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The documentary sheds new light on how President Joe Biden’s administration responded to the murder of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akure, suggesting that Washington has evidence that her shooting death is likely intentional. Israeli sniper fatally shot Abu Akure nearly three years ago, but she reported on May 11, 2022 from the Jenin refugee camp on the West Bank of Israeli occupation. The new film – a 40-minute research documentary from Washington, D.C.-based media company Zeteo – was released Thursday, just before the anniversary of her death. Under the title that killed Sirene, the documentary explores not only who…

Google has deployed the Gemini API features, claiming that the company will make the latest AI models cheaper for third-party developers. Google calls the feature “implicit cache” and says it can provide 75% savings in “iterative contexts” passed to the model via the Gemini API. It supports Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro and 2.5 Flash models. With the continued increasing cost of using frontier models, it could be a welcome news for developers. I just shipped an implicit cache to the Gemini API and automatically enabled a 75% cost saving on the Gemini 2.5 model when a request hits the cache.We’ve…

A new documentary has been released online claiming to have revealed the name of the Israeli soldier responsible for the shooting of Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akure. Abu Akure, a Palestinian American who had been with Al Jazeera since 1997, was killed while reporting in May 2022 by Jenin on the West Bank. Shortly after her death, Israeli officials and the media suggested that she had been killed in a Palestinian shooting. However, subsequent reports from human rights groups and press organizations acknowledged that the Palestinian fighter jets initially criticised by Israel were somewhat separated from the killing of…

Kouper emerged from stealth for $10 million to fix a patient transition, one of the most overlooked mistakes in healthcare. Kouper, a new health technology startup focused on making hospital discharges safer and smoother, has officially launched it with $10 million in fresh funding. The round was led by General Catalyst with participation from 25 Madison and CVS Health Ventures. The news lands amid growing interest in AI-driven health technologies. For decades, handoffs between hospital care and what comes next have been one of the most vulnerable moments in a patient’s journey. It’s also where things often fall apart. Inadequately…

President Donald Trump’s push to eliminate diversity initiatives on the Kentucky campus did not stop minority students from giving their own celebrations after the University of Kentucky Cancelled ceremony Honoring graduates from black people or other historically marginalized groups.Chalk it up as a lesson learned about how to think strategically to achieve the desired outcome.Dozens of students, decorated with graduation hats and gowns, came into the spotlight Wednesday as family and friends cheered them on at off-campus celebrations. The graduates were recognized for years of academic work and received specialized regalias such as scarves and cords that can be worn…

With each Zeekr filing, China’s Geely Auto hopes to remove the luxurious EV unit Zeekr from the New York Stock Exchange, a year after the company’s debut. As the Trump administration explores kicking Chinese companies from the US stock exchange, the take-private offer is part of a broader trade war, including what has become a tariff quagmire between the US and China. On Tuesday, Geely offered to pay $25.66 per Zeekr American Depository Receiden (ADS), or $2.566 per regular share. Advertising holders may also receive 12.3 new Geely shares issued for each ad. Apart from robbing potential geopolitical awkwardness, Geely…

The United States has announced “groundbreaking deals” with the UK that creates a trading zone for aluminum and steel and secures the pharmaceutical supply chain. The deal asserted that “reciprocity and fairness are key principles of international trade,” increasing access to US agricultural products, US President Donald Trump said Thursday, adding that the final details are still available. “The final details are listed,” Trump told reporters. “In the coming weeks, we’ll make it all very definitive.” The first contract the US has hit since Trump imposed his widespread tariffs is said to bring back documents for British companies considering exporting…

According to Bank of America, Saudi Arabia-led OPEC+ producers have launched a “slow grind” oil price war that could last for more than a year. OPEC+ has agreed to surge 411,000 barrels per day for the second consecutive month after years of cutting production. Oil prices fell to lowest levels four years ago this week as supply increases coincided with President Donald Trump’s trade war. “The question is, not OPEC+ is in the midst of a price war, but what is its price war and what its purpose,” Francisco Branch, head of global commodity and derivatives research at Bank of…

It took Kareem Amin, co-founder and CEO of sales automation startup Clay, to see its products take off in 2022. Since then, startups have experienced explosive growth, reaching valuations of over billions of dollars and have expanded their employee numbers to over 200 digits. Despite his average short tenure on the team, Amin made a rare decision. Clay allows employees with at least one year tenure to sell their shares at a relatively high price to Sequoia, one of the existing investors. It’s a victory for everyone. The employee tender offer cherishes the $1.5 billion company, up from the $1.25…

Cybersecurity researchers have been making the public for several years what they call “industrial scale global cryptocurrency phishing operations,” designed to steal digital assets from cryptocurrency wallets. The campaign was codenamed Freedrain by threat intelligence companies Sentinelon and Valin. “Freedrain targets cryptocurrency wallets using SEO operations, free tier web services (such as gitbook.io, webflow.io, github.io, etc.), and layered redirect techniques. “The victim searches for wallet-related queries, clicks on top malicious results, lands on the lure page, and is redirected to a phishing page that steals seed phrases.” The size of the campaign is reflected in the fact that over 38,000…