloopt de bouw van AI-fabrieken met "uitzonderlijke snelheden" en is sprake van de "grootste expansie van infrastructuur in de menselijke geschiedenis".
Het aandeel Nvidia steeg in de vroege handel 0,8 procent. Door het optimisme rond de enorme investeringen van grote techbedrijven in AI is Nvidia uitgegroeid tot het meest waardevolle bedrijf ter wereld, met een beurswaarde van ruim 5 biljoen dollar.
De algehele stemming op Wall Street was licht negatief na de stevige winsten een dag eerder. De Dow-Jonesindex noteerde kort na opening 0,4 procent lager op 49.778 punten en de brede S&P 500-index zakte 0,5 procent tot 7397 punten. Techbeurs Nasdaq daalde 0,5 procent tot 26.141 punten.
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Woensdag stegen de beurzen in New York ruim 1 procent, nadat president Donald Trump had gezegd dat de Verenigde Staten in de "laatste fases" van de vredesgesprekken met Iran zijn. De olieprijzen gingen daardoor flink omlaag. Donderdag liepen de olieprijzen echter weer op. Een vat Brentolie werd 3,3 procent duurder op 108,55 dollar en Amerikaanse olie kostte 3,8 procent meer op 101,95 dollar per vat.
Chipbedrijven als Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) en Intel verloren tot 3 procent na de resultaten van Nvidia. Cerebras Systems, dat vorige week naar de beurs ging, daalde 1 procent. Cerebras maakt naar eigen zeggen de grootste en krachtigste AI-chips ter wereld, die AI-modellen sneller laten draaien dan de chips van Nvidia.
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Walmart ging 6 procent omlaag. De grootste supermarktketen ter wereld boekte afgelopen kwartaal meer omzet dan verwacht. De verwachtingen voor het huidige kwartaal vielen echter tegen. Dat zorgde voor twijfel bij beleggers over de koopkracht van de Amerikaanse consument, die door de hoge benzineprijzen onder druk staat.
Cosmeticamerk Elf Beauty zakte 0,6 procent na kwartaalcijfers. Het bedrijf verklaarde enkele prijsverhogingen als gevolg van de importheffingen van Trump terug te draaien, nu consumenten meer last hebben van de hoge benzineprijzen door de Iranoorlog.
AWS is pushing its European Sovereign Cloud, revealing some of the customers it has signed up to operate sensitive workloads on the platform and the continent's over how much sovereign control over data the Amazon subsidiary really offers. The service became generally available to European customers in January, amid growing alarm over the Trump administration’s open hostility to Europe and the continent's near-total dependence on US cloud platforms. AWS claims the European Sovereign Cloud represents a physically and logically separate cloud infrastructure, with all components located entirely within the EU. It started with just a single Region, located in the state of Brandenburg, Germany, but plans to extend its footprint across the EU. Organizations that have signed up for the service include University Hospital Essen, Schufa, a German credit information bureau, and smart energy and water meter biz Diehl Metering. Schufa has built a new credit scoring system that uses the AWS Cloud to hold the sensitive financial data of more than 69 million German consumers, while Diehl is operating services such as monitoring and billing for its public sector customers, helping critical infrastructure like waterworks and municipal utilities to manage water and energy data from a single centralized system. University Hospital Essen says it is using the platform for working with patient health data and also developing new AI technologies to improve patient care. “The AWS European Sovereign Cloud will support this mission by allowing us to work with health data at scale, while meeting German and European sovereignty expectations,” said Prof Jens Kleesiek, the hospital’s director of its Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, in a statement. There are, however, legitimate doubts about whether clouds operating under the aegis of any US company can really offer full sovereignty in Europe. Concerns often center on the US CLOUD Act, under which the authorities can compel any American organization to provide access to data they hold - including data stored outside the United States - subject to due legal process. An AWS spokesperson told The Register earlier this year that its European Sovereign Cloud includes multiple layers of protection – legal, operational, and technical – to safeguard data; that not even AWS employees can access customer data; and that it provides advanced encryption to allow customers to protect their content. A Microsoft executive was forced to admit under oath in a French Senate inquiry last year that it cannot guarantee data on French citizens would not be handed over to the American government if requested, and the same US legal rules – namely, the US Cloud Act – apply to AWS. “The AWS ESC is a fully isolated infrastructure with a separate legal entity in Germany. Although it does offer a certain level of legal insulation, it is still entirely owned by the US mother company. This is an important limitation to its immunity from the CLOUD Act and other US-led prescriptions,” said Forrester senior analyst Dario Maisto. Technology biz Thales unveiled on Thursday that it is launching its own European sovereign cloud service in Germany, working with Google Cloud. This is based on the model already used by S3NS, a Thales subsidiary, whereby Google Cloud software and services are operated on dedicated local infrastructure controlled by a local entity. In this case, Thales says it will be a new German entity, legally and operationally independent from Google Cloud, that will be staffed and managed by local German personnel. It is available in preview now and aims for general availability by the end of 2026. This new arrangement is perhaps because there are still doubts over whether the S3NS platform is entirely free from potential CLOUD Act interference. “The joint venture between Thales and Google - S3NS - offers (some) Google services on French sovereign infrastructure. The JV is owned for its vast majority by Thales, which is basically a French government-owned company. This legal configuration grants much better legal insulation and immunity from the CLOUD Act, although this is yet to be tested in court since Google still has a minority share,” Forrester's Maisto told The Register. The CLOUD Act worries have little to do with sovereignty in its strictest sense, he added, but rather with data privacy and data protection, which is regulated under the US-EU data privacy framework. Earlier this year, the European Commission awarded four contracts to Europe-based tech firms designed to advance cloud sovereignty in the EU, while spending on sovereign cloud infrastructure services is forecast to more than triple from 2025 to 2027. ®
SpaceX has revealed its financials for the first time as it prepares for a potentially massive IPO. The New York Times reports: SpaceX's revenue soared to $18.7 billion in 2025, up 33 percent from a year earlier, the company disclosed in a filing required of firms that are seeking to go public. In the first three months of this year, revenue rose to $4.7 billion from $4.1 billion in the same period a year ago. But the company lost more than $4.9 billion last year, compared with a $791 million profit in 2024, as capital expenditures nearly doubled to $20.7 billion from heavy spending on artificial intelligence development. In the first three months of this year, SpaceX lost almost as much money as all of 2025, recording a $4.3 billion loss.
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Air France flight en route to Detroit, Michigan, landed in Montreal after virus-related travel restrictions
An Air France flight headed to Detroit, Michigan, was redirected to Canada on Wednesday after it was determined that a passenger from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) had boarded “in error” amid new Ebola-related travel restrictions, officials with the US Customs and Border Protection agency (CBP) said.
“Due to entry restrictions put in place to reduce the risk of the Ebola virus, the passenger should not have boarded the plane,” a CBP spokesperson said in a statement.
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