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It is driven by optimism about the ways AI will transform the global economy and in doing so bring riches to its pioneers.

Hydrogen Utopia International has developed a technology that avoids the fuel supply chains thrown into chaos by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

Andi Case's package, which includes an uncapped bonus, makes him one of the highest-earning chief executives of any company that is listed on the London stock market.

Monday a company called Rainmaker announced their rain-triggering technology had produced 143 million gallons of freshwater for Utah and Oregon residents — making them "the first private company in history to validate the results of cloud seeding operations." The Deseret News reports: Founded in 2023, Rainmaker uses drones to disperse silver iodide into clouds, then they track precipitation with advanced radar. However, Rainmaker — and every other rain-enhancement company — has been up against the notoriously difficult challenge of validation. Since there is no control set to test, and because the weather is chaotic and variable, the Government Accountability Office declares the benefits of the technology to be "unproven." To overcome this evaluation challenge, Rainmaker flies drones in unique patterns when seeding. Then operators compare distinct radar and satellite features with where their drones operated. As of April, Rainmaker found 82 unambiguous seeding signatures, which show their seeding operations directly caused precipitation. In Utah and Oregon alone, the company said its cloud-seeding efforts have added enough water to match the annual usage of about 1,750 households. However, "this figure likely represents only a small fraction of Rainmaker's total generation this season," the company said in their press release... Their drone precision, combined with their radar systems, have produced satellite images proving a direct correlation between the seeding and precipitation. Some images show cloud holes or regions of depressed cloud tops after seeding. Rainmaker's announcement promises they'll "go forward and continue our mission to refill the Great Salt Lake, end drought in the American West and deliver water abundance wherever it is needed most around the world." (Rainmaker currently operates in Utah, Idaho, Oregon, California and Colorado.) The director of Utah's Natural Resources Department told the Deseret News that with cloud seeding, "cost per unit of water is so low; it really is the smartest thing we can be doing with our money," Ferry said.

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Daniel Craig kept a low profile as he touched down at Athens International Airport in Greece on Saturday amid filming for his new prison drama in the country.

President Trump's sights appeared to be back on Cuba as he reiterated his goal of 'taking over' the Caribbean country while speaking in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Dannielynn, 19, was spotted at the prestigious horse race at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, with her dad, Larry Birkhead, on Saturday afternoon.

Footage shows the moment a violent knifeman hacks at a 77-year-old man who is understood to have been stabbed inside the black Mercedes in Glasgow.

"Running a Big Tech company during Silicon Valley's AI mania may not necessarily require fewer workers or cost less," writes the Washington Post: Amazon, Google and Meta together have roughly the same number of employees now as they did during an industry-wide hiring binge in 2022, company disclosures show. Growing costs for technical workers and related expenses have often outpaced sales recently. The tech giants' big AI bet hasn't yet paid for itself. That means AI might be killing jobs not through its labor-saving wizardry but by increasing spending so much that CEOs are pressured to find savings, giving them cover to consciously uncouple from their workforces. Marc Andreessen, a prominent start-up investor and a Meta board director, put it bluntly on a recent podcast. Big company layoffs are a fix for overstaffing and changing economic conditions, he said, but AI provides a convenient scapegoat. "Now they all have the silver bullet excuse: 'Ah, it's AI,'" he said... "Almost every company that does layoffs is blaming AI, whether or not it really is about AI," Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT owner OpenAI, said at a March conference when he listed explanations for AI's unpopularity in the United States. "Recent history suggests Big Tech companies might not be moving toward a future with fewer workers," the article concludes, "but recalibrating to spend the same, or more, on different people and projects." So in the end, "AI might soon reduce hiring," the article acknowledges, "But the reluctance or inability of the largest tech firms to cut too deeply so far could also show that the path to making a workforce AI-ready — whatever that means — isn't a predictable straight line charting declining headcount."

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Video footage recorded by a horrified onlooker showed a woman, believed to be British, lunging across the middle aisle in an attempt to hit the other passenger.

Career criminal Steven Wilson (pictured) successfully sued the Ministry of Justice after being attacked with a knife by a fellow prisoner and stabbed 16 times as he worked in a prison kitchen.

She's one of the favourites to become the new host of Strictly Come Dancing but Alex Jones (pictured) already has a seismic job on her hands - renovating her country mansion.

A growing number of experts are calling for AI chatbot addiction to be recognised as a mental illness, as the number of supposed cases climbs.

The singer, 35, who was raised in nearby Framlingham and is a life long supporter, witnessed his team beat Queens Park Rangers 3-0.

Slashdot reader joshuark writes: Scientific American reports that a ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had developed. A 23-year-old student Liam Price just cracked a 60-year-old problem that world-class mathematicians have tried and failed to solve. The new solution that Price got in response to a single prompt to GPT-5.4 Pro was posted on www.erdosproblems.com, a website devoted to the Erds problems. The question Price solved — or prompted ChatGPT to solve—concerns special sets of whole numbers, where no number in the set can be evenly divided by any other... Price sent it to his occasional collaborator Kevin Barreto, a second-year undergraduate in mathematics at the University of Cambridge. The duo had jump-started the AI-for-Erds craze late last year by prompting a free version of ChatGPT with open problems chosen at random from the Erds problems website. Reviewing Price's message, Barreto realized what they had was special, and experts whom he notified quickly took notice.

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Attendees have been told to leave prop swords, fake guns, and even water pistols at home to prevent a 'catastrophic' accident at the Whitby Goth Weekend, taking place from May 1-3.

He agreed with predictions that the UK could see inflation rise above six per cent and warned that even when the Strait of Hormuz was opened 'I don't want anybody to think it will all return to normal'.

JONATHAN MCEVOY IN MIAMI: The world champion, previously without a win this season and 47 points off Antonelli coming into the 19-lap dash, was in command throughout.

Gunfire reportedly rang out outside Chris Brown's Los Angeles mansion on Friday, sparking a dramatic police response.