Microsoft said progress is being made in bringing its popular workplace software back online as a global outage enters its second day, disrupting business communications, police crime reporting, court operations, AI tools and many other services. The outage, which affected a wide range of Microsoft 365 services including Outlook, Teams and AI assistant Copilot, left people, institutions and businesses across the world without access to email and other platforms. Microsoft said it was making headway as it tried to restore services Friday. “We’re seeing encouraging recovery progress, with service availability and email delivery performance improving across a growing portion of affected Microsoft 365 infrastructure,” the company said, as some users started reporting that their emails were restored. The company reported “broader improvements” in North America and “sustained improvements across much of Europe,” as well as “encouraging recovery signals” in the Asia-Pacific region. Users may have “intermittent access issues or delayed email delivery as mitigation progresses a

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department has said it has obtained court authorization to seize or restrain more than $1.2 billion in cryptocurrency purportedly stolen by North Korean hackers from crypto exchange Binance last month. The $1.2 billion subject to court-authorized seizure or restraint is part of more than $2.7 billion in assets frozen by U.S. authorities and private-sector partners, following the theft of over $6 billion in virtual assets from Binance, according to a department release issued Thursday. The hackers, identified by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as a group called TraderTraitor, are continuing to launder the stolen assets through cryptocurrency bridges, mixers and exchanges, while U.S. authorities work to trace and recover the funds, according to the department. "North Korea's government bankrolls its rogue regime and illicit weapons program through cryptocurrency theft," said M. Scott Proctor, principal deputy assistant attorney general for national security. "Today's announcement shows that America will fight back against that corrupt regime's eff

WASHINGTON — Microsoft on Friday apologized for a global outage that disrupted public services and businesses around the world, as it reported a "broad recovery" for Outlook email and other services. The company ruled out any malicious "cyber or AI" activity as the cause of the outage, which affected several Microsoft products and disrupted health care services, delayed corporate earnings reports and left schools struggling to communicate. "We are deeply sorry for the disruption this incident has caused our customers and partners," Microsoft said on X, adding full services were still being restored after the outage started on Thursday. "We are seeing broad recovery and stability across our services. This was a technical issue not related to cyber or AI / agents." The disruption knocked out Microsoft products in 74 countries and territories, affecting users across the Americas and parts of Europe, Asia and Africa, according to the outage tracker Downdetector. A top UK trade union said the disruptions had a "serious impact" on the country's health care service. National Health Service staf

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump seems to view an envisioned transfer of wartime operational control (OPCON) to South Korea as a potential means of withdrawing American troops from the Korean Peninsula, U.S. experts assessed Friday. Victor Cha, Korea chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), made the remarks during an online discussion hosted by the Washington-based think tank on the state of the South Korea-U.S. alliance. "It has been said, and I think said very credibly, that President Trump sees OPCON transition as a way to pull the forces from the peninsula," Cha said. "The president is the commander in chief," he said. "There are ways that the president can do things if he is so committed to that particular task." Cha said that even if Congress established a minimum level of U.S. troops in South Korea through the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), Trump could still find ways to reduce the American military presence. "They should have no illusions that this is not the way the U.S. president thinks," he said. "He clearly sees this as a way fo

WASHINGTON — Jensen Huang, who resigned as Nvidia's chief executive, has been asked to appear before U.S. lawmakers, a Republican senator said on Thursday, adding that the commerce secretary was also summoned. "Recent reports raise serious concerns about our national security and the protection of sensitive U.S. technology. I am requesting that NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick testify before the Senate Banking Committee," the committee's chairman Tim Scott said on X.

Nvidia's board has approached British chipmaker Arm Holdings CEO Rene Haas in its search for a potential successor to Jensen Huang, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. Huang stepped down on Thursday after revelations of extramarital affairs, including one involving a suspected Chinese spy, plunging the chipmaker into crisis and sending shockwaves across an AI industry he helped bankroll. Haas' name has been making the rounds among analysts since Huang's exit. He spent seven formative years at Nvidia, rising to vice president and general manager of its computing products business, before joining Arm in 2013. He is among several candidates being considered and there is no guarantee he will be offered the job or accept it, the FT reported. Nvidia's finance chief Colette Kress is currently interim CEO. Arm declined to comment, while Nvidia did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. Reuters could not independently verify the report. Haas became Arm CEO in 2022, overseeing the company's Nasdaq listing in 2023. Arm designs processor

AL RAYYAN, Qatar — South Korea fell to Saudi Arabia 3-2 in their men's football friendly match in Qatar on Friday, their first loss to the Middle Eastern foe in 21 years. Saudi Arabia, world No. 55, struck first late in the first half before scoring twice in a three-minute span in the second half for the victory at Jassim bin Hamad Stadium in Al Rayyan, just west of the Qatari capital of Doha. Oh Hyeon-gyu and Lee Jae-sung scored for 32nd-ranked South Korea, whose undefeated streak against Saudi Arabia was snapped at six. South Korea's previous loss to Saudi Arabia had come on Aug. 17, 2005. This was South Korea's fifth match under their temporary head coach Robert Moreno. The Taegeuk Warriors now have two wins, one draw and two losses on the Spanish tactician's watch. South Korea will next play Qatar at Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium in Doha at 5 p.m. Tuesday (11 p.m. Tuesday in South Korean time). This was South Korea's first match since their 2-0 win over Uzbekistan on Oct. 6. In the immediate aftermath of that victory, a trio of 30-year-old veterans, Hwang In-beom, Hwang Hee-chan and

CHICLAYO, Peru — Pope Leo held the central event of his 12-day South America tour on Friday, an outdoor Mass in northern Peru where he told a vast crowd of people who once knew him as their bishop that he thanked God he was alive to see them. People arrived on foot and in lines of vehicles at an arid field outside Chiclayo, a city 10,700 km (6,650 miles) from Rome, where the former Robert Prevost, elected leader of the Catholic Church last year, is still described as "Padre" (Father) or "Amigo" (Friend). Cheers erupted as Leo toured in an open-air popemobile at the Pampas de Pimentel, a desert park west of Chiclayo, where people waved white-and-yellow Vatican flags and used umbrellas to guard against an intense Pacific coast sun. Screams of "Pope Leo is here!" and "The pope is from Chiclayo!" echoed across the field. In a sermon, Leo said it was a blessing to be in his adopted home exactly one month after he underwent lung cancer surgery, an operation many feared would force cancellation of his visit and which the pope told the crowd was a "time of trial." He thanked people in Chiclayo

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Friday he was frustrated with the Commerce Department’s delay in implementing restrictions over the export of certain Nvidia chips to China. Bessent said on CNBC that his department, along with the departments of State and Defense and the U.S. Trade Representative, were in favor of adding Megaspeed to an export control list for months but that the Commerce Department was in charge of the matter. “I am frustrated when President Trump made it very clear China should not receive any Nvidia chips above H100s,” he said, referring to an older generation of the company's advanced AI chips. Commerce “has the pen, and you will have to ask them about their internal processes.” Bessent's comments were an unusually public rebuke of the Commerce Department, which oversees U.S. government controls over exports of sensitive, high-tech goods. The comments come as Nvidia’s ties to Singapore-based Megaspeed International, which prominently touts the companies’ partnership on its website, play a prominent role in the resignation of Nvidia

NEW YORK — Stocks swung sharply in morning trading Friday as Wall Street remains on track for its first winning week since early October. Major indexes have been unsteady throughout the week as AI-focused companies pushed and pulled the market. Many of those companies have big stock values with a heavier impact on the market's gains or losses. The S&P 500 shifted from modest moves at the opening of trading to a 1 percent drop. The index still remains on track for a weekly gain of 1.9 percent. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 67 points, or 0.1 percent, as of 10:37 a.m. Eastern time. The Nasdaq composite fell 1.8 percent. The market remains unsteady a day after the AI industry was rocked by the resignation of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. The company has been the face of the AI industry, which has been responsible for much of the gains, and big swings, on Wall Street. Huang stepped down after his affair with a Chinese tech executive raised U.S. national security concerns. Nvidia’s longtime chief financial officer, Colette Kress, will be its interim CEO. The AI industry's influence over W

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the Nvidia/Japan AI Ecosystem Reception in Tokyo on July 16, 2026. | Philip Fong/AFP via Getty Images Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s sudden downfall is in a sense shocking, considering his wealth, global fame, and role leading what was until recently the world’s most valuable company. But Huang’s immense influence in Washington — and particularly in President Donald Trump’s Washington — has long been intensely controversial among a surprisingly diverse cross-section of the political, business, and tech advocacy world. And his ouster not only drives a wedge through Trump’s second-term coalition, it could usher in a major change in how the US steers the AI revolution. Huang — who resigned this week after allegations he’d had affairs with two Nvidia employees and one Chinese businesswoman who some US officials claim was spying on him for the Chinese government — has been crucial in helping shape the Trump administration’s AI policies. That’s perhaps no surprise, given that Nvidia’s advanced chips are crucial to the AI revolution. His many critics, however, say Huang’s influence has been deeply harmful. Their main objection? They believe the Trump administration hasn’t been doing enough to stop China from getting or accessing advanced AI chips — in part because of Huang’s lobbying and sway with the president. This coalition of Huang critics spans the political spectrum. It includes right-wing China hawks and the bipartisan foreign policy establishment, who want to win an AI race against China. It includes economic populists in both parties, who resent China’s economic sway. It even includes some leading members of the Trump administration itself — Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent have reportedly pushed for tighter chip restrictions. It also contains some even odder bedfellows. The coalition includes people who want to slow down the AI race, like the tech safety advocates who warn that advanced AI could cause human extinction. Yet it also includes two major US frontier AI companies, OpenAI and Anthropic, who hope to impede the growth of Chinese competitors by limiting their access to chips.  All of these disparate groups come together around the core idea that the US urgently needs to do more to stop advanced chips from getting to China. Selling AI chips to China is like “selling nuclear weapons to North Korea,” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has said. Standing against them all — and often getting his way with Trump — has been Jensen Huang. Beyond the obvious — Nvidia’s business is selling chips, and Huang wants to be able to sell more chips in more places — Huang is associated with a camp in the AI policy debate that some have dubbed with “let it rip.” Along with former White House AI czar David Sacks, Huang has scoffed at warnings that AI could cause human extinction, calling them “irresponsible” and “doomsday narratives.” He’s also dismissed some national security concerns, saying that being a “China hawk” was a “badge of shame” and said that the bigger risk to American influence over AI would be US companies losing market share around the world. So Huang’s ouster and the claims of Chinese espionage around it have opened up an opportunity for a shakeup in US policy — and a rare chance for those China hawks to potentially investigate, undermine, and push out their rivals, while seizing the policy reins around chip exports.  Trump administration officials who want tougher restrictions have their knives out for Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, a frequent ally of Huang’s. There’s a bipartisan push in Congress for new export controls legislation before the end of the year. Congressional Republican committee chairs are demanding Huang and Lutnick come in and testify in the coming weeks, before Democrats take over Congress. Plus, there are the partisan incentives for Democrats to dig into the question of what Trump knew about all this (he was reportedly briefed on the spy concerns last fall). And there are political incentives for ambitious Republicans to find an issue on which they can distance themselves from an unpopular administration without antagonizing their conservative base.  With so many different forces invested in the outcome, you can bet this topic will continue to dominate headlines for months to come — with unpredictable results for both the new Democratic Congress, the future of the GOP, and the AI boom. The many critics of Jensen Huang’s influence on the Trump administration In Washington itself, the most influential faction opposed to Huang is the bipartisan national security establishment, most of whom strongly believe in the necessity of competing with China for global influence.  These “China hawks” were influential in the Biden administration and have historically been dominant in GOP administrations and on GOP-controlled congressional committees. And many of them have been flabbergasted at Trump’s policies toward China and Chips this term. “I don’t think we should be using any American technology to uplift China’s capabilities in AI given how era-defining this technology will be in national security and in our economy,” Vivek Chilukuri of the Center for a New American Security, a center-left think tank, told me. “A company’s going to argue for this, that’s what companies do. But the interest of any one company should not be trumping the national security of the United States. Moving further right, there’s a MAGA-aligned faction that is skeptical of foreign wars such as Trump’s conflict in Iran — but even some of them are still quite antagonistic to China. Take, for instance, Trump’s onetime campaign manager and White House adviser Steve Bannon. He’s been furiously protesting Huang’s influence on the administration for more than a year — in September 2025, he argued that Huang should be arrested for being “an agent of influence of the Chinese Communist Party,” and argued we needed to “shut down” China’s “access to technology, chips, and training.” Advocates and politicians focused on economic issues and reining in corporate power also have long criticized Nvidia. Oren Cass of the center-right group American Compass wrote an article titled “Break up Nvidia” last year, arguing that “its excessive concentration of power is exactly what antitrust law intends to combat.”  Meanwhile, the left, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), a longtime critic of Big Tech, has frequently suggested Huang was corruptly influencing the Trump administration. At a hearing in June, she mentioned that Huang or his company had donated to Trump’s inauguration and his White House ballroom project. “If it’s not plain old-fashioned bribery, it sure smells like it,” she said. Many in the AI safety advocacy world have also long criticized — and feared — Nvidia. That’s in part because they hope slowing down sales of AI chips abroad could slow what they view as a dangerous race to superintelligence. Additionally, after AI safety fears hit the mainstream in September due to Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon’s resignation and viral warnings, Huang took an increasingly public role in dismissing such fears. Other AI safety advocates cite the company as having a chilling effect on public debate. “For months now, I’ve heard about widespread fear among think tank researchers and policy experts who publish work against Nvidia’s interests,” AI safety researcher Steven Adler wrote last year. “If you speak with people in-the-know at AI companies, fear of retaliation from Nvidia is a major concern when staking out policy positions.” Indeed, OpenAI and Anthropic are highly dependent on Nvidia for its chips, so open criticism of the company is not common. Yet those big two US AI labs have been at odds with Nvidia in urging the Trump administration to do more to crack down on Chinese access to advanced chips, and to more heavily scrutinize Chinese “open source” AI models. But to Huang and others in his camp, the growth of Chinese AI is a feature, not a bug. Sacks, for instance, has repeatedly argued that “open weight” or “open source” models — which make their parameters publicly available, in contrast to the proprietary models of OpenAI and Anthropic — would help avert “an unsafe and dystopian future where advanced AI capabilities are centralized and controlled by only a few hands.” The leading open weight models are currently from Chinese companies. Huang has also used a more straightforward argument: that what’s good for Nvidia is good for the United States of America. “American technology has to win across the world at every single layer,” he said in May. “If we can export chips, we should.” Now it will be left to Nvidia’s interim CEO, Colette Kress, to carry that message, instead of a rock-star founder with a global cult following that’s drawn comparisons to Steve Jobs at his peak at Apple. Her first task: taking stock of all the powerful actors across the political, advocacy, and business world rooting for her to fail. Perhaps DeepSeek could help make a list?

The complaint said the investigation into the younger Brennan originated in 2024 with a tip to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, a child protection organization.

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The Federal Aviation Administration has grounded all flights nationwide because of communications issues at regional air traffic control centers

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The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grounded all flights nationwide on Friday afternoon “due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety”. The FAA notice said the ground stop was being imposed because of communications problems at regional air traffic control centres. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said there was a communications issue affecting the 22 regional air traffic control centres that direct planes en route between airports nationwide. He said FAA technicians...

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The European Commission is moving to shield its industrial machinery and chemical sectors from Chinese imports, and is weighing a “kill switch” mechanism. Together with Washington, Brussels has settled into a familiar narrative: a record trade deficit with China is framed as proof of its “overcapacity” and attributed to state subsidies that allegedly tilt the global playing field. For European Union audiences frustrated by stagnant domestic manufacturing, this argument sounds intuitive. Held up...