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Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Shohei Ohtani (17) throws a pitch during the MLB game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Los Angeles Dodgers on September 16, 2025 at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, CA. Brian Rothmuller | Icon Sportswire | Getty ImagesMajor League Baseball officially announced a new three-year media rights agreement with NBC, Netflix and ESPN on Wednesday, foreshadowing the league’s more significant TV deal to come in 2028.The new deal stems from ESPN’s decision to opt out of its “Sunday Night Baseball” package earlier this year. ESPN struck a new deal with MLB, acquiring the rights to MLB.TV…

The 2026 monsoon is projected to bring 22 to 26 per cent more rainfall than this year’s, the NDMA said, preceded by a short winter and intense summer. This isn’t new news, though. In a Public Accounts Committee meeting in August, the NDMA had repeated the same 22 to 26 per cent figure. “There is a significant risk of flooding from snowmelt,” the Chairperson of the National Disaster Management Authority General Inam Haider warned, noting that heat waves will likely trigger increased glacial lake outburst floods. “Pakistan’s more than 7,000 glaciers are melting at rates that have increased by two…

Davide Bonaldo | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesPerplexity on Wednesday announced it will roll out a free agentic shopping product for U.S. users next week, as consumers ramp up spending for the holiday season. “The agentic part is the seamless purchase right from the answer,” Dmitry Shevelenko, Perplexity’s chief business officer, told CNBC in an interview. “Most people want to still do their own research. They want that streamlined and simplified, and so that’s the part that is agentic in this launch.”The artificial intelligence startup has partnered with PayPal ahead of the launch, and users will eventually be able to directly purchase…

Tom Steyer, co-chair of Galvanize Climate Solutions, speaks during the Aspen Ideas: Climate conference in Miami Beach, Florida, US, on Monday, March 6, 2023.Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesBillionaire businessman and activist Tom Steyer, who once self-financed an unsuccessful White House campaign and spent his own money advocating for President Donald Trump’s impeachment, has launched his bid for California governor as a Democrat.The 68-year-old’s tremendous wealth immediately makes him a notable contender in a free-for-all that includes more than a half-dozen Democrats and two Republicans competing in an all-party June primary, with the top two vote-getters advancing to a November general election to succeed term-limited Gov. Gavin Newsom.Steyer announced his candidacy with a…

PPP accused of diverting K-P flood funds, relief items, Rs3m Iftar spent at Governor’s House Money earmarked for flood victims in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa was instead used for personal use by members of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), according to allegations presented before the Peshawar High Court on Wednesday. “Recently, the governor of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Faisal Karim Kundi, appointed a new Pakistan Red Crescent Society’s (PRCS) chairperson and formed a managing board,” the petitioner’s lawyer stated. “The PRCS chairman and managing board were originally established in 2022,” the petitioners’ lawyer stated, with the appointments made in August that year. “The assets and resources of Pakistan Red…

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang reacts during a press conference at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in Gyeongju on October 31, 2025. Jung Yeon-je | Afp | Getty ImagesArtificial intelligence chipmaker Nvidia is scheduled to report fiscal third-quarter earnings on Wednesday after the market closes.Here’s what Wall Street is expecting, per LSEG consensus estimates:EPS: $1.25Revenue: $54.92 billionWall Street is expecting the chipmaker to guide in the current quarter to $1.43 in earnings per share on $61.66 billion of revenue. Nvidia typically provides one quarter of revenue guidance.Anything Nvidia or CEO Jensen Huang says about the company’s outlook…

A JetBlue Airways Airbus A321 airplane departs from Los Angeles International Airport en route to New York on Oct. 17, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.Kevin Carter | Getty ImagesJetBlue Airways is pushing its fleet of single-aisle planes deeper into Europe next year with seasonal daily flights to Milan, Italy, and Barcelona, Spain, from Boston, its latest bid to win over higher-spending vacationers.Daily service from Boston to Barcelona is set to debut on April 16, and the daily Milan flight from Boston is scheduled to begin May 11, the airline said Wednesday.U.S. carriers — from JetBlue’s new earn-and-burn miles partner United…

Thomas Fuller | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesVideo generation startup Luma AI said it raised $900 million in a new funding round led by Humain, an artificial intelligence company owned by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.The financing, which included participation from Advanced Micro Devices’ venture arm and existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Amplify Partners and Matrix Partners, was announced at the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum on Wednesday.The company is now valued upwards of $4 billion, CNBC has confirmed.Luma develops multimodal “world models” that are able to learn from not only text, but also video, audio and images in order to…

Imagine your visa to Dubai is suddenly rejected for security reasons, even though you have been going for years. It turns out that you used the Islamabad International Airport’s new wifi and clicked on a BBC story critical of Gulf migrant labour policies. This happened after Pakistan asked the UAE to bring in a firm to handle operations. This is the fear that got me wondering about the possibility of something like this happening. I heard the news that Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar has made a government-to-government agreement to transfer Islamabad airport’s operational management with the UAE. “This partnership…

Zoom In IconArrows pointing outwardsChatGPT for TeachersCourtesy of OpenAIOpenAI on Wednesday announced ChatGPT for Teachers, a version of its artificial intelligence chatbot that is designed for K-12 educators and school districts. Educators can use ChatGPT for Teachers to securely work with student information, get personalized teaching support and collaborate with colleagues within their district, OpenAI said. There are also administrative controls that district leaders can use to determine how ChatGPT for Teachers will work within their communities. OpenAI said it is initially launching ChatGPT for Teachers with a cohort of districts that represent roughly 150,000 educators. ChatGPT for Teachers will be free…