The surprising success of “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” the fourth movie to star Tom Holland as the titular character, continued Wednesday as the movie became the highest-grossing film at the box office so far this year, topping “Toy Story 5” just seven days after its release.

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A Trump-linked cryptocurrency mining company, American Bitcoin, disclosed Monday that it settled a Justice Department allegation accusing it of improperly obtaining a pandemic relief loan, agreeing to pay millions of dollars as it omitted the settlement from its positive earnings narrative.

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SpaceX’s stock once again took a hit on Wednesday after the rocket maker posted its first-ever earnings report, which seemingly spooked investors and analysts after the Elon Musk-led firm announced a sixfold increase in quarterly spending.

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OpenAI rejected Apple’s lawsuit alleging trade secrets theft in a lengthy blog post early on Tuesday that includes several iMessage chats and email conversations as it challenged the iPhone-maker’s bid to gain a preliminary injunction barring two former Apple employees and OpenAI from accessing or disclosing alleged confidential information.

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Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said Monday they’ll back Todd Blanche’s confirmation as attorney general after he issued an order rescinding the Justice Department’s controversial “anti-weaponization fund,” but critics fear the government could still revive the fund in the future.

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Anthropic on Thursday said its advanced AI models successfully hacked the systems of three organizations while undergoing internal evaluation, a security disclosure that comes a week after rival OpenAI revealed one of its advanced models hacked a company after escaping a contained test environment.

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The K-pop mega band BTS will not be submitting their music for consideration at next year's Grammy Awards in an apparent protest against the Recording Academy’s decision to introduce a separate new “Asian Pop” category, prompting the academy’s CEO Harvey Mason Jr. to defend the new category while saying he was “saddened” by the band’s decision.

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FIFA will ask its 211 member associations to vote on its controversial plan to sell minority stakes in the World Cup in September, multiple outlets reported—although the plan has already been criticized by soccer governing bodies in the Americas, Asia and Europe.

In a deal first reported by The Times and the Financial Times, FIFA is planning to raise an estimated $4.2 billion in 2026 by selling a reported 20% minority stake in a new subsidiary at an equity valuation of $20 billion.

FIFA confirmed the plans in an announcement on Tuesday morning, which said the new company would be called FIFA Forward Enterprise and would control the nonprofit organization’s “commercial and event operations.”

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Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth declined by nearly $18 billion on Thursday as Meta’s stock paced an 11-day losing streak, with Wall Street souring on the Facebook parent’s plans to accelerate spending on AI.

Shares of Meta plunged 9% as of Thursday afternoon, pacing what would be the stock’s worst single-day loss this year so far and a 21.7% slide over the last 11 trading sessions.

The latest dip in Meta’s shares cut $17.8 billion from Zuckerberg’s net worth, valued at $183.3 billion, ranking him the sixth-richest person in the world directly ahead of Nvidia’s Jensen Huang ($167.2 billion) and behind Michael Dell ($228.9 billion).

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Nvidia and OpenAI have held talks to spend roughly $500 billion on a data center in southern Ohio, potentially becoming the largest such project by power capacity in the world by far.

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